Medical sociology books

This book explores the academic processes of nursing education in times of uncertainty around healthcare policy...  Read More >>

This book presents the contemporary history and dynamics of Mexican midwifery - professional, (post)modern or autonomous,...  Read More >>

Exploring the mechanisms underlying performance comparisons, Performance Comparison and Organizational Service Provision...  Read More >>

Offering analysis of and recommendations for addressing global health, this book contributes to solving one of humanity's...  Read More >>

In Concept Analysis in Nursing: A New Approach, Paley provides a critical analysis of the philosophical assumptions...  Read More >>

This book provides a clear and detailed examination of why it is so difficult to secure comprehensive political...  Read More >>

Examines a variety of court cases to explore the attitudes of nineteenth-century physicians, legal professionals,...  Read More >>

Examines a variety of court cases to explore the attitudes of nineteenth-century physicians, legal professionals,...  Read More >>

The book attempts to understand the history of the indigenous pharmaceutical companies in colonial India. The study...  Read More >>

This book brings together scholars from across the social sciences and humanities to examine what it means to be...  Read More >>

This edited collection focuses on the global growth of privatisation and private sector medicine in both developed...  Read More >>

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This book aims to clarify the global aspects of poor quality pharmaceuticals, generic products in particular, becoming...  Read More >>

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Dr Faruk Shah offers an anthropological critique of biomedicine in rural Bangladesh that explains how the existing...  Read More >>

This book examines the phenomenon of social withdrawal in Japan, which ranges from school non-attendance to extreme...  Read More >>

Bringing the experiences of patients, carers and practitioners to the fore, this book explores how individual and...  Read More >>

This book presents the first single comprehensive analysis of the scope of geographical realities and relevance...  Read More >>

Participatory Case Study Work shows academic co-researchers how to adapt and implement their methods so that data...  Read More >>

This reader offers the most important writing to date from the science of COVID-19 and what science says for its...  Read More >>

This volume maps out the ways in which the pandemic has impacted (most often disproportionately) societies, the...  Read More >>

Foodways in Southern Oman examines the objects, practices and beliefs relating to producing, obtaining, cooking,...  Read More >>

This book critically analyses how politics and power affect the ways that medicine is taught and learned.  Read More >>

This book explores how person-centred health care could be refined to help persons alleviate pain-related distress...  Read More >>

This book builds on the person-centred medicine movement to promote a shift in the philosophy of care of distress....  Read More >>