Medical Sociology

When originally published in 1988, this book presented new evidence of inequalities in health found among communities in different areas of the Nor...

Originally published in 1980, this book presents a detailed empirical analysis of the key dimensions of inequality and poverty in Wales, discussing...

Technology and consumerism are two characteristic phenomena in the history medicine and healthcare, yet the connections between them are rarely exp...

This book explores the growth and operations of the Japanese restaurant in Australia since the early 2000s from perspectives of both restaurant wor...

This book offers the first ever critical history of dementia studies.Focusing on the emergence of dementia studies as a discrete area of academic i...

This volume bridges contemporary philosophical conceptions of risk and responsibility and offers an extensive examination of the topic. It shows th...

Cultivated Therapeutic Landscapes provides an in-depth and critical exploration of the impact of gardens and gardening on health and wellbeing. In ...

This book brings together contributions from twenty-three world-leading scholars and commentators that address a range of contemporary and pressing...

Through case studies, this book investigates the pictorial imaging of epidemics globally, especially from the late eighteenth century through the 1...

Bu and her contributors illustrate the complexity of tensions and negotiations in the development of different types of public health systems in As...

This book explores what anthropology can contribute to an understanding of how people live through pandemics. It reflects on how pandemics are expe...

Women and COVID-19: A Clinical and Applied Sociological Focus on Family, Work and Community focuses on womens lived experiences amid the pandemic, ...

This engaging book presents an insightful look into the contributing factors that have shaped the modern public health system in Jammu & Kashmi...

This book examines the state of child health and well-being in India. It traces the roots of child health inequalities in India; draws on the lates...

This book is a collection of the best scientific research presented during the First International Conference of Indonesian Medical and Health Prof...

In recent years, the ways in which food is produced, distributed, and consumed have emerged as prominent health and social issues. With rising con...

APOLLO'S ARROW offers a riveting account of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on American society as it unfolded in 2020, and on how the recov...

This volume covers macro-level system issues and micro-level issues involving health and health care concerns for women, and racial and ethnic mino...

In many places around the world, the freedom to simply care for one another is under attack by the powerful, and acts of solidarity are being made ...

Researchers, healthcare providers and policy makers working in the fields of HIV prevention. Professional/activist/academic organisations.

People with variations of sex characteristics (VSC) are born with chromosomal, gonadal and/or anatomical diversities that do not fit the typical de...

People with variations of sex characteristics (VSC) are born with chromosomal, gonadal and/or anatomical diversities that do not fit the typical de...