Medical sociology

Will genome-based precision medicine fix the problem of race/ethnicity-based medicine?

Will genome-based precision medicine fix the problem of race/ethnicity-based medicine?

The Routledge Handbook of Medicine and Poetry draws on an international selection of authors to ask what the cultures of poetry and medicine may gain from reciprocal critical engagement.

The Routledge Handbook of Medicine and Poetry draws on an international selection of authors to ask what the cultures of poetry and medicine may gain from reciprocal critical engagement.

This study concentrates on the discourses around animal death in arts and the ways they changed over time.

This study concentrates on the discourses around animal death in arts and the ways they changed over time.

Why do some people choose to be vaccinated and others do not?

Why do some people choose to be vaccinated and others do not?

This book examines performance practices that involve people in recovery from addiction, theorising such practices as recovery-engaged.

This book examines performance practices that involve people in recovery from addiction, theorising such practices as recovery-engaged.

Learning Disability and Everyday Life brings into conversation ideas from social theory with "e;thick"e; descriptions of the everyday life of a middle-aged man with learning disabilities and autism.

Learning Disability and Everyday Life brings into conversation ideas from social theory with "e;thick"e; descriptions of the everyday life of a middle-aged man with learning disabilities and autism.

What happens when people are reduced to products?

Im Zentrum des fesselnden Werkes ›Die Erfindung der reinen Vernunft‹ steht eine tiefgreifende Exploration der menschlichen Denkfähigkeit und deren Entwicklungen im Laufe der Zeit.

A Psychoanalytic Approach to the Feminine sees Houari Maidi dissect the concepts and characteristics of the feminine in both males and females, separating them from womanhood and femininity, and equipping readers with the tools to better understand pathologies such as masochism, narcissism, depression, and paranoia.

In "e;One last beat,"e; you are becoming a part of the dramatic past of Lusie, a 22-year-old girl who is facing harsh life and injustice as she gets a shocking cancer diagnosis, which leads her into a new life situation.

A book for men and women from middle age to advanced years who have suddenly and unexpectedly become confronted with the huge effects that the male prostate can have on the body.

This important new book offers public administration scholars, practitioners, and students a comprehensive resource to make sense of identity and equity, two of the most crucial, yet complex, concepts for public decision-makers to address.

Through a range of case studies, this book traces how death shaped cities, and vice versa.

This book examines the concept of health psychology following its trajectory from ancient to contemporary times.

Digital Media as Ambient Therapy explores the ways "e;mental illness"e; can emerge from our relationships (with ourselves, others, and the world), to address the concern around what kind of relationality is conducive for "e;mental health"e; and what role digital technologies can play in fostering such relationality.

Digital Media as Ambient Therapy explores the ways "e;mental illness"e; can emerge from our relationships (with ourselves, others, and the world), to address the concern around what kind of relationality is conducive for "e;mental health"e; and what role digital technologies can play in fostering such relationality.

This book defends a comprehensive new vision of what addiction is and how people with addictions should be treated.

This book examines the concept of health psychology following its trajectory from ancient to contemporary times.

Transgender people are waiting to be seen in healthcare and waiting to be recognised as the legitimate experts on their own lives and needs.

This book defends a comprehensive new vision of what addiction is and how people with addictions should be treated.

This book presents a timely and innovative exploration of one of the first human rights articles about data production and processing: the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities article 31, 'Statistics and data collection'.

The book examines sustainable food procurement policy and practice in the European Union and beyond, exploring the extent to which sustainability objectives have been achieved and evaluating the new developments taking place at both EU and national levels.

This book discusses the development of key issues in research ethics relevant for clinical sociologists, concerning client rights to confidentiality, privacy, and informed consent.

The 13th edition of Death, Society, and Human Experience provides a panoramic overview of the ways that we are touched by death and dying, both as individuals and as members of society.

ACT at the End is based on the principles of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and while it has a grounding in research, it is also a hands-on clinical guide for those working with people at a tricky and complex time of life.

This book develops an understanding of researchers' engagements with their subjects as a generative mode of knowledge production that takes place between researchers and their research fields.

The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Global Health provides an overview of the complex relationship between anthropology and global health.

With cities becoming so vast, so entangled and perhaps so critically unsustainable, there is an urgent need for clarity around the subject of how we feed ourselves as an urban species.

This book brings concepts, practices of Ayurveda and its interface with modern health care set-up in Delhi, India.

While transplanting human heads is not a new concept, the idea has largely been relegated to religious lore or as a plot device in science fiction.

This book develops an understanding of researchers' engagements with their subjects as a generative mode of knowledge production that takes place between researchers and their research fields.

This book discusses the development of key issues in research ethics relevant for clinical sociologists, concerning client rights to confidentiality, privacy, and informed consent.

While transplanting human heads is not a new concept, the idea has largely been relegated to religious lore or as a plot device in science fiction.

The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Global Health provides an overview of the complex relationship between anthropology and global health.

This book presents a health ethnology of health literacy among vulnerable groups.

This book brings concepts, practices of Ayurveda and its interface with modern health care set-up in Delhi, India.

This book examines texts and other artistic products rendered by siblings of individuals with disabilities in order to interrogate the impact of disability on the identity of non-disabled siblings.

This book presents a health ethnology of health literacy among vulnerable groups.

ACT at the End is based on the principles of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and while it has a grounding in research, it is also a hands-on clinical guide for those working with people at a tricky and complex time of life.

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

With cities becoming so vast, so entangled and perhaps so critically unsustainable, there is an urgent need for clarity around the subject of how we feed ourselves as an urban species.

This book explores dementia-related aggression, violence, and homicide through a detailed analysis of "e;gray mist killings.