Habermas, Critical Theory And Health

The contribution of the German sociologist and philosopher Jurgen Habermas has proved seminal for attempts to understand the nature of social change in the context of global capitalism. This book provides an accessible introduction to his work and shows how his theories can be fruitfully applied to a wide range of topics in the sociology of health and illness, including lay health knowledge, doctor-patient interaction, health care decision-making, health inequalities, new social movements in health, health care rationing, and the Foucault perspective. Habermas, Critical Theory and Health offers new issues and lines of empirical enquiry, valuable for teachers and students of social theory and sociology of health, as well as healthcare professionals seeking new perspectives.