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Article: THE SAGE DICTIONARY OF HEALTH AND SOCIETY
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- Health Sociology Review
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- October 1, 2007
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THE SAGE DICTIONARY OF HEALTH AND SOCIETY Kevin White London: Sage Publications 2006, 242 pp, AUD 37.95, IBSN. 0 7619 4115 0/0 7619 4116 9
The project of writing a specialist dictionary is an ambitious one: not only must an author have sufficient expertise to represent accurately the disciplinary terrain, but there must also exist sufficient disciplinary consensus as to what that terrain is and how it fits within, beside and overlaps with other disciplines. Accordingly, White has 'attempted to show how critical medical anthropologists, sociologists, historians and philosophers of medicine use words to discuss healthcare and healing systems' (2006:vii). Part of his mapping exercise includes ...