Medical Sociology

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...

This book offers new empirical research and policy-relevant care practices from across the globe to understand the interrelation of care, emotion, ...

Health promotion with young people has largely been framed by theories of behaviour change to target unsafe, unhealthy and/or risky behaviours. The...

What happens when a group traditionally defined as lacking the necessary capacities of citizenship is targeted by government programs that have mad...

Presenting a series of empirical studies by scholars working with approaches from ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, Medical and Healthcar...

The local food movement is one of the most active of current civil engagement social movements. This work presents primary evidence from over 900 d...

On Vulnerability maps out an array of perspectives for critically examining the nature of vulnerability, its unequal patterning across different so...

Disability and Shopping:Customers, Markets and the State provides an examination of the diverse experiences and perspectives of disabled customers,...

The Routledge Companion to Art and Disability explores disability in visual culture to uncover the ways in which bodily and cognitive differences a...

Some fundamental aspects of the lived body only become evident when it breaks down through illness, weakness or pain. From a phenomenological point...

Ageing is widely recognised as one of the social and economic challenges in the contemporary, globalised world, for which scientific, technological...

This book expands the art historical perspective on arts connection to anatomy and medicine, bringing together in one text several case studies fro...

What makes a disease real? Why is it that patients with chronic fatigue syndrome or fibromyalgia are doubted when they say they are in pain, and ca...

Over the past fifty years, design and branding have become omnipotent in the market and have made their way to other domains as well. Given their p...

Historically organised at a local or national scale, the fields of medicine and healthcare are being radically transformed by new communication, tr...

An understanding of the social sciences within infection prevention and control (IPC) is important for those working in health and social care. Thi...

'Healthcare professionals spend much of their time listening to stories of sickness related by patients and their families. It thus seems appropria...

The humanitarian crises caused by civil conflicts and wars in Africa are too great in scope for an adequate and effective continental response. The...

What is life like for women with learning disabilities detained in a secure unit? This book presents a unique ethnographic study conducted in a con...

Dementia is an urgent global concern, often termed a widespread problem, tragedy or burden and a subject best addressed by health and social policy...