Medical sociology books

This book, which takes a cultural approach to coping and health, is based on extensive empirical research which...  Read More >>

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The Routledge Handbook of Health Geography features 52 chapters from leading international thinkers that collectively...  Read More >>

This book pays attention to lived experiences of sex, drugs and the scientific practices that make these experiences...  Read More >>

Bringing together leading academics worldwide, this collection compares and critically examines the ways in which...  Read More >>

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This book investigates to what extent claims of common social science risk theories such as risk society, governmentality,...  Read More >>

Eine gelingende Zusammenarbeit scheint vor allem dann möglich, wenn diese zum Gegenstand der kontinuierlichen Aushandlung...  Read More >>

In contemporary western societies, the fat body has become a focus of stigmatizing discourses and practices aimed...  Read More >>

During his illness and rehabilitation he scribbles down notes about what is happening to him, what he is observing...  Read More >>

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This book explores the new ways in which biology is becoming technology. The revolutionary iPS cell technology has...  Read More >>

This book provides an empirical and philosophical investigation of self-tracking practices. The aim of this book...  Read More >>

Such relationships are increasingly mediated through particular medical technologies, drawn together by the authors...  Read More >>

Um dieses Unterfangen methodologisch zu fundieren, nimmt der Autor einen Brückenschlag zwischen der Netzwerktheorie...  Read More >>

In contemporary western societies, the fat body has become a focus of stigmatizing discourses and practices aimed...  Read More >>

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‘Reducing and Preventing Alcohol Misuse and Its Consequences’ is one of the AASWSW’s Grand Challenges for Social...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1977, Health Care and Health Knowledge presents some of the best new work being done in...  Read More >>

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Though Bartolomeo Scappi's Opera (1570), the first illustrated cookbook, is well known to historians of food, up...  Read More >>

This volume brings together a wealth of contemporary research from a diverse range of cultural contexts which explores...  Read More >>