Medical sociology books

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Social Theory and Health Education: Forging New Insights in Research

Social Theory and Health Education: Forging New Insights...
Author: Deana Leahy (Monash University, Australia) , Katie Fitzpatrick (University of Auckland, New Zealand) ISBN: 9781138485730 Format: Hardback	$284.00
Social Theory, Health and Education brings together major new work in health and education that utilises social... Read More >>

Health Policy, Power and Politics: Sociological Insights

Health Policy, Power and Politics: Sociological Insights...
Author: Michael Calnan (University of Kent, UK) ISBN: 9781839093975 Format: Paperback	$76.95
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Resilient Cyborgs: Living and Dying with Pacemakers and Defibrillators

Resilient Cyborgs: Living and Dying with Pacemakers...
Author: Nelly Oudshoorn ISBN: 9789811525285 Format: Hardback	$263.97
In this unique and timely book, Nelly Oudshoorn argues that any discourse or policy assuming a passive role for... Read More >>

Masculinity and Body Weight in Japan: Grappling with Metabolic Syndrome

Masculinity and Body Weight in Japan: Grappling with...
Author: Genaro Castro-Vázquez ISBN: 9780367340575 Format: Hardback	$284.00
Drawing on the concept of the somatic self, Castro-Vázquez explores how Japanese men think about, express and interpret... Read More >>

Navigating Miscarriage: Social, Medical and Conceptual Perspectives

Navigating Miscarriage: Social, Medical and Conceptual...
Author: Susie Kilshaw , Katie Borg ISBN: 9781789206630 Format: Hardback	$284.63
This collected volume explores miscarriage in diverse historical and cultural settings with contributions from anthropologists,... Read More >>

The Rebel Nurse Handbook: Inspirational Stories by Shift Disruptors

The Rebel Nurse Handbook: Inspirational Stories by Shift...
Author: Rebecca Love, RN, BS, MSN, FIEL , Nancy Hanrahan, PhD, RN, FAAN ISBN: 9780826151438 Format: Paperback	$55.99
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From Medicine to Sociology. Health and Illness in Magdalena Sokołowska’s Research Conceptions

From Medicine to Sociology. Health and Illness in Magdalena...
Author: Bogusław Paź , Włodzimierz Piątkowski ISBN: 9783631806661 Format: Hardback	$141.41
The book presents the history of development of medical sociology in Poland and Europe from the 1950s to the late... Read More >>

Balancing the Self: Medicine, Politics and the Regulation of Health in the Twentieth Century

Balancing the Self: Medicine, Politics and the Regulation...
Author: Mark Jackson , Martin D. Moore ISBN: 9781526132130 Format: Hardback	$56.99
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The Impossible Clinic: A Critical Sociology of Evidence-Based Medicine

The Impossible Clinic: A Critical Sociology of Evidence-Based...
Author: Ariane Hanemaayer ISBN: 9780774862080 Format: Paperback	$67.25
The aims of evidence-based medicine cannot be reconciled with its outcomes, yet this impossible practice persists... Read More >>

The Social and Interpersonal Origins of Depression Today

The Social and Interpersonal Origins of Depression Today...
Author: Jeremy Clarke , Paul Cundy ISBN: 9780367458980 Format: Hardback	$284.00
Clarke, Cundy and Yakeley have brought together a group of researchers and experts in this collection who draw attention... Read More >>

The Social Consequences of Facial Disfigurement

The Social Consequences of Facial Disfigurement
Author: Michael J. Hughes ISBN: 9781138360198 Format: Paperback	$41.99
First published in 1998, this volume recognises that the face is important in human relationships and a facially... Read More >>

The Sexual Abuse of Adolescent Girls: Social Workers' Child Protection Practice

The Sexual Abuse of Adolescent Girls: Social Workers'...
Author: Stewart Kirk ISBN: 9781138360310 Format: Paperback	$69.99
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Mental Health Social Work in Ireland: Comparative Issues in Policy and Practice

Mental Health Social Work in Ireland: Comparative Issues...
Author: Jim Campbell , Roger Manktelow ISBN: 9781138361614 Format: Paperback	$69.99
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Transnationalising Reproduction: Third Party Conception in a Globalised World

