Medical sociology

Navigating Digital Health Landscapes explores how users navigate the internet when searching for health information.

This book explores the unique contribution that critical communication studies can bring to our understanding of health.

This book explores the relationship between macro-social structure, social construction and micro-healthcare behaviors.

This book explores the intersection between healthcare delivery and national economic health, using Nigeria as case study and window into the world.

This book describes community ophthalmology professionals in South Asia who demonstrate social entrepreneurship in global health to help the rural poor.

This book investigates how the technology used by telehealth services shapes our healthcare, and how we, as humans, collectively change and shape the technology and services used in healthcare.

This edited collection focuses on the global growth of privatisation and private sector medicine in both developed and lesser developed countries, and the impact of this on patients, health workers, managers and policy-makers.

This book explores the ways in which Eastern and Western medical knowledge inform each other in the treatment of people in Asia across a wide range of health issues.

Species of Contagion examines the political and social implications of xenotransplantation for bodies, nations, and species.

This book explores the ways in which socio-technical settings in medical contexts find varying articulations in a specific locale.

This book provides a clear and detailed examination of why it is so difficult to secure comprehensive political engagement and actionable, effective policy on sexual and reproductive health rights in sub-Saharan Africa.

This book explores the identity work and conflicted perspectives of general practitioner (GP) trainees working in hospitals in the UK.

This book presents the results of an international comparative study on the causes of rule deviation in business and medical organizations.

This book explores how meaning-making during the COVID-19 pandemic, and specifically during the period of the April 2020 lockdowns, may be derived from shared lived experience among participants, residing in diverse geographical regions.

Das Virus SARS-CoV-2 und die dadurch ausgelöste Coronapandemie haben die Gesellschaft in einen Krisenmodus versetzt: Die Coronapandemie hat tiefgreifenden Einfluss auf den Alltag von Subjekten in allen Lebenslagen genommen, gesellschaftliche Bedingungen verändert und institutionelle Veränderungen angestoßen.

The Mental Health Act of 1959 marked a turning point in national policy on mental illness.

The Mental Health Act of 1959 marked a turning point in national policy on mental illness.

Originally published in 1964, this book describes the hospital service as it is seen by patients.

Originally published in 1964, this book describes the hospital service as it is seen by patients.

This book draws on a variety of substantive examples from science, technology, medicine, literature, and popular culture to highlight how a new technoscientifically mediated and modified phase and form of technosleep is now in the making - in the global north at least; and to discuss the consequences for our relationships to sleep, the values we accord sleep and the very nature and normativities of sleep itself.

This book draws on a variety of substantive examples from science, technology, medicine, literature, and popular culture to highlight how a new technoscientifically mediated and modified phase and form of technosleep is now in the making - in the global north at least; and to discuss the consequences for our relationships to sleep, the values we accord sleep and the very nature and normativities of sleep itself.

This expanded second edition of Mitzi Waltz's Autism: A Social and Medical History offers an in-depth examination of how the condition was perceived before it became a separate area of investigation, and how autism has been conceptualised and treated since.

This expanded second edition of Mitzi Waltz's Autism: A Social and Medical History offers an in-depth examination of how the condition was perceived before it became a separate area of investigation, and how autism has been conceptualised and treated since.

In der gesellschaftlichen Gesundheitswahrnehmung sind zahnärztliche Vorgänge von besonderer Bedeutung, da die Mundgesundheit einen hohen Stellenwert bei der Bevölkerung besitzt.

This book presents a bold critique of the new racial sensibility that has attained global prominence following the police murder of George Floyd.

This book presents a bold critique of the new racial sensibility that has attained global prominence following the police murder of George Floyd.

This interdisciplinary volume examines the social production of mental health and illness in Australia and Aotearoa (New Zealand).

Written in the middle of a pandemic, this book examines the effect of COVID-19 on regional and global security threats in the first 18 months of the crisis.

This book explores the experiences and emotional expression of 30 people Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) using qualitative research methods such as "e;illness narratives,"e; and analyzes the dilemmas of "e;sicknesses of the society"e; including "e;Acquired Needs Deficiency"e; Syndrome, "e;Acquired Expectation Insufficiency"e; