Medical sociology books

3623 books were found.

Depression in Japan: Psychiatric Cures for a Society in Distress

Depression in Japan: Psychiatric Cures for a Society...

Author: Junko Kitanaka
ISBN: 9780691142050
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Since the 1990s, suicide in recession-plagued Japan has soared, and rates of depression have both increased and...  Read More >>

Depression in Japan: Psychiatric Cures for a Society in Distress

Depression in Japan: Psychiatric Cures for a Society...

Author: Junko Kitanaka
ISBN: 9780691142043
Format: Hardback
$198.00

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De-Medicalizing Misery: Psychiatry, Psychology and the Human Condition

De-Medicalizing Misery: Psychiatry, Psychology and the...

Author: M. Rapley ,  J. Moncrieff
ISBN: 9780230307919
Format: Paperback
$232.85

Psychiatry and psychology have constructed a mental health system that does no justice to the problems it claims...  Read More >>

De-Medicalizing Misery: Psychiatry, Psychology and the Human Condition

De-Medicalizing Misery: Psychiatry, Psychology and the...

Author: M. Rapley ,  J. Moncrieff
ISBN: 9780230242715
Format: Hardback
$206.97

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Gender and Health

Gender and Health

Author: Kate Hunt ,  Ellen Annandale
ISBN: 9780415569767
Format: Mixed media product
$168.00

A new title in the Routledge Major Works series, Major Themes in Health and Social Welfare, this is a four-volume...  Read More >>

Access To Care and Factors That Impact Access, Patients as Partners In Care and Changing Roles of Health Providers

Access To Care and Factors That Impact Access, Patients...

Author: Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld ,  Jennie Kronenfeld
ISBN: 9780857247155
Format: Hardback
$291.95

Part of the ""Research in the Sociology of Health Care"" series, this title deals with both macro-level system issues...  Read More >>

Gendering Addiction: The Politics of Drug Treatment in a Neurochemical World

Gendering Addiction: The Politics of Drug Treatment...

Author: N. Campbell ,  E. Ettorre
ISBN: 9780230228559
Format: Hardback
$224.40

This study, by two leading scholars in the field, draws on feminist theory and science and technology studies to...  Read More >>

Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Bodies, Therapies, Senses

Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Bodies, Therapies,...

Author: Ruth Barcan
ISBN: 9781845207434
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Alternative therapies, once the province of the hippie counterculture, are now a mainstream phenomenon. But they...  Read More >>

Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Bodies, Therapies, Senses

Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Bodies, Therapies,...

Author: Ruth Barcan
ISBN: 9781845207427
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Alternative therapies, once the province of the hippie counterculture, are now a mainstream phenomenon. But they...  Read More >>

Sex in the Yellow Emperor's Basic Questions: Sex, Longevity, and Medicine in Early China

Sex in the Yellow Emperor's Basic Questions: Sex, Longevity,...

Author: Jessieca Leo
ISBN: 9781931483186
Format: Paperback
$79.07

The Yellow Emperor’s Basic Questions (Suwen), compiled around the beginning of the Common Era and the oldest medical...  Read More >>

Geographies of Women's Health: Place, Diversity and Difference

Geographies of Women's Health: Place, Diversity and...

Author: Isabel Dyck ,  Nancy Davis Lewis
ISBN: 9780415695336
Format: Paperback
$62.99

This international collection explores the relationships between society, place, gender and health, and how these...  Read More >>

The Late Victorian Gothic: Mental Science, the Uncanny, and Scenes of Writing

The Late Victorian Gothic: Mental Science, the Uncanny,...

Author: Hilary Grimes
ISBN: 9781409427209
Format: Hardback
$315.00

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Death, Dying, and Social Differences

Death, Dying, and Social Differences

Author: David Oliviere ,  Barbara Monroe
ISBN: 9780199599295
Format: Paperback
$87.95

This newly expanded, fully revised second edition, with 11 new chapters, provides a comprehensive analysis of discrimination,...  Read More >>

Evidence, Ethos and Experiment: The Anthropology and History of Medical Research in Africa

Evidence, Ethos and Experiment: The Anthropology and...

Author: P. Wenzel Geissler ,  Catherine Molyneux
ISBN: 9780857450920
Format: Hardback
$250.80

Drawing on rich, ethnographic and historiographic material, this volume represents the emergent field of anthropological...  Read More >>

The Common Agricultural Policy after the Fischler Reform: National Implementations, Impact Assessment and the Agenda for Future Reforms

The Common Agricultural Policy after the Fischler Reform:...

Author: Alessandro Sorrentino ,  Roberto Henke
ISBN: 9781409421948
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Providing a report on the effects of the 2003 Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform, this title emphasises on...  Read More >>

Handbook of African American Health: Social and Behavioral Interventions

Handbook of African American Health: Social and Behavioral...

Author: Anthony J. Lemelle ,  Wornie Reed
ISBN: 9781441996152
Format: Hardback
$498.96

The contributions to this comprehensive Handbook of African American Health uncover the specific demographic conditions...  Read More >>

Sociology of Diagnosis

Sociology of Diagnosis

Author: PJ McGann ,  David Hutson
ISBN: 9780857245755
Format: Hardback
$332.95

Offers an introduction to the sociology of diagnosis. This title presents articles that explore diagnosis as a process...  Read More >>

Challenging Operations – Medical Reform and Resistance in Surgery

Challenging Operations – Medical Reform and Resistance...

Author: Katherine Kellogg
ISBN: 9780226430034
Format: Paperback
$57.95

In 2003, in the face of errors and accidents caused by medical and surgical trainees, the American Council of Graduate...  Read More >>

Challenging Operations: Medical Reform and Resistance in Surgery

Challenging Operations: Medical Reform and Resistance...

Author: Katherine Kellogg
ISBN: 9780226430027
Format: Hardback
$167.95

In 2003, in the face of errors and accidents caused by medical and surgical trainees, the American Council of Graduate...  Read More >>

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