Medical sociology books

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Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging

Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging

Author: Danan Gu ,  Matthew E. Dupre
ISBN: 9783030220082
Format: Hardback
$3881.22

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HIV and Gay Men: Clinical, Social and Psychological Aspects

HIV and Gay Men: Clinical, Social and Psychological...

Author: Rusi Jaspal ,  Jake Bayley
ISBN: 9789811572289
Format: Paperback
$116.41

This book focuses on the clinical, social and psychological aspects of HIV among gay men and examines the complex...  Read More >>

COVID-19 and Psychology in Malaysia: Psychosocial Effects, Coping, and Resilience

COVID-19 and Psychology in Malaysia: Psychosocial Effects,...

Author: D. Gerard Joseph Louis (HELP University, Malaysia) ,  Surinderpal Kaur (Universiti Malaya, Malaysia)
ISBN: 9781032014241
Format: Hardback
$105.00

Part of a miniseries of Focus books on COVID-19 in Malaysia, the chapters in this book address the pandemic’s impacts...  Read More >>

Zainichi Koreans and Mental Health: Psychiatric Problem in Japanese Korean Minorities, Their Social Background and Life Story

Zainichi Koreans and Mental Health: Psychiatric Problem...

Author: Taeyoung Kim (Toyo University, Japan)
ISBN: 9781032010823
Format: Hardback
$284.00

"Using a qualitative, interview-based approach, Kim investigates how conflicting identities and social marginalization...  Read More >>

Living with Covid-19: Economics, Ethics, and Environmental Issues

Living with Covid-19: Economics, Ethics, and Environmental...

Author: Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain ,  Gustavo Marques da Costa
ISBN: 9789814877787
Format: Hardback
$98.30

This book addresses the new challenges of COVID-19 in detail with up-to-date knowledge on safety risk, economics,...  Read More >>

Managing Chronicity in Unequal States: Ethnographic Perspectives on Caring

Managing Chronicity in Unequal States: Ethnographic...

Author: Laura Montesi ,  Melania Calestani
ISBN: 9781800080294
Format: Paperback
$51.75

Managing Chronicity in Unequal States investigates how people live with chronic conditions in different contexts...  Read More >>

Managing Chronicity in Unequal States: Ethnographic Perspectives on Caring

Managing Chronicity in Unequal States: Ethnographic...

Author: Laura Montesi ,  Melania Calestani
ISBN: 9781800080300
Format: Hardback
$103.50

Managing Chronicity in Unequal States investigates how people live with chronic conditions in different contexts...  Read More >>

Childlessness in Bangladesh: Intersectionality, Suffering and Resilience

Childlessness in Bangladesh: Intersectionality, Suffering...

Author: Papreen Nahar
ISBN: 9780367504854
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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

Illicit Medicines in the Global South: Public Health Access and Pharmaceutical Regulation

Illicit Medicines in the Global South: Public Health...

Author: Mathieu Quet
ISBN: 9781032048154
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book investigates pharmaceutical regulation and the public health issue of fake or illicit medicines in developing...  Read More >>

Chemical Youth: Navigating Uncertainty in Search of the Good Life

Chemical Youth: Navigating Uncertainty in Search of...

Author: Anita Hardon
ISBN: 9783030570835
Format: Paperback
$118.77

This open access book explores how young people engage with chemical substances in their everyday lives. It builds...  Read More >>

Negotiated Breastfeeding: Holistic Postpartum Care and Embodied Parenting

Negotiated Breastfeeding: Holistic Postpartum Care and...

Author: Caroline Chautems
ISBN: 9780367643522
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Health Justice in India: Citizenship, Power and Health Care Jurisprudence

Health Justice in India: Citizenship, Power and Health...

Author: Edward Premdas Pinto
ISBN: 9789811581458
Format: Paperback
$336.35

This book presents important fields of research in public healthcare in India from an interdisciplinary and health...  Read More >>

Uncertainty in Medicine: A Framework for Tolerance

Uncertainty in Medicine: A Framework for Tolerance

Author: Paul K.J. Han (Senior Scientist, Senior Scientist, National Cancer Institute)
ISBN: 9780190270582
Format: Paperback
$69.95

Rational and reassuring, Uncertainty in Medicine forges a new path for approaching medical uncertainty by arming...  Read More >>

Survival of the Unfittest: A Study of Geriatric Patients in Glasgow

Survival of the Unfittest: A Study of Geriatric Patients...

Author: Bernard Isaacs ,  Maureen Livingstone
ISBN: 9781032077871
Format: Hardback
$179.00

Originally published in 1972, this book is an analytical account of the socio-medical tribulations suffered by Glasgow’s...  Read More >>

Contextual Axiological Conditions of Mental Resilience and Health

Contextual Axiological Conditions of Mental Resilience...

Author: Bogusława Piasecka ,  Krzysztof Gerc
ISBN: 9788323349259
Format: Paperback
$98.32

Resilience is founded primarily on positive psychology and health psychology, but the theoretical construct is also...  Read More >>

Immobility and Medicine: Exploring Stillness, Waiting and the In-Between

Immobility and Medicine: Exploring Stillness, Waiting...

Author: Cecilia Vindrola-Padros ,  Bruno Vindrola-Padros
ISBN: 9789811549786
Format: Paperback
$206.97

This edited volume brings the concept of immobility to the forefront of social studies of medicine to explore how...  Read More >>

Issues and Innovations in Prison Health Research: Methods, Issues and Innovations

Issues and Innovations in Prison Health Research: Methods,...

Author: Matthew Maycock ,  Rosie Meek
ISBN: 9783030464035
Format: Paperback
$290.37

This book constitutes the first publication to utilise a range of social science methodologies to illuminate diverse...  Read More >>

Routledge Handbook of European Welfare Systems

Routledge Handbook of European Welfare Systems

Author: Sonja Blum ,  Johanna Kuhlmann
ISBN: 9781032176338
Format: Paperback
$92.99

Published ten years after the first edition, this new handbook offers topical, and comprehensive information on...  Read More >>

The COVID-19 Pandemic, India and the World: Economic and Social Policy Perspectives

The COVID-19 Pandemic, India and the World: Economic...

Author: Rajib Bhattacharyya ,  Ananya Ghosh Dastidar
ISBN: 9781032114965
Format: Paperback
$77.99

This book analyses the economic and social impact of the Covid-19 crisis with special focus on India. It examines...  Read More >>

Jane Austen and Animals

Jane Austen and Animals

Author: Barbara K. Seeber
ISBN: 9781032179780
Format: Paperback
$77.99

In her study of animals in Jane Austen, Seeber situates the author’s work within eighteenth- and nineteenth-century...  Read More >>

Medical Sociology

Medical Sociology

Author: William C. Cockerham (University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA)
ISBN: 9781032067933
Format: Paperback
$168.00

The most comprehensive textbook available on its topic, this classic book's principal goal has been to introduce...  Read More >>

Reading the Psychosomatic in Medical and Popular Culture: Something. Nothing. Everything

Reading the Psychosomatic in Medical and Popular Culture:...

Author: Carol-Ann Farkas (MCPHS University, Boston, USA)
ISBN: 9780367341503
Format: Paperback
$81.99

This volume tackles conflicts in the provider-patient relationship; uses the psychosomatic as a lens for theorizing...  Read More >>

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