Medical sociology books

By paying attention to control over facilities and technologies as well as the public-private balance over investment...  Read More >>

Based on a study of the London Borough of Newham, this book aims to show how the selective licensing tool available...  Read More >>

Dr Faruk Shah offers an anthropological critique of biomedicine in rural Bangladesh that explains how the existing...  Read More >>

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Usually conceived in opposition to each other – birth as a hopeful beginning, death as an ending – this book brings...  Read More >>

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The essays in this collection examine women in diverse roles; mother, socialite, prostitute, celebrity, medical...  Read More >>

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In Body Image as an Everyday Problematic, Diaz seeks to offer a comprehensive perspective on body image as an everyday...  Read More >>

Primary care, grounded in the provision of continuous comprehensive person-centred care, is vital to the delivery...  Read More >>

Science and Democracy advances a systematic, yet detailed, co-productionist understanding of how emerging modes...  Read More >>

This collection brings together cross-disciplinary social science research on areas including the US, Israel, India,...  Read More >>

This book examines research on death, dying and bereavement, and how our perceptions shape what we can know about...  Read More >>

This book advances the field of ‘geographical gerontology’ – a burgeoning body of interdisciplinary scholarship...  Read More >>

This book presents a perspective on non-profit organizations that analyses organizational development through the...  Read More >>

Despite some significant advances in the creation and protection of rights affecting women’s health, these do not...  Read More >>

This book examines how modern medicine’s mechanistic conception of the body has become a defense mechanism to cope...  Read More >>

This edited collection focuses on the global growth of privatisation and private sector medicine in both developed...  Read More >>

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This volume explores crucial issues surrounding the impact of loss, death and dying for criminal offenders, for...  Read More >>

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