Medical sociology books

Conversations on Embodiment brings a cohesive understanding to congruent approaches by drawing on discussions between...  Read More >>

This book analyzes the role of health apps to promote medicalization. It considers whether their use is an individual...  Read More >>

This is the first book to explore how religion, belief and spirituality are negotiated in hospice care. Specifically,...  Read More >>

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By exploring anti-FGM online activism, this book fills a gap in the literature, which has largely overlooked FGM’s...  Read More >>

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Whose Body is it Anyway? explores contemporary understandings of the body and the conflicting ways in which it is...  Read More >>

Second Opinion: An Introduction to Health Sociology, sixth edition, is the leading health sociology textbook for...  Read More >>

Are painkillers mundane medications safe for use to ease human suffering? Or are they drugs of abuse that cause...  Read More >>

Whose Body is it Anyway? explores contemporary understandings of the body and the conflicting ways in which it is...  Read More >>

Data and metrics play an unmistakably powerful role in today’s society. Over the years, their use has expanded to...  Read More >>

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Published in 1997, this book documents the development of European Food Aid Policy from its inception in the 1960s...  Read More >>

This book analyses micro-level gender issues and other social factors impacting macro-level health care systems....  Read More >>

Der Altersübergang, der wesentlich vom Austritt aus dem Berufsleben und dem Eintritt in die Nacherwerbsphase geprägt...  Read More >>

This interdisciplinary book explores the affective dimensions of becoming a parent, traversing the life-cycle journey...  Read More >>

Examining the fascinating history of female genital cosmetic surgery, Camille Nurka traces the origins of contemporary...  Read More >>

Jessica Lynne Pearson explores the collision between imperial and international visions of health and development...  Read More >>

This progressive resource brings the innovative power of narrative medicine to the forefront of community public...  Read More >>

This book explores the power music has to address health inequalities and the social determinants of health and...  Read More >>

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This edited collection brings together international academics, policy makers and practitioners to examine the social...  Read More >>

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