Contents
- What is Health?
- The Patterning of Health and Illness
- Gender, Sex and Health
- The Body, Health and Society
- Health and Health Care
- The Future of Health

Polity Short Introductions are masterly overviews of the main areas of the social sciences, health and social care, and humanities. Leading academics guide the reader through the main dilemmas, controversies and challenges in each discipline.
Offering an enticing invitation to consider the key issues, the lively and personable style of these volumes sets them apart from conventional introductory texts.
Publication details for Michael Bury's Health and Illness
152 pages
ISBN (hardback): 9780745630304
ISBN (paperback): 9780745630311