Medical sociology books

3623 books were found.

Health and Globalization

Health and Globalization

Author: Geoffrey Cockerham (Utah University) ,  William C. Cockerham (University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA)
ISBN: 9780745645124
Format: Hardback
$113.95

* Explores the links between health and globalization. * Considers important issues such as the global spread...  Read More >>

Renaissance Food from Rabelais to Shakespeare: Culinary Readings and Culinary Histories

Renaissance Food from Rabelais to Shakespeare: Culinary...

Author: Joan Fitzpatrick
ISBN: 9780754664277
Format: Hardback
$315.00

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The Compassionate Intentions of Illness

The Compassionate Intentions of Illness

Author: Tony Humphreys ,  Helen Ruddle
ISBN: 9780955226199
Format: Paperback
$60.59

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Abjectly Boundless: Boundaries, Bodies and Health Work

Abjectly Boundless: Boundaries, Bodies and Health Work...

Author: Trudy Rudge ,  Dave Holmes
ISBN: 9780754679103
Format: Hardback
$336.00

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Luxury Online: Styles, Systems, Strategies

Luxury Online: Styles, Systems, Strategies

Author: Uché Okonkwo
ISBN: 9781349364176
Format: Paperback
$171.57

This new book focuses on the analysis of the online strategy and development of the luxury industry, tracing the...  Read More >>

Luxury Online: Styles, Systems, Strategies

Luxury Online: Styles, Systems, Strategies

Author: Uché Okonkwo
ISBN: 9780230555365
Format: Hardback
$132.00

This new book focuses on the analysis of the online strategy and development of the luxury industry, tracing the...  Read More >>

Understanding Emerging Epidemics: Social and Political Approaches

Understanding Emerging Epidemics: Social and Political...

Author: Ananya Mukherjea
ISBN: 9781848550803
Format: Hardback
$291.95

Focuses on the contributions that social scientists can make to understanding emerging epidemics, their impact,...  Read More >>

Death in American Texts and Performances: Corpses, Ghosts, and the Reanimated Dead

Death in American Texts and Performances: Corpses, Ghosts,...

Author: Lisa K. Perdigao ,  Mark Pizzato
ISBN: 9780754669074
Format: Hardback
$315.00

How do twentieth and twenty-first century artists bring forth the powerful reality of death when it exists in memory...  Read More >>

Health

Health

Author: Mildred Blaxter (University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK)
ISBN: 9780745648460
Format: Paperback
$32.95

The second edition of Mildred Blaxter's successful and highly respected book offers a comprehensive and engaging...  Read More >>

Health

Health

Author: Mildred Blaxter (University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK)
ISBN: 9780745648453
Format: Hardback
$103.95

The second edition of Mildred Blaxter's successful and highly respected book offers a comprehensive and engaging...  Read More >>

HIV Treatment and Prevention Technologies in International Perspective

HIV Treatment and Prevention Technologies in International...

Author: M. Davis ,  C. Squire
ISBN: 9780230238190
Format: Hardback
$237.60

This edited collection investigates the biomedical and social technologies used to control the HIV pandemic through...  Read More >>

Insomnia: A Cultural History

Insomnia: A Cultural History

Author: Eluned Summers-Bremner
ISBN: 9781861896544
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Shows that the roots and effects of insomnia are complex, and reveals how humans have employed art, science and...  Read More >>

The Sociology of Healthcare

The Sociology of Healthcare

Author: Alan Clarke
ISBN: 9781405858496
Format: Paperback
$94.99

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A Sociohistory of Cerebrovascular Disease and the Development of Modern Stroke Medicine: A Foucauldian Analysis

A Sociohistory of Cerebrovascular Disease and the Development...

Author: Katharine Daneski
ISBN: 9780773436596
Format: Hardback
$316.67

Examines historiographical accounts of the cerebrovascular condition using a socio-historical approach influenced...  Read More >>

Identity, Health and Women: A Critical Social Psychological Perspective

Identity, Health and Women: A Critical Social Psychological...

Author: J. Christodoulou
ISBN: 9781349317486
Format: Paperback
$116.41

This book provides a three-part investigation into identity construction. Theory, voice and praxis are all represented...  Read More >>

The Evolution of Intelligent Systems: How Molecules became Minds

The Evolution of Intelligent Systems: How Molecules...

Author: K. Richardson
ISBN: 9781349322114
Format: Paperback
$116.41

How could something as seemingly transcendental as the human mind have arisen from far simpler material beginnings?...  Read More >>

Configuring Health Consumers: Health Work and the Imperative of Personal Responsibility

Configuring Health Consumers: Health Work and the Imperative...

Author: R. Harris ,  N. Wathen
ISBN: 9781349321582
Format: Paperback
$116.41

This book explore assumptions underpinning contemporary health policy discourses that emphasize personal responsibility...  Read More >>

Neurogenetic Diagnoses: The Power of Hope and the Limits of Today’s Medicine

Neurogenetic Diagnoses: The Power of Hope and the Limits...

Author: Carole H. Browner (University of California, USA) ,  Mabel H. Preloran (University of California, USA)
ISBN: 9780415563659
Format: Hardback
$315.00

Amid intense debate over the consequences of decoding the human genome and the impact of such technology on our...  Read More >>

Health and Social Theory

Health and Social Theory

Author: Fernando De Maio (De Paul University, Chicago, USA)
ISBN: 9780230517424
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Concise yet comprehensive, this book draws together key theoretical perspectives and significant research work in...  Read More >>

The New Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology

The New Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology

Author: William C. Cockerham (University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA)
ISBN: 9781405188685
Format: Hardback
$541.07

An authoritative, topical, and comprehensive reference to the key concepts and most important traditional and contemporary...  Read More >>

Health and Social Theory

Health and Social Theory

Author: Fernando De Maio (De Paul University, Chicago, USA)
ISBN: 9780230517417
Format: Hardback
$280.00

Concise yet comprehensive, this book draws together key theoretical perspectives and significant research work in...  Read More >>

Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy

Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and...

Author: Susan M. Reverby
ISBN: 9780807833100
Format: Hardback
$84.48

'Tuskegee' Syphilis Study has become the American metaphor for medical racism, government malfeasance, and physician...  Read More >>

Agriculture and EU Environmental Law

Agriculture and EU Environmental Law

Author: Brian Jack
ISBN: 9780754645405
Format: Hardback
$315.00

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