Medical sociology books

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After the Wrath of God: AIDS, Sexuality, and American Religion

After the Wrath of God: AIDS, Sexuality, and American...
Author: Anthony M. Petro (Assistant Professor of Religion and Women's, Gender, and SExuality Studies, Assistant Professor of Religion and Women's, Gender, and SExuality Studies, Brown University) ISBN: 9780199391288 Format: Hardback	$61.95
After the Wrath of God is the first book to tell the story of American religion and the AIDS epidemic. Petro argues... Read More >>

The Legitimacy of Medical Treatment: What Role for the Medical Exception?

The Legitimacy of Medical Treatment: What Role for the...
Author: Sara Fovargue (University of Sheffield, UK) , Alexandra Mullock (University of Manchester, UK) ISBN: 9781138819634 Format: Hardback	$315.00
The book explores the notion of a treatment, practice, or procedure being proper medical treatment, and considers... Read More >>

The Pandemic Perhaps: Dramatic Events in a Public Culture of Danger

The Pandemic Perhaps: Dramatic Events in a Public Culture...
Author: Carlo Caduff ISBN: 9780520284098 Format: Paperback	$49.95
In 2005, American experts sent out urgent warnings throughout the country: a devastating flu pandemic was fast approaching.... Read More >>

The Nocebo Effect: Overdiagnosis and Its Costs

The Nocebo Effect: Overdiagnosis and Its Costs
Author: Stewart Justman ISBN: 9781137523280 Format: Hardback	$206.97
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The Pandemic Perhaps: Dramatic Events in a Public Culture of Danger

The Pandemic Perhaps: Dramatic Events in a Public Culture...
Author: Carlo Caduff ISBN: 9780520284081 Format: Hardback	$157.95
Drawing on fieldwork among scientists and public health professionals in New York City, the book is an investigation... Read More >>

A Healing Art: Regeneration Through Autobiography

A Healing Art: Regeneration Through Autobiography
Author: Marilyn Chandler McEntyre ISBN: 9781138941175 Format: Hardback	$305.00
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Puberty in Crisis: The Sociology of Early Sexual Development

Puberty in Crisis: The Sociology of Early Sexual Development...
Author: Celia Roberts (Lancaster University) ISBN: 9781107104723 Format: Hardback	$316.80
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Global Perspectives on Death in Children’s Literature

Global Perspectives on Death in Children’s Literature...
Author: Lesley Clement (Lakehead University, Orillia, Canada) , Leyli Jamali (Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran) ISBN: 9781138815247 Format: Hardback	$336.00
This volume visits death in children’s literature from around the world, making a substantial contribution to the... Read More >>

Re-Visioning Psychiatry: Cultural Phenomenology, Critical Neuroscience, and Global Mental Health

Re-Visioning Psychiatry: Cultural Phenomenology, Critical...
Author: Laurence J. Kirmayer (McGill University, Montréal) , Robert Lemelson (University of California, Los Angeles) ISBN: 9781107032200 Format: Hardback	$367.43
Re-Visioning Psychiatry brings together new perspectives on the causes and treatment of mental health problems.... Read More >>

Prospects for the National Health

Prospects for the National Health
Author: Paul Atkinson (Cardiff University) , Robert Dingwall ISBN: 9781138952409 Format: Hardback	$315.00
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Addiction and Recovery in the UK

Addiction and Recovery in the UK
Author: Jeffrey Roth (Medical Director at Working Sobriety Chicago, USA) , David Best (Turning Point Alcohol & Drug Centre and Monash University, Australia) ISBN: 9781138946750 Format: Paperback	$116.00
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Criminal Justice and Public Health

Criminal Justice and Public Health
Author: Hayden Smith (University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA) ISBN: 9781138928251 Format: Hardback	$315.00
The criminal justice system now serves as the chief provider of health care services to a significant portion of... Read More >>

