Medical sociology books

3623 books were found.

Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology

Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology

Author: Peter J. Brown (Emory University, USA) ,  Svea Closser (Middlebury College, USA)
ISBN: 9781629582917
Format: Paperback
$162.00

The editors of the third edition of the seminal textbook Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology bring it...  Read More >>

Practicing Qualitative Methods in Health Geographies

Practicing Qualitative Methods in Health Geographies...

Author: Assoc Prof Jamie Baxter ,  Dr Nancy E Fenton
ISBN: 9781472445407
Format: Electronic book text
$294.98

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

Practicing Qualitative Methods in Health Geographies

Practicing Qualitative Methods in Health Geographies...

Author: Assoc Prof Jamie Baxter ,  Dr Nancy E Fenton
ISBN: 9781472445414
Format: Electronic book text
$294.98

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

Institutions Unbound: Social Worlds and Human Rights

Institutions Unbound: Social Worlds and Human Rights...

Author: David Brunsma ,  Keri Iyall Smith
ISBN: 9781138655515
Format: Paperback
$81.99

Institutions--like education, family, medicine, culture, and law--, are powerful social structures shaping how we...  Read More >>

Institutions Unbound: Social Worlds and Human Rights

Institutions Unbound: Social Worlds and Human Rights...

Author: David Brunsma ,  Keri Iyall Smith
ISBN: 9781138655485
Format: Hardback
$347.00

Institutions--like education, family, medicine, culture, and law--, are powerful social structures shaping how we...  Read More >>

Politics in the Making of HIV/AIDS in South Africa

Politics in the Making of HIV/AIDS in South Africa

Author: K. Pienaar ,  K Pienaar
ISBN: 9781137505002
Format: Hardback
$116.41

The HIV epidemic remains one of the most challenging of modern times, despite the enormous promise of anti-retroviral...  Read More >>

Communication in Surgical Practice

Communication in Surgical Practice

Author: Sarah J. White ,  John A. Cartmill
ISBN: 9781781790502
Format: Hardback
$270.00

This volume brings together new research from key international academics, who contribute a range of linguistic,...  Read More >>

The Black Death: The Great Mortality of 1348-1350: A Brief History with Documents

The Black Death: The Great Mortality of 1348-1350: A...

Author: NA NA
ISBN: 9781349734221
Format: Paperback
$165.57

A fascinating account of the phenomenon known as the Black Death, this volume offers a wealth of documentary material...  Read More >>

Sociology and Psychology for the Dental Team: An Introduction to Key Topics

Sociology and Psychology for the Dental Team: An Introduction...

Author: Sasha Scambler ,  Koula Asimakopoulou
ISBN: 9780745654348
Format: Paperback
$45.95

The role that the social and behavioural sciences play in the daily practice of dentistry is now an essential part...  Read More >>

Sociology and Psychology for the Dental Team: An Introduction to Key Topics

Sociology and Psychology for the Dental Team: An Introduction...

Author: Sasha Scambler ,  Koula Asimakopoulou
ISBN: 9780745654331
Format: Hardback
$113.95

The role that the social and behavioural sciences play in the daily practice of dentistry is now an essential part...  Read More >>

Doctoring Freedom: The Politics of African American Medical Care in Slavery and Emancipation

Doctoring Freedom: The Politics of African American...

Author: Gretchen Long
ISBN: 9781469628332
Format: Paperback
$92.27

For enslaved and newly freed African Americans, attaining freedom and citizenship without health for themselves...  Read More >>

Social and Cultural Perspectives on Health, Technology and Medicine: Old Concepts, New Problems

Social and Cultural Perspectives on Health, Technology...

Author: Ciara Kierans (University of Liverpool, UK) ,  Kirsten Bell (University of British Columbia, Canada)
ISBN: 9781138941106
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Developments in health, science and technology have long provided fertile analytical ground for social science disciplines....  Read More >>

Deafness, Community and Culture in Britain: Leisure and Cohesion, 1945–95

Deafness, Community and Culture in Britain: Leisure...

Author: Martin Atherton ,  Julie Anderson
ISBN: 9780719099786
Format: Paperback
$70.00

A case study of deaf people's leisure in England within a wider British context and gives insights into a misunderstood,...  Read More >>

Infectious Diseases and Rural Livelihood in Developing Countries

Infectious Diseases and Rural Livelihood in Developing...

Author: Fingani Annie Mphande
ISBN: 9789811004261
Format: Hardback
$232.85

Infectious Diseases and Rural Livelihood in Developing Countries allows students, researchers, healthcare workers,...  Read More >>

NURS1003 Imagining Health in Social and Cultural Contexts 2016

NURS1003 Imagining Health in Social and Cultural Contexts...

Author: Publication ,  Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780190305161
Format: Paperback
$66.95

Imagining Health in Social and Cultural Contexts has been created specifically for students studying NURS1003 Imagining...  Read More >>

The Nocebo Effect: Overdiagnosis and Its Costs

The Nocebo Effect: Overdiagnosis and Its Costs

Author: Stewart Justman
ISBN: 9781349576777
Format: Paperback
$59.49

The Nocebo Effect documents the transformation of normal problems into medical ones and brings out the risks of...  Read More >>

Professions and Patriarchy

Professions and Patriarchy

Author: Anne Witz
ISBN: 9781138135796
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Companion to Medicine in the Twentieth Century

Companion to Medicine in the Twentieth Century

Author: Roger Cooter ,  John Pickstone
ISBN: 9781138169678
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book contains over forty authoritiative essays, focusing on the political economy of medicine and health, understandings...  Read More >>

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