The 'limits' of medicalization?: Modern medicine and the lay populace in 'late' modernity

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1609-1620

  Williams, Simon J ^a   Calnan, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lay perspectives; Medical technology; Medicalization; Reflexivity; Resistance; Risk; Sociological

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; HUMAN; MEDICAL PROFESSION; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; SOCIETY; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0030028591     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0277-9536(95)00313-4     Document Type: Article

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