Medical sociology books

This book explores the myriad ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has affected older adults and their families,...  Read More >>

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

This book addresses the politics of global health and social justice issues around birth, focusing on dynamic communities...  Read More >>

This book explores the experiences of Muslims in the United States as they interact with the health care system...  Read More >>

This book addresses the politics of global health and social justice issues around birth, focusing on dynamic communities...  Read More >>

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

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

COVID-19 and Public Policy in the Digital Age explores how states and societies have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic...  Read More >>

COVID-19 and Public Policy in the Digital Age explores how states and societies have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic...  Read More >>

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Following criticisms of the traditionally polarized view of understanding suffering through either medicine or social...  Read More >>

This book examines the complexities of the colonization of the territory that is now Brazil and its shaping of psychological...  Read More >>

Followed by overview of tuberculosis, the control strategy, diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis, drug resistant...  Read More >>

This book deals with the often overlooked social determinants of male health. Adopting a life course perspective,...  Read More >>

An Introduction to Cultural Safety defines, examines and positions the concept of cultural safety, until now associated...  Read More >>

The two edited volumes in this set contribute to a broader understanding of the impact COVID-19 is having, and will...  Read More >>

The two edited volumes in this set contribute to a broader understanding of the impact COVID-19 is having, and will...  Read More >>

Students, teachers, practitioners and policy advocates will value this textbook of social medicine, which goes beyond...  Read More >>

This book explores the thoroughly human dimension of the health care and prevention responses to the HIV crisis...  Read More >>

First published in 1997, this volume’s purpose is to understand and clarify the nature of implicit theories currently...  Read More >>

Students, teachers, practitioners and policy advocates will value this textbook of social medicine, which goes beyond...  Read More >>

This book documents the primary role of acute hunger (semi- and frank starvation) in the ‘fulminant’ malaria epidemics...  Read More >>

Doctors and patients, inter-professional rivalries, how sociologists might tackle the study of vital topics in health...  Read More >>

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