Medical Sociology

Identity and equity in public sector workplaces are two of the most crucial, yet complex, concepts for decision makers to address. This important n...

Identity and equity in public sector workplaces are two of the most crucial, yet complex, concepts for decision makers to address. This important n...

Anthropology of Reproduction: The Basics is a clear and accessible guide to topics in reproduction from the perspective of anthropology, emphasizin...

Anthropology of Reproduction: The Basics is a clear and accessible guide to topics in reproduction from the perspective of anthropology, emphasizin...

This book investigates the interplay between disability and religion in Africa, and what this means in the context of the Sustainable Development G...

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...

In an era of human genome research, environmental challenges, new reproductive technologies, and more, students can benefit from introductory socio...

The interface of public health and federalism are increasingly gaining scholarly attention in the fields of comparative federalism and welfare stat...

From HIV to H1N1, pandemics pose one of the greatest threats to global health in the twenty-first century. Defined as epidemics of infectious disea...

How many words do we use in a day? How many of them are actually necessary to convey the flow of our thoughts? And how many could we do without, if...

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Com...

This title was first published in 2001. This work is a uniquely multi-disciplinary contribution to the existing bioethical literature on the topic ...

This title was first publihsed in 2000: Confronting Icarus, is the first book to bring together all of the original research that has been publishe...

This volume brings together academics, activists, social work practitioners, poets, and artists from different parts of the world during the Covid-...

This book makes an enquiry into policies surrounding old age and telecare. It contextualises telecare within the wider history of health and social...

In recent years, the private rented sector has overtaken social housing to become the main housing provider with some of the worse housing conditio...

The most comprehensive major academic textbook available on its topic, this classic text presents the most important research studies in the field....

In By the Bedside of the Patient, Nortin Hadler places current efforts to reform medical education-from the undergraduate level through residency p...

Originally published as a special issue of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, this collection was timed to coincide with the publication of the new NICE...

The first of its kind, this book examines artistic representations of the brain after the rise of the contemporary neurosciences, examining the int...

This book draws on original research to critically examine the social and industrial construction of eating disorders and disordered eating, in an ...

This book is a critical disability studies examination of the lived experience of chronic pain, engaging with and making a significant contribution...

This thought-provoking book examines breakdowns in the quality of health and social care over the past decade, exploring governance failures and th...

This book explores the moral and representational issues associated with engaging young people with popular media depictions of death and dying.Emo...

This book is an ethnography of the metamorphosis of rural foods and traditional dishes and of the making of cuisine and identity in contemporary At...