Medical sociology books

3623 books were found.

An Applied Visual Sociology: Picturing Harm Reduction

An Applied Visual Sociology: Picturing Harm Reduction...

Author: Stephen Parkin
ISBN: 9781409468394
Format: Hardback
$315.00

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Mental Health Worldwide: Culture, Globalization and Development

Mental Health Worldwide: Culture, Globalization and...

Author: S. Fernando
ISBN: 9781137329585
Format: Paperback
$232.85

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Mental Health Worldwide: Culture, Globalization and Development

Mental Health Worldwide: Culture, Globalization and...

Author: S. Fernando
ISBN: 9781137329592
Format: Hardback
$232.85

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Psychiatry, Mental Institutions, and the Mad in Apartheid South Africa

Psychiatry, Mental Institutions, and the Mad in Apartheid...

Author: Tiffany Fawn Jones (California State University, San Bernardino, USA)
ISBN: 9780415754484
Format: Paperback
$101.00

This book is an examination of South African mental institutions and policy from 1939-1994. It examines how racial,...  Read More >>

Commodified Bodies: Organ Transplantation and the Organ Trade

Commodified Bodies: Organ Transplantation and the Organ...

Author: Oliver Decker (University of Leipzig, Germany) ,  Steven Rendall
ISBN: 9780415854832
Format: Hardback
$315.00

Commodified Bodies examines the social practice of organ transplantation and trafficking and scrutinises the increasingly...  Read More >>

Managing Madness in the Community: The Challenge of Contemporary Mental Health Care

Managing Madness in the Community: The Challenge of...

Author: Kerry Michael Dobransky
ISBN: 9780813563084
Format: Paperback
$108.11

While mental illness and mental health care are increasingly recognized and accepted in today's society, awareness...  Read More >>

Managing Madness in the Community: The Challenge of Contemporary Mental Health Care

Managing Madness in the Community: The Challenge of...

Author: Kerry Michael Dobransky
ISBN: 9780813563091
Format: Hardback
$396.00

While mental illness and mental health care are increasingly recognized and accepted in today's society, awareness...  Read More >>

Capital Punishment: A Hazard to a Sustainable Criminal Justice System?

Capital Punishment: A Hazard to a Sustainable Criminal...

Author: Lill Scherdin
ISBN: 9781409457190
Format: Hardback
$336.00

Leading experts in law, criminology and human rights combine theory and empirical research to further our understanding...  Read More >>

Bioscience, Governance and Politics

Bioscience, Governance and Politics

Author: J. Gillott
ISBN: 9781137374981
Format: Hardback
$145.17

Through case studies, theoretical research and interviews with leading players in science and governance, this book...  Read More >>

Bioethics: Methods, Theories, Domains

Bioethics: Methods, Theories, Domains

Author: Marcus Düwell
ISBN: 9781138789937
Format: Paperback
$118.00

This book is a philosophically-oriented introduction to bioethics. It offers the reader an overview of key debates...  Read More >>

Women in Narcotics Anonymous: Overcoming Stigma and Shame

Women in Narcotics Anonymous: Overcoming Stigma and...

Author: J. Sanders
ISBN: 9781137440693
Format: Hardback
$116.41

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Anthropology in the Making: Research in Health and Development

Anthropology in the Making: Research in Health and Development...

Author: Laurent Vidal (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, France)
ISBN: 9780415717823
Format: Hardback
$315.00

In Anthropology in the Making, Laurent Vidal takes the reader into the world of research in the fields of health...  Read More >>

The Question of Competence: Reconsidering Medical Education in the Twenty-First Century

The Question of Competence: Reconsidering Medical Education...

Author: Brian D. Hodges ,  Lorelei Lingard
ISBN: 9780801479502
Format: Paperback
$61.75

Experts from the United States, Canada, and the Netherlands explore medical competency from different perspectives...  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of the Social Science of Obesity

The Oxford Handbook of the Social Science of Obesity...

Author: John Cawley (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States)
ISBN: 9780199359974
Format: Paperback
$124.95

This volume accurately and conveniently summarizes the findings and insights of obesity-related research from the...  Read More >>

The Makings of a Modern Epidemic: Endometriosis, Gender and Politics

The Makings of a Modern Epidemic: Endometriosis, Gender...

Author: Kate Seear
ISBN: 9781409460824
Format: Hardback
$315.00

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The Transformation of the Psyche in British Primary Care, 1870-1970

The Transformation of the Psyche in British Primary...

Author: Dr Rhodri Hayward (Queen Mary, University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9781780937267
Format: Hardback
$260.00

Conflicting models of selfhood have become central to debates over modern medicine. Yet we still lack a clear historical...  Read More >>

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