Ideas about Illness

1. Back Matter

   Pages 352-425

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In this book, Uta Gerhardt maintains that the sociological definition of deviance as disease has, at its roots, a political connotation. She traces how the four schools of mid- and late-twentieth century sociology have dealt with the idea of illness from structural functionalism through interactionism and phenomenology to conflict theory.

• Design
• interaction
• medical sociology
• Nation
• political history
• sociological theory
• sociology
• systems theory

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