Medical sociology books

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Negotiating Pharmaceutical Uncertainty: Women's Agency in a South African HIV Prevention Trial

Negotiating Pharmaceutical Uncertainty: Women's Agency...
Author: Eirik Saethre , Jonathan Stadler ISBN: 9780826521392 Format: Hardback	$263.87
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Beyond Surgery: Injury, Healing, and Religion at an Ethiopian Hospital

Beyond Surgery: Injury, Healing, and Religion at an...
Author: Anita Hannig ISBN: 9780226457291 Format: Paperback	$49.95
Over the past few decades, maternal childbirth injuries have become a potent symbol of Western biomedical intervention... Read More >>

Beyond Surgery: Injury, Healing, and Religion at an Ethiopian Hospital

Beyond Surgery: Injury, Healing, and Religion at an...
Author: Anita Hannig ISBN: 9780226457154 Format: Hardback	$163.95
Over the past few decades, maternal childbirth injuries have become a potent symbol of Western biomedical intervention... Read More >>

Medical Ethics, Prediction, and Prognosis: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Medical Ethics, Prediction, and Prognosis: Interdisciplinary...
Author: Mariacarla Gadebusch Bondio (Technical University of Munich, Germany) , Francesco Sporing (Technical University of Munich, Germany) ISBN: 9781138632691 Format: Hardback	$305.00
Recent scientific developments have given rise to numerous predictive procedures for detecting predispositions to... Read More >>

Entwicklung und Wandel der hausarztzentrierten Versorgung: Eine policy-analytische Untersuchung der Ansprüche und Wahrnehmungen

Entwicklung und Wandel der hausarztzentrierten Versorgung:...
Author: Miriam Räker ISBN: 9783658178697 Format: Paperback	$129.35
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Digital Storytelling in Health and Social Policy: Listening to Marginalised Voices

Digital Storytelling in Health and Social Policy: Listening...
Author: Nicole Matthews (Macquarie University, Australia) , Naomi Sunderland ISBN: 9781138024502 Format: Hardback	$273.00
This book develops an authoritative and original re-conceptualisation of digital life stories for listening to marginalized... Read More >>

Postmortal Society: Towards a Sociology of Immortality

Postmortal Society: Towards a Sociology of Immortality...
Author: Michael Hviid Jacobsen (Aalborg University, Denmark) ISBN: 9781472485588 Format: Hardback	$305.00
This book explores the themes of immortality and survivalism in contemporary culture, shedding light on the varied... Read More >>

Exploring Medical Anthropology

Exploring Medical Anthropology
Author: Donald Joralemon (Smith College, USA) ISBN: 9781138201866 Format: Paperback	$88.99
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The Social Context of Birth

The Social Context of Birth
Author: Caroline Squire ISBN: 9781785231254 Format: Paperback	$94.99
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The Social Context of Birth

The Social Context of Birth
Author: Caroline Squire ISBN: 9781138196155 Format: Hardback	$305.00
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Exploring Medical Anthropology

Exploring Medical Anthropology
Author: Donald Joralemon (Smith College, USA) ISBN: 9781138201873 Format: Hardback	$305.00
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The Battle for Veterans' Healthcare: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Policy Making and Patient Care

The Battle for Veterans' Healthcare: Dispatches from...
Author: Suzanne Gordon , Kenneth W. Kizer ISBN: 9781501714559 Format: Paperback	$26.27
In The Battle for Veterans' Healthcare, award-winning author Suzanne Gordon takes us to the front lines of federal... Read More >>

Death and the Early Modern Englishwoman

Death and the Early Modern Englishwoman
Author: Lucinda M. Becker ISBN: 9781138277946 Format: Paperback	$90.99
This study explores the femail experience of death in early modern England. By tracing attitudes towards gender... Read More >>

The Narrative of the Good Death: The Evangelical Deathbed in Victorian England

The Narrative of the Good Death: The Evangelical Deathbed...
Author: Mary Riso ISBN: 9781138053465 Format: Paperback	$98.99
The Christian idea of a good death had its roots in the Middle Ages with ars moriendi, featuring reliance on Jesus... Read More >>

Normalisation in Practice: Residential Care for Children with a Profound Mental Handicap

Normalisation in Practice: Residential Care for Children...
Author: Andy Alaszewski (University of Kent, Canterbury, UK) , Pauline BN Ong ISBN: 9781138951280 Format: Paperback	$58.99
First published in 1990, this book was the first informed study to focus on care within the voluntary sector. Written... Read More >>

A Single Door: Social Work with the Families of Disabled Children

A Single Door: Social Work with the Families of Disabled...
Author: Caroline Glendinning ISBN: 9781138951341 Format: Paperback	$88.99
First published in 1986, this study explores the increased public concern with policies of ‘community care’ and... Read More >>

Disabling Policies?: A Comparative Approach to Education Policy and Disability

Disabling Policies?: A Comparative Approach to Education...
Author: Gillian Fulcher ISBN: 9781138951396 Format: Paperback	$88.99
First published in 1989, this book is about integrating or mainstreaming policies, looking specifically at how to... Read More >>

Eventful Bodies: The Cosmopolitics of Illness

Eventful Bodies: The Cosmopolitics of Illness
Author: Michael Schillmeier ISBN: 9781138053755 Format: Paperback	$96.99
Disrupting, questioning and altering the taken-for-granted 'cosmos' of everyday life, the experiences of illness... Read More >>

The Costs of Caring: Families with Disabled Children

The Costs of Caring: Families with Disabled Children...
Author: Sally Baldwin ISBN: 9781138951068 Format: Paperback	$58.99
First published in 1985, this book considers the financial consequences of parents and other relatives caring for... Read More >>

Madness: Ideas About Insanity

Madness: Ideas About Insanity
Author: Peter Morrall (University of Leeds, UK) ISBN: 9781138905511 Format: Hardback	$336.00
This book is an introduction to the uncertainties and incongruities about madness. It is aimed at all of those who... Read More >>

Prospects for the National Health

Prospects for the National Health
Author: Paul Atkinson (Cardiff University) , Robert Dingwall ISBN: 9781138952454 Format: Paperback	$98.99
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Madness: Ideas About Insanity

Madness: Ideas About Insanity
Author: Peter Morrall (University of Leeds, UK) ISBN: 9781138905528 Format: Paperback	$81.99
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Überschüssiges Gewebe: Intimchirurgie zwischen Ästhetisierung und Medikalisierung

Überschüssiges Gewebe: Intimchirurgie zwischen Ästhetisierung...
Author: Anna-Katharina Meßmer ISBN: 9783658170530 Format: Paperback	$103.47
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Allopathy Goes Native: Traditional Versus Modern Medicine in Iran

Allopathy Goes Native: Traditional Versus Modern Medicine...
Author: Agnes Loeffler ISBN: 9781780760445 Format: Paperback	$64.99
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The Politics and Aesthetics of Hunger and Disgust: Perspectives on the Dark Grotesque

The Politics and Aesthetics of Hunger and Disgust: Perspectives...
Author: Michel Delville , Andrew Norris ISBN: 9781138203051 Format: Hardback	$305.00
Treating hunger and disgust as political as well as aesthetic categories of experience, this book covers a wide... Read More >>

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