Medical sociology books

This book presents a perspective on non-profit organizations that analyses organizational development through the...  Read More >>

This book advances the field of ‘geographical gerontology’ – a burgeoning body of interdisciplinary scholarship...  Read More >>

This book examines research on death, dying and bereavement, and how our perceptions shape what we can know about...  Read More >>

A ground-breaking book, Social Research Methods in Dementia Studies shows researchers how to adapt their methods...  Read More >>

In Understanding Aging and Diversity, Patricia Kolb presents important sociological theories and concepts for understanding...  Read More >>

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Science and Democracy advances a systematic, yet detailed, co-productionist understanding of how emerging modes...  Read More >>

This collection brings together cross-disciplinary social science research on areas including the US, Israel, India,...  Read More >>

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This book examines how modern medicine’s mechanistic conception of the body has become a defense mechanism to cope...  Read More >>

This edited collection focuses on the global growth of privatisation and private sector medicine in both developed...  Read More >>

This book explores how the medical has defined us: that is, the ways in which perspectives of medicine and health...  Read More >>

This volume brings together a range of academic perspectives – from media and film studies, medicine, medical history,...  Read More >>

This book develops a new model of the genesis of health, based on the interplay between genetic and environmental...  Read More >>

This volume explores crucial issues surrounding the impact of loss, death and dying for criminal offenders, for...  Read More >>

This book explores the processes and effects of the increasing governance of our lives through pharmaceuticals,...  Read More >>

""This book is essential reading for researchers of tobacco policy change. Too many studies simply complain that...  Read More >>

This volume examines the question of how the incessant demand for improved performance and efficiency, the pursuit...  Read More >>

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Published ten years after the first edition, this new handbook offers topical, and comprehensive information on...  Read More >>

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This book explores the complexities of drugs policy in Britain, contradicting the over simplified representation...  Read More >>

This book explores the cultural meanings of the criminal body in the west through historical and multidisciplinary...  Read More >>

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

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