Medical Sociology

Should you intervene in the life of the 48-year-old woman whose dwelling is stuffed with accumulated rubbish and who will not let anyone help get r...

Addressing global health is one of the largest challenges facing humanity in the 21st century, however, this task is becoming even more formidable ...

The world of dementia care can be a difficult one for carers to navigate, posing new challenges at every stage from diagnosis to end of life. In he...

This book explores the gendered experience of disability. It investigates how women with disabilities fare in society focusing on the experiences o...

Psychiatry and psychology have constructed a mental health system that does no justice to the problems it claims to understand and creates multiple...

This book provides a three-part investigation into identity construction. Theory, voice and praxis are all represented as the book follows the rati...

Bringing together disability theorists and medical sociologists for the first time in this cutting-edge collection, contributors examine chronic il...

Why has sleep become increasingly politicized in contemporary society? This book provides an account of the politics of sleep in the late modern ag...

In this important collection, prominent scholars who helped to establish medical anthropology as an area of study reflect on the field's past, pres...

This volume in the highly-regarded Research in the Sociology of Health Care series, deals with both macro-level system issues and micro-level issue...

Why has sleep become increasingly politicized in contemporary society? This book provides an account of the politics of sleep in the late modern ag...

The phenomenon of transnational health care has grown rapidly over recent years and this book provides a comprehensive landscape of diverse researc...

Total pain management mandates that an ethic of adjusted care be implemented at the end-stage of life which acknowledges ethically, legally, and cl...

Human embryos and foetuses are highly public and contested figures. Their visual images appear across a wide range of forums. They have become comm...

Laws Relating to Sex, Pregnancy, and Infancy examines case law and legislation in regards to reproduction, pregnancy, and infancy. Cusack explores ...

Based on extensive research, this book is a fundamental critique of psychiatry that examines the foundations of psychiatry, refutes its basic tenet...

Based on extensive research, this book is a fundamental critique of psychiatry that examines the foundations of psychiatry, refutes its basic tenet...

Completely up to date and featuring a friendly style, THE SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH, ILLNESS, AND HEALTH CARE: A CRITICAL APPROACH, 7th Edition delivers ...

Pandemics, Science and Policy analyses the World Health Organisation's (WHO) management of the 2009 H1N1 Pandemic. Abeysinghe illustrates the ways ...

Multiple sclerosis is an incurable neurological disease of unknown cause with a fearful reputation for generating disability, unemployment, poverty...

Sociologists have debated suicide since the early days of the discipline. This book assesses that body of work and breaks new ground through a qual...

An authoritative, state-of-the-art collection that brings together key experts to provide an overview of the field. This new paperback edition incl...

An authoritative, state-of-the-art collection that brings together key experts to provide an overview of the field. This new paperback edition incl...

In Qualitative Research in Health and Illness, Dr. Jessica Smartt Gullion leverages two decades of experience as a qualitative methodologist and ep...

The complex answer to why the United States does so poorly in health measures has at its base one pervasive issue: The United States has by far the...

In The Colonial Politics of Global Health, Jessica Lynne Pearson explores the collision between imperial and international visions of health and de...

This valuable and insightful study into chronic pain and its treatment advances a striking analysis of the complex phenomenon of chronic pain, also...

This valuable and insightful study into chronic pain and its treatment advances a striking analysis of the complex phenomenon of chronic pain, also...

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to prod...

During the twentieth century, genes were considered the controlling force of life processes, and the transfer of DNA the definitive explanation for...

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...

Biotech Juggernaut: Hope, Hype, and Hidden Agendas of Entrepreneurial BioScience relates the intensifying effort of bioentrepreneurs to apply genet...

This edited collection offers interdisciplinary perspectives on some of the key health challenges faced by individuals, communities, and government...

This innovative, practical guide introduces researchers to the use of the video reflexive ethnography in health and health services research. This ...

Despite noteworthy exceptions, nursings literature largely disregards the ways in which social and sociological theory permeates, guides and shapes...