Medical sociology books

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An Applied Visual Sociology: Picturing Harm Reduction

An Applied Visual Sociology: Picturing Harm Reduction...
Author: Stephen Parkin ISBN: 9781138250604 Format: Paperback	$110.00
Exploring the value of photography and video as legitimate forms of social enquiry, An Applied Visual Sociology:... Read More >>

HIV/AIDS Community Information Services: Experiences in Serving Both At-Risk and HIV-Infected Populations

HIV/AIDS Community Information Services: Experiences...
Author: M Sandra Wood , Jeffrey T Huber ISBN: 9781138971851 Format: Paperback	$73.99
Information forms the basis for education, and currently education is the only weapon available to stem the spread... Read More >>

Understanding Reproductive Loss: Perspectives on Life, Death and Fertility

Understanding Reproductive Loss: Perspectives on Life,...
Author: Carol Komaromy , Sarah Earle ISBN: 9781138257795 Format: Paperback	$105.00
The study of human reproduction has focused on reproductive 'success' and on the struggle to achieve this, rather... Read More >>

The Sociology of Healthcare Safety and Quality

The Sociology of Healthcare Safety and Quality
Author: Davina Allen (University of Cardiff) , Jeffrey Braithwaite ISBN: 9781119276340 Format: Paperback	$42.95
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The Disability Studies Reader

The Disability Studies Reader
Author: Lennard J. Davis (University of Illinois, Chicago, USA) ISBN: 9781138930230 Format: Paperback	$162.00
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Passion and Paranoia: Emotions and the Culture of Emotion in Academia

Passion and Paranoia: Emotions and the Culture of Emotion...
Author: Charlotte Bloch ISBN: 9781138250352 Format: Paperback	$118.00
Suitable for sociologists and anthropologists researching work and organizations, emotion, academic culture and... Read More >>

(Re)Thinking Violence in Health Care Settings: A Critical Approach

(Re)Thinking Violence in Health Care Settings: A Critical...
Author: Trudy Rudge , Dave Holmes ISBN: 9781138253292 Format: Paperback	$105.00
Drawing together the latest research from Australia, Canada, the UK, and the US, (Re)Thinking Violence in Health... Read More >>

Challenging Myths of Masculinity: Understanding Physical Cultures

Challenging Myths of Masculinity: Understanding Physical...
Author: Lee F. Monaghan , Michael Atkinson ISBN: 9781138252363 Format: Paperback	$118.00
Drawing on extensive field research conducted in North America and Britain over a twenty year period, this book... Read More >>

Doing Nutrition Differently: Critical Approaches to Diet and Dietary Intervention

Doing Nutrition Differently: Critical Approaches to...
Author: Allison Hayes-Conroy ISBN: 9781138252844 Format: Paperback	$118.00
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Graveyard Poetry: Religion, Aesthetics and the Mid-Eighteenth-Century Poetic Condition

Graveyard Poetry: Religion, Aesthetics and the Mid-Eighteenth-Century...
Author: Eric Parisot ISBN: 9781138251274 Format: Paperback	$120.00
In the first book-length study of this important poetic mode, Parisot suggests that graveyard poetry is closely... Read More >>

The Politics of Evidence: From evidence-based policy to the good governance of evidence

The Politics of Evidence: From evidence-based policy...
Author: Justin Parkhurst (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, University of London, UK) ISBN: 9781138939400 Format: Hardback	$294.00
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Poverty and the Myths of Health Care Reform

Poverty and the Myths of Health Care Reform
Author: Richard (Buz) Cooper ISBN: 9781421420226 Format: Hardback	$78.99
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The Vanishing Black African Woman: Volume One: A Compendium of the Global Skin-Lightening Practice

The Vanishing Black African Woman: Volume One: A Compendium...
Author: Yetunde Mercy Olumide ISBN: 9789956763566 Format: Paperback	$234.80
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The Restless Compendium: Interdisciplinary Investigations of Rest and Its Opposites

The Restless Compendium: Interdisciplinary Investigations...
Author: Felicity Callard , Kimberley Staines ISBN: 9783319452630 Format: Hardback	$51.75
This book is open access under a CC BY license. This interdisciplinary book contains 22 essays and interventions... Read More >>

Inequality and African-American Health: How Racial Disparities Create Sickness

Inequality and African-American Health: How Racial Disparities...
Author: Shirley A. Hill (University of Kansas) ISBN: 9781447322825 Format: Paperback	$57.95
This is the first book to offer a comprehensive perspective on health and sickness among African Americans. It shows... Read More >>

Self-Injury, Medicine and Society: Authentic Bodies

Self-Injury, Medicine and Society: Authentic Bodies...
Author: Amy Chandler ISBN: 9781137405272 Format: Hardback	$194.04
This book provides an appreciative, sociological engagement with accounts of the embodied practice of self-injury.... Read More >>

Inequality and African-American Health: How Racial Disparities Create Sickness

Inequality and African-American Health: How Racial Disparities...
Author: Shirley A. Hill (University of Kansas) ISBN: 9781447322818 Format: Hardback	$176.95
This is the first book to offer a comprehensive perspective on health and sickness among African Americans. It shows... Read More >>

Imagining Sustainable Food Systems: Theory and Practice

Imagining Sustainable Food Systems: Theory and Practice...
Author: Alison Blay-Palmer ISBN: 9781138246874 Format: Paperback	$118.00
In the context of the global food crisis, a growing consensus is emerging among academics, health practitioners,... Read More >>

New Technologies and Emerging Spaces of Care

New Technologies and Emerging Spaces of Care
Author: Miquel Domènech , Michael Schillmeier ISBN: 9781138250062 Format: Paperback	$105.00
Offers practice-oriented qualitative research and innovative conceptual discussions of how health and health care... Read More >>

Food Transgressions: Making Sense of Contemporary Food Politics

Food Transgressions: Making Sense of Contemporary Food...
Author: Michael K. Goodman , Colin Sage ISBN: 9781138252608 Format: Paperback	$110.00
Reconnecting so-called alternative food geographies back to the mainstream food system - especially in light of... Read More >>

Debates in Transgender, Queer, and Feminist Theory: Contested Sites

Debates in Transgender, Queer, and Feminist Theory:...
Author: Patricia Elliot ISBN: 9781138246294 Format: Paperback	$110.00
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Deathscapes: Spaces for Death, Dying, Mourning and Remembrance

Deathscapes: Spaces for Death, Dying, Mourning and Remembrance...
Author: James D. Sidaway , Avril Maddrell ISBN: 9781138269484 Format: Paperback	$110.00
Death and bereavement are thereby intensified at (and frequently contained within) certain sites and regulated spaces,... Read More >>

Chemically Modified Bodies: The Use of Diverse Substances for Appearance Enhancement

Chemically Modified Bodies: The Use of Diverse Substances...
Author: Matthew Hall , Sarah Grogan ISBN: 9781137535344 Format: Hardback	$116.41
While studies on drug misuse to date have examined drug use in the context of sporting performance, addiction, and... Read More >>

Becoming Anorexic: A sociological study

Becoming Anorexic: A sociological study
Author: Muriel Darmon ISBN: 9781472466501 Format: Hardback	$315.00
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The Challenge to Change: Reforming Health Care on the Front Line in the United States and the United Kingdom

The Challenge to Change: Reforming Health Care on the...
Author: Rebecca Kolins Givan ISBN: 9780801450051 Format: Hardback	$137.15
In The Challenge to Change, Rebecca Kolins Givan analyzes the successes and failures of efforts to improve hospitals... Read More >>

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