Medical Sociology

Where do our conventional understandings of health, illness, and the body stem from? What makes them authoritative? How are the boundaries set arou...

Where do our conventional understandings of health, illness, and the body stem from? What makes them authoritative? How are the boundaries set arou...

This book explores the social, political and theoretical underpinnings of the men's health field. Written by experts in the field, it provides a co...

It is an accepted convention that non-health sector policies and strategies impact on population health. An instrument and approach, Health Impact ...

Examining the popular discourse of nerves and stress, this book provides a historical account of how ordinary Britons understood, explained and cop...

In 2005, American experts sent out urgent warnings throughout the country: a devastating flu pandemic was fast approaching. Influenza was a serious...

This book offers a timely account of health reform struggles in developed democracies.  The editors, leading experts in the field, have brought tog...

Pain. Vomiting. Hours and days spent lying in the dark. Migraine is an extraordinarily common, disabling, and painful disorder that affects over 36...

In Britain alone, more than 20% of the adult population take a psychiatric drug in any one year. This is an increase of over 500% since 1980 and th...

Medical competence is a hot topic surrounded by much controversy about how to define competency, how to teach it, and how to measure it. While some...

This book articulates a clear four-phase process for planning, creating, implementing, and evaluating multilevel community health promotion interve...

Food is a major health issue; the links between diet and health are dominant in nutrition discourse and practice. Food and Health: Actor Strategie...

In an era when capitalism leaves so many to suffer and to die, with neoliberal 'self-care' offering little more than a bandaid, how can we take hea...

Beautyscapes explores the global phenomenon of international medical travel, focusing on patient-consumers seeking cosmetic surgery outside their h...

Wellness has become a mainstream concept, yet we have limited sociological understanding of how wellness functions in contemporary Western culture....

Urban slum dwellers - especially in emerging-economy countries - are often poor, live in squalor, and suffer unnecessarily from disease, disability...

Urban slum dwellers - especially in emerging-economy countries - are often poor, live in squalor, and suffer unnecessarily from disease, disability...

"Icons of Life" tells the engrossing and provocative story of an early twentieth-century undertaking, the Carnegie Institution of Washington's proj...

On average, black Americans are sicker and die earlier than white Americans. "Uncertain Suffering" provides a richly nuanced examination of what th...

Social critics have long lamented America's descent into a "culture of narcissism," as Christopher Lasch so lastingly put it fifty years ago. From ...

Social critics have long lamented America's descent into a "culture of narcissism," as Christopher Lasch so lastingly put it fifty years ago. From ...

A provocative and shocking look at how western society is misunderstanding and mistreating mental illness. Perfect for fans of Empire of Pain and D...

Mental illness can often be the driving force behind creativity. This relationship is never more apparent than in the memoirs of writers who have l...

A daily glass of wine prolongs life—yet alcohol can cause life-threatening cancer. Some say raising the minimum wage will decrease inequality while...

There are significant variations in how healthcare systems and health professionals are regulated globally. One feature that they increasingly have...

Can literature heal? The Poetics of Palliation argues that our answers to this question have origins in the Romantic period. In the past twenty yea...

Provides fresh perspectives on the past, present and future-facing contributions of the anthropology of reproduction. A Companion to the Anthropol...

How and why the idea of wellness holds such rhetorical—and harmful—power.In Why Wellness Sells, Colleen Derkatch examines why the concept of wellne...