Medical sociology books

This book explores the seismic shift brought about by the 2022 US Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s...  Read More >>

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This book is the first of its kind to examine key topics in death, dying and bereavement through a critical lens,...  Read More >>

This book uniquely examines, across cultures, the health benefits and detriments of religious beliefs, with important...  Read More >>

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This book uniquely examines, across cultures, the health benefits and detriments of religious beliefs, with important...  Read More >>

First Published in 1954, Prosperity and Parenthood is a study of Victorian middle-class ideas about the standard...  Read More >>

This book investigates the experiences of women in Zimbabwe facing COVID-19 and GBV, arguing that the insights from...  Read More >>

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First published in 1992, Women and Attempted Suicide suggests that two factors have contributed to this failure...  Read More >>

This book explores the gendered experience of disability. It investigates how women with disabilities fare in society...  Read More >>

This persuasive volume develops a novel approach to medical education and the medical humanities, making a case...  Read More >>

First published in 1988, the book presents a vivid account of the reality of life with chronic illness­–from perspective...  Read More >>

First published in 1990, Delivering Motherhood (now with a new preface) is the first comprehensive study on the...  Read More >>

This vivid account by a prominent doctor reports the challenges of offering and receiving abortion services through...  Read More >>

This timely volume brings together well-established scholars and emerging voices to explore research methods and...  Read More >>

This book details how existing public health emergency responses have failed and still fail to address the multi-faceted...  Read More >>

Building on the work of the authors’ previous volume, the book “Guidebook for aligning practices and steering multi-system...  Read More >>

This book brings together the work of the late Anders Petersen, presenting his exciting and innovative transdisciplinary...  Read More >>

This book details how existing public health emergency responses have failed and still fail to address the multi-faceted...  Read More >>

This book examines and theorizes about the birth, growth, impact, co-optation, and rejuvenation of a sex worker...  Read More >>

This book uses the notion of ‘discretionary medicine’ to explore the landscape of contemporary healthcare in Pakistan....  Read More >>

Building on the work of the authors’ previous volume, the book “Guidebook for aligning practices and steering multi-system...  Read More >>

Now in its fourth edition, Health Psychology takes a truly interdisciplinary approach to studying health psychology,...  Read More >>