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1. Regulating Bodies

   Essays in Medical Sociology

   By Professor Bryan S Turner, Bryan S. Turner

   Bryan Turner is generally acknowledged to have been the key figure in opening up the sociological debate about the body. In this coruscating and fascinating book he shows how his thinking on the subject has developed and why sociologists must take the body seriously....

   Published November 3rd 2011 by Routledge
2. Islam

   Critical Concepts in Sociology

   Edited by Professor Bryan S Turner

   Series: Critical Concepts in Sociology

   Looking beyond the myths and headlines of Islam this text explores the religion from a social science viewpoint. The collection explores Islamic thought and institutions and represents a critical introduction to the system of Islamic belief and practice from a social science...

   Published December 18th 2002 by Routledge
3. Orientalism: Early Sources

   Edited by Professor Bryan S Turner, Bryan S. Turner

   This set publishes some of the leading European contributors to the early formation of historical and social science analysis of the orient. The collection concentrates on those authors who have shaped the modern debate on orientalism, especially on Islam, the Middle-East and orientalism in the...

   Published November 10th 1999 by Routledge
4. Orientalism: Early Sources

   Edited by Professor Bryan S Turner, Bryan S. Turner

   This set publishes some of the leading European contributors to the early formation of historical and social science analysis of the orient. The collection concentrates on those authors who have shaped the modern debate on orientalism, especially on Islam, the Middle-East and orientalism in the...

   Published November 10th 1999 by Routledge
5. Orientalism, Postmodernism and Globalism

   By Professor Bryan S Turner, Bryan S. Turner

   Published October 12th 1994 by Routledge
6. Citizenship

   Critical Concepts in Sociology

   By Professor Bryan S Turner, Bryan S. Turner

   Series: Critical Concepts in Sociology

   The concept of citizenship is central to a wide number of debates in the social sciences: juridicial (the rights and obligations of the state), political philosophy and the law (because it defines the nature of expectations relating to social contract) and questions relating to freedom, equality...

   Published January 5th 1994 by Routledge
7. Forget Baudrillard?

   Edited by Chris Rojek, Professor Bryan S Turner, Bryan Turner

   Published October 20th 1993 by Routledge