Medical sociology books

3623 books were found.

Partnership and Pragmatism: The German Response to AIDS Prevention and Care

Partnership and Pragmatism: The German Response to AIDS...

Author: Rolf Rosenbrock ,  Michael Wright
ISBN: 9780415241052
Format: Hardback
$326.00

This book provides an overview of themes in German HIV/AIDS prevention and care from the beginning of the epidemic...  Read More >>

The Dying Process: Patients' Experiences of Palliative Care

The Dying Process: Patients' Experiences of Palliative...

Author: Julia Lawton
ISBN: 9780415226790
Format: Paperback
$88.99

An ethongraphic study, The Dying Process draws on the voices of patients themselves and highlights the bodily realities...  Read More >>

The Dying Process: Patients' Experiences of Palliative Care

The Dying Process: Patients' Experiences of Palliative...

Author: Julia Lawton
ISBN: 9780415226783
Format: Hardback
$315.00

A detailed ethnographic study, The Dying Process draws on the voices of patients and highlights the bodily realities...  Read More >>

Health, Medicine and Society: Key Theories, Future Agendas

Health, Medicine and Society: Key Theories, Future Agendas...

Author: Michael Calnan ,  Jonathan Gabe
ISBN: 9780415221368
Format: Paperback
$116.00

This text brings together a range of eminent international scholars to reflect upon matters of health, medicine...  Read More >>

Health, Medicine and Society: Key Theories, Future Agendas

Health, Medicine and Society: Key Theories, Future Agendas...

Author: Michael Calnan ,  Jonathan Gabe
ISBN: 9780415221351
Format: Hardback
$336.00

This text brings together a range of eminent international scholars to reflect upon matters of health, medicine...  Read More >>

Dangerous Sexualities: Medico-Moral Politics in England Since 1830

Dangerous Sexualities: Medico-Moral Politics in England...

Author: Frank Mort
ISBN: 9780415167345
Format: Paperback
$103.00

Examines ideas of health and illness and their links to moral and immoral notions of sex, from 1830 to the present...  Read More >>

Dangerous Sexualities: Medico-Moral Politics in England Since 1830

Dangerous Sexualities: Medico-Moral Politics in England...

Author: Frank Mort
ISBN: 9780415167338
Format: Hardback
$399.00

Examines ideas of health and illness and their links to moral and immoral notions of sex, from 1830 to the present...  Read More >>

Representations of Death: A Social Psychological Perspective

Representations of Death: A Social Psychological Perspective...

Author: Mary Bradbury ,  Robert Farr
ISBN: 9780415150224
Format: Paperback
$103.00

Drawing upon a rare ethnography of mortuary practices in the 1990s, this book takes the reader through the medical,...  Read More >>

Representations of Death: A Social Psychological Perspective

Representations of Death: A Social Psychological Perspective...

Author: Mary Bradbury ,  Robert Farr
ISBN: 9780415150217
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Drawing upon a rare ethnography of mortuary practices in the 1990s, this book takes the reader through the medical,...  Read More >>

The Construction of Attitudes Toward Lesbians and Gay Men

The Construction of Attitudes Toward Lesbians and Gay...

Author: Tracy Luchetta ,  Patricia L Pardie
ISBN: 9781560239420
Format: Paperback
$60.99

Discover new information and perspectives on why today’s culture holds prejudice toward gay men and lesbians!The...  Read More >>

Technologies of Procreation: Kinship in the Age of Assisted Conception

Technologies of Procreation: Kinship in the Age of Assisted...

Author: Jeanette Edwards ,  Sarah Franklin
ISBN: 9780415170550
Format: Hardback
$399.00

Using evidence from cross-disciplinary research carried out in 1990- 1991, this text tackles debates relating to...  Read More >>

Technologies of Procreation: Kinship in the Age of Assisted Conception

Technologies of Procreation: Kinship in the Age of Assisted...

Author: Jeanette Edwards ,  Sarah Franklin
ISBN: 9780415170567
Format: Paperback
$103.00

What are the cultural and anthropological understandings of new reproductive technologies? Using evidence from cross-disciplinary...  Read More >>

The Lived Body: Sociological Themes, Embodied Issues

The Lived Body: Sociological Themes, Embodied Issues...

Author: Gillian A. Bendelow ,  Simon J. Williams
ISBN: 9780415194266
Format: Paperback
$103.00

This title examines the notion of human embodiment in both classical and contemporary thought. The ideas of a range...  Read More >>

The Lived Body: Sociological Themes, Embodied Issues

The Lived Body: Sociological Themes, Embodied Issues...

Author: Gillian A. Bendelow ,  Simon J. Williams
ISBN: 9780415194259
Format: Hardback
$399.00

A review of the sociology of body which will provide both new students and established researchers with clear and...  Read More >>

Cyborg Babies: From Techno-Sex to Techno-Tots

Cyborg Babies: From Techno-Sex to Techno-Tots

Author: Robbie Davis-Floyd ,  Joseph Dumit
ISBN: 9780415916035
Format: Hardback
$347.00

This book tracks the process of reproducing children in symbiosis with pervasive technology and offers a range of...  Read More >>

Cooking and Coping Among the Cacti: Diet, Nutrition and Available Income in Northwestern Mexico

Cooking and Coping Among the Cacti: Diet, Nutrition...

Author: Roberta D. Baer
ISBN: 9789056995768
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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The Dutch Response To HIV: Pragmatism and Consensus

The Dutch Response To HIV: Pragmatism and Consensus...

Author: Theo Sandfort
ISBN: 9781857288179
Format: Paperback
$103.00

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The Dutch Response To HIV: Pragmatism and Consensus

The Dutch Response To HIV: Pragmatism and Consensus...

Author: Theo Sandfort
ISBN: 9781857288162
Format: Hardback
$336.00

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Gender, Health and Welfare

Gender, Health and Welfare

Author: Anne Digby ,  John Stewart
ISBN: 9780415187008
Format: Paperback
$48.99

This book discusses how, and why, gender was important in shaping modern welfare provision. It provides an introduction...  Read More >>

The Body in Everyday Life

The Body in Everyday Life

Author: Sarah Nettleton ,  Jonathan Watson (University of Nottingham, UK)
ISBN: 9780415162012
Format: Paperback
$103.00

We all have a body, but how does it impact upon our day to day life? How we experience our bodies is at once both...  Read More >>

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