Abstract
Given the dearth of comparative European research on the sociology of health and illness, a volume promising this in the context of an exploration of social constructivism generates optimistic expectations. This edited collection, based on papers from a European Sociological Association conference with some specially commissioned contributions, perhaps inevitably disappoints. Few of the authors either contribute to analysing the social construction of health and illness or explicitly engage with a social constructivist agenda. Despite some routine citations of Foucault, most chapters report traditional interpretive research, covering …
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