Medical sociology books

3219 books were found.

Critical Humanities and Ageing: Forging Interdisciplinary Dialogues

Critical Humanities and Ageing: Forging Interdisciplinary...

Author: Marlene Goldman (University of Toronto at Scarborough, Canada) ,  Kate de Medeiros (Miami University, Ohio, USA)
ISBN: 9780367630928
Format: Hardback
$263.00

Providing a critical humanities approach to ageing, this book addresses new directions in age studies.  Read More >>

Cancer Data For Good: A History of the Victorian Cancer Registry

Cancer Data For Good: A History of the Victorian Cancer...

Author: Thomas Kehoe
ISBN: 9789811949869
Format: Hardback
$103.47

This book examines the history of the Victorian Cancer Registry (VCR) in Australia from its establishment in the...  Read More >>

Effective Writing for Sociology: A Guide for Researchers and Students

Effective Writing for Sociology: A Guide for Researchers...

Author: Ben Kail ,  Robert Kail
ISBN: 9781032357270
Format: Paperback
$41.99

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Effective Writing for Sociology: A Guide for Researchers and Students

Effective Writing for Sociology: A Guide for Researchers...

Author: Ben Kail ,  Robert Kail
ISBN: 9781032357409
Format: Hardback
$263.00

Writing well is an essential skill for sociologists, but few books help students learn to write well. Designed to...  Read More >>

Self-Declaration in the Legal Recognition of Gender

Self-Declaration in the Legal Recognition of Gender...

Author: Chris Dietz
ISBN: 9780367255169
Format: Hardback
$263.00

This book examines the impact of legislation premised upon the principle of ‘self-declaration’ of legal gender status....  Read More >>

Community Intervention: Clinical Sociology Perspectives

Community Intervention: Clinical Sociology Perspectives...

Author: Jan Marie Fritz ,  Jacques Rhéaume
ISBN: 9783030936945
Format: Hardback
$232.85

This edition includes several new gender-focused chapters, addressing local level initiatives based on the recommendations...  Read More >>

Syphilis: A Short Biography

Syphilis: A Short Biography

Author: Andrew P. Zbar
ISBN: 9783031089671
Format: Hardback
$116.41

I have tried to put the organism as the principal protagonist of the story, firmly in an historical focus which...  Read More >>

Research Handbook on Sport and COVID-19

Research Handbook on Sport and COVID-19

Author: Paul M. Pedersen
ISBN: 9781802207569
Format: Hardback
$551.14

This timely Research Handbook examines sport-related research and analysis pertaining to how the sport industry...  Read More >>

Digital Wellness, Health and Fitness Influencers: Critical Perspectives on Digital Guru Media

Digital Wellness, Health and Fitness Influencers: Critical...

Author: Stefan Lawrence (Leeds Beckett University, UK)
ISBN: 9781032044422
Format: Hardback
$263.00

This book examines the phenomenon of ‘digital guru media’ (DGM), the self-styled online influencers, life coaches,...  Read More >>

Life Indoors: How our homes are shaping our bodies and our planet

Life Indoors: How our homes are shaping our bodies and...

Author: Rachael Wakefield-Rann
ISBN: 9789811651786
Format: Paperback
$181.10

In this timely and expansive book, Wakefield-Rann investigates how emerging disease ecologies are undermining definitions...  Read More >>

Social Science Perspectives on Global Public Health

Social Science Perspectives on Global Public Health...

Author: Vincent La Placa ,  Julia Morgan
ISBN: 9780367652098
Format: Paperback
$75.99

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Social Science Perspectives on Global Public Health

Social Science Perspectives on Global Public Health...

Author: Vincent La Placa ,  Julia Morgan
ISBN: 9780367652111
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Healthcare in Post-Independence India: Kolkata and the Crisis of Private Healthcare Services

Healthcare in Post-Independence India: Kolkata and the...

