Medical sociology books

Thickening Fat: Fat Bodies, Intersectionality and Social Justice, seeks to explore the multiple, variable, and embodied...  Read More >>

Die Jahrzehnte um und nach 500 v.Chr. waren im antiken Griechenland mit der Einrichtung einer fruhen 'demokratischen'...  Read More >>

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The world we live in is hugely unequal. People in a better socioeconomic position do not only lead more comfortable...  Read More >>

""An invaluable primer on how inequity breeds ill health"" -New England Journal of MedicineAN ESSENTIAL WORK ON...  Read More >>

This volume unearths the emerging pattern of consumption of opium in colonial Assam and the creation of drug-dependency...  Read More >>

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This volume examines the ways in which people engage with therapeutic practices, such as life coaching, mindfulness,...  Read More >>

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Ushiyama takes the case of eczema as a case study in how patient knowledge has come to affect change in medical...  Read More >>

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

This book is inspired by a statement released by the World Health Organization directed at preventing and eliminating...  Read More >>

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

Ideas about resilience and identity continue to be promoted, discussed and debated in nursing. This book uses narratives...  Read More >>

Ideas about resilience and identity continue to be promoted, discussed and debated in nursing. This book uses narratives...  Read More >>

After the Wrath of God is the first book to tell the story of American religion and the AIDS epidemic. Petro argues...  Read More >>

This book presents and standardizes statistical models and methods that can be directly applied to both reliability...  Read More >>

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

The importance of a strong evidence-base is widely recognised in contemporary health, social care and education...  Read More >>

The importance of a strong evidence-base is widely recognised in contemporary health, social care and education...  Read More >>

This Handbook offers a cutting-edge overview of the state of the medical humanities globally, showing how clinically-oriented...  Read More >>

In the face of conflicting claims about some treatments, behaviors, and policies, the question arises: What is the...  Read More >>

This book, as the first exploration of suicide in Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS), illustrates the scarcity of...  Read More >>

The Routledge International Handbook of Race, Class and Gender chronicles the development, growth, history, impact,...  Read More >>