Medical sociology books

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Written by specialists from three different continents, Transnationalising Reproduction examines a broad range of...  Read More >>

This book examines cannabis policies and reform, offers an inter-disciplinary (but social-science led) account of...  Read More >>

Not since the Spanish flu have citizens of developed counties experienced such a large-scale disease outbreak. One...  Read More >>

This interdisciplinary collection examines the role that alcohol, tobacco and other drugs have played in framing...  Read More >>

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Ziel der Studie ist es, ‚Social Freezing‘ als biopolitische Praxis zu beleuchten und Grenzziehungen zwischen Alter,...  Read More >>

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Educating Doctors’ Senses Through the Medical Humanities: ""How Do I Look?"" uses the medical diagnostic method...  Read More >>

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Nursing and Humanities offers a way to think through the relationship between nursing and the humanities, in the...  Read More >>

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Young, Disabled and LGBT+ brings together the work of an international team interested in exploring the intersection...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1984 Reproductive Ritual examines fertility and re-production in pre-industrial England....  Read More >>

This is a book on how home is made when care enters the lives of people as they grow old at home or in ‘homely’...  Read More >>

This book aims to clarify the global aspects of poor quality pharmaceuticals, generic products in particular, becoming...  Read More >>

This book provides an appreciative, sociological engagement with accounts of the embodied practice of self-injury....  Read More >>

This book has been defined around three important issues: the first sheds light on how people, in various philosophical,...  Read More >>

An examination of the political significance of defining the concept of medical necessity - a complex and dynamic...  Read More >>

Built on presuppositions about failsafe system-design, risk elimination, and human fallibility, the patient safety...  Read More >>

How the politics of ""medical necessity"" complicates American health care The definition of medical necessity has...  Read More >>

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In this second edition, the authors explore the ways in which geographic ideas and approaches can inform our understanding...  Read More >>