Medical sociology books

3623 books were found.

A Companion to Medical Anthropology

A Companion to Medical Anthropology

Author: Merrill Singer (University of Connecticut, USA) ,  Pamela I. Erickson (University of Connecticut, USA)
ISBN: 9781405190022
Format: Hardback
$527.87

A Companion to Medical Anthropology examines the current issues, controversies, and state of the field in medical...  Read More >>

The Politics of Sleep: Governing (Un)consciousness in the Late Modern Age

The Politics of Sleep: Governing (Un)consciousness in...

Author: S. Williams
ISBN: 9780230223677
Format: Paperback
$129.35

Why has sleep become increasingly politicized in contemporary society? This book provides an account of the politics...  Read More >>

The Politics of Sleep: Governing (Un)consciousness in the Late Modern Age

The Politics of Sleep: Governing (Un)consciousness in...

Author: S. Williams
ISBN: 9780230223660
Format: Hardback
$116.41

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Sexual Identities and Sexuality in Social Work: Research and Reflections from Women in the Field

Sexual Identities and Sexuality in Social Work: Research...

Author: Priscilla Dunk-West ,  Trish Hafford-Letchfield
ISBN: 9780754678823
Format: Hardback
$315.00

Sexuality and sexual identity have been relatively marginalized areas in both social work education and practice....  Read More >>

Private Bodies, Public Texts: Race, Gender, and a Cultural Bioethics

Private Bodies, Public Texts: Race, Gender, and a Cultural...

Author: Karla FC Holloway
ISBN: 9780822349174
Format: Paperback
$39.95

An argument for a cultural bioethics that recognizes and attempts to address the greater vulnerability to exploitation...  Read More >>

Private Bodies, Public Texts: Race, Gender, and a Cultural Bioethics

Private Bodies, Public Texts: Race, Gender, and a Cultural...

Author: Karla FC Holloway
ISBN: 9780822348948
Format: Hardback
$152.95

An argument for a cultural bioethics that recognizes and attempts to address the greater vulnerability to exploitation...  Read More >>

Lynching: American Mob Murder in Global Perspective

Lynching: American Mob Murder in Global Perspective...

Author: Robert W. Thurston (Miami University, USA)
ISBN: 9781409409083
Format: Hardback
$315.00

Addressing one of the most controversial and emotive issues of American history, this book presents a thorough reexamination...  Read More >>

Recognizing Transsexuals: Personal, Political and Medicolegal Embodiment

Recognizing Transsexuals: Personal, Political and Medicolegal...

Author: Zowie Davy (De Montfort University, UK)
ISBN: 9781409405658
Format: Hardback
$315.00

Recognizing Transsexuals is the first sociological examination of how the bodies of transpeople are figured and...  Read More >>

Transacting Sites of the Liminal Bodily Spaces

Transacting Sites of the Liminal Bodily Spaces

Author: Catalina Florina Florescu
ISBN: 9781443826938
Format: Hardback
$139.89

This book focuses on liminal bodies and their delicate transaction with themselves and other people's bodies.  Read More >>

Seeing Patients: Unconscious Bias in Health Care

Seeing Patients: Unconscious Bias in Health Care

Author: Augustus A. White ,  David Chanoff
ISBN: 9780674049055
Format: Hardback
$73.79

If you're going to have an organ transplant, or a joint replacement, here's the key to getting the very best medical...  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: 9781349310128
Format: Paperback
$116.41

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

Debating Obesity: Critical Perspectives

Debating Obesity: Critical Perspectives

Author: E. Rich ,  L. F. Monaghan
ISBN: 9781349308248
Format: Paperback
$116.41

This book brings together critical perspectives on some of the recent claims associated with the obesity crisis. It...  Read More >>

Partnerships and Foundations in Global Health Governance

Partnerships and Foundations in Global Health Governance...

Author: S. Rushton ,  O. Williams
ISBN: 9781349315864
Format: Paperback
$116.41

This book argues that the new actors in global health constitute a 'private turn' in global health governance, and...  Read More >>

Understanding Suicide: A Sociological Autopsy

Understanding Suicide: A Sociological Autopsy

Author: B. Fincham ,  S. Langer
ISBN: 9781349368914
Format: Paperback
$116.41

Sociologists have debated suicide since the early days of the discipline. This book assesses that body of work and...  Read More >>

Debates in Transgender, Queer, and Feminist Theory: Contested Sites

Debates in Transgender, Queer, and Feminist Theory:...

Author: Patricia Elliot
ISBN: 9781409403937
Format: Hardback
$315.00

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Total Institutions and Reinvented Identities

Total Institutions and Reinvented Identities

Author: S. Scott
ISBN: 9781349312412
Format: Paperback
$232.85

Why do people enter total institutions – places that confine and control them around the clock – and how does the...  Read More >>

The Politics of Bioethics

The Politics of Bioethics

Author: Alan Petersen (Monash University, Australia)
ISBN: 9780415990066
Format: Hardback
$336.00

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The Politics of Narcotic Drugs: A Survey

The Politics of Narcotic Drugs: A Survey

Author: Julia Buxton
ISBN: 9781857435016
Format: Hardback
$441.00

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