Medical sociology books

Ideas about resilience and identity continue to be promoted, discussed and debated in nursing. This book uses narratives...  Read More >>

After the Wrath of God is the first book to tell the story of American religion and the AIDS epidemic. Petro argues...  Read More >>

This book presents and standardizes statistical models and methods that can be directly applied to both reliability...  Read More >>

Beginning with an individual’s subjective experience of ill health, this text looks at how this feeling relates...  Read More >>

The importance of a strong evidence-base is widely recognised in contemporary health, social care and education...  Read More >>

The importance of a strong evidence-base is widely recognised in contemporary health, social care and education...  Read More >>

This Handbook offers a cutting-edge overview of the state of the medical humanities globally, showing how clinically-oriented...  Read More >>

In the face of conflicting claims about some treatments, behaviors, and policies, the question arises: What is the...  Read More >>

This book, as the first exploration of suicide in Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS), illustrates the scarcity of...  Read More >>

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This book recognizes and legitimizes the significance of pet and animal loss by exploring the various expressions...  Read More >>

This uniquely accessible volume challenges professionals to understand—and help correct—health disparities, both...  Read More >>

Mittels einer triangulativen sozialen Netzwerkanalyse ermittelt sie psychosoziale Belastungen, Ressourcen und Beanspruchungen,...  Read More >>

This book paints a comprehensive portrait of Mexico’s system of assisted reproduction first from a historical perspective,...  Read More >>

This collection provides a broad coverage of recent changes in medical and vocational rehabilitation in Northern...  Read More >>

The second decade of the twenty-first century has witnessed a surging interest in personalized medicine with the...  Read More >>

Provides students with both an introduction to the sociological study of health and disease and a contemporary view...  Read More >>

Reconsidering Dementia Narratives explores the role of narrative in developing new ways of understanding, interacting...  Read More >>

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This collection fills an important lacuna by acknowledging the importance of understanding both gender and age when...  Read More >>

This book focuses on justice and its demands in the way of providing people with medical care. The book then addresses...  Read More >>

In 1997, when the author began research in Peru, she observed a profound disconnect between the birth care desires...  Read More >>

In 1997, when the author began research in Peru, she observed a profound disconnect between the birth care desires...  Read More >>

The Routledge Handbook of Identity Studies offers a remarkably clear overview of the analysis of identity in the...  Read More >>

Questioning framing of old age, this book unpacks the political and moral dimensions of scientific research on ageing....  Read More >>