Medical sociology books

This title was first published in 2001. A classic ethnographic study of the interactions between paediatricians...  Read More >>

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This title was first published in 2003: This book explores how gender differentially affects both the ways in which...  Read More >>

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This title was first published in 2001. The first comprehensive bioethical text to confront the central issue of...  Read More >>

The Medical Metropolis offers the first comparative, historical account of how big medicine shaped American cities...  Read More >>

Sickness in the Workhouse illuminates the role of workhouse medicine in caring for England's poor, bringing sick...  Read More >>

This fully revised and expanded second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies takes a multidisciplinary...  Read More >>

This book uses a human rights perspective – developed philosophically, politically and legally - to change the way...  Read More >>

Heinrich Grebe untersucht in dieser Studie den medialen, zivilgesellschaftlichen und familiären Umgang mit Demenz:...  Read More >>

This volume delves into the potential that design thinking can have when applied to organizational systems and structures...  Read More >>

This book brings together perspectives from critical criminology, sociology, health studies and law to provide a...  Read More >>

This book explores the ‘material-discursive entanglement’ of how we both make the world with our words and how the...  Read More >>

This book examines the use of canine scent detection to alert humans to symptoms of human chronic illness, specifically...  Read More >>

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By taking an ethnographic approach to medical travel, this important book uses critical perspectives to understand...  Read More >>

This book explores the ‘material-discursive entanglement’ of how we both make the world with our words and how the...  Read More >>

This book examines the relationship between social class and mental illness in Northern Europe during the 20th century....  Read More >>

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Covering the period from Antiquity to Early Modernity, A Historical Sociology of Disability argues that disabled...  Read More >>

Die Definition und Messung von Gesundheit ist der analytische Dreh- und Angelpunkt vieler empirischer Studien. Aus...  Read More >>

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This book explores the ethical dilemma clinicians may face when disclosing a diagnosis of atypical sex. Attempting...  Read More >>

By taking an ethnographic approach to medical travel, this important book uses critical perspectives to understand...  Read More >>

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