Medical sociology books

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This book focuses on health, healing and healthcare in Nepal. It presents an intriguing picture: the interplay between...  Read More >>

This book expands the art historical perspective on art’s connection to anatomy and medicine, bringing together...  Read More >>

This book brings together different approaches that shed light on the phenomenology of the lived body—its normality...  Read More >>

What defines the limits of our belief and, ultimately, compassion, when it comes to disease? This book draws...  Read More >>

This innovative book places the sensory experiences of autistic individuals within a sociological framework. It...  Read More >>

The Routledge Handbook of Visual Impairment examines current debates as well as cross-examining traditionally held...  Read More >>

This volume on medical tourism includes contributions by anthropologists and historians on a variety of health-seeking...  Read More >>

This book explores the realm of negative social phenomena – no-things, no-bodies, non-events and no-where places...  Read More >>

Examining the changing nature of health care federalism within a competitive global context, Comparative Health...  Read More >>

This is the first transnational history of IVF and assisted reproduction.  Read More >>

The fourteen original articles in The Dying Patient examine the problems of dying and medical conduct from the perspectives...  Read More >>

This book investigates and examines why increasing numbers of people are being diagnosed with autism, aruging that...  Read More >>

This timely and accessible book brings together a selection of chapters offering insights into issues around health...  Read More >>

This book describes and analyzes the impact of COVID-19 on the relationship between the United States and China...  Read More >>

This timely and accessible book brings together a selection of chapters offering insights into issues around health...  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Body and Embodiment introduces the sociological research methods and subjects...  Read More >>

This book investigates various experiences of teaching sexual and reproductive health to adolescents with disabilities....  Read More >>

An ethnographic exploration of research ethics committees in the UK, which highlights the central role of trust...  Read More >>

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First published in 1998, this volume examines how women in general and how the socio-economic and cultural factors...  Read More >>

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The book unpacks this type of ‘sequence-speech’ in engaging detail, adopting a personal, social, cultural, and bio-political...  Read More >>

Navigating Digital Health Landscapes explores how users navigate the internet when searching for health information....  Read More >>

This innovative volume exposes dementia as a condition that the aging prison population is increasingly facing....  Read More >>