Medical sociology books

Providing a report on the effects of the 2003 Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform, this title emphasises on...  Read More >>

Exploring the mechanisms and strategies used in different cultures across Hispano America and the Caribbean to narrativise,...  Read More >>

This book offers a comprehensive Marxist critique of the business of mental health, demonstrating how the prerogatives...  Read More >>

Sex matters in contemporary Indonesia and Indonesian sexualities are vibrant, complex and constantly under contestation....  Read More >>

The approaches to drugs tend to be determined by medical and criminal visions that emerged over a century ago. This...  Read More >>

Youth Drinking Cultures offers a comprehensive set of perspectives on adolescent drinking in Europe. In the book,...  Read More >>

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Bringing together a range of case studies from Ireland, Scotland, Sweden, Germany, Norway, Poland, Italy, Portugal,...  Read More >>

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This edited collection examines pornography as a material practice that eroticises gender inequality and sexual...  Read More >>

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In addressing the impact of modern biotechnology, and its legal accommodation on the customary conduct and traditional...  Read More >>

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Presents a significant retort to theological neglect, both Catholic and Protestant, of the positive and transformative...  Read More >>

Since the late 1990s approaches to women's reproductive health has shifted from a service-based model to a human...  Read More >>

In Time and Death Carol White articulates a vision of Martin Heidegger's work which grows out of a new understanding...  Read More >>

Drawing on extensive data this book explores the 'Alzheimerisation' of the euthanasia debate, examining the shift...  Read More >>

Provides insights into themes and genres in popular song in the period c 1600-1900. This title discusses the themes...  Read More >>

Bringing social theory and philosophy to bear on popular movies, novels, myths, and fairy tales, The Gift and its...  Read More >>

The connections between death, contemplation and the contemplative life have been a recurrent theme in the canons...  Read More >>

This important book brings together work related to sense of place...  Read More >>

This book presents a scientific investigation into the practical implementation of China’s national Schistosomiasis...  Read More >>

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This book explores the interaction between mechanistic beliefs about human bodies and the successive technologies...  Read More >>

Looking at health and health care in a different way, this book examines health risks and benefits as encountered...  Read More >>