Medical sociology books

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Remaking the American Patient: How Madison Avenue and Modern Medicine Turned Patients Into Consumers

Remaking the American Patient: How Madison Avenue and...
Author: Nancy Tomes ISBN: 9781469622774 Format: Hardback	$125.40
In a work that spans the twentieth century, Nancy Tomes questions the popular - and largely unexamined - idea that... Read More >>

Child Guidance in Britain, 1918–1955: The Dangerous Age of Childhood

Child Guidance in Britain, 1918–1955: The Dangerous...
Author: John Stewart ISBN: 9781138662315 Format: Paperback	$73.99
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Locating Health: Historical and Anthropological Investigations of Place and Health

Locating Health: Historical and Anthropological Investigations...
Author: Erika Dyck , Christopher Fletcher ISBN: 9781138661523 Format: Paperback	$120.00
The essays in this collection focus on the dynamic relationship between health and place. Historical and anthropological... Read More >>

Collaborative Practice with Vulnerable Children and Their Families

Collaborative Practice with Vulnerable Children and...
Author: Julie Taylor (University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom) , June Thoburn (University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom) ISBN: 9781846198960 Format: Paperback	$79.99
This book provides an overview of the reasons (both in law and from practice) why collaborative working is an essential... Read More >>

The New Health Bioeconomy: R&D Policy and Innovation for the Twenty-First Century

The New Health Bioeconomy: R&D Policy and Innovation...
Author: James Mittra ISBN: 9781349576678 Format: Paperback	$116.41
This book provides new insights into how new biology, and the emergence of ""translational"" policies to drive the... Read More >>

Social Aspects of Care

Social Aspects of Care
Author: Nessa Coyle (PhD, APRN, FAAN, Consultant, Palliative Care and Clinical Ethics in Oncology, PhD, APRN, FAAN, Consultant, Palliative Care and Clinical Ethics in Oncology, New York, New York, USA) , Betty R. Ferrell (Professor and Director of Nursing Research and Education, Professor and Director of Nursing Research and Education, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, USA) ISBN: 9780190244132 Format: Paperback	$69.95
Palliative care is an essential element of our health care system and is becoming increasingly significant amidst... Read More >>

The Ethics of Pregnancy, Abortion and Childbirth: Exploring Moral Choices in Childbearing

The Ethics of Pregnancy, Abortion and Childbirth: Exploring...
Author: Helen Watt (The Anscombe Bioethics Centre, UK) ISBN: 9781138188082 Format: Hardback	$326.00
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Diagnostic Cultures: A Cultural Approach to the Pathologization of Modern Life

Diagnostic Cultures: A Cultural Approach to the Pathologization...
Author: Svend Brinkmann , Dr. Stjepan Mestrovic ISBN: 9781472413215 Format: Electronic book text	$186.30
Some studies estimate that each year, around a quarter of the population of Western countries will suffer from at... Read More >>

Diagnostic Cultures: A Cultural Approach to the Pathologization of Modern Life

Diagnostic Cultures: A Cultural Approach to the Pathologization...
Author: Svend Brinkmann , Dr. Stjepan Mestrovic ISBN: 9781472413208 Format: Electronic book text	$186.30
Some studies estimate that each year, around a quarter of the population of Western countries will suffer from at... Read More >>

The Sociology of Health, Illness, and Health Care: A Critical Approach

The Sociology of Health, Illness, and Health Care: A...
Author: Rose Weitz (Arizona State University) ISBN: 9781305583702 Format: Paperback	$186.27
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Heidegger and the Politics of Disablement

Heidegger and the Politics of Disablement
Author: Thomas Abrams ISBN: 9781137528551 Format: Hardback	$116.41
This book presents the early existential phenomenology of Martin Heidegger as a way to reformulate academic disability... Read More >>

In Sickness and in Health: Sociological Perspectives on Healthcare

In Sickness and in Health: Sociological Perspectives...
Author: John Malek-Ahmadi , Jessica Gullion ISBN: 9781634872423 Format: Paperback	$290.40
The anthology In Sickness and in Health: Sociological Perspectives on Healthcare introduces students to a range... Read More >>

Medical Outcasts: Gendered and Institutionalized Xenophobia in Undocumented Forced Migrants' Emergency Health Care

Medical Outcasts: Gendered and Institutionalized Xenophobia...
Author: Roxane Richter ISBN: 9781498525442 Format: Hardback	$135.95
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The Intersection of Star Culture in America and International Medical Tourism: Celebrity Treatment

The Intersection of Star Culture in America and International...
Author: Kathy Merlock Jackson , Lisa Lyon Payne ISBN: 9780739186879 Format: Hardback	$144.95
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African Women's Unique Vulnerabilities to HIV/AIDS: Communication Perspectives and Promises

African Women's Unique Vulnerabilities to HIV/AIDS:...
Author: L. Fuller ISBN: 9781349539581 Format: Paperback	$116.41
This is an in-depth look at the biomedical, socio-cultural, economic, legal and political, and educational vulnerabilities... Read More >>

Grenzen der Medizin: Zur diskursiven Konstruktion medizinischen Wissens über Lebensqualität

Grenzen der Medizin: Zur diskursiven Konstruktion medizinischen...
Author: Thomas Schübel ISBN: 9783658122041 Format: Paperback	$98.30
Thomas Schübel untersucht die Gründe für die Erfolgsgeschichte desLebensqualitätsthemas in der Medizin. Der kritische... Read More >>

Evolution and Gender: Why It Matters for Contemporary Life

Evolution and Gender: Why It Matters for Contemporary...
Author: Rosemary Hopcroft (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) ISBN: 9781138956162 Format: Paperback	$83.99
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Drinking Dilemmas: Space, culture and identity

Drinking Dilemmas: Space, culture and identity
Author: Thomas Thurnell-Read (Coventry University, UK) ISBN: 9781138931145 Format: Hardback	$336.00
This volume brings together a wealth of contemporary research from a diverse range of cultural contexts which explores... Read More >>

Empowerment: A Critique

Empowerment: A Critique
Author: Kenneth McLaughlin ISBN: 9781138819610 Format: Hardback	$315.00
‘Empowerment’ is a term in widespread use today and one that is often considered to be a self-evident good. Here,... Read More >>

American Indian Health and Nursing

American Indian Health and Nursing
Author: Margaret P. Moss ISBN: 9780826129840 Format: Paperback	$130.00
Written by and for nurses, this is the first text to focus exclusively on American Indian health and nursing. It... Read More >>

Privacy and Healthcare Data: 'Choice of Control' to 'Choice' and 'Control'

Privacy and Healthcare Data: 'Choice of Control' to...
Author: Christina Munns , Subhajit Basu ISBN: 9781472426864 Format: Hardback	$336.00
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The Child with Spina Bifida

The Child with Spina Bifida
Author: Elizabeth M. Anderson , Bernie Spain ISBN: 9781138101487 Format: Hardback	$315.00
First published in 1977, this book focuses on the disability of spina bifida in children. this book, the authors... Read More >>

The Disabled Schoolchild: A Study of Integration in Primary Schools

The Disabled Schoolchild: A Study of Integration in...
Author: Anderson Elizabeth M. ISBN: 9781138101289 Format: Hardback	$315.00
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Parents and Young Mentally Handicapped Children: A Review of Research Issues

Parents and Young Mentally Handicapped Children: A Review...
Author: Helen McConachie (Newcastle University, UK) ISBN: 9781138124431 Format: Hardback	$189.00
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Daily Living with a Handicapped Child

Daily Living with a Handicapped Child
Author: Diana M. Millard ISBN: 9781138124905 Format: Hardback	$168.00
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