Medical Sociology

Iona Heath relates the importance that John Berger's work and friendship had on her working life as a GP. It includes extracts from letters that sp...

Can society be healthy, and how? Is Britain a healthy society in the 21st century? When people ponder health, they usually consider the health of t...

Can society be healthy, and how? Is Britain a healthy society in the 21st century? When people ponder health, they usually consider the health of t...

This book explores the moral and political significance of gastrospaces: the spaces where we eat. It adopts an innovative approach, combining analy...

Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book presents an in-depth analysis of the complex and often controversial world of...

How the politics of medical necessity complicates American health care The definition of medical necessity has morphed over the years, from a singu...

How the politics of medical necessity complicates American health care The definition of medical necessity has morphed over the years, from a singu...

Drawing on insights from international organization and securitization theory, the author investigates the World Health Organization and how its ap...

Offers a perceptive critique of the universalized model of psychiatry and its apparent exportation from the West to the developing world. Rooted in...

Offers a perceptive critique of the universalized model of psychiatry and its apparent exportation from the West to the developing world. Rooted in...

Regenerative medicine, encompassing stem cells and tissue engineering, has attracted huge interest within commercial, clinical and government circl...

In the 1970s it seemed infectious diseases had been conquered, but today global epidemics seem to pose a new, more sinister, threat. This fascinati...

Why do people enter total institutions places that confine and control them around the clock and how does the experience change them? This book u...

Waisted: The Biology of Body Fat outlines the fascinating, often misunderstood and sometimes controversial biology of fat, otherwise known as adipo...

Bodies and Lives in Ancient America offers a broad overview of what it was like to live and die throughout North America before European contact. U...

The desperate need for a vast part of the global population to access better medicines in more certain ways is one of the biggest concerns of the m...

In Private Bodies, Public Texts, Karla FC Holloway examines instances where medical issues and information that would usually be seen as intimate, ...

South Africa has the world's largest number of people living with HIV. This book offers a history of AIDS activism in South Africa from its origins...

This book explore assumptions underpinning contemporary health policy discourses that emphasize personal responsibility for health, consider how th...

Drawing together interview material, medical publications, and first-hand accounts, this book shows that what is being remade in the burgeoning med...

Psychiatry suffers a lot of criticism, not least from within its own scientifically founded medical world. This book provides an account of mental ...

Global Health involves, among many things the intensified travelling of people, resources, technologies, knowledge, standards, and ideas. This book...

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS or ME) is a problematic diagnosis which can be interpreted in conflicting ways by doctors, patients and others. Meani...

India's health failures remain visible and pronounced despite high rates of economic growth since the 1980s and more than six decades of democratic...

Psychiatry Under the Influence investigates the actions and practices of the American Psychiatric Association and academic psychiatry in the United...

Psychiatry Under the Influence investigates the actions and practices of the American Psychiatric Association and academic psychiatry in the United...

The volume focuses on the relationship between migration, health and illness in a global context from c.1820 to the present day. It takes a wide ra...

This volume presents an extended reflection on human dependency and the need to 'care' and be 'cared for'. Philosophers, theologians, social theori...

Through case studies, theoretical research and interviews with leading players in science and governance, this book introduces a new understanding ...

Empirical studies of life science research and biotechnologies in Asia show how assemblages of life articulate bioethics governance with global mor...

Affliction inaugurates a novel way of understanding the trajectories of health and disease in the context of poverty. Focusing on low-income neighb...

There is something unsettling, but also powerful, in the encounter with individual and collective experiences of human suffering. Intensive Media e...

With its focus on the offshore randomized control trials of a Pre-Exposure Prophylactic pill (PrEP) for preventing HIV infection, the volume develo...

Explore the fundamentals of biomedical engineering technologies with this thought-provoking introduction, framed around modern-day global cancer in...

In Life Beside Itself, Lisa Stevenson takes us on a haunting ethnographic journey through two historical moments when life for the Canadian Inuit h...

This book presents advanced methodologies for analyzing attitudes towards the COVID-19 vaccine across 10 countries spanning both the Northern and S...

The Emerald Guide to Ann Oakley offers a comprehensive guide to reading and understanding the development of Oakley's sociological ideas, placing t...

Completely up to date and featuring a friendly style, THE SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH, ILLNESS, AND HEALTH CARE: A CRITICAL APPROACH, 8th Edition delivers ...

Setting a case study of deaf peoples leisure practices in north-west England within a wider examination of communal deaf leisure across Britain, th...

In the 1970s it seemed infectious diseases had been conquered, but today global epidemics seem to pose a new, more sinister, threat. This fascinati...

This volume examines concepts of disability and wellness in Native American communities, prominently featuring the life's work of Dr. Carol Locust....

The announcement of a serious diagnosis is a solemn moment when directions shift, priorities change, and life appears in sharper focus. It is also ...

Medical error often results in disability, pain, and suffering, and it is the third leading cause of death in hospitals. Despite its frequency, med...

Epidemics know no borders and are often characterized by a high level of uncertainty, causing major challenges in risk governance. The author shows...

Improving human characteristics goes beyond compensating for an impairment. This book explores the rich and complex relationship between enhancemen...

What is 'addiction'? What does it say about us, our social arrangements and our political preoccupations? Where is it going as an idea and what is ...