Medical sociology books

3152 books were found.

Feminist Existentialism, Biopolitics, and Critical Phenomenology in a Time of Bad Health

Feminist Existentialism, Biopolitics, and Critical Phenomenology...

Author: Talia Welsh
ISBN: 9780367768201
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book explores the personal value of healthy behavior, arguing that our modern tendency to praise or blame individuals...  Read More >>

Medical Education, Politics and Social Justice: The Contradiction Cure

Medical Education, Politics and Social Justice: The...

Author: Alan Bleakley
ISBN: 9780367699277
Format: Paperback
$81.99

This book critically analyses how politics and power affect the ways that medicine is taught and learned.  Read More >>

Sexualities, Transnationalism, and Globalisation: New Perspectives

Sexualities, Transnationalism, and Globalisation: New...

Author: Yanqiu Rachel Zhou (McMaster University, Canada) ,  Christina Sinding
ISBN: 9780367769901
Format: Paperback
$81.99

This innovative book explores the dynamic and contested interactions- including the mutually constitutive relationship-...  Read More >>

Identifying and Managing Risk at Work: Emerging Issues in the Context of Globalisation

Identifying and Managing Risk at Work: Emerging Issues...

Author: Chris L. Peterson (La Trobe University, Australia)
ISBN: 9780367757915
Format: Paperback
$83.99

With a focus on five major regions globally (UK, US, Europe, Canada and Australia) Identifying and Managing Risk...  Read More >>

Transforming Healthcare with Qualitative Research

Transforming Healthcare with Qualitative Research

Author: Frances Rapport ,  Jeffrey Braithwaite
ISBN: 9780367557751
Format: Paperback
$81.99

Drawing on the knowledge and experiences of world-renowned scientists and healthcare professionals, this important...  Read More >>

Attention and Responsibility in Global Health: The Currency of Neglect

Attention and Responsibility in Global Health: The Currency...

Author: Samantha Vanderslott (University of Oxford, UK)
ISBN: 9781032060767
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Attention and Responsibility in Global Health shows the construction of health through what is neglected and how...  Read More >>

Medical Humanities, Sociology and the Suffering Self: Surviving Health

Medical Humanities, Sociology and the Suffering Self:...

Author: Wendy Lowe
ISBN: 9780367672997
Format: Paperback
$81.99

Following criticisms of the traditionally polarized view of understanding suffering through either medicine or social...  Read More >>

Metaphors of Mental Illness in Graphic Medicine

Metaphors of Mental Illness in Graphic Medicine

Author: Sweetha Saji (Mount Carmel College) ,  Sathyaraj Venkatesan
ISBN: 9781032163505
Format: Paperback
$41.99

This book investigates how graphic medicine enables sufferers of mental illness to visualize the intricacies of...  Read More >>

Rethinking Pain in Person-Centred Health Care: Around Recovery

Rethinking Pain in Person-Centred Health Care: Around...

Author: Stephen Buetow (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
ISBN: 9780367699024
Format: Paperback
$81.99

This book explores how person-centred health care could be refined to help persons alleviate pain-related distress...  Read More >>

Surveillance Practices and Mental Health: The Impact of CCTV Inside Mental Health Wards

Surveillance Practices and Mental Health: The Impact...

Author: Suki Desai (Social Work England, UK)
ISBN: 9781032016115
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book examines how CCTV cameras expose the patient body inside the mental health ward, especially the relationship...  Read More >>

Public Discourse and Health Policies: The Price of Health in Contemporary Italy

Public Discourse and Health Policies: The Price of Health...

Author: Nicoletta Bosco (Università di Torino, Italy)
ISBN: 9781032157092
Format: Paperback
$83.99

The questions addressed in the book revolve around the public nature of health as an asset and the rights associated...  Read More >>

Remapping Race in a Global Context

Remapping Race in a Global Context

Author: Ludovica Lorusso (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Spain) ,  Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)
ISBN: 9781032152707
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Investigating the reality and significance of racial categories, Remapping Race in a Global Context examines the...  Read More >>

Managing the Global Health Response to Epidemics: Social science perspectives

Managing the Global Health Response to Epidemics: Social...