Transnationalising Reproduction: Third Party Conception...
Author: Roisin Ryan Flood , Jenny Gunnarsson Payne (Södertörn University, Sweden) ISBN: 9780367486624 Format: Paperback	$88.99
Written by specialists from three different continents, Transnationalising Reproduction examines a broad range of... Read More >>

Legalizing Cannabis: Experiences, Lessons and Scenarios

Legalizing Cannabis: Experiences, Lessons and Scenarios...
Author: Tom Decorte (University of Ghent, Belgium) , Simon Lenton (Curtin University, Australia) ISBN: 9781138370906 Format: Hardback	$284.00
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Monitoring the Health of Populations by Tracking Disease Outbreaks: Saving Humanity from the Next Plague

Monitoring the Health of Populations by Tracking Disease...
Author: Steven E Rigdon , Ronald D. Fricker, Jr. ISBN: 9781138742345 Format: Paperback	$69.99
Not since the Spanish flu have citizens of developed counties experienced such a large-scale disease outbreak. One... Read More >>

Risk and Substance Use: Framing Dangerous People and Dangerous Places

Risk and Substance Use: Framing Dangerous People and...
Author: Susanne MacGregor , Betsy Thom ISBN: 9781138491243 Format: Hardback	$284.00
This interdisciplinary collection examines the role that alcohol, tobacco and other drugs have played in framing... Read More >>

Leben mit einer Neuroprothese: Die Teilhabe von Menschen mit einem Cochlea-Implantat an der Gesellschaft

Leben mit einer Neuroprothese: Die Teilhabe von Menschen...
Author: Sascha Roder ISBN: 9783658292805 Format: Paperback	$171.57
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Social Freezing – Reproduktionsmedizin im Spannungsfeld zwischen Risiko, Moral und Verantwortung

Social Freezing – Reproduktionsmedizin im Spannungsfeld...
Author: Julia Feiler ISBN: 9783658284671 Format: Paperback	$171.57
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Reading for Life

Reading for Life
Author: Philip Davis (Emeritus Professor of English Literature, formerly Director of CRILS (Centre for Research into Reading, Literature and Society), University of Liverpool) ISBN: 9780198815983 Format: Hardback	$52.95
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Witchcraft as a Social Diagnosis: Traditional Ghanaian Beliefs and Global Health

Witchcraft as a Social Diagnosis: Traditional Ghanaian...
Author: Roxane Richter , Thomas Flowers ISBN: 9781498523202 Format: Paperback	$90.99
This book examines medical outreach in the condemned witches’ village of Gnani in Ghana, focusing on clashes between... Read More >>

Educating Doctors' Senses Through The Medical Humanities: ""How Do I Look?""

Educating Doctors' Senses Through The Medical Humanities:...
Author: Alan Bleakley (Plymouth University, UK) ISBN: 9780367202484 Format: Hardback	$284.00
Educating Doctors’ Senses Through the Medical Humanities: ""How Do I Look?"" uses the medical diagnostic method... Read More >>

Monitoring the Health of Populations by Tracking Disease Outbreaks: Saving Humanity from the Next Plague

Monitoring the Health of Populations by Tracking Disease...
Author: Steven E Rigdon , Ronald D. Fricker, Jr. ISBN: 9780367242831 Format: Hardback	$179.00
Not since the Spanish flu have citizens of developed counties experienced such a large-scale disease outbreak. One... Read More >>

Nursing and Humanities

Nursing and Humanities
Author: Graham McCaffrey ISBN: 9780367347765 Format: Hardback	$284.00
Nursing and Humanities offers a way to think through the relationship between nursing and the humanities, in the... Read More >>

The Myth of the Perfect Pregnancy: A History of Miscarriage in America

The Myth of the Perfect Pregnancy: A History of Miscarriage...
Author: Lara Freidenfelds (, independent scholar) ISBN: 9780190869816 Format: Hardback	$74.95
A historical exploration of the history of miscarriage and the development of the current childbearing culture in... Read More >>

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