Giving Blood: The Institutional Making of Altruism

Giving Blood: The Institutional Making of Altruism
Author: Johanne Charbonneau (Universite d'Avant-Garde, Canada) , André Smith (University of Victoria; Canada) ISBN: 9781138911949 Format: Hardback	$305.00
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Anthropology and Nursing

Anthropology and Nursing
Author: Pat Holden , Jenny Littlewood ISBN: 9781138928244 Format: Hardback	$305.00
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The Affordable Care Act and Medicare in Comparative Context

The Affordable Care Act and Medicare in Comparative...
Author: Eleanor D. Kinney (Indiana University) ISBN: 9781107110557 Format: Hardback	$222.53
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Food and Public Health: Contemporary Issues and Future Directions

Food and Public Health: Contemporary Issues and Future...
Author: Wendy Wills (University of Hertfordshire, UK) , Alizon Draper (University of Westminster, UK) ISBN: 9781138943933 Format: Paperback	$105.00
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Health Technologies and International Intellectual Property Law: A Precautionary Approach

Health Technologies and International Intellectual Property...
Author: Phoebe Li (University of Edinburgh, UK) ISBN: 9781138937581 Format: Paperback	$62.99
The global transmission of infectious diseases has fuelled the need for a more developed legal framework in international... Read More >>

AIDS Literature and Gay Identity: The Literature of Loss

AIDS Literature and Gay Identity: The Literature of...
Author: Monica Pearl (University of Manchester, UK) ISBN: 9781138936980 Format: Paperback	$103.00
This book discusses the significance of late twentieth century and early twenty first century American fiction written... Read More >>

Genetics, Health, and Society

Genetics, Health, and Society
Author: Brea L. Perry ISBN: 9781783505814 Format: Hardback	$197.00
This volume focuses on critical issues surrounding the intersection of genetics, health, and society. It provides... Read More >>

Anthropologies of Cancer in Transnational Worlds

Anthropologies of Cancer in Transnational Worlds
Author: Holly F. Mathews (East Carolina University, USA) , Nancy J. Burke (University of California, San Francisco, USA) ISBN: 9781138776937 Format: Hardback	$326.00
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The Wrong Prescription for Women: How Medicine and Media Create a ""Need"" for Treatments, Drugs, and Surgery

The Wrong Prescription for Women: How Medicine and Media...
Author: Maureen C. McHugh , Paula J. Caplan ISBN: 9781440831768 Format: Hardback	$110.00
This groundbreaking book challenges the medicalized approach to women's experiences including menstruation, pregnancy,... Read More >>

Introducing the Social Sciences for Midwifery Practice: Birthing in a Contemporary Society

Introducing the Social Sciences for Midwifery Practice:...
Author: Patricia Lindsay (Anglia Ruskin University, UK) , Ian Peate (British Journal of Nursing and University of West London, UK) ISBN: 9781138015548 Format: Paperback	$90.99
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Introducing the Social Sciences for Midwifery Practice: Birthing in a Contemporary Society

Introducing the Social Sciences for Midwifery Practice:...
Author: Patricia Lindsay (Anglia Ruskin University, UK) , Ian Peate (British Journal of Nursing and University of West London, UK) ISBN: 9781138015531 Format: Hardback	$368.00
This text makes clear the links between social, anthropological and psychological concepts, midwifery practice and... Read More >>

Meanings of ME: Interpersonal and Social Dimensions of Chronic Fatigue

Meanings of ME: Interpersonal and Social Dimensions...
Author: C. Ward ISBN: 9781137467317 Format: Hardback	$145.17
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS or ME) is a problematic diagnosis which can be interpreted in conflicting ways by... Read More >>

Health of People, Places and Planet: Reflections based on Tony McMichael's four decades of contribution to epidemiological understanding

Health of People, Places and Planet: Reflections based...
Author: Colin D. Butler , Jane Dixon ISBN: 9781925022407 Format: Paperback	$223.77
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