Medical Sociology

In an era of human genome research, environmental challenges, new reproductive technologies, and more, students can benefit from introductory socio...

The interface of public health and federalism are increasingly gaining scholarly attention in the fields of comparative federalism and welfare stat...

From HIV to H1N1, pandemics pose one of the greatest threats to global health in the twenty-first century. Defined as epidemics of infectious disea...

How many words do we use in a day? How many of them are actually necessary to convey the flow of our thoughts? And how many could we do without, if...

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Com...

This title was first published in 2001. This work is a uniquely multi-disciplinary contribution to the existing bioethical literature on the topic ...

This title was first publihsed in 2000: Confronting Icarus, is the first book to bring together all of the original research that has been publishe...

This volume brings together academics, activists, social work practitioners, poets, and artists from different parts of the world during the Covid-...

This book makes an enquiry into policies surrounding old age and telecare. It contextualises telecare within the wider history of health and social...

In recent years, the private rented sector has overtaken social housing to become the main housing provider with some of the worse housing conditio...

The most comprehensive major academic textbook available on its topic, this classic text presents the most important research studies in the field....

In By the Bedside of the Patient, Nortin Hadler places current efforts to reform medical education-from the undergraduate level through residency p...

Originally published as a special issue of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, this collection was timed to coincide with the publication of the new NICE...

The first of its kind, this book examines artistic representations of the brain after the rise of the contemporary neurosciences, examining the int...

This book draws on original research to critically examine the social and industrial construction of eating disorders and disordered eating, in an ...

This book is a critical disability studies examination of the lived experience of chronic pain, engaging with and making a significant contribution...

This thought-provoking book examines breakdowns in the quality of health and social care over the past decade, exploring governance failures and th...

This book explores the moral and representational issues associated with engaging young people with popular media depictions of death and dying.Emo...

This book is an ethnography of the metamorphosis of rural foods and traditional dishes and of the making of cuisine and identity in contemporary At...

Bringing together a range of perspectives, this book establishes a criminology of the domestic, paying particular attention to emerging spatial and...

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

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

Blind Narrations and Artistic Subjectivities: Corporeal Refractions makes an important contribution to the field of blindness studies by highlighti...

Blind Narrations and Artistic Subjectivities: Corporeal Refractions makes an important contribution to the field of blindness studies by highlighti...