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  • A CRITICAL REALIST THEORY OF SPORT
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    A CRITICAL REALIST THEORY OF SPORT
    GRAHAM SCAMBLER
    This book argues that sport in the era of global or financialised capitalism has undergone a process of fracturing, which requires a re-assessment of longstanding and consensual accounts of traditional-to-modern sporting activity. Considering rival concepts of sport, it presents detailed, illustrative studies of various types of sporting or athletic activity – including soccer,...

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  • SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY AND MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY
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    SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY AND MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY
    GRAHAM SCAMBLER
    Originally published in 1987, this book builds bridges between medical sociology and mainstream theory. It does so by demonstrating in new and important ways how selected theories of major thinkers like Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Freud, Parsons, Goffman, Foucault, Habermas and Offe stand to inform, and in turn be informed by the often highly focused and empirical studies of health,...

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  • THE EXPERIENCE OF ILLNESS
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    THE EXPERIENCE OF ILLNESS
    RAY FITZPATRICK / JOHN HINTON / STANTON NEWMAN / GRAHAM SCAMBLER / JAMES THOMPSON
    Originally published in 1984, this book focuses, firstly, on how patients interpret and act in response to symptoms of illness; secondly on how social and psychological factors influence the treatment process; and thirdly, on certain kinds of illness where the psychosocial perspective is of particular importance to the providers of health care – for example, chronic or particul...

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  • COMMUNAL FORMS
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    COMMUNAL FORMS
    AKSEL TJORA / GRAHAM SCAMBLER
    Drawing on a wide range of social theory, as well as empirical inputs from studies of work, neighbourhoods, events, meeting places and online self-help groups, this book suggests that communal forms are constructed on the basis of communicative, material, biographic-cultural, practice-based, and situational layers. The concept of community has long provided an important point o...

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  • SOCIOLOGY, HEALTH AND THE FRACTURED SOCIETY
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    SOCIOLOGY, HEALTH AND THE FRACTURED SOCIETY
    GRAHAM SCAMBLER
    It is now accepted that many of the determinants of health and health care are social. This volume offers a philosophical and theoretical frame within which the nature and extent of this might be optimally examined. The analysis is rooted in Roy Bhaskar’s basic and dialectical critical realism, although it draws also on the critical theory of Jurgen Habermas. It purports to pro...

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  • STRUCTURE, CULTURE AND AGENCY
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    STRUCTURE, CULTURE AND AGENCY
    TOM BROCK / MARK CARRIGAN / GRAHAM SCAMBLER
    Professor Margaret Archer is a leading critical realist and major contemporary social theorist. This edited collection seeks to celebrate the scope and accomplishments of her work, distilling her theoretical and empirical contributions into four sections which capture the essence and trajectory of her research over almost four decades. Long fascinated with the problem of struct...

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  • CONTEMPORARY THEORISTS FOR MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY
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    CONTEMPORARY THEORISTS FOR MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY
    GRAHAM SCAMBLER
    Contemporary Theorists for Medical Sociology explores the work of key social theorists and the application of their ideas to issues around health and illness. Encouraging students and researchers to use mainstream sociological thought to inform and deepen their knowledge and understanding of the many arenas of health and healthcare, this text discusses and critically reviews th...

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  • EPILEPSY
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    EPILEPSY
    GRAHAM SCAMBLER
    In examining the social and psychological aspects of epilepsy, the author takes not only the perspectives of individuals and their families, but also popular conceptions of the disorder. The result is an illuminating account of the social reality of epilepsy that demonstrates the distinctive contribution that the social sciences can play in understanding illness. ...

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  • RETHINKING PROSTITUTION
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    RETHINKING PROSTITUTION
    SCAMBLER, GRAHAM / SCAMBLER, GRAHAM
    The growth of AIDS has focused renewed attention on the institution of prostitution. In contrast to the moral panic reaction of some sectors of society, very different initiatives are being displayed by other groups in relation to the need to scrutinize the social, moral and legal status of prostitution and to reflect on the arguments in support of and against legalising brothe...

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  • MENSTRUAL DISORDERS
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    MENSTRUAL DISORDERS
    GRAHAM SCAMBLER
    What does modern medical science know about menstruation? Less than is commonly assumed, according to Annette and Graham Scambler. In this thought-provoking book, they challenge orthodox thinking on menstruation and disorders associated with it. Based on women's own experience and accounts of menstruation and menstrual disorders, their study will prompt health workers to rethin...

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  • THE SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY OF MARGARET ARCHER
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    THE SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY OF MARGARET ARCHER
    GRAHAM SCAMBLER
    Margaret Archer’s contribution to the development of sociological theory has been significant and lasting. This volume by Graham Scambler offers both an account of her evolving body of work over time and an appraisal of its salience for contemporary sociological theory and practice. The author demonstrates how Archer’s work drew on Roy Bhaskar’s critical realist philosophy whil...

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