Medical sociology books

Expanding our understanding of contagion further than typical notions of infection and pandemics, this book widens...  Read More >>

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

Explore the fundamentals of biomedical engineering technologies with this thought-provoking introduction, framed...  Read More >>

First published in 1989, this book looks at how fertility treatments fail women. At the time there was disturbing...  Read More >>

In the early 1980s the new reproductive technologies available supposedly offered infertile women a chance to have...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1984, when new reproductive technologies were just beginning to become part of the public...  Read More >>

This important book introduces the Health in All Policies (HiAP) approach to health promotion, detailing how policy...  Read More >>

This important book introduces the Health in All Policies (HiAP) approach to health promotion, detailing how policy...  Read More >>

¿ De qué ha muerto la gente a lo largo de la historia? Con rigor y humor, este libro realiza un recorrido meticuloso...  Read More >>

Bringing together perspectives from academics, practitioners, campaigners, and activists, this book explores the...  Read More >>

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A study of the conflict between western and indigenous systems and practices of medicine, this book explores the...  Read More >>

""Exploring 18th-century medicine's construction of individuals with non-standard sexual anatomy as ""hermaphrodites"",...  Read More >>

This handbook explores those occasions when the police are faced with a public, national, or international crises,...  Read More >>

This handbook, critically examines spaces of mental health and well-being across multiple, often intersecting, domains...  Read More >>

Re-examining health, healthcare and societal health using the latest data and research, this book addresses definitions...  Read More >>

Re-examining health, healthcare and societal health using the latest data and research, this book addresses definitions...  Read More >>

It explores the moral and political significance of gastrospaces: the spaces where we eat. It adopts an innovative...  Read More >>

With attention to central questions about life in ‘the now normal’, this book presents studies of multispecies engagements...  Read More >>

This book draws on recent research and cutting-edge ideas about bereavement and carers’ experiences across the life...  Read More >>

This collection will be of interest to mental health clinicians; students and scholars of the arts, humanities and...  Read More >>

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The Artefacts of Digital Mental Health focuses on smartphone apps, wearables devices, and ingestible sensors, which...  Read More >>

This book shows the potential of posthuman thinking for rethinking health care, experiences, subjects and interventions....  Read More >>