Medical sociology books

This book explores the ‘material-discursive entanglement’ of how we both make the world with our words and how the...  Read More >>

This book examines the use of canine scent detection to alert humans to symptoms of human chronic illness, specifically...  Read More >>

In this book, Yasuoka reveals insight into Japan as the country with the most severe organ shortages and the lowest...  Read More >>

By taking an ethnographic approach to medical travel, this important book uses critical perspectives to understand...  Read More >>

This book examines the relationship between social class and mental illness in Northern Europe during the 20th century....  Read More >>

This book explores the ‘material-discursive entanglement’ of how we both make the world with our words and how the...  Read More >>

This innovative volume provides fresh perspectives on how medical students and patients construct identities in...  Read More >>

Covering the period from Antiquity to Early Modernity, A Historical Sociology of Disability argues that disabled...  Read More >>

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By taking an ethnographic approach to medical travel, this important book uses critical perspectives to understand...  Read More >>

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The aims of evidence-based medicine cannot be reconciled with its outcomes, yet this impossible practice persists...  Read More >>

Nested in debates among anthropologists, philosophers, social theorists and STS scholars, this book argues that...  Read More >>

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The volume presents the views of ten authors from four PostCommunist Central and East European countries (Czech...  Read More >>

Drawing on ethnographic case studies the volume considers the relationship between global and national policies...  Read More >>

This book explores the normalization of HIV and AIDS, reflecting upon the intended and unintended consequences of...  Read More >>

Drawing on ethnographic case studies the volume considers the relationship between global and national policies...  Read More >>

This important book develops a critical understanding of the bridging of arts and health domains, drawing on models...  Read More >>

This book explores the changing landscapes of commercialisation of medical care in China. First work of its kind,...  Read More >>

Beginning with an individual’s subjective experience of ill health, this text looks at how this feeling relates...  Read More >>

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Personalized Daily Cares is designed to fill-in valuable information regarding a loved one of all ages and on a...  Read More >>