Medical sociology books

3377 books were found.

From Measuring Rods to DNA Sequencing: Assessing the Human

From Measuring Rods to DNA Sequencing: Assessing the...

Author: Ingrid Voléry ,  Marie-Pierre Julien
ISBN: 9789811575815
Format: Hardback
$343.17

This book provides a solid basis to understand two centuries of bodily measurement practices and their scientific...  Read More >>

Government, Big Pharma, and The People: A Century of Dis-Ease

Government, Big Pharma, and The People: A Century of...

Author: Mickey Smith ,  E.M. (Mick) Kolassa
ISBN: 9780367432447
Format: Paperback
$105.00

Pharmaceuticals constitute a relatively small share of the total healthcare expenditure in most developed economies,...  Read More >>

Government, Big Pharma, and The People: A Century of Dis-Ease

Government, Big Pharma, and The People: A Century of...

Author: Mickey Smith ,  E.M. (Mick) Kolassa
ISBN: 9780367433352
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Pharmaceuticals constitute a relatively small share of the total healthcare expenditure in most developed economies,...  Read More >>

Social Aspects of Health, Medicine and Disease in the Colonial and Post-colonial Era

Social Aspects of Health, Medicine and Disease in the...

Author: Henk Menke ,  Jane Buckingham
ISBN: 9780367690618
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Social Analysis and the COVID-19 Crisis: A Collective Journal

Social Analysis and the COVID-19 Crisis: A Collective...

Author: Suman Gupta (The Open University, UK) ,  Richard Allen (The Open University, United Kingdom)
ISBN: 9780367636616
Format: Paperback
$79.99

This book is a collective journal of the COVID-19 pandemic. It features first-hand accounts of the pandemic from...  Read More >>

Object-Based Learning and Well-Being: Exploring Material Connections

Object-Based Learning and Well-Being: Exploring Material...

Author: Thomas Kador (University College London, UK) ,  Helen Chatterjee (University College London, UK)
ISBN: 9781138388048
Format: Paperback
$77.99

Object-Based Learning and Well-Being provides the first explicit analysis of the combined learning and well-being...  Read More >>

Sexual Violence in Intimacy: Implications for Research and Policy in Global Health

Sexual Violence in Intimacy: Implications for Research...

Author: M. Gabriela Torres ,  Kersti Yllö
ISBN: 9780367338121
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Integrating interdisciplinary and cross-cultural analysis, this volume advances our understanding of sexual violence...  Read More >>

Social Analysis and the COVID-19 Crisis: A Collective Journal

Social Analysis and the COVID-19 Crisis: A Collective...

Author: Suman Gupta (The Open University, UK) ,  Richard Allen (The Open University, United Kingdom)
ISBN: 9780367635053
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book is a collective journal of the COVID-19 pandemic. It features first-hand accounts of the pandemic from...  Read More >>

Stakeholder Involvement in Social Marketing: Challenges and Approaches to Engagement

Stakeholder Involvement in Social Marketing: Challenges...

Author: Kathy Knox ,  Krzysztof Kubacki
ISBN: 9780367172695
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book is the first to provide evidence-based experiences to guide stakeholder management in social marketing...  Read More >>

Using the Bodies of the Dead: Legal, Ethical and Organisational Dimensions of Organ Transplantation

Using the Bodies of the Dead: Legal, Ethical and Organisational...

Author: Nora Machado
ISBN: 9781138387072
Format: Paperback
$69.99

First published in 1998, this unique, timely book applies sociological concepts and analysis to the study of organ...  Read More >>

The Social Management of Genetic Engineering

The Social Management of Genetic Engineering

Author: Peter Wheale ,  René von Schomberg
ISBN: 9781138390157
Format: Paperback
$77.99

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COVID-19: Proportionality, Public Policy and Social Distancing

COVID-19: Proportionality, Public Policy and Social...

Author: Peter Murphy
ISBN: 9789811575136
Format: Hardback
$184.77

COVID-19: Proportionality, Public Policy and Social Distance explores the social and political response to the COVID-19...  Read More >>

Ethical, Social and Psychological Impacts of Genomic Risk Communication

Ethical, Social and Psychological Impacts of Genomic...

Author: Ulrik Kihlbom ,  Mats G. Hansson
ISBN: 9780367356699
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This volume presents the ethical implications of risk information as related to genetics and other health data for...  Read More >>

Stem Cell Tourism and the Political Economy of Hope

Stem Cell Tourism and the Political Economy of Hope...

Author: Alan Petersen ,  Megan Munsie
ISBN: 9781349691906
Format: Paperback
$184.77

This book provides a unique and innovative perspective on the controversial phenomenon of ‘stem cell tourism’. A...  Read More >>

The Shape of Things to Come: Exploring the Future of the Human Body

The Shape of Things to Come: Exploring the Future of...

Author: Druin Burch ,  Greg Wagland
ISBN: 9781788543392
Format: Paperback
$22.99

A vision of what the future holds for our bodies and the medicine used to treat them.  Read More >>

Human Dignity: Establishing Worth and Seeking Solutions

Human Dignity: Establishing Worth and Seeking Solutions...

Author: Edward Sieh ,  Judy McGregor
ISBN: 9781349719457
Format: Paperback
$263.97

The last section deals with the impact of various issues on indigenous and migrant populations, specifically violence...  Read More >>

Comparing and Contrasting the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the European Union

Comparing and Contrasting the Impact of the COVID-19...

Author: Linda Hantrais (Loughborough University, UK) ,  Marie-Thérèse Letablier
ISBN: 9780367691721
Format: Hardback
$105.00

This book challenges the use of uncontextualised comparisons of Covid-19 cases and deaths in member states during...  Read More >>

Psychiatric Hegemony: A Marxist Theory of Mental Illness

Psychiatric Hegemony: A Marxist Theory of Mental Illness...

Author: Bruce M. Z. Cohen
ISBN: 9781349689798
Format: Paperback
$316.77

This book offers a comprehensive Marxist critique of the business of mental health, demonstrating how the prerogatives...  Read More >>

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