Medical Sociology

Originally published in 1984, when new reproductive technologies were just beginning to become part of the public discussion, this edition was publ...

Originally published in 1989, Infertility looks at how fertility treatments fail women. At the time there was disturbing evidence of medical malpra...

In the early 1980s the new reproductive technologies available supposedly offered infertile women a chance to have children. However, there was gro...

When you think of a person with dwarfism, what image springs to mind? Now, hold onto that image and consider how you are expected to respond to it....

This important book introduces the Health in All Policies (HiAP) approach to health promotion, not only detailing how policy-making at all levels c...

This important book introduces the Health in All Policies (HiAP) approach to health promotion, not only detailing how policy-making at all levels c...

Exploring 18th-century medicines construction of individuals with non-standard sexual anatomy as hermaphrodites, this book focuses on the genre of ...

Encyclopedic in scope, Reversibility of Chronic Degenerative Disease and Hypersensitivity, Volume 2: The Effects of Environmental Pollutants on the...

DNA Barcoding has been promoted since 2003 as a new, fast, digital genomics-based means of identifying natural species based on the idea that a sma...

Dissociative disorders are one of the psychiatric consequences of childhood psychological trauma. While oppression is an aspect of traumatic condit...

This book is a collection of papers reflecting the latest advances in geographic research on health, disease, and well-being. It spans a wide range...

How do we, as human beings, come to understand ourselves and others around us? This question could not be more timely or pertinent to the issues fa...

This book highlights lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic and explains how these can be used to build sustainable health systems, especially in Low- ...

This volume provides a literary-cum-historiographical analysis of epidemics and pandemics. It looks at folklore, tribal folktales, eyewitness accou...

This volume provides a literary-cum-historiographical analysis of epidemics and pandemics. It looks at folklore, tribal folktales, eyewitness accou...

Now in its fourth edition, Health Psychology takes a truly interdisciplinary approach to studying health psychology, and offers a comprehensive ove...

Now in its fourth edition, Health Psychology takes a truly interdisciplinary approach to studying health psychology, and offers a comprehensive ove...

This comprehensive and updated new edition offers scholarly summaries of theory and research on the social psychological influences on subjective w...

This comprehensive and updated new edition offers scholarly summaries of theory and research on the social psychological influences on subjective w...

Something must have changed in society. We werent always this worried. Not always caught up in disastrous scenarios in our minds. What is this nagg...

Something must have changed in society. We werent always this worried. Not always caught up in disastrous scenarios in our minds. What is this nagg...

Illness, death and dying are part and parcel of human life. Despite amazing advances in medical science there is never going to be a time when we c...