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Postmodernism and post-structuralism challenge fundamental positions in social theory. This volume sets out some of the components of a postmodern social theory of health and healing, deriving from theorists including Derrida, Deleuze and Guattari, Foucault, Cixous, and Kristeva. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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Fox has made an extraordinary intellectual effort that tries to merge philosophy, sociology, psychology, political science, and the healing arts from the vantage point of medical sociology. His book consists of an introduction and seven chapters divided into three parts. (A glossary, bibliography, and author index are included.) Major themes include: (1) power and inscription in relationship to the body, which is not determined by anatomical organs but rather by internal desire interacting with the culture in which it exists; (2) health organizations as defined by mythologies constituted by and responding to power; (3) the multifaceted nature of internal desire, the power of care-givers, and the role of the sick; (4) the nature of desire in the caring relationship defined in terms of various positive characteristics described as "the gift"; (5) the source of resistance to "the gift" defined as "the proper," and described in terms of authority, control, dependency, and anger; (6) political considerations reflecting responsibility to self and others to take action based on belief and to be defined by such action; and (7) the implications of the body without organs for a postmodern theory of health, medicine, medical technology, and medical sociology. Serious reading for the serious scholar, and an important addition to libraries. Graduate through professional.