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Deborah lupton provides a broad overview of the way medicine is experienced perceived and socially constructed in western societies she cogently links the different theoretical perspectives informing scholarship and research directed towards understanding the socio cultural dimensions of medicine illness and the body at the end of the twentieth century. Medicine as culture illness disease and the body in western societies d lupton thousand oaks ca sage 2003 202 pp. The second edition of medicine as culture provides a broad overview of the way medicine is experienced perceived and socially constructed in western societies drawing on the tradition of the sociology of health and illness deborah lupton directs readers to an understanding of medicine health care illness and disease from a sociocultural perspective. Medicine as culture illness disease and the body in western societiesmedicine as culture illness disease and the body in western societies june 2006 medical anthropology quarterly 202257 259. Medicine as culture illness disease and the body in western societies s harris ali 1 social theory health volume 3 pages 250 254 2005 cite this article