Medical Sociology

How do rapid social and technological changes shape reproductive realms today? This book considers the complex choices, anxieties and challenges th...

American medicine defies simple characterization. Its history is filled with as much triumph as controversy, which may explain why the delivery of ...

The first scholarly exploration of the forums, practice, and economics of functional medicine.Physicians of the Future interrogates the hidden logi...

The first scholarly exploration of the forums, practice, and economics of functional medicine.Physicians of the Future interrogates the hidden logi...

To cut costs and maximize profits, hospitals in the United States and many other countries are outsourcing such tasks as cleaning and food preparat...

In 1256, the countess of Provence, Beatrice of Savoy, enlisted her personal physician to create a health handbook to share with her daughters. Writ...

Taking a comparative approach, this book investigates the ways in which obesity and its susceptibilities are framed in science and policy and how t...

From Nietzsche's pronouncement that God is dead to Camus' argument that suicide is the fundamental question of philosophy, the concept of death pla...

Katie Wright explores how human wellbeing is constructed and how it 'travels' across spatial boundaries. She draws on empirical research, undertake...

This book examines British and American women's narratives of cosmetic surgery, exploring what those narratives say about the contemporary status o...

This study, by two leading scholars in the field, draws on feminist theory and science and technology studies to uncover a basic injustice for the ...

Can literature heal? The Poetics of Palliation argues that our answers to this question have origins in the Romantic period. In the past twenty yea...

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

This book reviews the political significance of COVID-19 in the context of earlier pandemic encounters and scares to understand the ways in which i...

In 1256, the countess of Provence, Beatrice of Savoy, enlisted her personal physician to create a health handbook to share with her daughters. Writ...

Stem cell research has sparked controversy and heated debate since the first human stem cell line was derived in 1998. Too frequently these debates...

This open access book examines the various ways that shame, shaming and stigma became an integral part of the United Kingdoms public health respons...

Stem cell research has sparked controversy and heated debate since the first human stem cell line was derived in 1998. Too frequently these debates...

Sickness in the Workhouse illuminates the role of workhouse medicine in caring for England's poor, bringing sick paupers from the margins of societ...

The Routledge Handbook of Sport, Gender and Sexuality brings together important new work from 68 leading international scholars that, collectively,...

The phenomenon of cancer villages has emerged in many parts of rural China, drawing media attention and becoming a fact of social life. However, th...

Farmers' cooperatives are very prevalent in the European Union, where they account for approximately half of agricultural trade and thus are key to...

This book analyses the development and use of mathematical models in public health research and policy. By introducing a life cycle metaphor, the a...

In Poverty and the Myths of Health Care Reform, Dr. Richard (Buz) Cooper argues that US poverty and high health care spending are inextricably ent...

At the turn of the twentieth century, medicine's imperative to cure disease increasingly took priority over the demand to relieve pain and sufferin...

While 40 percent of premature deaths in the United States can be attributed to such dangerous behaviors as smoking, overeating, inactivity, and dru...

Proof that high health care spending is linked directly to poverty.In Poverty and the Myths of Health Care Reform, Dr. Richard (Buz) Cooper argues ...

In this book, Susanne Lundin explores the murky world of organ trade. She tracks exploited farm workers in Moldova, prosecutors in Israel and surge...

For courses in Community/Public Health Nursing, Transcultural Nursing, and CEUs. Promotes an awareness of the dimensions and complexities involved...

With thorough coverage of inequality in health care access and practice, this leading textbook is widely acclaimed by instructors as the most compr...