Medical sociology books

This book explores health and leisure as a holistic phenomenon with individual and social dimensions. Contributors...  Read More >>

How is illness represented in today's cultural texts? In Ghostbodies, Maia Dolphin-Krute argues that the illusive...  Read More >>

Despite a growing interest in the sociology of the body, there has to date been a lack of scholarly work addressing...  Read More >>

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Doctors at War is a candid account of a trauma surgical team based, for a tour of duty, at a field hospital in Helmand,...  Read More >>

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

Drawing on an ethnography of prenatal screening for Down’s syndrome in two UK clinics, Thomas explores how and why...  Read More >>

This volume advances the claim that the FAO International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture...  Read More >>

Exploring how moral phenomenology could provide fruitful alternatives to traditional frameworks in bioethics, this...  Read More >>

When we or our loved ones fall ill, our world is thrown into disarray, our routines are interrupted, our beliefs...  Read More >>

The last ten years have seen tremendous advances in the theoretical and practice base of social marketing globally....  Read More >>

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

This book focuses on Africa’s challenges, achievements, and failures over the past several centuries using an interdisciplinary...  Read More >>

Harm Reduction frames the syringe as a risk to one’s health. But is it? In this provocative book Vitellone brings...  Read More >>

In health care, knowledge is a self-evident good, reducing risk in care provision. This book discusses how ignorance,...  Read More >>

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The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 was a major update to the UK’s laws on the use reproductive technology...  Read More >>

Herangezogen werden die gesundheitsökonomische und die sozialwirtschaftliche Theorie und beleuchtet wird die Lehre...  Read More >>

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Drawing on studies of surface topography, image editing, and diagnostic and surgical experience, Faces Inside and...  Read More >>

A clear and readable guide to both the medical facts related to Motor Neurone Disease and the psychological and...  Read More >>

Unequal Health examines why stark differences in health and well-being persist across demographic groups. The third...  Read More >>

Investigates the many aspects of the current controversial debates regarding the care and provision for the elderly...  Read More >>