Medical sociology

In an era when capitalism leaves so many to suffer and to die, with neoliberal 'self-care' offering little more than a bandaid, how can we take health and care back into our hands?

'Thrilling.

Winner of the 2002 BMA Popular Medicine Book Prize: This is a haunting literary and scientific examination of Alzheimer's disease and the race to find a cure.

En 1925, el diario La Nación señalaba que la Madre María "ofrecía a todos, ricos y pobres, lo que la ciencia no puede ofrecer y la religión se niega a dar".

From the Sunday Times Bestselling author Dr Amanda BrownRevisit the wold of The Prison Doctor, as she describes stories of her time spent with foreign national prisoners.

'Extraordinary' Daily MailAs seen on BBC BreakfastHorrifying, heartbreaking and eye-opening, these are the stories, the patients and the cases that have characterised a career spent being a doctor behind bars.

Around the world by ambulance.

¿Qué implica envejecer en los distintos ámbitos de la vida?

The chilling, ghostly account of a doctor who is determined to find light in a lifeless body.

Medicine's Strangest Cases is a choice prescription of weird and wonderful tales from the history of medicine, featuring the German doctor who fought a duel with a sausage, the Harley Street physician-turned-novelist who invented a disease - and its remedy - to keep his clients happy, and the quiet and cautious Swiss scientist who inadvertently unleashed LSD on the world.

Los antiguos distinguían tres formas de la sabiduría: el saber intelectual, lo que se capta de lo que se dice (scire), el saber emocional, lo que se ha saboreado alguna vez (sapere) y el saber consolidado, que se ha experimentado (experire).

Ben Goldacre's wise and witty bestseller, shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, lifts the lid on quack doctors, flaky statistics, scaremongering journalists and evil pharmaceutical corporations.

 Esta obra da cuenta del proceso de configuración de las políticas públicas de salud indígena en su expresión estatal e indígena en Colombia entre 1971 y el 2017, entendido como una disputa permanente entre un sujeto político colectivo que construye un proyecto político-cultural desde la recuperación y proyección de una diversidad epistémica y política emancipatoria mediante procesos de resistencia, movilización y negociación permanente con un Estado y régimen político racista, excluyente y neoliberal.

Der Coronavirus greift um sich.

From the people who brought you the bestselling Confessions of a GP.

'A masterpiece of popularization' Times Literary Supplement'A fascinating account, based on objective scientific research, of the ways in which mental states affect the individual's liability to disease.

The true story of an A&E doctor that became a huge word-of-mouth hit.

The Sunday Times bestseller'Delivering my first baby is a memory that will stay with me forever.

El eje del análisis es la Política Sanitaria y Social.

Hoy por hoy no existe en castellano ningún material de consulta sobre atención sanitaria con pacientes de diversas culturas, las cuales ya son una realidad en nuestra sociedad y en las consultas médicas de nuestro país.

The BRICS Awakening Kazan 2024 - New Developments and Western ReactionsIn the context of the current geopolitical upheavals and economic realignments, the book *"e;The BRICS Awakening Kazan 2024 - New Developments and Western Reactions"e;* presents up-to-date, in-depth insights into the growing importance of the BRICS alliance (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) on the world stage.

From the Sunday Times bestselling author Dr Amanda Brown.

Introducing Existential Health unfolds this evolving concept and places it in the context of common understandings of health.

This book explores the notions of violence, care, and cure within the medical encounter and seeks to foreground the ways in which, whether individually or as a triad, they are prone to ambiguous interpretations.

This is the first interdisciplinary edited collection that examines the manifestation of social inequalities and polarisations in Britain throughout the dual crises of the Brexit vote and the Covid-19 pandemic.

This book is the first comprehensive study of rare disorders from a historical, political, and social perspective.

This book provides a shortform definitive reference text on the landscape and features of Aotearoa New Zealand that underpin its familiar, though country-specific, ways of caring for the dead.

This edited volume offers the first overview and reflective discussion of how design can contribute to people's wellbeing and mental health in the context of dementia, mental illness and neurodiversity.

This valuable and insightful study into chronic pain and its treatment advances a striking analysis of the complex phenomenon of chronic pain, also attesting to the importance of the medical humanities in addressing urgent questions that medical science alone cannot resolve.

First published in 1989, Drugs and British Society (now with a new preface by Susanne MacGregor) provides information on the drugs problem in Britain in the 1980s, based on extensive research and experience, and places it in its international and historical context.

Considering the potential and peril of Domestic Abuse-Related Death Reviews (DARDRs) in England and Wales as a way of learning from domestic abuserelated deaths, this book examines what DARDRs - first known as Domestic Homicide Reviews (DHRs) - are understood as being for, what is used by and in DARDRs, and how DARDRs are themselves used.

This third edition of Food Policy in the United States offers a timely update to the leading textbook dedicated to all aspects of food policy in the United States.

Originally published in 1977, this book presents a selection of work by historians and sociologists on medicine and society in the 19th century.

Audiovisual Healing and Reparation gathers a collection of scholarly and creative voices that explore how audiovisual media can serve as a catalyst for healing, reparation, resilience, care and hope.

This book provides a shortform definitive reference text on the landscape and features of Aotearoa New Zealand that underpin its familiar, though country-specific, ways of caring for the dead.

First published in 1985, Escaping the Dragon is written for anyone- parents, family, friends, teachers, health professionals- who want to know about heroin addiction.

Audiovisual Healing and Reparation gathers a collection of scholarly and creative voices that explore how audiovisual media can serve as a catalyst for healing, reparation, resilience, care and hope.

First published in 1985, Escaping the Dragon is written for anyone- parents, family, friends, teachers, health professionals- who want to know about heroin addiction.

Based on over a decade of research, this book examines the social harms of Australian prescription and non-prescription medicine regulation and how these ultimately stem from neoliberalism and its reinforcement of state and corporate power.

This third edition of Food Policy in the United States offers a timely update to the leading textbook dedicated to all aspects of food policy in the United States.

Rising to the Challenge of Life After Cancer: Expert Advice for Finding Wellness is an easy-to-read self-help guide for people facing cancer diagnosis and treatment.

This book draws on the relationship between culture and the environment and its connection with health and well-being.