Medical sociology books

3623 books were found.

Disability, Hate Crime and Violence

Disability, Hate Crime and Violence

Author: Alan Roulstone ,  Hannah Mason-Bish
ISBN: 9780415674317
Format: Hardback
$315.00

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Deafness, Community and Culture in Britain: Leisure and Cohesion, 1945–95

Deafness, Community and Culture in Britain: Leisure...

Author: Martin Atherton ,  Julie Anderson
ISBN: 9780719084676
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Sets a case study of deaf people's leisure in NW England within a wider British context; gives insights into a misunderstood,...  Read More >>

Devising, Dying and Dispute: Probate Litigation in Early Modern England

Devising, Dying and Dispute: Probate Litigation in Early...

Author: Lloyd Bonfield
ISBN: 9781409434276
Format: Hardback
$315.00

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Prostitution, Harm and Gender Inequality: Theory, Research and Policy

Prostitution, Harm and Gender Inequality: Theory, Research...

Author: Maddy Coy
ISBN: 9781409405450
Format: Hardback
$336.00

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

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

Author: Magda Fahrni ,  Esyllt W. Jones
ISBN: 9780774822121
Format: Hardback
$261.36

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

Technologies of Sexuality, Identity and Sexual Health

Technologies of Sexuality, Identity and Sexual Health...

Author: Lenore Manderson (Monash University, Australia)
ISBN: 9780415673297
Format: Hardback
$315.00

Bringing together anthropologists, sociologists and cultural studies scholars, this volume highlights the complex...  Read More >>

Mapping the Sociology of Health and Medicine: America, Britain and Australia Compared

Mapping the Sociology of Health and Medicine: America,...

Author: F. Collyer
ISBN: 9780230320444
Format: Hardback
$145.17

This book studies the sociology of health and medicine across three different countries, the USA, UK and Australia,...  Read More >>

First, Do Less Harm: Confronting the Inconvenient Problems of Patient Safety

First, Do Less Harm: Confronting the Inconvenient Problems...

Author: Ross Koppel ,  Suzanne Gordon
ISBN: 9780801450778
Format: Hardback
$79.07

In First, Do Less Harm, twelve health care professionals and researchers plus two former patients look at patient...  Read More >>

Building American Public Health: Urban Planning, Architecture, and the Quest for Better Health in the United States

Building American Public Health: Urban Planning, Architecture,...

Author: R. Lopez
ISBN: 9781349433797
Format: Paperback
$116.41

This historical study looks at how reformers have used urban planning and architecture to improve the health of...  Read More >>

The Cosmopolitanization of Science: Stem Cell Governance in China

The Cosmopolitanization of Science: Stem Cell Governance...

Author: J. Zhang
ISBN: 9780230302594
Format: Hardback
$145.17

Focussing on China's stem cell research, this book investigates how, over the last decade, Chinese scientists, ethicists...  Read More >>

Theorizing Complementary and Alternative Medicines: Wellbeing, Self, Gender, Class

Theorizing Complementary and Alternative Medicines:...

Author: E. Sointu
ISBN: 9780230309319
Format: Hardback
$290.37

Rather than physiological health only, complementary and alternative medicines aim at the production of wellbeing....  Read More >>

Insecurity, Inequality, and Obesity in Affluent Societies

Insecurity, Inequality, and Obesity in Affluent Societies...

Author: Avner Offer (Chichele Professor of Economic History, All Souls College, University of Oxford) ,  Rachel Pechey (Research Officer, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780197264980
Format: Hardback
$155.25

During the last three decades, obesity has emerged as a big public health issue in affluent societies. A number...  Read More >>

Medicine as Culture: Illness, Disease and the Body

Medicine as Culture: Illness, Disease and the Body

Author: Deborah Lupton
ISBN: 9781446208953
Format: Paperback
$103.47

The Third Edition of a seminal text which is widely recommended to upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate students...  Read More >>

Medicine as Culture: Illness, Disease and the Body

Medicine as Culture: Illness, Disease and the Body

Author: Deborah Lupton
ISBN: 9781446208946
Format: Hardback
$436.00

The Third Edition of a seminal text which is widely recommended to upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate students...  Read More >>

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