Author: Mathilde Bourrier (University of Geneva, Switzerland) ,  Nathalie Brender
ISBN: 9781032570181
Format: Paperback
$81.99

Recent epidemics have prompted large-scale international interventions. During a crisis, however, global health...  Read More >>

Quality of Life and Well-Being for Residents in Long-Term Care Communities: Perspectives on Policies and Practices

Quality of Life and Well-Being for Residents in Long-Term...

Author: Jennifer L. Johs-Artisensi ,  Kevin E. Hansen
ISBN: 9783031046971
Format: Paperback
$142.29

This book explores key factors long-term care recipients have identified as impacting their quality of life and...  Read More >>

Health and the Construction of the Individual

Health and the Construction of the Individual

Author: Jane Ogden
ISBN: 9781032546094
Format: Hardback
$179.00

First published in 2002, this is a social study of social science. It focuses particularly on constructions of the...  Read More >>

Bulletproof Fashion: Security, Emotions, and the Fortress Body

Bulletproof Fashion: Security, Emotions, and the Fortress...

Author: Barbara Sutton (University at Albany, SUNY)
ISBN: 9781032354323
Format: Paperback
$77.99

In the context of gun proliferation and persistent gun violence in the United States, a controversial security strategy...  Read More >>

Bulletproof Fashion: Security, Emotions, and the Fortress Body

Bulletproof Fashion: Security, Emotions, and the Fortress...

Author: Barbara Sutton (University at Albany, SUNY)
ISBN: 9781032354316
Format: Hardback
$284.00

In the context of gun proliferation and persistent gun violence in the United States, a controversial security strategy...  Read More >>

Living with Diabetes and Uncertainty in Cairo: Sweetness Under Pressure

Living with Diabetes and Uncertainty in Cairo: Sweetness...

Author: Mille Kjærgaard Thorsen
ISBN: 9781032328669
Format: Hardback
$263.00

This book offers an ethnographic exploration of the interactions of two different understandings of type-2 diabetes:...  Read More >>

The Poetry of Loss: Romantic and Contemporary Elegies

The Poetry of Loss: Romantic and Contemporary Elegies...

Author: Judith Harris
ISBN: 9781032009490
Format: Hardback
$263.00

The Poetry of Loss presents a renewed look at elegy as a long-standing tradition in the literature of loss, exploring...  Read More >>

Neuroliterature 2 Biography, Semiology, Miscellany: Further literary perspectives on disorders of the nervous system

Neuroliterature 2 Biography, Semiology, Miscellany:...

Author: Andrew J Larner
ISBN: 9781789633696
Format: Paperback
$65.87

"An exploration of the interrelationships between neurology and literature, hence ""neuroliterature"". It will...  Read More >>

Eingliederung als Rechtfertigungsarbeit: Konventionen betrieblicher Arbeitsintegration am Beispiel psychisch erkrankter Beschäftigter

Eingliederung als Rechtfertigungsarbeit: Konventionen...

Author: Anna Gonon
ISBN: 9783658411169
Format: Paperback
$158.37

Dieses Open-Access-Buch analysiert Praktiken der Wiedereingliederung von Beschäftigten mit psychischen Erkrankungen...  Read More >>

Radical Prescription: Citizenship and the Politics of Tuberculosis in Twentieth-Century Cuba

Radical Prescription: Citizenship and the Politics of...

Author: Kelly Urban
ISBN: 9781469673080
Format: Paperback
$59.40

Extinguishing a public health threat is difficult under any condition, let alone during a national revolution. In...  Read More >>

Social Inclusion: Theoretical Development and Cross-cultural Measurements

Social Inclusion: Theoretical Development and Cross-cultural...

Author: Kara Chan ,  Peter J. Huxley
ISBN: 9789629376420
Format: Paperback
$81.84

Describes the theory and development of the Social and Community Opportunities Prole (SCOPE) developed in the UK...  Read More >>

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