Illness & Addiction: Social Aspects

This book explores the experience and value of dancing for people living with the neurodegenerative disorder Parkinson’s disease. Linking aesthetic...

That morning I woke up to a new message on Insta, from my boyfriend Ben. By this point Ben had been dead for two years. Definitely a new message. T...

Authoritarian Absorption portrays the rebuilding of China's pandemic response system through its anti-HIV/AIDS battle from 1978 to 2018. Going beyo...

This Report is one of the first comprehensive studies on young children in India. It focuses on children under 6 years of age and presents key aspe...

This volume provides a comparative European overview focusing upon the main areas of social construction as it relates to health and illness. This ...

First published in 1975, A Constant Burden was a truly ground-breaking text in the field of medical sociology and has since become an undisputed cl...

Departing from the scholarly treatment of addiction as a form of rhetoric or discursive formation, Wasted: Performing Addiction in America focuses ...

Policy, performance and finance are the issues currently headlining the healthcare agenda and are likely to remain so for the foreseeable future. D...

This title was first published in 2003: Although young people are generally very healthy, it has become clear that many of the health behaviours of...

This title was first published in 2001. An important book presenting the results of the European Union funded EURICON project in biomedical ethics....

Examining the changing nature of health care federalism within a competitive global context, Comparative Health Care Federalism provides a rich and...

Transgender studies is a heterogeneous site of debate that is marked by tensions, border wars, and rifts both within the field and among feminist a...

In recent years the body has become one of the most popular areas of study in the arts, social sciences and humanities. Transgressive Bodies offer...

This pathbreaking book investigates welfare state change in the area of health care- a field widely neglected by comparative welfare state research...

On Vulnerability maps out an array of perspectives for critically examining the nature of vulnerability, its unequal patterning across different so...

There are many different ways in which minority religions and counselling may interact. In some cases there can be antagonism between counselling s...

Culture, Bodies and the Sociology of Health explores the boundaries between bodies and society with special reference to uncovering the cultural co...

In recent years, the role of religion in influencing international health policy and health services provision has been seen as increasingly import...

Prostitution, Harm and Gender Inequality brings together international research exploring the range of gendered harms to women involved in prostitu...

This book analyses the way that HIV/AIDS is often narrativised and represented in contemporary world cultures, as well as the different strategies ...

Love and depression are key elements in the cultural script of emotions or affectual life within contemporary Western society, and the two have bec...

Anorexia tends to be studied within health disciplines, such as medicine, psychoanalysis or psychology. When the condition is discussed in relation...

This title was first published in 2001. Featuring contributions from the UK, Finland, The Netherlands and Greece, this unique book explores the ong...

Social Research in Health and Illness offers a theoretically informed guide to practising the key social research methods in investigating health a...

Culture, Bodies and the Sociology of Health explores the boundaries between bodies and society with special reference to uncovering the cultural co...

First published in 1999, this volume examines the ‘meanings’ specific child protection cases involving the familial sexual abuse of adolescent girl...

Exploring Cuba: Erasing Fears Through Multicultural Education details the cultural and professional exchanges to Cuba organized by the National Ass...

American movies about infectious diseases have reflected and driven dominant cultural narratives during the past century. These movies both real p...

Lessons in resilience in the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in India. Focusing on the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in India between A...

Addiction Treatment is an ethnography that compares two types of residential drug-free treatment programs—religious, faith-based programs and scien...