Medical sociology books

Reviews sexual reproductive health policies and practices, and literature on medical circumcision, and identifies...  Read More >>

The Poetics of Palliation argues that Romanticism developed richer literary therapies than its contemporary reception...  Read More >>

The only text that accessibly examines the social determinants of health from a Canadian, contemporary, and comparative...  Read More >>

The Reproductive Body at Work explores the relations between value production, labour and the body in one particular...  Read More >>

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Examining migraines in children and the socially disabling effects that chronic pain can have, this book uses medical,...  Read More >>

This title was first first published in 2002: This book analyzes the institutional responses to the drug problem...  Read More >>

Antivaxxers are crazy. That is the perception we all gain from the media, the internet, celebrities, and beyond,...  Read More >>

This book aims to draw attention to and showcase the wealth of existing and emergent geographical contributions...  Read More >>

Each species has its own characteristic aging trajectory coded by a species-specific developmental program. This...  Read More >>

This illuminating volume explores the challenges and possibilities for developing a social view of sickle cell,...  Read More >>

Set in the context of the processes and practices of human reproduction and reproductive health in Northern India,...  Read More >>

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In this provocative book Vitellone brings a new approach to bear on the history of the troubling and transformative...  Read More >>

Vor 15 Jahren wurde die Krankenhausvergütung auf ein DRG-Fallpauschalensystem umgestellt (DRG: Diagnosis Related...  Read More >>

This volume engages with questions of justice and equality, and how these can be achieved in modern society. It...  Read More >>

This ethnography takes the reader into the Australian suburbs to learn about food, eating and bodies during the...  Read More >>

This collection discusses common ways of thinking about risk and uncertainty through examining how uncertainty is...  Read More >>

Contributions draw on arguments that humans should not always be accorded an exceptional status in accounts of social...  Read More >>

Foregrounding disabled people’s own sexual stories collected through a participatory and multi-method empirical...  Read More >>

Based on fieldwork in Bai Township, this book examines how women with disabilities in rural Southwest China compensate...  Read More >>

This innovative book places the sensory experiences of autistic individuals within a sociological framework. It...  Read More >>

The Routledge Handbook of Visual Impairment examines current debates as well as cross-examining traditionally held...  Read More >>

Early Australian pioneers were blocked from advancing into the interior of the continent by the Great Dividing Range...  Read More >>

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