Medical sociology books

3227 books were found.

Sexuality

Sexuality

Author: Jeffrey Weeks (London South Bank University, UK)
ISBN: 9781032105345
Format: Paperback
$41.99

This new edition of the classic text for understanding human sexuality brings the arguments and evidence fully up...  Read More >>

Biostatistics: An Introduction and Conceptual Critique

Biostatistics: An Introduction and Conceptual Critique...

Author: David Baronov
ISBN: 9781032328393
Format: Hardback
$263.00

Biostatistical analysis contributes to amazing medical breakthroughs. Yet it also distorts and deforms the holistic...  Read More >>

Drug Law Enforcement, Policing and Harm Reduction: Ending the Stalemate

Drug Law Enforcement, Policing and Harm Reduction: Ending...

Author: Matthew Bacon ,  Jack Spicer (University of Bath)
ISBN: 9780367722692
Format: Hardback
$263.00

This book makes a much-needed interdisciplinary and international contribution that engages with established and...  Read More >>

COVID-19: Cultural Change and Institutional Adaptations

COVID-19: Cultural Change and Institutional Adaptations...

Author: J. Michael Ryan (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Peru)
ISBN: 9781032299044
Format: Hardback
$263.00

This volume provides critical insights into the impact of the pandemic on the relationship between cultures and...  Read More >>

Religion, Life, and Death: Untangling Fears and the Search for Coherence

Religion, Life, and Death: Untangling Fears and the...

Author: Pamela Leong (Salem State University, USA)
ISBN: 9781032404745
Format: Hardback
$263.00

Based on a content analysis of writing assignments from a class on death and dying, this book focuses on the manner...  Read More >>

Sexuality

Sexuality

Author: Jeffrey Weeks (London South Bank University, UK)
ISBN: 9781032105321
Format: Hardback
$183.00

This new edition of the classic text for understanding human sexuality brings the arguments and evidence fully up...  Read More >>

COVID-19: Surviving a Pandemic

COVID-19: Surviving a Pandemic

Author: J. Michael Ryan (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Peru)
ISBN: 9781032299167
Format: Hardback
$263.00

COVID-19: Surviving a Pandemic provides critical insights into survival strategies employed by communities and individuals...  Read More >>

Promoting Wellness and Resiliency in Correctional Officers

Promoting Wellness and Resiliency in Correctional Officers...

Author: Hayden P. Smith (University of South Carolina, USA)
ISBN: 9781032407029
Format: Hardback
$263.00

This book presents universal themes that impact the safety, wellbeing, and resiliency of correctional officers,...  Read More >>

Coronasphere: Narratives on COVID 19 from India and its Neighbours

Coronasphere: Narratives on COVID 19 from India and...

Author: Chandan Kumar Sharma (Tezpur University, Assam, India) ,  Reshmi Banerjee (Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi, India)
ISBN: 9781032206646
Format: Hardback
$263.00

This book presents a broad overview of the challenges posed by COVID-19 in India and its neighboring countries....  Read More >>

Communication and Health: Media, Marketing and Risk

Communication and Health: Media, Marketing and Risk...

Author: Charlene Elliott ,  Josh Greenberg
ISBN: 9789811642920
Format: Paperback
$284.60

This book explores the unique contribution that critical communication studies can bring to our understanding of...  Read More >>

The Palgrave Handbook of Sport, Politics and Harm

The Palgrave Handbook of Sport, Politics and Harm

Author: Stephen Wagg ,  Allyson M. Pollock
ISBN: 9783030728281
Format: Paperback
$517.47

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Engaging Black and Minority Ethnic Groups in Health Research: ‘Hard to Reach’? Demystifying the Misconceptions

Engaging Black and Minority Ethnic Groups in Health...

Author: Natalie Darko (De Montfort University)
ISBN: 9781447359135
Format: Paperback
$57.99

This crucial contribution exposes the misconception that health research and health services are equally effective...  Read More >>

Evidence-biased Antidepressant Prescription: Overmedicalisation, Flawed Research, and Conflicts of Interest

Evidence-biased Antidepressant Prescription: Overmedicalisation,...

Author: Michael P. Hengartner
ISBN: 9783030825898
Format: Paperback
$284.60

This book addresses the over-prescribing of antidepressants in people with mostly mild and subthreshold depression....  Read More >>

Development and Women's Reproductive Health in Ghana, 1920-1982

Development and Women's Reproductive Health in Ghana,...

Author: Holly Ashford
ISBN: 9781032227849
Format: Hardback
$263.00

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Digital Healthcare and Expertise: Mental Health and New Knowledge Practices

Digital Healthcare and Expertise: Mental Health and...

Author: Claudia Egher
ISBN: 9789811691775
Format: Hardback
$116.41

This open access book explores how expertise about bipolar disorder is performed on American and French digital...  Read More >>

The Power of Parasites: Malaria as (un)conscious strategy

The Power of Parasites: Malaria as (un)conscious strategy...

Author: Dalia Iskander
ISBN: 9789811667664
Format: Paperback
$116.41

This book describes how malaria both frustrates and facilitates life for Indigenous Pälawan communities living...  Read More >>

Walking the Talk: Reimagining Primary Health Care After COVID-19

Walking the Talk: Reimagining Primary Health Care After...

Author: Enis Baris ,  Rachel Silverman
ISBN: 9781464817687
Format: Paperback
$116.03

Very few topics in global health have been as controversial as primary health care. In this book the authors explain...  Read More >>

The COVID-19 Pandemic: The Deadly Coronavirus Outbreak

The COVID-19 Pandemic: The Deadly Coronavirus Outbreak...

Author: Tapas Kumar Koley ,  Monika Dhole
ISBN: 9781032384535
Format: Paperback
$75.99

This book presents a comprehensive account of the COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the novel coronavirus pandemic,...  Read More >>

Beyond Therapeutic Culture in Latin America: Hybrid Networks in Argentina and Brazil

Beyond Therapeutic Culture in Latin America: Hybrid...

Author: Piroska Csúri ,  Mariano Ben Plotkin
ISBN: 9780367187026
Format: Hardback
$263.00

"By focusing on quantitative and qualitative research in Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires, this book expands on the...  Read More >>

Becoming with Care in Drug Treatment Services: The Recovery Assemblage

Becoming with Care in Drug Treatment Services: The Recovery...

Author: Lena Theodoropoulou (University of Liverpool, UK)
ISBN: 9780367760168
Format: Hardback
$263.00

Employing Deleuzo-Guattarian orientations to assemblage and feminist approaches to care, this book offers a critique...  Read More >>

The COVID-19 Pandemic: The Deadly Coronavirus Outbreak

The COVID-19 Pandemic: The Deadly Coronavirus Outbreak...

Author: Tapas Kumar Koley ,  Monika Dhole
ISBN: 9781032382890
Format: Hardback
$263.00

This book presents a comprehensive account of the COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the novel coronavirus pandemic,...  Read More >>

Care in the Iron Cage: A Weberian Analysis of Failings in Care

Care in the Iron Cage: A Weberian Analysis of Failings...

Author: Rowena Slope (University of Bedfordshire, UK)
ISBN: 9781032154084
Format: Hardback
$263.00

This book explores two public sector scandals in the UK, drawing on Max Weber’s thought on ‘the iron cage’ to understand...  Read More >>

Inequality Kills Us All: COVID-19's Health Lessons for the World

Inequality Kills Us All: COVID-19's Health Lessons for...

Author: Stephen Bezruchka
ISBN: 9781032278391
Format: Paperback
$71.99

The complex answer to why the U.S. does so poorly in health measures has at its base one pervasive issue: the U.S....  Read More >>

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