The Social Construction of Disease (Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology & Medicine)
Kim
A historical exploration of scientific disputes on the causation of so-called ‘prion diseases’, this fascinating book covers diseases including Scrapie, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) and Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE). Firstly tracing the twentieth-century history of disease research and biomedicine, the text then focuses on the relations between scientific practice and wider social transformations, before finally building upon the sociologically informed methodological framework. Incisive and thought-provoking, The Social Construction of Disease provides a valuable contribution to that well-established tradition of social history of science, which refers primarily to the theoretical works of the sociology of scientific knowledge.
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Year:
2006
Edition:
1
Publisher:
Routledge
Language:
english
Pages:
272
ISBN 10:
041536051X
ISBN 13:
9780415360517
File:
PDF, 1.51 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2006
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