Medical sociology books

Why We Eat, How We Eat maps new terrains in thinking about relations between foods and bodies. With the central...  Read More >>

Challenging the widely held notion of a hospice as a building or a place, this book argues that it should instead...  Read More >>

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This book is an ethnographic work that uses a critical medical anthropology approach to examine the concept of fever...  Read More >>

This book examines anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa as social processes, drawing on interviews with white, middle-class...  Read More >>

Nursing work is typically understood in terms of direct clinical care yet a majority of nurses’ time is spent on...  Read More >>

Focusing on the socialization of the human use of other animals as resources in contemporary Western society, this...  Read More >>

Health geographers are increasingly turning to a diverse range of interpretative methodologies to explore the complexities...  Read More >>

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Issues of leisure and dying are not often discussed in depth by those in recreation or thanatology. However, Recreation,...  Read More >>

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Using a variety of evidence the author documents the rise of general management, the application of new techniques...  Read More >>

Assisted Reproductive Technologies in the Global South and North critically analyses the political and social frameworks...  Read More >>

This book demonstrates that the symbol of maternal sacrifice is the notion that 'proper' women put the welfare of...  Read More >>

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The second decade of the twenty-first century has witnessed a surging interest in personalized medicine with the...  Read More >>

Investigates welfare state change in the area of healthcare - a field widely neglected by comparative welfare state...  Read More >>

This book explores the daily realities of working life for mid-level managers in the UK’s NHS and critiques the...  Read More >>

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Specifically focussing on Canada’s rapidly changing society, this book examines the place-health-diversity intersection...  Read More >>

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