THE MEANING OF ILLNESS by Marc Auge (Editor), Herzlich Auge (Editor) ( 9783718652075 )

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Title:

THE MEANING OF ILLNESS
ANTHROPOLOGY, HISTORY AND SOCIOLOGY OF ILLNESS

By:

Marc Auge (Editor), Herzlich Auge (Editor)

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Hardback

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ISBN 10:

3718652072

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9783718652075

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Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

1 September, 1995

Pages:

240

Translated from:

French

Description:

This text examines the problem of defining the "meaning of illness", an interpretation developed within a society which can itself be studied and interpreted from without, from a variety of viewpoints depending on the academic discipline to which observation has been allocated.

Synopsis:

This book is based on collective research carried out during the 1980s. This edition appears ten years after the original publication in French. Since then we have experienced many changes. In the late decade, disciplines have changed, as have the societies being researched. The outbreak of AIDS in Africa and the industrial world is not the least of these major and influential changes. The reader today will be sensitive to these changes and this research maintains its value as an intellectual endeavour and a useful model.

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Routledge

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