Medical sociology books

3623 books were found.

Managing Global Health Security: The World Health Organization and Disease Outbreak Control

Managing Global Health Security: The World Health Organization...

Author: A. Kamradt-Scott
ISBN: 9780230369313
Format: Hardback
$343.17

Drawing on insights from international organization and securitization theory, the author investigates the World...  Read More >>

Gender and Genetics: Sociology of the Prenatal

Gender and Genetics: Sociology of the Prenatal

Author: Kate Reed (University of Sheffield, UK)
ISBN: 9781138822894
Format: Paperback
$110.00

Prenatal screening for genetic disorders has become increasingly widespread in the UK. This book gives a unique...  Read More >>

Culture, Health and Sexuality: An Introduction

Culture, Health and Sexuality: An Introduction

Author: Peter Aggleton (UNSW, Australia) ,  Richard Parker (Associação Brasileira Interdisciplinar de AIDS (ABIA), Brazil)
ISBN: 9781138015586
Format: Hardback
$389.00

This book offers an overview of key topics relevant to cultural perspectives on sexuality and sexual health. Looking...  Read More >>

Psychiatry Under the Influence: Institutional Corruption, Social Injury, and Prescriptions for Reform

Psychiatry Under the Influence: Institutional Corruption,...

Author: R. Whitaker ,  L. Cosgrove
ISBN: 9781137506924
Format: Paperback
$168.16

Psychiatry Under the Influence investigates the actions and practices of the American Psychiatric Association and...  Read More >>

Gesundheitsfoerderung an Schulen aus ethischer Sicht: Das Leitbild der Gesundheitsgerechtigkeit im Setting Schule

Gesundheitsfoerderung an Schulen aus ethischer Sicht:...

Author: Hans-Georg Babke ,  Janika Suck
ISBN: 9783631664780
Format: Paperback
$120.06

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Psychiatry Under the Influence: Institutional Corruption, Social Injury, and Prescriptions for Reform

Psychiatry Under the Influence: Institutional Corruption,...

Author: R. Whitaker ,  L. Cosgrove
ISBN: 9781137506948
Format: Hardback
$116.41

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Culture, Health and Sexuality: An Introduction

Culture, Health and Sexuality: An Introduction

Author: Peter Aggleton (UNSW, Australia) ,  Richard Parker (Associação Brasileira Interdisciplinar de AIDS (ABIA), Brazil)
ISBN: 9781138015593
Format: Paperback
$105.00

This book offers an overview of key topics relevant to cultural perspectives on sexuality and sexual health. Looking...  Read More >>

Recovery from Addiction in Communal Living Settings: The Oxford House Model

Recovery from Addiction in Communal Living Settings:...

Author: Leonard Jason (Director, Center for Community Research. DePaul University, USA) ,  Joseph R Ferrari (DePaul University, USA)
ISBN: 9781138867581
Format: Paperback
$105.00

This book raises treatment providers' awareness of the social environments where clients live after residential...  Read More >>

Pandemics, Science and Policy: H1N1 and the World Health Organisation

Pandemics, Science and Policy: H1N1 and the World Health...

Author: S. Abeysinghe
ISBN: 9781137467195
Format: Hardback
$145.17

Pandemics, Science and Policy analyses the World Health Organisation's (WHO) management of the 2009 H1N1 Pandemic....  Read More >>

Gender, Health and Healthcare: Women's and Men's Experience of Health and Working in Healthcare Roles

Gender, Health and Healthcare: Women's and Men's Experience...

Author: Jacqueline H. Watts
ISBN: 9781409468370
Format: Electronic book text
$290.27

Health status and the experience of working in health care roles are both strongly shaped by gender and, although...  Read More >>

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans Health Inequalities: International Perspectives in Social Work

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans Health Inequalities:...

Author: Julie Fish (School of Applied Social Sciences, De Montfort University) ,  Kate Karban
ISBN: 9781447309680
Format: Paperback
$63.95

Bringing together international research in social work, this book examines key concepts including the social determinants...  Read More >>

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans Health Inequalities: International Perspectives in Social Work

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans Health Inequalities:...

Author: Julie Fish (School of Applied Social Sciences, De Montfort University) ,  Kate Karban
ISBN: 9781447309673
Format: Hardback
$176.95

Bringing together international research in social work, this book examines key concepts including the social determinants...  Read More >>

Science and Democracy: Making Knowledge and Making Power in the Biosciences and Beyond

Science and Democracy: Making Knowledge and Making Power...

Author: Stephen Hilgartner ,  Clark Miller
ISBN: 9780415821346
Format: Hardback
$336.00

Science and Democracy advances a systematic, yet detailed, co-productionist understanding of how emerging modes...  Read More >>

Culture, Health and Sexuality: An Introduction

Culture, Health and Sexuality: An Introduction

Author: Peter Aggleton ,  Richard Parker
ISBN: 9781317743965
Format: Electronic book text
$152.99

The last twenty years have seen a growth in multi-disciplinary work in the area of sexuality, culture and health....  Read More >>

Collaboration across Health Research and Medical Care: Healthy Collaboration

Collaboration across Health Research and Medical Care:...

Author: Bart Penders ,  Niki Vermeulen
ISBN: 9781409460947
Format: Hardback
$189.00

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Reimagining (Bio)Medicalization, Pharmaceuticals and Genetics: Old Critiques and New Engagements

Reimagining (Bio)Medicalization, Pharmaceuticals and...

Author: Susan Bell (Bowdoin College, USA) ,  Anne Figert (Loyola University, Chicago, USA)
ISBN: 9781138793705
Format: Hardback
$347.00

In recent years medicalization, the process of making something medical, has gained considerable ground and a position...  Read More >>

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