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...