Medical sociology books

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Works of Illness: Narrative, Picturing and the Social Response to Serious Disease

Works of Illness: Narrative, Picturing and the Social...
Author: Alan Radley ISBN: 9780956274908 Format: Paperback	$36.10
Works of Illness takes a fresh look at illness by examining the role of artworks in the understanding of and response... Read More >>

The Body Within: Art, Medicine and Visualization

The Body Within: Art, Medicine and Visualization
Author: Robert P. Zwijnenberg , Renée van de Vall ISBN: 9789004176218 Format: Hardback	$380.16
The central question of this interdisciplinary volume is, whether present day medical visualisation techniques like... Read More >>

Uncertain Suffering: Racial Health Care Disparities and Sickle Cell Disease

Uncertain Suffering: Racial Health Care Disparities...
Author: Carolyn Rouse ISBN: 9780520259126 Format: Paperback	$49.95
On average, black Americans are sicker and die earlier than white Americans. This book examines what this fact means... Read More >>

Uncertain Suffering: Racial Health Care Disparities and Sickle Cell Disease

Uncertain Suffering: Racial Health Care Disparities...
Author: Carolyn Rouse ISBN: 9780520259119 Format: Hardback	$145.20
On average, black Americans are sicker and die earlier than white Americans. This book examines what this fact means... Read More >>

Zara and her Sisters: The Story of the World’s Largest Clothing Retailer

Zara and her Sisters: The Story of the World’s Largest...
Author: E. Badía ISBN: 9780230229914 Format: Hardback	$110.88
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Cosmetic Surgery: A Feminist Primer

Cosmetic Surgery: A Feminist Primer
Author: Cressida J. Heyes , Meredith Jones ISBN: 9780754676997 Format: Hardback	$315.00
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Handbook of the Sociology of Medical Education

Handbook of the Sociology of Medical Education
Author: Caragh Brosnan , Bryan S. Turner ISBN: 9780415460446 Format: Hardback	$483.00
Offers an introduction to this classic area of sociology by examining the social origin and implications of the... Read More >>

The Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry into the Condition of Victimhood

The Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry into the Condition...
Author: Didier Fassin , Richard Rechtman ISBN: 9780691137520 Format: Hardback	$178.20
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Pleasure Consuming Medicine: The Queer Politics of Drugs

Pleasure Consuming Medicine: The Queer Politics of Drugs...
Author: Kane Race ISBN: 9780822345015 Format: Paperback	$41.95
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Pleasure Consuming Medicine: The Queer Politics of Drugs

Pleasure Consuming Medicine: The Queer Politics of Drugs...
Author: Kane Race ISBN: 9780822344889 Format: Hardback	$161.95
An exploration of the symbolic role that the illicit drug user fulfills for the neoliberal state and of counterpublic... Read More >>

The GM Debate: Risk, Politics and Public Engagement

The GM Debate: Risk, Politics and Public Engagement...
Author: Tom Horlick-Jones (Cardiff University, UK) , John Walls (University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK) ISBN: 9780415545976 Format: Paperback	$96.99
Giving a unique and systematic account of the debate process, this revealing volume sets the government-sponsored... Read More >>

International Perspectives on Women and HIV

International Perspectives on Women and HIV
Author: Samuel A MacMaster (University of Tennessee, USA) , Brian E Bride (University of Georgia, USA) ISBN: 9780415998376 Format: Hardback	$347.00
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Understanding and Addressing Adult Sexual Attraction to Children: A Study of Paedophiles in Contemporary Society

Understanding and Addressing Adult Sexual Attraction...
Author: Sarah Goode (University of Winchester, UK) ISBN: 9780415446266 Format: Paperback	$69.99
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Governance of HIV/AIDS: Making Participation and Accountability Count

Governance of HIV/AIDS: Making Participation and Accountability...
Author: Sophie Harman (City University London, UK) , Franklyn Lisk (University of Warwick, UK) ISBN: 9780415485647 Format: Hardback	$315.00
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Confronting Cancer: Metaphors, Advocacy, and Anthropology

Confronting Cancer: Metaphors, Advocacy, and Anthropology...
Author: Juliet McMullin , Diane Weiner ISBN: 9781934691090 Format: Paperback	$79.07
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Gender and Well-Being in Europe: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

Gender and Well-Being in Europe: Historical and Contemporary...
Author: Lina Gálvez , Bernard Harris ISBN: 9780754672647 Format: Hardback	$315.00
Drawing on both historical and contemporary European case-studies, this book offers an account of the relationship... Read More >>

Second Opinion: An Introduction to Health Sociology

Second Opinion: An Introduction to Health Sociology...
Author: John Germov ISBN: 9780195562811 Format: Paperback	$158.40
Second Opinion is the leading health sociology textbook for undergraduate students. Accompanied by a comprehensive... Read More >>

Communicating to Manage Health and Illness

Communicating to Manage Health and Illness
Author: Dale E Brashers (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA) , Daena Goldsmith (Lewis and Clark University, USA) ISBN: 9780805844290 Format: Paperback	$105.00
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Communicating to Manage Health and Illness

Communicating to Manage Health and Illness
Author: Dale E Brashers (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA) , Daena Goldsmith (Lewis and Clark University, USA) ISBN: 9780805844283 Format: Hardback	$336.00
This edited volume advances the theoretical bases of health communication in two key areas: communication, identity,... Read More >>

The Group Effect: Social Cohesion and Health Outcomes

The Group Effect: Social Cohesion and Health Outcomes...
Author: John Bruhn ISBN: 9781441903631 Format: Hardback	$390.72
Social scientists have documented low rates of chronic disease and disability in non-Western societies and have... Read More >>

AIDS Treatment and Human Rights in Context

AIDS Treatment and Human Rights in Context
Author: P. Jones ISBN: 9780230609594 Format: Hardback	$116.41
The book poses and explores questions about the roles of antiretroviral treatment and human rights in the global... Read More >>

The International Legal Governance of the Human Genome

The International Legal Governance of the Human Genome...
Author: Chamundeeswari Kuppuswamy (University of Sheffield, UK) ISBN: 9780415458573 Format: Hardback	$315.00
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Depression and Narrative: Telling the Dark

Depression and Narrative: Telling the Dark
Author: Hilary Clark , Hilary Clark ISBN: 9780791475706 Format: Paperback	$68.51
Shows how the story of depression gets told in print, on screen, and online. Read More >>

Infectious Fear: Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation

Infectious Fear: Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects...
Author: Samuel Kelton Roberts Jr. ISBN: 9780807859346 Format: Paperback	$71.15
Tuberculosis ranked among the top three causes of mortality among urban African Americans. Exploring the politics... Read More >>

The Philosophy of Public Health

The Philosophy of Public Health
Author: Angus Dawson ISBN: 9780754660439 Format: Hardback	$315.00
Public health is once again becoming a major political and social issue in the 21st century, especially in relation... Read More >>

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