TY - BOOK AU - Lupton,Deborah TI - Medicine as culture: illness, disease and the body in Western societies SN - 9780761940296 (cased) : AV - RA418 .L74 2003 U1 - 306.461 22 PY - 2003/// CY - London PB - Sage Publications KW - Social medicine KW - Medical anthropology KW - Social Medicine KW - Anthropology, Cultural KW - Attitude to Health KW - Disease KW - Feminism KW - Gender Identity KW - Human Body KW - Mass Media KW - Metaphor KW - Power (Psychology) KW - Professional-Patient Relations N1 - Previous ed.: 1994; Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-193) and index N2 - This edition provides a broad overview of the way medicine is experienced, perceived and socially constructed in Western societies ER -