Illness & Addiction: Social Aspects

This book enquires from a sociological perspective into contemporary corporeal transformations brought about by exoskeletal devices.Challenging mat...

Focused on the United States, this book summarizes the secondary impacts of COVID-19 due to the increased use of technology. Establishing the globa...

This timely book presents a carefully curated selection of essays to celebrate the career of Nigel South, Emeritus Professor at the Department of S...

This book systematically explores the lives and varied experiences of older people in South Africa. Though a relatively youthful country, the share...

This book offers new empirical research and policy-relevant care practices from across the globe to understand the interrelation of care, emotion, ...

First published in 1998, this volume why and how genetic engineering has emerged as the technology most likely to change our lives, for better or w...

First published in 1998, this volume why and how genetic engineering has emerged as the technology most likely to change our lives, for better or w...

This edited volume offers the first overview and reflective discussion of how design can contribute to peoples wellbeing and mental health in the c...

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...

This book explores the human rights consequences of recent and ongoing revisions of mental health legislation in England and Ireland. Presenting a ...

Some fundamental aspects of the lived body only become evident when it breaks down through illness, weakness or pain. From a phenomenological point...

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

Authored by Amanda Glassman and Miriam Temin with the Millions Saved Team and Advisory Group, Millions Saved: News Cases of Proven Success in Globa...

Much scholarship of any region focuses on the perceived problems that hold back a population. Central Asia is no exception, as it is a region with ...

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

This book expands the art historical perspective on arts connection to anatomy and medicine, bringing together in one text several case studies fro...

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

An understanding of the social sciences within infection prevention and control (IPC) is important for those working in health and social care. Thi...

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

Informed by the thought of Pierre Bourdieu and framed by the philosophy of harm reduction, Habitus and Drug Using Environments provides a sociologi...

The discovery of the two inherited susceptibility genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 in the mid-1990s created the possibility of predictive genetic testing and ...

Drawing on insights from work in medical history and sociology, this book analyzes changing meanings of personalized medicine over time, from the r...