Medical sociology books

‘Empowerment’ is a term in widespread use today and one that is often considered to be a self-evident good. Here,...  Read More >>

In Concept Analysis in Nursing: A New Approach, Paley provides a critical analysis of the philosophical assumptions...  Read More >>

By drawing broadly on international thinking and experience, this book offers a critical exploration of mad studies...  Read More >>

This interdisciplinary collection examines the role that alcohol, tobacco and other drugs have played in framing...  Read More >>

Recent epidemics have prompted large-scale international interventions. During a crisis, however, global health...  Read More >>

This book critically analyses how politics and power affect the ways that medicine is taught and learned.  Read More >>

This book explores how people draw upon spiritual, religious, or faith-based practices to support their mental wellness...  Read More >>

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This collection fills an important lacuna by acknowledging the importance of understanding both gender and age when...  Read More >>

Reconsidering Dementia Narratives explores the role of narrative in developing new ways of understanding, interacting...  Read More >>

This volume explores how ‘the market’continues to affect and redefine health professionals as moral beings and impact...  Read More >>

This book critiques the connection between Western society and madness, scrutinizing if and how societal insanity...  Read More >>

Significant debate exists about the possible solutions for nearly all of the most important global health challenges...  Read More >>

This book examines the intersectionality and stratified lived experience of rural poor and urban middle-class childless...  Read More >>

Was hat die „Tropenmedizin“ im „Globalen Norden“ zu suchen? Was kann eine Universität, ein „Tropeninstitut“, im...  Read More >>

This book explores key factors long-term care recipients have identified as impacting their quality of life and...  Read More >>

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In the context of gun proliferation and persistent gun violence in the United States, a controversial security strategy...  Read More >>

In the context of gun proliferation and persistent gun violence in the United States, a controversial security strategy...  Read More >>

This book offers an ethnographic exploration of the interactions of two different understandings of type-2 diabetes:...  Read More >>

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The Poetry of Loss presents a renewed look at elegy as a long-standing tradition in the literature of loss, exploring...  Read More >>

An exploration of the interrelationships between neurology and literature, hence ""neuroliterature"". It will be...  Read More >>

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Extinguishing a public health threat is difficult under any condition, let alone during a national revolution. In...  Read More >>