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...