Medical Sociology
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The Whistle-Blower: the story of one man''s battle against the medical establishment
Joanna SeldonCurrent price €18.19Original price €19.99Current price €18.19Original price €19.99Save 9% -
Under the Skin: racism, inequality, and the health of a nation
Linda VillarosaCurrent price €18.91Original price €21.99NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF 2022 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES The first book to tell the full story of race and health in America today, showing th...
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Hematologies: The Political Life of Blood in India
Dwaipayan BanerjeeCurrent price €28.49Original price €29.99In this ground-breaking account of the political economy and cultural meaning of blood in contemporary India, Jacob Copeman and Dwaipayan Banerjee ...
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Anti/Vax: Reframing the Vaccination Controversy
Bernice L. HausmanCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50Antivaxxers are crazy. That is the perception we all gain from the media, the internet, celebrities, and beyond, writes Bernice Hausman in Anti/Vax...
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Anthropology in Medical Education: Sustaining Engagement and Impact
Springer Nature Switzerland AGCurrent price €57.96Original price €68.19This volume reflects on how anthropologists have engaged in medical education and aims to positively influence the future careers of anthropologist...
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Social and Cognitive Pharmacy: Theory and Case Studies
Parastou DonyaiCurrent price €34.83Original price €40.50Social and Cognitive Pharmacy is a practical handbook for learning and teaching sociology and psychology, and applying this to pharmacy practice. ...
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The Herd: how Sweden chose its own path through the worst pandemic in 100 years
Johan AnderbergCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99A real-life thriller about a nation in crisis, and the controversial decisions its leaders made during the Covid-19 pandemic. First, the government...
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Handbook of Healthcare in the Arab World
Springer Nature Switzerland AGCurrent price €2,107.99Original price €2,479.99This handbook examines health and medical care in the Arab world from a systems biology approach. It features comprehensive coverage that includes ...
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Quality of Life: A Post-Pandemic Philosophy of Medicine
Robin DownieCurrent price €15.91Original price €18.50The Covid-19 pandemic has shown the need for a fresh look at health and health care. This book offers a philosophical critique of medicine as appli...
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Sacred Lives
Ian BoneCurrent price €18.19Original price €19.99In ancient times, epilepsy was a condition felt to be sacred. Early myths and mystique surrounding it led to persecution, demonisation, incarcerati...
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Understanding the Sociology of Health: An Introduction
Anne-Marie BarryCurrent price €88.51Original price €102.92Understanding the Sociology of Health continues to offer an easy to read introduction to sociological theories essential to understanding the curre...
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Health Matters: Evidence, Critical Social Science, and Health Care in Canada
University of Toronto PressCurrent price €68.24Original price €79.35In Health Matters, contributors from a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary traditions address multiple dimensions of health care, such as n...
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Hematologies: The Political Life of Blood in India
Dwaipayan BanerjeeCurrent price €116.99Original price €129.99In this ground-breaking account of the political economy and cultural meaning of blood in contemporary India, Jacob Copeman and Dwaipayan Banerjee ...
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Social Determinants of Health: A Comparative Approach
Alan DavidsonCurrent price €45.59Original price €47.99The only text that accessibly examines the social determinants of health from a Canadian, contemporary, and comparative perspective Featuring thou...
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Pain: A Sociological Introduction
Elaine DennyCurrent price €20.01Original price €21.99Pain in one form or another is probably the most common symptom presented to medical and healthcare professionals. Long a subject of biomedical int...
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Vital Bodies: Living with Illness
Charlotte BatesCurrent price €27.29Original price €29.99This book is the story of twelve people, each living with long-term illness. Delving into the routines and rhythms of everyday life, the book revea...
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Vital Bodies: Living with Illness
Charlotte BatesCurrent price €84.62Original price €92.99This book is the story of twelve people, each living with long-term illness. Delving into the routines and rhythms of everyday life, the book revea...
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Health
Mildred BlaxterCurrent price €18.19Original price €19.99The second edition of Mildred Blaxter's successful and highly respected book offers a comprehensive and engaging introduction to the key debates su...
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Beyond Bioethics: Toward a New Biopolitics
University of California PressCurrent price €28.04Original price €32.99For decades, the field of bioethics has shaped the way we think about ethical problems in science, technology, and medicine. But its traditional em...
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Medicine, Health and Society
Hannah BradbyCurrent price €151.04Original price €158.99Sharp, bold and engaging, this book provides a contemporary account of why medical sociology matters in our modern society. Combining theoretical...
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Medicine, Health and Society
Hannah BradbyCurrent price €58.43Original price €61.50Sharp, bold and engaging, this book provides a contemporary account of why medical sociology matters in our modern society. Combining theoretical...
