Medical sociology books

3623 books were found.

Gender, Law and Economic Well-Being in Europe from the Fifteenth to the Nineteenth Century: North versus South?

Gender, Law and Economic Well-Being in Europe from the...

Author: Anna Bellavitis ,  Beatrice Zucca Micheletto (The University of Rouen, France.)
ISBN: 9781138571518
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book looks at how social, cultural, geographical and economic environment as well as different legal and juridical...  Read More >>

Diagnosis Narratives and the Healing Ritual in Western Medicine

Diagnosis Narratives and the Healing Ritual in Western...

Author: James Meza
ISBN: 9781138631427
Format: Hardback
$305.00

The dominance of ‘illness narratives’ in narrative healing studies has tended to mean that the focus centres around...  Read More >>

Ethical and Legal Issues in Healthcare

Ethical and Legal Issues in Healthcare

Author: David Lemberg
ISBN: 9781516521708
Format: Paperback
$238.70

A definitive resource for healthcare students and professionals in nursing, medicine, and the allied health sciences,...  Read More >>

Cross-Cultural Comparisons on Surrogacy and Egg Donation: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from India, Germany and Israel

Cross-Cultural Comparisons on Surrogacy and Egg Donation:...

Author: Sayani Mitra ,  Silke Schicktanz
ISBN: 9783319786698
Format: Hardback
$310.47

This book is the first to bring together an interdisciplinary collection of essays on surrogacy and egg donation...  Read More >>

Mental Health Uncertainty and Inevitability: Rejuvenating the Relationship between Social Science and Psychiatry

Mental Health Uncertainty and Inevitability: Rejuvenating...

Author: Hugh Middleton ,  Melanie Jordan
ISBN: 9783319829517
Format: Paperback
$258.72

This book offers original knowledge, debate, and understanding from frontline fieldwork data and the relations between...  Read More >>

Gendering Drugs: Feminist Studies of Pharmaceuticals

Gendering Drugs: Feminist Studies of Pharmaceuticals...

Author: Ericka Johnson
ISBN: 9783319846644
Format: Paperback
$232.85

This book, by bringing together critical pharmaceutical studies and feminist technoscience studies, explores the...  Read More >>

Nichtwissen stört mich (nicht): Zum Umgang mit Nichtwissen in Medizin und Pflege

Nichtwissen stört mich (nicht): Zum Umgang mit Nichtwissen...

Author: Maximiliane Wilkesmann ,  Stephanie Steden
ISBN: 9783658220082
Format: Paperback
$98.30

In der Professionsforschung und in der Organisationsforschung dient Wissen stets als positives Differenzierungsmerkmal...  Read More >>

Ethnographies and Health: Reflections on Empirical and Methodological Entanglements

Ethnographies and Health: Reflections on Empirical and...

Author: Emma Garnett ,  Joanna Reynolds
ISBN: 9783319893952
Format: Hardback
$336.35

This edited collection explores the multiple ways in which ethnography and health emerge and take form through the...  Read More >>

Cultural Disability Studies in Education: Interdisciplinary Navigations of the Normative Divide

Cultural Disability Studies in Education: Interdisciplinary...

Author: David Bolt (Liverpool Hope University, UK)
ISBN: 9781138103276
Format: Paperback
$81.99

Over the last few decades disability studies has emerged not only as a discipline in itself but also as a catalyst...  Read More >>

Der Transplantationsskandal in Deutschland: Eine sozialwissenschaftliche Analyse der Hintergründe

Der Transplantationsskandal in Deutschland: Eine sozialwissenschaftliche...

Author: Markus Pohlmann
ISBN: 9783658227845
Format: Paperback
$118.77

Das Buch untersucht und erklärt die Verstöße gegen Richtlinien und Gesetze im Feld der Transplantationsmedizin....  Read More >>

Mothers, Young People and Chronic Illness

Mothers, Young People and Chronic Illness

Author: Clare Williams
ISBN: 9781138737976
Format: Hardback
$135.00

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Confronting Icarus: A Psycho-social Perspective on Haematological Malignancies

Confronting Icarus: A Psycho-social Perspective on Haematological...

Author: Pam McGrath
ISBN: 9781138717268
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This title was first publihsed in 2000:  Confronting Icarus is the first book to bring together all of the original...  Read More >>

Equity and Access: Health Care Studies in India

Equity and Access: Health Care Studies in India

Author: Purendra Prasad (Professor, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Hyderabad) ,  Amar Jesani (Independent Researcher and Editor, Independent Researcher and Editor, Indian Journal of Medical Ethics)
ISBN: 9780199482160
Format: Hardback
$105.00

This volume provides a holistic narrative that explains the politics of health care access in terms of distribution,...  Read More >>

Global Perspectives on Stem Cell Technologies

Global Perspectives on Stem Cell Technologies

Author: Aditya Bharadwaj
ISBN: 9783319876351
Format: Paperback
$232.85

This book takes as its point of departure a humble cell lying on the intersection of ideas as diverse and yet interlaced...  Read More >>

Health Care Transformation in Contemporary China: Moral Experience in a Socialist Neoliberal Polity

Health Care Transformation in Contemporary China: Moral...

Author: Jiong Tu
ISBN: 9789811307874
Format: Hardback
$145.17

This multifaceted book examines the free market reform of the Chinese healthcare system in the 1980s and the more...  Read More >>

Cultural Safety,Healthcare and Vulnerable Populations: A Critical Theoretical Perspective

Cultural Safety,Healthcare and Vulnerable Populations:...

Author: Lucy Mkandawire-Valhmu (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA)
ISBN: 9781138898226
Format: Paperback
$81.99

Taking a critical theoretical perspective, this book provides pragmatic guidance for culturally safe care for a...  Read More >>

Meanings of ME: Interpersonal and Social Dimensions of Chronic Fatigue

Meanings of ME: Interpersonal and Social Dimensions...

Author: C. Ward ,  C Ward
ISBN: 9781349691296
Format: Paperback
$116.41

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