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The Second Edition of this successful text has been fully updated to provide a broad overview of the way medicine is experienced, perceived and socially constructed in western societies. New material has been added on postmodernist theory; the male body; and the new genetics. As well as reviewing and critiquing the dominant theoretical approaches in the sociology of health and illness, the book also includes: socio-cultural analysis of health, illness and medicine; elite and media representations of illness; the body in medicine; the language and visual imagery of medicine, illness and disease; feminist perspectives.