Medical sociology books

An instrument and approach, Health Impact Assessment, seeks to assess the health impacts of projects, programmes...  Read More >>

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This book examines the forces that shape psychoactive drug use. The approach, informed by poststructuralist semiotics,...  Read More >>

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Depuis plus d'un siècle toutes les générations, du nouveau-né au vieillard, sont soumises à l'acte vaccinal, à une...  Read More >>

Population ageing is among the most important developments of our time. This book explores the profound challenges...  Read More >>

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This significant volume provides broad coverage of the spectrum of problems confronted by patients with developmental...  Read More >>

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Offering both an extended history and a series of critical interventions organized around keywords like pain, privacy,...  Read More >>

Drawing from work in a wide range of fields, this book presents novel approaches to key debates in thinking about...  Read More >>

Historically organised at a local or national scale, the fields of medicine and healthcare are being radically transformed...  Read More >>

Examining the changing nature of health care federalism within a competitive global context, Comparative Health...  Read More >>

Ted Schrecker and Clare Bambra argue that the obesity, insecurity, austerity and inequality that result from neoliberal...  Read More >>

Psychiatry suffers a lot of criticism, not least from within its own scientifically founded medical world. This...  Read More >>

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Focussing on the 'recycling' of both the idea of the psychiatric asylum and its sites, buildings and landscapes,...  Read More >>

This book provides readers with a single source reviewing and updating sociological theory in medical or health...  Read More >>

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Analyzing seventeenth-century images of the dead Christ produced by Gregorio Fernández, author Ilenia Colón Mendoza...  Read More >>

Whilst the body has assumed greater sociological significance, there has been less engagement in social work and...  Read More >>

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