Medical sociology books

Contributions draw on arguments that humans should not always be accorded an exceptional status in accounts of social...  Read More >>

This book examines the proliferation of mental health claims, based on the premise that the business of mental health...  Read More >>

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This title was first published in 2001. The first comprehensive bioethical text to confront the central issue of...  Read More >>

A frank portrayal of the medical care of dying people past and present, The Inevitable Hour helps to explain why...  Read More >>

It is a common assumption that sport is good for us and that participation in sport embodies public health benefits....  Read More >>

This ambitious book provides a comprehensive history of the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Programme on...  Read More >>

At a time when the world’s wealthiest nations struggle to make health care and medicine available to everyone, why...  Read More >>

At a time when the world’s wealthiest nations struggle to make health care and medicine available to everyone, why...  Read More >>

This collection discusses common ways of thinking about risk and uncertainty through examining how uncertainty is...  Read More >>

This book departs from conventional bioethics approaches to consider the different moral and political economies...  Read More >>

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Tumor examines the cultural attitudes that shape the ways we research a tumor scientifically, treat it medically,...  Read More >>

The eye chart--essential diagnostic tool, template, sign, toy--is a monument to un-reading and a guide to the absurdities...  Read More >>

Jet lag is a physical ailment, a temporal condition, a political effect, and, ultimately, a cultural moment--in...  Read More >>

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Innerhalb eines grundsätzlich interdisziplinär angelegten Gesundheitswesens wird ebenso eine Annäherung an das schwierige...  Read More >>

In Body Image as an Everyday Problematic, Diaz seeks to offer a comprehensive perspective on body image as an everyday...  Read More >>

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This volume covers macro- and micro-level issues involving health and health care concerns for women, and racial...  Read More >>

The impact of the United Nations ""Healthy Prisons"" initiative has highlighted the importance of health and health...  Read More >>

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Duties to Care delivers a groundbreaking new socio-legal investigation into the regulatory dimensions of caring...  Read More >>

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