Author: Amrita Bagchi
ISBN: 9780367762964
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book analyses the development of private healthcare in post-Independence Kolkata, India, and the rapid expansion...  Read More >>

Health Communication and Disease in Africa: Beliefs, Traditions and Stigma

Health Communication and Disease in Africa: Beliefs,...

Author: Bankole Falade ,  Mercy Murire
ISBN: 9789811625480
Format: Paperback
$284.60

This book is a collection of essays from across Africa which highlight the roles of beliefs and traditions in health...  Read More >>

Frontline Workers and Women as Warriors in the Covid-19 Pandemic

Frontline Workers and Women as Warriors in the Covid-19...

Author: R. C. Sobti ,  Vipin Sobti
ISBN: 9781032345994
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Rethinking Evidence in the Time of Pandemics: Scientific vs Narrative Rationality and Medical Knowledge Practices

Rethinking Evidence in the Time of Pandemics: Scientific...

Author: Eivind Engebretsen (Universitetet i Oslo) ,  Mona Baker (Universitetet i Oslo)
ISBN: 9781316516607
Format: Hardback
$90.54

Explores differences in beliefs of what constitutes reliable scientific evidence during public health emergencies,...  Read More >>

Mad Knowledges and User-Led Research

Mad Knowledges and User-Led Research

Author: Diana Susan Rose
ISBN: 9783031075506
Format: Hardback
$232.85

This book presents a critical examination of the development of user involvement within research, and investigates...  Read More >>

Healthcare Technology in Context: Lessons for Telehealth in the Age of COVID-19

Healthcare Technology in Context: Lessons for Telehealth...

Author: Alan Taylor
ISBN: 9789811640773
Format: Paperback
$310.47

This book investigates how the technology used by telehealth services shapes our healthcare, and how we, as humans,...  Read More >>

The Eroticizing of HIV: Viral Fantasies

The Eroticizing of HIV: Viral Fantasies

Author: Jaime García-Iglesias
ISBN: 9783031113512
Format: Hardback
$103.47

This book examines sexual fantasies and their influence on everyday life through the stories of twenty-two men who...  Read More >>

Recovering Assemblages: Unfolding Sociomaterial Relations of Drug Use and Recovery

Recovering Assemblages: Unfolding Sociomaterial Relations...

Author: Aysel Sultan
ISBN: 9789811912344
Format: Hardback
$232.85

Drawing together insights and provocations from diverse fields of inquiry, this important new book asks probing...  Read More >>

Routledge Handbook of Health and Media

Routledge Handbook of Health and Media

Author: Lester D. Friedman ,  Therese Jones
ISBN: 9780367441081
Format: Hardback
$410.00

The Routledge Handbook of Health and Media provides an extensive review and exploration of the myriad ways that...  Read More >>

Lifestyle and Medicine in the Enlightenment: The Six Non-Naturals in the Long Eighteenth Century

Lifestyle and Medicine in the Enlightenment: The Six...

Author: James Kennaway ,  Rina Knoeff
ISBN: 9781032400327
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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Performance Comparison and Organizational Service Provision: U.S. Hospitals and the Quest for Performance Control

Performance Comparison and Organizational Service Provision:...

Author: Christopher Dorn (Trier University, Germany)
ISBN: 9780367567484
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Exploring the mechanisms underlying performance comparisons, Performance Comparison and Organizational Service Provision...  Read More >>

Drugs and Public Health in Post-Soviet Central Asia: Soviet-Style Health Management

Drugs and Public Health in Post-Soviet Central Asia:...

Author: Muyassar Turaeva
ISBN: 9783031097027
Format: Paperback
$116.41

The book outlines post-Soviet style of health management in Central Asia. Regional studies on Central Asia to date...  Read More >>

Medizinische Soziologie in Deutschland: Entstehung und Entwicklungen

Medizinische Soziologie in Deutschland: Entstehung und...

Author: Johannes Siegrist ,  Ulrich Stößel
ISBN: 9783658376918
Format: Paperback
$142.29

Der Band soll ein Bild der Medizinischen Soziologie in Deutschland vermitteln: Entstehung, Themen, Einbettung in...  Read More >>

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