Medical Sociology

In Health Matters, contributors from a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary traditions address multiple dimensions of health care, such as n...

In this ground-breaking account of the political economy and cultural meaning of blood in contemporary India, Jacob Copeman and Dwaipayan Banerjee ...

The only text that accessibly examines the social determinants of health from a Canadian, contemporary, and comparative perspective Featuring thou...

Pain in one form or another is probably the most common symptom presented to medical and healthcare professionals. Long a subject of biomedical int...

This book is the story of twelve people, each living with long-term illness. Delving into the routines and rhythms of everyday life, the book revea...

This book is the story of twelve people, each living with long-term illness. Delving into the routines and rhythms of everyday life, the book revea...

The second edition of Mildred Blaxter's successful and highly respected book offers a comprehensive and engaging introduction to the key debates su...

For decades, the field of bioethics has shaped the way we think about ethical problems in science, technology, and medicine. But its traditional em...

Sharp, bold and engaging, this book provides a contemporary account of why medical sociology matters in our modern society. Combining theoretical...

Across the globe healthcare systems face the extremely complex and difficult challenge of reducing the cost of care while simultaneously increasing...

Understanding the Sociology of Health continues to offer an easy to read introduction to sociological theories essential to understanding the curre...

The first edition of the Encyclopedia of Cancer and Society was published in 2007 and received a 2008 Editors' Choice Award from Booklist. It serv...

Respect for autonomy has become a fundamental principle in human research ethics. Nonetheless, this principle and the associated process of obtaini...

Health and social care decisions, and how they impact a family, are often viewed from the perspective of the individual family member making them--...

Health and Illness in Close Relationships provides an integrated theoretical framework for understanding the complexities of health trajectories an...

Close relationships are a vital part of people's daily lives; thus family members, friends, and romantic partners play an integral role in people's...

A COMPREHENSIVE NEW REFERENCE WORK ON STRUCTURAL APPROACHES TO PREVENTING HIV Structural interventions -- changes to environment aimed at influenc...

Hippocrates famously advised doctors 'it is far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has'. Yet 2,500 yea...

At a time when the worlds wealthiest nations struggle to make health care and medicine available to everyone, why do resource-constrained countries...

At a time when the worlds wealthiest nations struggle to make health care and medicine available to everyone, why do resource-constrained countries...

In 1994 the American Psychiatric Association published the groundbreaking diagnostic criteria for autism ('Autistic Disorder'). Since then, the rep...

In recent years governments around the world have been bending their will toward increasing collaborative practice amongst health care professional...

Doctors at War is a candid account of a trauma surgical team based, for a tour of duty, at a field hospital in Helmand, Afghanistan. Mark de Rond t...

'Punchily written He leaves the reader with a sense of the gross injustice of a world where health outcomes are so unevenly distributed' Times Lit...

Throughout American history, ingestion (eating) has functioned as a metaphor for interpreting and imagining this society and its political systems....

Throughout American history, ingestion (eating) has functioned as a metaphor for interpreting and imagining this society and its political systems....

Long-term services and supports (LTSS) refer to a broad range of health and health-related services and supports that are needed by individuals ove...