Medical Sociology

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...

The discovery of the two inherited susceptibility genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 in the mid-1990s created the possibility of predictive genetic testing and ...

The Routledge International Handbook of Race, Class, and Gender chronicles the development, growth, history, impact, and future direction of race, ...

The Sociology of the Health Service responds directly to the need to develop a sociological analysis of current health policy. Topics covered vary ...

This book focuses on health, healing and health care in Nepal. It presents an intriguing picture: the interplay between the natural processes that ...

The transnational industry surrounding assisted reproductive technology and regenerative medicine is based on the unacknowledged labour of gamete p...