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The sociology of health, illness and medicine

institutional progress and theoretical frameworks

Fran Collyer , Graham Scambler

pp. 1-15

As we write in the twenty-first century, the sociology of health and medicine sits as a distinct and growing speciality field of research and university teaching, found on all continents and within many countries, including the United States, eastern and western Europe, Australia, Britain, Japan, China, Brazil, South Africa and Mexico.

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DOI: 10.1057/9781137355621_1

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Collyer, F. , Scambler, G. (2015)., The sociology of health, illness and medicine: institutional progress and theoretical frameworks, in F. Collyer (ed.), The Palgrave handbook of social theory in health, illness and medicine, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 1-15.

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