Medical sociology books

Historically, anti-abortion politics in Ireland operated through a politics of national identity that relied on...  Read More >>

Working outside the narrow confines of laboratory histories, Crafting Immunity is the first attempt to set the problems...  Read More >>

An intervention into the ways in which British women novelists explore and challenge the limitations of the mind-body...  Read More >>

How do twentieth and twenty-first century artists bring forth the powerful reality of death when it exists in memory...  Read More >>

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Even before the upheaval of the Revolution, France sought a new formal language for a regenerated nation. Nowhere...  Read More >>

Plants are fundamental players in human lives, underpinning our food supply and contributing to the air we breathe,...  Read More >>

Studies the common and exotic food in Shakespeare's plays. This book explores early modern English dietary literature...  Read More >>

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Altruism Reconsidered combines both practical and conceptual multidisciplinary perspectives, setting the standard...  Read More >>

This volume presents a contextual view of genocide which allows a consideration of the social and political concepts...  Read More >>

Presents insights into ways in which categories of criminality, gender, and fiction intersected in the long eighteenth...  Read More >>

Drawing on both historical and contemporary European case-studies, this book offers an account of the relationship...  Read More >>

This edited volume brings together leading scholars on the death penalty within international, regional and municipal...  Read More >>

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The problem of media representations about mental health is now a global issue with health agencies expressing concern...  Read More >>

The regulation of the body provides an important concern in law, medical practice and culture. This comprehensive...  Read More >>

What happens to the patient in a technologized medical environment? How are doctors', nurses' and medical scientists'...  Read More >>

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Clinical trials have become key technologies for decision making in the contemporary world. This book is of interest...  Read More >>

Analyses the links between suffering caused by the intentionally inflicted violence of war and the suffering unintentionally...  Read More >>

Medical Self-Regulation focuses directly on the regulatory process in the context of both the wider regulatory framework...  Read More >>