Medicine: general issues books

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Women, Migration, and Aging in the Americas analyzes how immigrant women have coped with life after they settled...  Read More >>

This book introduces the notion of culinary capital to investigate socialisation and school mealtime experiences...  Read More >>

This book explores two public sector scandals in the UK, drawing on Max Weber’s thought on ‘the iron cage’ to understand...  Read More >>

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This book explores the history of international efforts to contagious animal diseases from the 1860s to the mid-1940s....  Read More >>

This is the first book to argue in favor of paying people for their blood plasma. It does not merely argue that...  Read More >>

This book provides an exploration of the ethics of cardiology practice. The chapters are divided by five broad areas...  Read More >>

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This book engages with Christian church traditions and disability issues in Africa, focusing on Zimbabwe in particular....  Read More >>

This book brings together academics, activists, social work practitioners, poets, and artists from different parts...  Read More >>

This book offers an in-depth critical account of the state’s responses to the biosecurity and the economic crises....  Read More >>

This book reviews the challenges and opportunities in the implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco...  Read More >>

Originating in the popular Sociología en Cuarantena blog, this volume provides a detailed and multifaceted analysis...  Read More >>

The Plague Years collects scholarly and essayistic reflections on literary, visual, and sonic representations of...  Read More >>

This concise, practical guide supports a broad-based understanding of continuing medical education and professional...  Read More >>

Drawing on Falloppia's Observationes anatomicae of 1561 and on dozens of handwritten and published sets of student...  Read More >>

This book provides a theoretically and empirically grounded examination of the struggle for maternity care in contemporary...  Read More >>

This book offers a novel theory of childhood well-being as a social good. It re-examines our fundamental assumptions...  Read More >>

This book brings together philosophers, sociologist and policy experts to discuss the nature, scope and limitations...  Read More >>

This anthropological study explores the beliefs and practices that emerged around masking in the United States during...  Read More >>

2020 was the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the most significant global pandemic since the ‘Spanish flu’ in...  Read More >>

This comprehensive book brings together research published during 2021 analysing the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic...  Read More >>