Medical sociology books

Authors offer practical and thoughtful discussions of emerging methodological and ethical dilemmas they encountered...  Read More >>

This volume investigates race, ethnicity and gender as factors in health and health care.  Chapters focus on linkages...  Read More >>

This unique monograph, based on empirical research, used the oral history approach to explore the careers of 31...  Read More >>

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Besonders deutlich herausgestellt wird die soziale Dimension von Gesundheit und Gesundheitskompetenz, die in den...  Read More >>

Bildungschancen sind in allen westlichen Gesellschaften sozial ungleich verteilt, ebenso wie die Chancen auf ein...  Read More >>

This book explores the relationship between macro-social structure, social construction and micro-healthcare behaviors....  Read More >>

This textbook is the new edition of Purnell's famous Transcultural Health Care, based on the Purnell twelve-step...  Read More >>

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​Das Thema Health Literacy, für das sich im deutschen Sprachgebrauch der Begriff der Gesundheitskompetenz etabliert...  Read More >>

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Dahl argues that in order to grasp these new realities of care we need a new analytical framework that redirects...  Read More >>

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

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

Drawing material from the USA, UK and Hong Kong, this volume allows the demystification of stereotypical presentations...  Read More >>

This timely and instructive guide informs and improves healthcare professionals' cultural competency when working...  Read More >>

Based on fieldwork conducted in France, this book examines the material, cognitive, symbolic and social dimensions...  Read More >>

These men produced compelling accounts of their emotional pain which belied notions of male inexpressiveness but...  Read More >>

In doing so, this work reveals how changes in cognition may impact the faces of these individuals, leading some...  Read More >>

This book paints a comprehensive portrait of Mexico’s system of assisted reproduction first from a historical perspective,...  Read More >>

This uniquely accessible volume challenges professionals to understand—and help correct—health disparities, both...  Read More >>

This collection provides a broad coverage of recent changes in medical and vocational rehabilitation in Northern...  Read More >>

This book focuses on justice and its demands in the way of providing people with medical care. The book then addresses...  Read More >>