Medical Sociology

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...