Medical sociology books

3138 books were found.

Frontline Workers and Women as Warriors in the Covid-19 Pandemic

Frontline Workers and Women as Warriors in the Covid-19...

Author: R. C. Sobti ,  Vipin Sobti
ISBN: 9781032349312
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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Premarital Abortion in China: Intimacy, Family and Reproduction

Premarital Abortion in China: Intimacy, Family and Reproduction...

Author: Ruby Lai (Lingnan University, Hong Kong)
ISBN: 9781032286525
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Drawing on participant observations, in-depth interviews and content analysis of online materials, Lai investigates...  Read More >>

Self-Declaration in the Legal Recognition of Gender

Self-Declaration in the Legal Recognition of Gender...

Author: Chris Dietz
ISBN: 9781032364841
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book examines the impact of legislation premised upon the principle of ‘self-declaration’ of legal gender status....  Read More >>

Becoming with Care in Drug Treatment Services: The Recovery Assemblage

Becoming with Care in Drug Treatment Services: The Recovery...

Author: Lena Theodoropoulou (University of Liverpool, UK)
ISBN: 9780367761240
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Employing Deleuzo-Guattarian orientations to assemblage and feminist approaches to care, this book offers a critique...  Read More >>

COVID-19 and Social Change in Spain

COVID-19 and Social Change in Spain

Author: Carlos de Castro (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain) ,  Andrés Pedreño (Universidad de Murcia, Spain)
ISBN: 9781032251301
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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

Schools, Space and Culinary Capital

Schools, Space and Culinary Capital

Author: Gurpinder Singh Lalli (University of Wolverhampton, UK)
ISBN: 9781032064291
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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

Care in the Iron Cage: A Weberian Analysis of Failings in Care

Care in the Iron Cage: A Weberian Analysis of Failings...

Author: Rowena Slope (University of Bedfordshire, UK)
ISBN: 9781032182957
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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

Cultures of Oral Health: Discourses, Practices and Theory

Cultures of Oral Health: Discourses, Practices and Theory...

Author: Claire L. Jones ,  Barry J. Gibson
ISBN: 9781032289076
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Oral health is integral to well-being and quality of life. This important edited volume brings together leading...  Read More >>

Doulas in Italy: The Emergence of a 'New' Care Profession

Doulas in Italy: The Emergence of a 'New' Care Profession...

Author: Pamela Pasian
ISBN: 9780367762070
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Interweaving ethnography and autoethnography, this book documents the emergence of doulas as care professionals...  Read More >>

Inequalities, Youth, Democracy and the Pandemic

Inequalities, Youth, Democracy and the Pandemic

Author: Simone Maddanu (University of South Florida, USA) ,  Emanuele Toscano (Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi, Italy)
ISBN: 9781032605654
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Bringing together together studies from around the world and employing both qualitative and quantitative methods,...  Read More >>

Planetary Health Humanities and Pandemics

Planetary Health Humanities and Pandemics

Author: Heike Härting ,  Heather Meek
ISBN: 9781032431635
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This volume explores the variable meanings and discourses of historical and contemporary pandemics to rethink theories...  Read More >>

Baloch Midwives: Contesting Global Perceptions of Midwifery in Balochistan, Pakistan

Baloch Midwives: Contesting Global Perceptions of Midwifery...

Author: Fouzieyha Towghi
ISBN: 9781032571195
Format: Hardback
$273.00

As the first major ethnography of Baloch midwives in Pakistan, this book draws on long-term ethnographic research...  Read More >>

The 14 Day Rule and Human Embryo Research: A Sociology of Biological Translation

The 14 Day Rule and Human Embryo Research: A Sociology...

Author: Sarah Franklin ,  Emily Jackson
ISBN: 9781032277899
Format: Paperback
$75.99

This assessment of Britain’s influential 14 day rule governing embryo research explores how and why it became the...  Read More >>

The 14 Day Rule and Human Embryo Research: A Sociology of Biological Translation

The 14 Day Rule and Human Embryo Research: A Sociology...

Author: Sarah Franklin ,  Emily Jackson
ISBN: 9781032277905
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This assessment of Britain’s influential 14 day rule governing embryo research explores how and why it became the...  Read More >>

The Social Nature of Antibiotic Overprescription in China: Medical Conversations, Doctor–Patient Relationships, and Decision-Making

The Social Nature of Antibiotic Overprescription in...

Author: Nan Christine Wang (Hunan University, China)
ISBN: 9781032153247
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Offering a rarely seen glimpse into the realities of one of the biggest global public health crises in modern time,...  Read More >>

The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Global Health

The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Global Health...

Author: Tsitsi B. Masvawure ,  Ellen E. Foley
ISBN: 9781032256375
Format: Hardback
$431.00

The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Global Health provides an overview of the complex relationship between...  Read More >>

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