Medical sociology books

3377 books were found.

Social Inclusion: Theoretical Development and Cross-cultural Measurements

Social Inclusion: Theoretical Development and Cross-cultural...

Author: Kara Chan ,  Peter J. Huxley
ISBN: 9789629376420
Format: Paperback
$81.84

Describes the theory and development of the Social and Community Opportunities Prole (SCOPE) developed in the UK...  Read More >>

Radical Prescription: Citizenship and the Politics of Tuberculosis in Twentieth-Century Cuba

Radical Prescription: Citizenship and the Politics of...

Author: Kelly Urban
ISBN: 9781469673073
Format: Hardback
$168.30

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

Anthropological Optimism: Engaging the Power of What Could Go Right

Anthropological Optimism: Engaging the Power of What...

Author: Anna J. Willow
ISBN: 9781032386447
Format: Paperback
$75.99

This book theorizes the role of optimism in anthropological thinking, research, writing, and practice. It sets out...  Read More >>

Anthropological Optimism: Engaging the Power of What Could Go Right

Anthropological Optimism: Engaging the Power of What...

Author: Anna J. Willow
ISBN: 9781032386430
Format: Hardback
$263.00

This book theorizes the role of optimism in anthropological thinking, research, writing, and practice. It sets out...  Read More >>

Social and Behavioral Foundations of Public Health

Social and Behavioral Foundations of Public Health

Author: Jeannine Coreil
ISBN: 9781793580757
Format: Paperback
$152.90

Emphasizes the importance of social environmental and cultural dimensions of health by examining current issues...  Read More >>

Sociology for Physiotherapists

Sociology for Physiotherapists

Author: Dibyendunarayan Bid
ISBN: 9789356962712
Format: Paperback
$54.34

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The Routledge International Handbook of Children's Rights and Disability

The Routledge International Handbook of Children's Rights...

Author: Angharad E. Beckett (University of Leeds, UK) ,  Anne-Marie Callus (University of Malta, Malta)
ISBN: 9780367521530
Format: Hardback
$420.00

This handbook provides authoritative and cutting-edge analyses of various aspects of the rights and lives of disabled...  Read More >>

The Trajectory of Discovery: What Determines the Rate and Direction of Medical Progress?

The Trajectory of Discovery: What Determines the Rate...

Author: Mark P. Khurana (University of Copenhagen)
ISBN: 9781009354431
Format: Paperback
$77.60

Exploring the forces that determine the rate and direction of medical progress, this book brings together the worlds...  Read More >>

Living with the Dead: On Death, the Dead, and Immortality

Living with the Dead: On Death, the Dead, and Immortality...

Author: J. Jeremy Wisnewski (Hartwick College, USA)
ISBN: 9781032293851
Format: Hardback
$263.00

This book explores the moral place of the dead in our lives and in our afterlives. It argues that our lives are...  Read More >>

Patient and Staff Voices in Primary Care: Learning from Dr Ockrim and her Glasgow Medical Practice

Patient and Staff Voices in Primary Care: Learning from...

Author: Kenneth E. Collins
ISBN: 9781032432137
Format: Paperback
$77.99

This unique work represents the recording and analysis of oral history interviews conducted by the pioneering general...  Read More >>

Patient and Staff Voices in Primary Care: Learning from Dr Ockrim and her Glasgow Medical Practice

Patient and Staff Voices in Primary Care: Learning from...

Author: Kenneth E. Collins
ISBN: 9781032439013
Format: Hardback
$200.00

This unique work represents the recording and analysis of oral history interviews conducted by the pioneering general...  Read More >>

From the Pandemic to Utopia: The Future Begins Now

From the Pandemic to Utopia: The Future Begins Now

Author: Boaventura de Sousa Santos
ISBN: 9781032355597
Format: Hardback
$263.00

The pandemic has brought to the surface human fragilities that contradict the euphoria of the fourth industrial...  Read More >>

Composing Health Literacies: Perspectives and Resources for Undergraduate Writing Instruction

Composing Health Literacies: Perspectives and Resources...

Author: Michael A. Madson (Medical University of South Carolina, USA)
ISBN: 9781032299266
Format: Paperback
$75.99

This edited collection examines engagements between health literacies and undergraduate writing instruction, providing...  Read More >>

Composing Health Literacies: Perspectives and Resources for Undergraduate Writing Instruction

Composing Health Literacies: Perspectives and Resources...

Author: Michael A. Madson (Medical University of South Carolina, USA)
ISBN: 9781032327983
Format: Hardback
$263.00

This edited collection examines engagements between health literacies and undergraduate writing instruction, providing...  Read More >>

Poverty and Social Inequality in Wales

Poverty and Social Inequality in Wales

Author: Gareth Rees ,  Teresa L. Rees
ISBN: 9781032437507
Format: Hardback
$194.00

Originally published in 1980, this book presents a detailed empirical analysis of the key dimensions of inequality...  Read More >>

Health and Deprivation: Inequality and the North

Health and Deprivation: Inequality and the North

Author: Peter Townsend ,  Peter Phillimore
ISBN: 9781032437835
Format: Hardback
$194.00

When originally published in 1988, this book presented new evidence of inequalities in health found among communities...  Read More >>

The Hysteric: Outline of a Figure

The Hysteric: Outline of a Figure

Author: Eleanor Bowen (University of the Arts London, UK) ,  Laura González (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, UK)
ISBN: 9780367552015
Format: Hardback
$263.00

Examining historical, clinical and artistic material, in both written and visual form, this book traces the figure...  Read More >>

Extraordinary Risks, Ordinary Lives: Logics of Precariousness in Everyday Contexts

Extraordinary Risks, Ordinary Lives: Logics of Precariousness...

Author: Beata Świtek ,  Allen Abramson
ISBN: 9783030839642
Format: Paperback
$336.35

This book untangles the relationship between expert categorisations of risk and the on-the-ground experiences of...  Read More >>

Queer Interventions in Biomedicine and Public Health

Queer Interventions in Biomedicine and Public Health...

Author: Rebecca Garden ,  William J. Spurlin
ISBN: 9783031296765
Format: Hardback
$194.04

This book provides an overview on critical healing, which draws on queer theory, disability studies, postcolonial...  Read More >>

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