Medical sociology books

This book discusses fundamental discourses relating to health in Africa arising out of the consequences of endemic...  Read More >>

What is illness? How do the physical, social and emotional worlds of a person change when they become ill? Can there...  Read More >>

This book addresses the psychosocial and medical issues of forced migration due to war, major disasters and political...  Read More >>

First published in 1998, Reproducing Narrative sets out to interrogate a number of medico-legal reproductive discourses....  Read More >>

This book provides a richly detailed contribution to the understanding of healthy volunteer experiences in clinical...  Read More >>

This book investigates how individual cancer narratives change in an age of networked social media. Networked cancer:...  Read More >>

Neue digitale Technologien erleichtern es zunehmend, persönliche gesundheitsbezogene Daten zu generieren, zu analysieren...  Read More >>

This sociological work examines the phenomenon of the Death Café, a regular gathering of strangers from all walks...  Read More >>

This book explores the processes and effects of the increasing governance of our lives through pharmaceuticals,...  Read More >>

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This interdisciplinary book explores both the connections and the tensions between sociological, psychological,...  Read More >>

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First published in 1997, this work makes a substantial reexamination of the social processes behind the labelling...  Read More >>

The Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology provides a contemporary overview of the key themes in medical anthropology....  Read More >>

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Published in 1993. Residential care plays an important role in the care of such people, and developing new, innovative...  Read More >>

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First published in 1998, this book contributes to our understanding of emergent and resurgent infectious diseases...  Read More >>

This volume examines the question of how the incessant demand for improved performance and efficiency, the pursuit...  Read More >>

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