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Public health and medicine at the educational, policy, and practical levels will find in this book a useful discussion of the complicated social factors that determine health."--The New England Journal of Medicine "The relationship between two variables as complex as 'Society' and 1/5(1).
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Linking to a non-federal website does not constitute an endorsement by CDC or any of its employees of the sponsors or the information and products presented on the website. Society, Culture and Health introduces sociology to students studying nursing and related health professions. It examines the sources of ideas about health and illness, including the biomedical model, folk and lay approaches and the influence of the media, and includes coverage of the impact on health of social marginalisation through a careful examination of structural variables.
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Health, Disease, and Society in Europe, A Source Book. edited by Peter Elmer and Ole Peter Grell. Format Book Published Manchester ; New York: Manchester University Press, published in association with The Open University, Language English ISBN (hardback), (pbk.).
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Health, disease, and society in Europe, ; a source book. Ed. by Peter Elmer & Ole Peter Grell. Manchester U. Pr. pages $ Paperback R This reader is part of a quartet of works designed as an integral part of the Open University course Medicine and Society in Europe,