Medical sociology books

This book celebrates and captures examples of the excellent scholarship that Palgrave’s Health, Technology, and...  Read More >>

This crucial contribution exposes the misconception that health research and health services are equally effective...  Read More >>

Chinese Film and the Medical Humanities is the first book to reflect on the power of film in representing medical...  Read More >>

Drawing together leading scholars from both theological and literary backgrounds, Christian Theology and Tragedy...  Read More >>

This book examines the relationship between social class and mental illness in Northern Europe during the 20th century....  Read More >>

This book explores the cultural meanings of the criminal body in the west through historical and multidisciplinary...  Read More >>

The Heaven's Gate suicides were part of a series of major violent incidents involving New Religions in the 1990s....  Read More >>

This book uses a human rights perspective – developed philosophically, politically and legally - to change the way...  Read More >>

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This study deals with an underexplored area of the emerging technologies debate: robotics in the healthcare setting....  Read More >>

Ushiyama takes the case of eczema as a case study in how patient knowledge has come to affect change in medical...  Read More >>

This book brings together perspectives from critical criminology, sociology, health studies and law to provide a...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1984 Reproductive Ritual examines fertility and re-production in pre-industrial England....  Read More >>

Cessation of tobacco use is the need of the hour given that it is the single largest cause of disease and premature...  Read More >>

This book examines the use of canine scent detection to alert humans to symptoms of human chronic illness, specifically...  Read More >>

African Indigenous Medical Knowledge and Human Health serves as a one-step reference for pharmacognosists, ethnobiologists,...  Read More >>

This book is about how to manage performance in the context of value to the customer or patient. It brings together...  Read More >>

This volume adopts an interdisciplinary approach to the discussion of the social, cultural, aesthetic and theoretical...  Read More >>

This book explores how best practice for acute stroke care was developed, translated and taken up in medical practice...  Read More >>

These topics include women's health care, displaced and refugee women's health needs, childhood health, social and...  Read More >>

This book explores the experiences and emotional expression of 30 people Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) using qualitative...  Read More >>

This book addresses the impact of HIV on populations of men who have sex with men in Africa and local responses...  Read More >>

This book explores the ways in which socio-technical settings in medical contexts find varying articulations in...  Read More >>

It focuses on pertinent key issues in global pharmaceutical policy including medicines safety, generic medicines,...  Read More >>

COVID-19 and Governance focuses on the relationship between governance institutions and approaches to Covid-19 and...  Read More >>