Medical sociology books

While Clinical Ethics on Film focuses on bedside ethics dilemmas that affect the healthcare provider-patient relationship,...  Read More >>

This book argues that while notions of trauma in mental health hold promise for the advancement of women’s rights,...  Read More >>

This book provides an examination of the diverse experiences and perspectives of disabled customers, industry and...  Read More >>

The Routledge Handbook of Health Geography features 52 chapters from leading international thinkers that collectively...  Read More >>

Offering the first comprehensive and cohesive summary of the input from social science to this field, this book...  Read More >>

Focussing on the 'recycling' of both the idea of the psychiatric asylum and its sites, buildings and landscapes,...  Read More >>

Genetic Counseling and Preventive Medicine in Post-War Bosnia offers a unique new perspective to longstanding debates...  Read More >>

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Authors offer practical and thoughtful discussions of emerging methodological and ethical dilemmas they encountered...  Read More >>

This volume investigates race, ethnicity and gender as factors in health and health care.  Chapters focus on linkages...  Read More >>

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This volume will be of interest to academics and researchers in the Geographies of health and medicine, social sciences...  Read More >>

A comparative sociological account of eight different therapeutic communities, One Foot in Eden, originally published...  Read More >>

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This book explores the relationship between macro-social structure, social construction and micro-healthcare behaviors....  Read More >>

This textbook is the new edition of Purnell's famous Transcultural Health Care, based on the Purnell twelve-step...  Read More >>

This book considers the change in rhetoric surrounding AIDS from one of crisis to that of ‘ending AIDS’. Exploring...  Read More >>

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This book investigates how being diagnosed with various disabilities impacts on identity.  Read More >>

Dahl argues that in order to grasp these new realities of care we need a new analytical framework that redirects...  Read More >>

This book provides insights into the experiences of women with physical, mental or sensory disability in terms of...  Read More >>

The chapters provide a better understanding of a global health problem from an African perspective, which help clarify...  Read More >>

Towards a Sociology of Nursing offers fresh insights from recent research into the nursing profession. Nurses represent...  Read More >>

Demonstrates how news reporting on epidemics communicates more than just information about pathogens; rather, prejudices,...  Read More >>