Medical sociology books

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The Gendered Landscape of Suicide: Masculinities, Emotions, and Culture

The Gendered Landscape of Suicide: Masculinities, Emotions,...

Author: Anne Cleary
ISBN: 9783030166335
Format: Hardback
$168.16

These men produced compelling accounts of their emotional pain which belied notions of male inexpressiveness but...  Read More >>

Human Genetic Selection and Enhancement: Parental Perspectives and Law

Human Genetic Selection and Enhancement: Parental Perspectives...

Author: Marta Soniewicka ,  Wojciech Lewandowski
ISBN: 9783631744512
Format: Hardback
$118.90

The book analyses moral and legal problems of assisted reproduction providing a pluralistic approach which combines...  Read More >>

Understanding Mentally Disordered Offenders: A Multi-agency Perspective

Understanding Mentally Disordered Offenders: A Multi-agency...

Author: Anthony Columbo
ISBN: 9781138359949
Format: Hardback
$231.00

First published in 1997, this volume’s purpose is to understand and clarify the nature of implicit theories currently...  Read More >>

The Social Life of Nothing: Silence, Invisibility and Emptiness in Tales of Lost Experience

The Social Life of Nothing: Silence, Invisibility and...

Author: Susie Scott (University of Sussex, UK)
ISBN: 9781138297975
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book explores the realm of negative social phenomena – no-things, no-bodies, non-events and no-where places...  Read More >>

Food and Health: Actor Strategies in Information and Communication

Food and Health: Actor Strategies in Information and...

Author: Viviane Clavier (University of Grenoble, France) ,  Jean-Philippe De Oliveira (University of Grenoble, France)
ISBN: 9781786302625
Format: Hardback
$295.95

Food is a major health issue; the links between diet and health are dominant in nutrition discourse and practice....  Read More >>

Gender, Bodies and Work

Gender, Bodies and Work

Author: Berit Brandth ,  David Morgan
ISBN: 9781138383678
Format: Paperback
$101.00

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Women and Health: Tradition and Culture in Rural India

Women and Health: Tradition and Culture in Rural India...

Author: Mirdula Bandyopadyay ,  Stewart MacPherson
ISBN: 9781138358782
Format: Hardback
$231.00

First published in 1998, this volume examines how women in general and how the socio-economic and cultural factors...  Read More >>

The Sexual Abuse of Adolescent Girls: Social Workers' Child Protection Practice

The Sexual Abuse of Adolescent Girls: Social Workers'...

Author: Stewart Kirk
ISBN: 9781138360297
Format: Hardback
$231.00

First published in 1999, this volume examines the ‘meanings’ specific child protection cases involving the familial...  Read More >>

The Social Consequences of Facial Disfigurement

The Social Consequences of Facial Disfigurement

Author: Michael J. Hughes
ISBN: 9781138360181
Format: Hardback
$120.00

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Syphilis and Subjectivity: From the Victorians to the Present

Syphilis and Subjectivity: From the Victorians to the...

Author: Kari Nixon ,  Lorenzo Servitje
ISBN: 9783319882260
Format: Paperback
$284.60

This book demystifies the cultural work of syphilis from the late nineteenth century to the present. By interrogating...  Read More >>

Respectable Deviance and Purchasing Medicine Online: Opportunities and Risks for Consumers

Respectable Deviance and Purchasing Medicine Online:...

Author: Lisa Sugiura
ISBN: 9783319892788
Format: Paperback
$116.41

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The Body in Qualitative Research

The Body in Qualitative Research

Author: John Richardson ,  Alison Shaw
ISBN: 9781138344303
Format: Hardback
$231.00

First published in 1998, the three main themes of the book are representation (images and symbols which depict the...  Read More >>

Mental Health Social Work in Ireland: Comparative Issues in Policy and Practice

Mental Health Social Work in Ireland: Comparative Issues...

Author: Jim Campbell ,  Roger Manktelow
ISBN: 9781138361287
Format: Hardback
$231.00

First published in 1998, this pioneering text examines how social, political and organisational changes in Ireland...  Read More >>

Health in Hard Times: Austerity and Health Inequalities

Health in Hard Times: Austerity and Health Inequalities...

Author: Jamie Pearce ,  Nasima Ahkter
ISBN: 9781447344858
Format: Hardback
$176.95

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. This book is a vital review of the impact of austerity on the wellbeing...  Read More >>

Beautyscapes: Mapping Cosmetic Surgery Tourism

Beautyscapes: Mapping Cosmetic Surgery Tourism

Author: Ruth Holliday ,  Meredith Jones
ISBN: 9781526134257
Format: Hardback
$200.00

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Banking on Milk: An Ethnography of Donor Human Milk Relations

Banking on Milk: An Ethnography of Donor Human Milk...

Author: Tanya Cassidy (University of Central Lancashire, UK) ,  Fiona Dykes (University of Central Lancashire, UK)
ISBN: 9781138559073
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Banking on Milk takes the reader on a journey through the everyday life of donor human milk banking across the UK...  Read More >>

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