Medical sociology books

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Originally published in 1984 Reproductive Ritual examines fertility and re-production in pre-industrial England....  Read More >>

This is a book on how home is made when care enters the lives of people as they grow old at home or in ‘homely’...  Read More >>

This book aims to clarify the global aspects of poor quality pharmaceuticals, generic products in particular, becoming...  Read More >>

This book provides an appreciative, sociological engagement with accounts of the embodied practice of self-injury....  Read More >>

The Devil is Disorder explores constructions of the body, health, illness and wider misfortune in a Trinidadian...  Read More >>

This book has been defined around three important issues: the first sheds light on how people, in various philosophical,...  Read More >>

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How the politics of ""medical necessity"" complicates American health care The definition of medical necessity has...  Read More >>

Built on presuppositions about failsafe system-design, risk elimination, and human fallibility, the patient safety...  Read More >>

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In this second edition, the authors explore the ways in which geographic ideas and approaches can inform our understanding...  Read More >>

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Based on a study of the London Borough of Newham, this book aims to show how the selective licensing tool available...  Read More >>

Dr Faruk Shah offers an anthropological critique of biomedicine in rural Bangladesh that explains how the existing...  Read More >>

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

In this ground-breaking account of the political economy and cultural meaning of blood in contemporary India, Jacob...  Read More >>

Usually conceived in opposition to each other – birth as a hopeful beginning, death as an ending – this book brings...  Read More >>

Primary care, grounded in the provision of continuous comprehensive person-centred care, is vital to the delivery...  Read More >>

This book provides a clear framework for design, implementation, and monitoring of innovative population health...  Read More >>

Examining the evolution of kingship in the Ancient Near East from the time of the Sumerians to the rise of the Seleucids,...  Read More >>

This book brings together an analysis of professional military pilgrimage with other forms of commemorating conflict....  Read More >>

In Body Image as an Everyday Problematic, Diaz seeks to offer a comprehensive perspective on body image as an everyday...  Read More >>

The essays in this collection examine women in diverse roles; mother, socialite, prostitute, celebrity, medical...  Read More >>