Medical Sociology

Step into the captivating world of Fascinating Fringes of Medicine: From Oddities to Innovations, a compelling anthology authored by Dr Campion Qui...

Reflects the most significant and fundamental shifts in the experience of disability in human history With the release of its eighth edition, thi...

The scope of this book focuses on how information technology may assist in achieving goals and in providing solutions to problems such as a pandemi...

This is the first book to clearly and fully demonstrate the process of using theory to guide nursing research and professional practice. It describ...

Reconsidering Dementia Narratives explores the role of narrative in developing new ways of understanding, interacting with, and caring for people w...

This book critically explores the urban governance of healthy lifestyles and the contemporary problematisations of the obesity, sedentarism and alc...

Global Health Watch, now in its fourth edition, is widely perceived as the definitive voice for an alternative discourse on health and healthcare. ...

Since the 1970s, alarming discourses about declining fertility and the difficulties of balancing work and family have flourished in Western countri...

The book explores the health conditions of communities who have suffered from caste prejudices in India for generations. It specifically focuses on...

This volume focuses on critical issues surrounding the intersection of genetics, health, and society. It provides a critical examination of sociolo...

This volume looks at the key links between social determinants, health disparities and health and health care. There is a particular focus on macro...

Drawing on ecosystem thinking, complexity and postnormal science, Ecological Health offers a radical new way of thinking about the health issues of...

For decades, the field of bioethics has shaped the way we think about ethical problems in science, technology, and medicine. But its traditional em...

Why do health inequalities exist? How do gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity or class affect health? What is the healthcare impact of technology? Ho...

Now with SAGE Publishing! The Tenth Edition of The Sociology of Health and Illness: Critical Perspectives addresses the crucial issues in this fie...

This book provides a quantitative and qualitative overview of the overall impact that the COVID-19 pandemic had on the capacity of Brazil, Russia, ...

...an excellent contribution to the literature on Tibetan medicine in the context of modernity and globalization... The editors do an exceptional j...

Health crises such as the SARS epidemic and H1N1 have rekindled interest among historians, medical authorities, and government officials in the 191...

Disability and Shopping:Customers, Markets and the State provides an examination of the diverse experiences and perspectives of disabled customers,...

In this introductory text on thanatology, Alan Kemp continues to take on the central question of mortality: the centrality of death coupled with th...

Health care support workers (HSWs) play a fundamental role in international health care systems, and yet they remain largely invisible. Despite thi...

The allied health professions have gained legitimacy through the pursuit of research evidence and the standardisation of practice. Yet there remain...

Luptons newest edition of Medicine as Culture is more relevant than ever. Trudy Rudge, Professor of Nursing, University of Sydney A welcome upda...

Bringing together more than over 120 expert contributors from otolaryngology, general surgery, endocrinology, and pathology, Surgery of the Thyroid...

This book offers a detailed and sensitive account of how parents experience different forms of baby loss, and subsequently make decisions about pos...

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a severe chronic illness and one of the worlds most common genetic conditions, with 400,000 children born annually wit...

Includes a series of fact-filled articles aimed at replacing blind faith in the effectiveness of health services with objective standards for healt...

On a cold February morning in 1987, amidst freezing rain and driving winds, a group of protesters stood outside of the Unitarian Universalist Churc...