The problem of medical knowledge : examining the social construction of medicine / edited by Peter Wright and Andrew Treacher.

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [1982], ©1982.

232 pages ; 22 cm

Asthma attacked? / John Gabbay -- Medicine, symbol and ideology / Jean Comaroff -- Concerning the continuity between the image of society and the image of the human body / Anne Marcovich -- Anticontagionism and history's medical record / Roger Cooter -- The doctor-patient relationship, 1930-80 / David Armstrong -- The social construction of mental illness / David Ingleby -- Constructing genetic diseases / Edward Yoxen -- Medical modes of production / Howard Berliner -- How does illness mediate social relations? / Karl Figlio.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes