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The Social Construction of Disease (Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology & Medicine)

By Kim

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2006
ISBN
041536051X, 9780415360517, 9780203008256
LCC
RA644.P93 K55 2006
Open Library ID
OL10203990M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1580873 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
272\272
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

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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