Medical Sociology

This book develops a theoretical framework for examining and assessing the regulatory arrangements for medical products.Since the first half of the...

Health Care in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe (1976) examines the systems of health care in the Communist countries of the Eastern Bloc. Many ...

This volume of Research in the Sociology of Health Care analyses a variety of important social factors and their relationship to health and health ...

Health is influenced by a wide range of factors, many of which fall outside of the health care delivery sector. These determinants of health includ...

Life course analysis recognizes that, depending on the exact life stage, different factors and contexts can become important in shaping identity an...

Youth Digital Health and Online Platforms focuses on young peoples use of the digital platform Reddit for health. Drawing upon dialogism theory, th...

The Routledge Handbook of Health Communication and Popular Culture offers rich insights into the ways in which communication about health through p...

The second edition of this incisive book, based on the Purnell Model for Cultural Competence, addresses the potentially challenging topic of cultur...

This practical and accessible textbook provides an overview of the key principles for conducting ethnography in healthcare settings. Shedding new l...

This practical and accessible textbook provides an overview of the key principles for conducting ethnography in healthcare settings. Shedding new l...

Exploring the potential of poetry and poetic language as a means of conveying perspectives on later life, this book examines questions such as how ...

Many health, environmental, and social challenges across the globe from diabetes to climate change are regularly discussed in terms of imbalances...

This book explores how gay and bi mens lived experiences of chemsex intersect with its cultural representations. It argues that while normative mor...

What does it mean to personalise cancer medicine? Drawing on an ethnographic study with cancer patients, carers and practitioners in the UK, this b...

This book examines the impact of climate change on eye disease and eye health.Filling a lacuna in the existing literature, Scott Fraser takes a dee...

This concise and instructive guide outlines the specific challenges faced by the Latinx population in US health care, including language barriers, ...

This book examines the relationship between media and medicine. Drawing on insights from anthropology, linguistics, and media studies, it considers...

Shim and Baek examine the evolving existential meanings of gift-making by interviewing donors of convalescent blood plasma during the Covid-19 pand...

The Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology provides a contemporary overview of the key themes in medical anthropology. In this exciting departu...

This book presents an existential and psychosocial interpretation of the experiences of mental health care practitioners whose work involves use of...

This handbook critically examines spaces of mental health and wellbeing across multiple, often intersecting, domains from green and blue spaces to ...

This book examines and theorizes about the birth, growth, impact, co-optation, and rejuvenation of a sex worker movement in India, exploring the ma...

This book examines the pathologisation and depathologisation of mental health in Ibero-América. It highlights the possibilities and the epistemic l...

Mental, Emotional and Behavioural Needs of the General Population Following COVID-19 in India: Findings from Qualitative and Quantitative Studies e...