Medical sociology books

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

This book explores a number of different self-tracking techniques, emphasising the self-responsibility on which...  Read More >>

Behavioral, social, and policy interventions to improve the health of the overall population have been less successful...  Read More >>

This book explores the policy process by which evidence-based alcohol strategies developed at the WHO are implemented...  Read More >>

This book tackles the problem of how anxiety over death throughout the course of a life – though often denied or...  Read More >>

Drawing on an ethnography of prenatal screening for Down’s syndrome in two UK clinics, Thomas explores how and why...  Read More >>

Recovery, Mental Health and Inequality contributes to the debate about the implementation of ‘recovery approach’...  Read More >>

Physiotherapy needs to engage in critically informed theoretical discussion about the profession's history to explore...  Read More >>

Behavioral, social, and policy interventions to improve the health of the overall population have been less successful...  Read More >>

This book critically considers what embracing the use of metaphors, similes and aphorisms might mean for shaping...  Read More >>

Leading thinkers from a range of disciplines discuss the compatibility of power and care, in conversation with the...  Read More >>

What defines the limits of our belief and, ultimately, compassion, when it comes to disease? This book draws upon...  Read More >>

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This book examines the future of birthing practices, particularly by focusing on epidural analgesia in childbirth....  Read More >>

This book investigates death as part of contemporary everyday experience and practices. Through a cultural sociological...  Read More >>

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The only text that accessibly examines the social determinants of health from a Canadian, contemporary, and comparative...  Read More >>

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Includes a series of fact-filled articles aimed at replacing blind faith in the effectiveness of health services...  Read More >>

Examining migraines in children and the socially disabling effects that chronic pain can have, this book uses medical,...  Read More >>

This title was first first published in 2002: This book analyzes the institutional responses to the drug problem...  Read More >>

Antivaxxers are crazy. That is the perception we all gain from the media, the internet, celebrities, and beyond,...  Read More >>

This book aims to draw attention to and showcase the wealth of existing and emergent geographical contributions...  Read More >>