Medical sociology books

3623 books were found.

A Good Death?: Law and Ethics in Practice

A Good Death?: Law and Ethics in Practice

Author: Simon Woods ,  Lynn Hagger
ISBN: 9781409420897
Format: Hardback
$315.00

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South African AIDS Activism and Global Health Politics

South African AIDS Activism and Global Health Politics...

Author: M. Mbali
ISBN: 9781349347995
Format: Paperback
$116.41

South Africa has the world's largest number of people living with HIV. This book offers a history of AIDS activism...  Read More >>

Intensive Media: Aversive Affect and Visual Culture

Intensive Media: Aversive Affect and Visual Culture...

Author: A. McCosker
ISBN: 9781349445271
Format: Paperback
$116.41

There is something unsettling, but also powerful, in the encounter with individual and collective experiences of...  Read More >>

Health Care Systems in Europe under Austerity: Institutional Reforms and Performance

Health Care Systems in Europe under Austerity: Institutional...

Author: E. Pavolini ,  A. Guillén
ISBN: 9781349350599
Format: Paperback
$116.41

This book analyses recent reform trends of European health care systems. Using eight European countries case studies...  Read More >>

Beyond Evidence Based Policy in Public Health: The Interplay of Ideas

Beyond Evidence Based Policy in Public Health: The Interplay...

Author: K. Smith
ISBN: 9781349439263
Format: Paperback
$258.72

This book explores the complex relationship between public health research and policy, employing tobacco control...  Read More >>

Living with HIV and ARVs: Three-Letter Lives

Living with HIV and ARVs: Three-Letter Lives

Author: C. Squire
ISBN: 9781349329397
Format: Paperback
$116.41

This book explores the possibilities and difficulties of living with HIV and ARVs, or antiretroviral treatment,...  Read More >>

Medical Tourism and Transnational Health Care

Medical Tourism and Transnational Health Care

Author: D. Botterill ,  G. Pennings
ISBN: 9781349348602
Format: Paperback
$116.41

The phenomenon of transnational health care has grown rapidly over recent years and this book provides a comprehensive...  Read More >>

The New Political Economy of Pharmaceuticals: Production, Innovation and TRIPS in the Global South

The New Political Economy of Pharmaceuticals: Production,...

Author: O. Williams ,  O. Williams
ISBN: 9781349329762
Format: Paperback
$116.41

Some two decades will shortly have passed since the WTO's Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights...  Read More >>

Vulnerabilities, Impacts, and Responses to HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa

Vulnerabilities, Impacts, and Responses to HIV/AIDS...

Author: Getnet Tadele ,  Helmut Kloos
ISBN: 9781349436200
Format: Paperback
$116.41

This book examines HIV/AIDS vulnerabilities, impacts and responses in the socioeconomic and cultural context of...  Read More >>

Migration, Health and Ethnicity in the Modern World

Migration, Health and Ethnicity in the Modern World...

Author: C. Cox ,  H. Marland
ISBN: 9781349454129
Format: Paperback
$116.41

The volume focuses on the relationship between migration, health and illness in a global context from c.1820 to...  Read More >>

Innovation and Biomedicine: Ethics, Evidence and Expectation in HIV

Innovation and Biomedicine: Ethics, Evidence and Expectation...

Author: M. Michael ,  M. Rosengarten
ISBN: 9781349337705
Format: Paperback
$116.41

With its focus on the offshore randomized control trials of a Pre-Exposure Prophylactic pill (PrEP) for preventing...  Read More >>

The Global Dynamics of Regenerative Medicine: A Social Science Critique

The Global Dynamics of Regenerative Medicine: A Social...

Author: A. Webster
ISBN: 9781349439249
Format: Paperback
$232.85

Regenerative medicine, encompassing stem cells and tissue engineering, has attracted huge interest within commercial,...  Read More >>

Unhealthy Pharmaceutical Regulation: Innovation, Politics and Promissory Science

Unhealthy Pharmaceutical Regulation: Innovation, Politics...

Author: C. Davis ,  J. Abraham
ISBN: 9781349284177
Format: Paperback
$232.85

This is the first book to examine how effectively American and supranational EU governments have regulated innovative...  Read More >>

Progress or Collapse: The Crises of Market Greed

Progress or Collapse: The Crises of Market Greed

Author: Roberto De Vogli
ISBN: 9780415510189
Format: Paperback
$79.99

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Atomized Body: The Cultural Life of Stem Cells, Genes & Neurons

Atomized Body: The Cultural Life of Stem Cells, Genes...

Author: Max Liljefors ,  Susanne Lundin
ISBN: 9789187121920
Format: Hardback
$129.23

Just like the first theories in physics viewed atoms as independent and surrounded by a void, our bodies' microscopic...  Read More >>

Progress or Collapse: The Crises of Market Greed

Progress or Collapse: The Crises of Market Greed

Author: Roberto De Vogli
ISBN: 9780415490696
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Handbook of the Sociology of Health, Illness, and Healing: A Blueprint for the 21st Century

Handbook of the Sociology of Health, Illness, and Healing:...

Author: Bernice A. Pescosolido ,  Jack K. Martin
ISBN: 9781441972606
Format: Paperback
$369.57

Such issues may include the importance of multiple levels of influences, the utility of dynamic, life course approaches,...  Read More >>

War and Embodied Memory: Becoming Disabled in Sierra Leone

War and Embodied Memory: Becoming Disabled in Sierra...

Author: Maria Berghs
ISBN: 9781409442103
Format: Hardback
$336.00

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An Introduction to Global Health Ethics

An Introduction to Global Health Ethics

Author: Andrew Pinto (St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada) ,  Ross Upshur (University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
ISBN: 9780415681834
Format: Paperback
$116.00

The field of global health is expanding rapidly. An increasing number of trainees are studying and working with...  Read More >>

European Union Public Health Policy: Regional and global trends

European Union Public Health Policy: Regional and global...

Author: Scott Greer (University of Michigan, USA) ,  Paulette Kurzer (University of Arizona, USA)
ISBN: 9780415516648
Format: Hardback
$315.00

Ranging from influence over trade laws affecting health to population health issues such as obesity to using comparative...  Read More >>

Epidemic Encounters: Influenza, Society, and Culture in Canada, 1918-20

Epidemic Encounters: Influenza, Society, and Culture...

Author: Magda Fahrni ,  Esyllt W. Jones
ISBN: 9780774822138
Format: Paperback
$100.19

A multidisciplinary exploration of Canada's experience of illness and death during the 1918-20 influenza pandemic....  Read More >>

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