Medical sociology books

This illuminating volume explores the challenges and possibilities for developing a social view of sickle cell,...  Read More >>

Set in the context of the processes and practices of human reproduction and reproductive health in Northern India,...  Read More >>

"Each species has its own characteristic aging trajectory coded by a species-specific developmental program. This...  Read More >>

Explores relevant social issues related to various Chinese medicine treatments, including acupuncture and medicinal...  Read More >>

In this provocative book Vitellone brings a new approach to bear on the history of the troubling and transformative...  Read More >>

This reflective work develops a constructive alternative to the principle of primacy of patient welfare and advocates...  Read More >>

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This volume engages with questions of justice and equality, and how these can be achieved in modern society. It...  Read More >>

This ethnography takes the reader into the Australian suburbs to learn about food, eating and bodies during the...  Read More >>

This collection discusses common ways of thinking about risk and uncertainty through examining how uncertainty is...  Read More >>

Contributions draw on arguments that humans should not always be accorded an exceptional status in accounts of social...  Read More >>

Foregrounding disabled people’s own sexual stories collected through a participatory and multi-method empirical...  Read More >>

Based on fieldwork in Bai Township, this book examines how women with disabilities in rural Southwest China compensate...  Read More >>

This innovative book places the sensory experiences of autistic individuals within a sociological framework. It...  Read More >>

The Routledge Handbook of Visual Impairment examines current debates as well as cross-examining traditionally held...  Read More >>

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This book argues that while notions of trauma in mental health hold promise for the advancement of women’s rights,...  Read More >>

Diagnosis: Truths and Tales shares stories written from the perspectives of both those who receive diagnoses and...  Read More >>

This book approaches the subject of AIDS pedagogy by analysing the complex links between representation or discourse,...  Read More >>

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This book looks at the nature and extent of civic engagement, in terms of the use made of the National Health Service,...  Read More >>

Research in health geographies has seen the ongoing development of therapeutic landscapes. Emerging contemporary...  Read More >>

Anthropology of Tobacco makes tobacco the centre of its own, contentious, global story in which, instead of a passive...  Read More >>