Medical sociology books

This book examines the intersectionality and stratified lived experience of rural poor and urban middle-class childless...  Read More >>

In Concept Analysis in Nursing: A New Approach, Paley provides a critical analysis of the philosophical assumptions...  Read More >>

Mobilizing Knowledge in Physiotherapy: Critical Reflections on Foundations and Practices is a collection of 15 collaboratively...  Read More >>

This book explores the personal value of healthy behavior, arguing that our modern tendency to praise or blame individuals...  Read More >>

This book critically analyses how politics and power affect the ways that medicine is taught and learned.  Read More >>

This innovative book explores the dynamic and contested interactions- including the mutually constitutive relationship-...  Read More >>

With a focus on five major regions globally (UK, US, Europe, Canada and Australia) Identifying and Managing Risk...  Read More >>

Drawing on the knowledge and experiences of world-renowned scientists and healthcare professionals, this important...  Read More >>

Attention and Responsibility in Global Health shows the construction of health through what is neglected and how...  Read More >>

This book investigates how graphic medicine enables sufferers of mental illness to visualize the intricacies of...  Read More >>

This book examines how CCTV cameras expose the patient body inside the mental health ward, especially the relationship...  Read More >>

The questions addressed in the book revolve around the public nature of health as an asset and the rights associated...  Read More >>

Investigating the reality and significance of racial categories, Remapping Race in a Global Context examines the...  Read More >>

Following criticisms of the traditionally polarized view of understanding suffering through either medicine or social...  Read More >>

This book explores how person-centred health care could be refined to help persons alleviate pain-related distress...  Read More >>

Recent epidemics have prompted large-scale international interventions. During a crisis, however, global health...  Read More >>

This innovative volume exposes dementia as a condition that the aging prison population is increasingly facing....  Read More >>

By drawing broadly on international thinking and experience, this book offers a critical exploration of mad studies...  Read More >>

Based on a study of the London Borough of Newham, this book aims to show how the selective licensing tool available...  Read More >>

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This book explores key factors long-term care recipients have identified as impacting their quality of life and...  Read More >>

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In the context of gun proliferation and persistent gun violence in the United States, a controversial security strategy...  Read More >>

In the context of gun proliferation and persistent gun violence in the United States, a controversial security strategy...  Read More >>

This book offers an ethnographic exploration of the interactions of two different understandings of type-2 diabetes:...  Read More >>