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- Title
Sociology of health textbooks and narratives: historical significance.
- Authors
Nunes, Everardo Duarte
- Abstract
This article has as its starting point two central ideas: textbooks as a means of production and dissemination of knowledge and narrative as an approach. After a brief review of studies on health/medical sociology textbooks, I analyze a few of these textbooks from the 1900-2012 period, produced in the United States and England. I have selected eleven textbooks which I thought were representative. In addition to a content analysis, the textbooks are located within the process of constitution of the health/medical sociology with brief references to the biographies of the authors. The textbooks analyzed were classified according to the main narrative features: doctor-centered; interdisciplinary; pedagogical; analytical; almost autobiographical; critical; and synthetic-reflective. In the final remarks, some points about the textbooks, limits and possibilities are presented.
- Subjects
HEALTH education textbooks; SOCIAL medicine; TEXTBOOKS -- Social aspects; HEALTH &; society; CLASSIFICATION of books
- Publication
Revista Ciência & Saúde Coletiva, 2016, Vol 21, Issue 3, p821
- ISSN
1413-8123
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/1413-81232015213.25332015