Medical sociology books

3623 books were found.

Transgender Children and Young People: Born in Your Own Body

Transgender Children and Young People: Born in Your...

Author: Heather Brunskell-Evans ,  Michele Moore
ISBN: 9781527509306
Format: Paperback
$179.39

This book is a collection of essays about the current theory and practice of transgendering children. Essays are...  Read More >>

The Palgrave Handbook of Ageing and Physical Activity Promotion

The Palgrave Handbook of Ageing and Physical Activity...

Author: Samuel R. Nyman ,  Anna Barker
ISBN: 9783319712901
Format: Hardback
$517.47

Although people are living longer, they need to be living longer in good health to continue to enjoy quality of...  Read More >>

Loss, Dying and Bereavement in the Criminal Justice System

Loss, Dying and Bereavement in the Criminal Justice...

Author: Sue Read (Keele University, UK) ,  Sotirios Santatzoglou (Keele University, UK)
ISBN: 9781138283572
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This volume explores crucial issues surrounding the impact of loss, death and dying for criminal offenders, for...  Read More >>

Sociology as Applied to Health and Medicine

Sociology as Applied to Health and Medicine

Author: Graham Scambler
ISBN: 9781137577375
Format: Paperback
$69.99

A new edition of a seminal textbook that offers an up-to-date, concise and theoretically and empirically informed...  Read More >>

The Medicalized Body and Anesthetic Culture: The Cadaver, the Memorial Body, and the Recovery of Lived Experience

The Medicalized Body and Anesthetic Culture: The Cadaver,...

Author: Brent Dean Robbins
ISBN: 9781349953554
Format: Hardback
$388.10

This book examines how modern medicine’s mechanistic conception of the body has become a defense mechanism to cope...  Read More >>

Sociology as Applied to Health and Medicine

Sociology as Applied to Health and Medicine

Author: Graham Scambler
ISBN: 9781137577382
Format: Hardback
$220.00

A new edition of a seminal textbook that offers an up-to-date, concise and theoretically and empirically informed...  Read More >>

Legalising Mitochondrial Donation: Enacting Ethical Futures in UK Biomedical Politics

Legalising Mitochondrial Donation: Enacting Ethical...

Author: Rebecca Dimond ,  Neil Stephens
ISBN: 9783319746449
Format: Hardback
$113.82

They draw on stakeholder accounts and public documents to explore how patients, professionals, institutions and...  Read More >>

Diagnosing the Legacy: The Discovery, Research, and Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes in Indigenous Youth

Diagnosing the Legacy: The Discovery, Research, and...

Author: Larry Krotz ,  Heather Dean
ISBN: 9780887558238
Format: Paperback
$57.20

Tells the story of communities, researchers, and doctors who faced - and continue to face - something never seen...  Read More >>

Microbes and Other Shamanic Beings

Microbes and Other Shamanic Beings

Author: César E. Giraldo Herrera
ISBN: 9783319713175
Format: Hardback
$284.60

Microbes and Other Shamanic Beings develops three major arguments: First, since their earliest accounts Amerindian...  Read More >>

Palliative Care im Fokus von Supervision: Eine ethnografisch-partizipative Untersuchung von Palliativ- und Hospizteams

Palliative Care im Fokus von Supervision: Eine ethnografisch-partizipative...

Author: Ursula Hermann
ISBN: 9783658210083
Format: Paperback
$103.47

Ursula Hermann geht den Fragen nach, wie Hospiz- und Palliativteams ihre beruflichen Anforderungen erleben und welche...  Read More >>

Disability, Normalcy, and the Everyday

Disability, Normalcy, and the Everyday

Author: Gareth M. Thomas ,  Dikaios Sakellariou
ISBN: 9781138214217
Format: Hardback
$305.00

What does the everyday reality of being disabled mean for those involved? Bringing together a range of qualitative...  Read More >>

Beyond Bioethics: Toward a New Biopolitics

Beyond Bioethics: Toward a New Biopolitics

Author: Osagie K. Obasogie ,  Marcy Darnovsky
ISBN: 9780520277847
Format: Paperback
$57.95

For decades, the field of bioethics has shaped the way we think about ethical problems in science, technology, and...  Read More >>

Dying: A Social Perspective on the End of Life

Dying: A Social Perspective on the End of Life

Author: Alex Broom
ISBN: 9781138494855
Format: Paperback
$105.00

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Beyond Bioethics: Toward a New Biopolitics

Beyond Bioethics: Toward a New Biopolitics

Author: Osagie K. Obasogie ,  Marcy Darnovsky
ISBN: 9780520277823
Format: Hardback
$157.95

For decades, the field of bioethics has shaped the way we think about ethical problems in science, technology, and...  Read More >>

Respectable Deviance and Purchasing Medicine Online: Opportunities and Risks for Consumers

Respectable Deviance and Purchasing Medicine Online:...

Author: Lisa Sugiura
ISBN: 9783319744841
Format: Hardback
$113.82

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Migration: Gesellschaftliches Zusammenleben Im Wandel

Migration: Gesellschaftliches Zusammenleben Im Wandel...

Author: Anne Friedrichs ,  Susanne L Gössl
ISBN: 9783506707178
Format: Paperback
$166.32

Migration und Flucht werden in Politik, Wissenschaft und Öffentlichkeit intensiv diskutiert. Ausgehend von den aktuellen...  Read More >>

Towards the Humanisation of Birth: A study of epidural analgesia and hospital birth culture

Towards the Humanisation of Birth: A study of epidural...

Author: Elizabeth Newnham ,  Lois McKellar
ISBN: 9783319699615
Format: Hardback
$232.85

This book examines the future of birthing practices, particularly by focusing on epidural analgesia in childbirth....  Read More >>

Non-Representational Theory & Health: The Health in Life in Space-Time Revealing

Non-Representational Theory & Health: The Health in...

Author: Gavin J. Andrews (McMaster University, Canada)
ISBN: 9781472483102
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Drawing on the principles, approaches and style of non-representational theory, Gavin J. Andrews sets out a new...  Read More >>

Narrative-Based Practice in Health and Social Care: Conversations Inviting Change

Narrative-Based Practice in Health and Social Care:...

Author: John Launer (Health Education England, UK)
ISBN: 9781138714373
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Narrative-Based Practice in Health and Social Care outlines a vision of how witnessing narratives, paying attention...  Read More >>

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