Medical sociology books

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Using the Bodies of the Dead: Legal, Ethical and Organisational Dimensions of Organ Transplantation

Using the Bodies of the Dead: Legal, Ethical and Organisational...
Author: Nora Machado ISBN: 9781138387041 Format: Hardback	$231.00
First published in 1998, this unique, timely book applies sociological concepts and analysis to the study of organ... Read More >>

The Social Management of Genetic Engineering

The Social Management of Genetic Engineering
Author: Peter Wheale , René von Schomberg ISBN: 9781138390126 Format: Hardback	$305.00
First published in 1998, this volume why and how genetic engineering has emerged as the technology most likely to... Read More >>

Reproductive Justice and Sexual Rights: Transnational Perspectives

Reproductive Justice and Sexual Rights: Transnational...
Author: Tanya Saroj Bakhru ISBN: 9781138297234 Format: Hardback	$399.00
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The Public and Private Management of Grief: Recovering Normal

The Public and Private Management of Grief: Recovering...
Author: Caroline Pearce ISBN: 9783030176617 Format: Hardback	$116.41
Through a critical analysis of theory, policy and practice, The Public and Private Management of Grief looks at... Read More >>

Planning Later Life: Bioethics and Public Health in Ageing Societies

Planning Later Life: Bioethics and Public Health in...
Author: Mark Schweda , Larissa Pfaller ISBN: 9780367350079 Format: Paperback	$88.99
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Reproductive Justice and Sexual Rights: Transnational Perspectives

Reproductive Justice and Sexual Rights: Transnational...
Author: Tanya Saroj Bakhru ISBN: 9781138297241 Format: Paperback	$81.99
This book takes an intersectional, interdisciplinary, and transnational approach, presenting work that will provide... Read More >>

Social Theory and Nursing

Social Theory and Nursing
Author: Martin Lipscomb (University of Worcester, UK) ISBN: 9780367224066 Format: Paperback	$94.99
What is the value of social theory to nursing? What are the implications of overlooking or excluding the social... Read More >>

Young People and the Aesthetics of Health Promotion: Beyond Reason, Rationality and Risk

Young People and the Aesthetics of Health Promotion:...
Author: Kerry Montero , Peter Kelly ISBN: 9780367352936 Format: Paperback	$92.99
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Humiliation: Mental Health and Public Shame

Humiliation: Mental Health and Public Shame
Author: Marit F. Svindseth (The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway) , Paul Crawford (The University of Nottingham, UK) ISBN: 9781838671013 Format: Paperback	$79.00
This book examines the damaging impact of humiliation in human society. By using case studies of observed humiliation,... Read More >>

Handbook of Global Urban Health

Handbook of Global Urban Health
Author: Igor Vojnovic (Michigan State University) , Amber Pearson (University of Otago) ISBN: 9781138206250 Format: Hardback	$462.00
The book is intended to be a reference in global urban health for research libraries and faculty collections. It... Read More >>

Language, Dementia and Meaning Making: Navigating Challenges of Cognition and Face in Everyday Life

Language, Dementia and Meaning Making: Navigating Challenges...
Author: Heidi E. Hamilton ISBN: 9783030120207 Format: Hardback	$168.16
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Self-Tracking, Health and Medicine: Sociological Perspectives

Self-Tracking, Health and Medicine: Sociological Perspectives...
Author: Deborah Lupton (University of Canberra, Australia) ISBN: 9780367321864 Format: Paperback	$88.99
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Men’s Health Equity: A Handbook

Men’s Health Equity: A Handbook
Author: Derek M. Griffith (Vanderbilt University, USA) , Marino A. Bruce (Vanderbilt University, USA) ISBN: 9781138052970 Format: Paperback	$242.00
Behavioral, social, and policy interventions to improve the health of the overall population have been less successful... Read More >>

The Dying Body as a Lived Experience

The Dying Body as a Lived Experience
Author: Alan Blum (York University, Canada) ISBN: 9780367224042 Format: Paperback	$88.99
This book tackles the problem of how anxiety over death throughout the course of a life – though often denied or... Read More >>

Thinking with Metaphors in Medicine: The State of the Art

Thinking with Metaphors in Medicine: The State of the...
Author: Alan Bleakley (Plymouth University, UK) ISBN: 9780367224394 Format: Paperback	$94.99
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Recovery, Mental Health and Inequality: Chinese Ethnic Minorities as Mental Health Service Users

Recovery, Mental Health and Inequality: Chinese Ethnic...
Author: Lynn Tang (The Hong Kong Jockey Club Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention, The University of Hong Kong) ISBN: 9780367224431 Format: Paperback	$94.99
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The End of Physiotherapy

The End of Physiotherapy
Author: David A. Nicholls (AUT University, Auckland, New Zealand) ISBN: 9780367224516 Format: Paperback	$103.00
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Men’s Health Equity: A Handbook

Men’s Health Equity: A Handbook
Author: Derek M. Griffith (Vanderbilt University, USA) , Marino A. Bruce (Vanderbilt University, USA) ISBN: 9781138052963 Format: Hardback	$546.00
Behavioral, social, and policy interventions to improve the health of the overall population have been less successful... Read More >>

Alcohol, Power and Public Health: A Comparative Study of Alcohol Policy

Alcohol, Power and Public Health: A Comparative Study...
Author: Shane Butler (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) , Karen Elmeland (University of Aarhus, Denmark) ISBN: 9780367224110 Format: Paperback	$88.99
This book explores the policy process by which evidence-based alcohol strategies developed at the WHO are implemented... Read More >>

Down's Syndrome Screening and Reproductive Politics: Care, Choice, and Disability in the Prenatal Clinic

Down's Syndrome Screening and Reproductive Politics:...
Author: Gareth M. Thomas (Cardiff University, UK) ISBN: 9780367224127 Format: Paperback	$88.99
Drawing on an ethnography of prenatal screening for Down’s syndrome in two UK clinics, Thomas explores how and why... Read More >>

Power and Care: Toward Balance for Our Common Future—Science, Society, and Spirituality

Power and Care: Toward Balance for Our Common Future—Science,...
Author: Tania Singer (Professor and Director, Max Planck Institute For Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences) , Matthieu Ricard (Shechen Tennyi Dargyeling Monastery) ISBN: 9780262039529 Format: Hardback	$59.99
Leading thinkers from a range of disciplines discuss the compatibility of power and care, in conversation with the... Read More >>

Contested Illness in Context: An Interdisciplinary Study in Disease Definition

Contested Illness in Context: An Interdisciplinary Study...
Author: Harry Quinn Schone ISBN: 9780367026448 Format: Hardback	$305.00
What defines the limits of our belief and, ultimately, compassion, when it comes to disease? This book draws upon... Read More >>

Towards the Humanisation of Birth: A study of epidural analgesia and hospital birth culture

Towards the Humanisation of Birth: A study of epidural...
Author: Elizabeth Newnham , Lois McKellar ISBN: 9783319888682 Format: Paperback	$116.41
This book examines the future of birthing practices, particularly by focusing on epidural analgesia in childbirth.... Read More >>

Poverty and the Myths of Health Care Reform

Poverty and the Myths of Health Care Reform
Author: Richard (Buz) Cooper ISBN: 9781421429052 Format: Paperback	$66.99
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Death Matters: Cultural Sociology of Mortal Life

Death Matters: Cultural Sociology of Mortal Life
Author: Tora Holmberg , Annika Jonsson ISBN: 9783030114848 Format: Hardback	$284.60
This book investigates death as part of contemporary everyday experience and practices. Through a cultural sociological... Read More >>

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