Medical sociology books

This book advances a new approach, based on existing law, to constructing entitlements in human tissue and resolving...  Read More >>

Stress and anxiety, and other mental illnesses are linked to risks in the environment. This book questions how and...  Read More >>

Public health is once again becoming a major political and social issue in the 21st century, especially in relation...  Read More >>

Recognizing Transsexuals is the first sociological examination of how the bodies of transpeople are figured and...  Read More >>

As a food, milk has been revered and ignored, respected and feared. This is a history of two centuries of struggle...  Read More >>

The contributions to this volume map the surprisingly multifarious circumstances in which trauma is invoked – as...  Read More >>

Making sense of the new wave of medical humanities in medical education scholarship that calls for a ‘critical medical...  Read More >>

Health care costs make up nearly a fifth of U.S. gross domestic product, but health care is a peculiar thing to...  Read More >>

Adding depth and breath, the contributors, while all are schooled in IE, come from a large variety of walks of life,...  Read More >>

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In Hospital Land USA, Wendy Simonds analyzes the wide-reaching powers of medicalization: the dynamic processes by...  Read More >>

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Rejecting a reductive, biomedical and individualistic diagnosis of contemporary problems of health and well-being,...  Read More >>

Presenting an alternative approach to conventional thinking in mental health, this book provides a resource for...  Read More >>

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In Hospital Land USA, Wendy Simonds analyzes the wide-reaching powers of medicalization: the dynamic processes by...  Read More >>

The Psy complex governs us all by inscribing, diagnosing and interfering in our lives. This volume takes historical,...  Read More >>

This collection argues there is an unacknowledged racial dimension to the production and consumption of food under...  Read More >>

Historically the death penalty was mandatory for the crime of murder and other violent felonies, in accordance with...  Read More >>

Disability, Obesity and Ageing offers an engaging account of a new area of pressing concern, analysing the way in...  Read More >>

Illuminating how art proved instrumental to arousing desire for it and enhancing its sexual performance, this book...  Read More >>

HIV/AIDS and HIV/AIDS-Related Terminology: A Means of Organizing the Body of Knowledge offers an adaptable and extensive...  Read More >>