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The Evolving Healthcare Landscape: How Employees, Organizations, and Institutions are Adapting and Innovating
Cornell University PressCurrent price €37.04Original price €38.99Across the globe healthcare systems face the extremely complex and difficult challenge of reducing the cost of care while simultaneously increasing...
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Understanding the Sociology of Health: An Introduction
Anne-Marie BarryCurrent price €30.53Original price €35.50Understanding the Sociology of Health continues to offer an easy to read introduction to sociological theories essential to understanding the curre...
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The SAGE Encyclopedia of Cancer and Society
SAGE Publications IncCurrent price €449.53Original price €493.99The first edition of the Encyclopedia of Cancer and Society was published in 2007 and received a 2008 Editors' Choice Award from Booklist. It serv...
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League of Denial: The NFL, Concussions, and the Battle for Truth
Mark FAINARU-WADACurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99Current price €16.99Original price €19.99Save 15% -
Medicine, Healthcare and the Raj: The Unacknowledged Legacy
Three Essays CollectiveCurrent price €15.91Original price €18.50Current price €15.91Original price €18.50Save 14% -
Beyond Autonomy: Limits and Alternatives to Informed Consent in Research Ethics and Law
Cambridge University PressCurrent price €108.29Original price €113.99Respect for autonomy has become a fundamental principle in human research ethics. Nonetheless, this principle and the associated process of obtaini...
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What About the Family?: Practices of Responsibility in Care
Oxford University Press IncCurrent price €65.54Original price €68.99Health and social care decisions, and how they impact a family, are often viewed from the perspective of the individual family member making them--...
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Health and Illness in Close Relationships
Ashley P. DugganCurrent price €114.99Original price €124.99Health and Illness in Close Relationships provides an integrated theoretical framework for understanding the complexities of health trajectories an...
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Contemporary Studies on Relationships, Health, and Wellness
Cambridge University PressCurrent price €114.99Original price €124.99Close relationships are a vital part of people's daily lives; thus family members, friends, and romantic partners play an integral role in people's...
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Structural Interventions for HIV Prevention: Optimizing Strategies for Reducing New Infections and Improving Care
Oxford University Press IncCurrent price €100.69Original price €105.99A COMPREHENSIVE NEW REFERENCE WORK ON STRUCTURAL APPROACHES TO PREVENTING HIV Structural interventions -- changes to environment aimed at influenc...
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Personalised Medicine, Individual Choice and the Common Good
Cambridge University PressCurrent price €98.79Original price €103.99Hippocrates famously advised doctors 'it is far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has'. Yet 2,500 yea...
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Achieving Access: Professional Movements and the Politics of Health Universalism
Joseph HarrisCurrent price €123.49Original price €129.99At a time when the worlds wealthiest nations struggle to make health care and medicine available to everyone, why do resource-constrained countries...
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Achieving Access: Professional Movements and the Politics of Health Universalism
Joseph HarrisCurrent price €39.89Original price €41.99At a time when the worlds wealthiest nations struggle to make health care and medicine available to everyone, why do resource-constrained countries...
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The Politics of Autism
Dr. Bryna SiegelCurrent price €30.59Original price €33.99In 1994 the American Psychiatric Association published the groundbreaking diagnostic criteria for autism ('Autistic Disorder'). Since then, the rep...
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Sociology of Interprofessional Health Care Practice: Critical Reflections & Concrete Solutions
Nova Science Publishers IncCurrent price €122.54Original price €128.99In recent years governments around the world have been bending their will toward increasing collaborative practice amongst health care professional...
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Doctors at War: Life and Death in a Field Hospital
Mark de RondCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99Doctors at War is a candid account of a trauma surgical team based, for a tour of duty, at a field hospital in Helmand, Afghanistan. Mark de Rond t...
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The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World
Michael MarmotCurrent price €17.58Original price €18.50'Punchily written He leaves the reader with a sense of the gross injustice of a world where health outcomes are so unevenly distributed' Times Lit...
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Dangerous Digestion: The Politics of American Dietary Advice
E. Melanie DuPuisCurrent price €35.99Original price €39.99Throughout American history, ingestion (eating) has functioned as a metaphor for interpreting and imagining this society and its political systems....
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Dangerous Digestion: The Politics of American Dietary Advice
E. Melanie DuPuisCurrent price €84.59Original price €93.99Throughout American history, ingestion (eating) has functioned as a metaphor for interpreting and imagining this society and its political systems....
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Long-Term Services & Supports for the Elderly: Elements, Trends & Financing
Nova Science Publishers IncCurrent price €155.69Original price €172.99Long-term services and supports (LTSS) refer to a broad range of health and health-related services and supports that are needed by individuals ove...
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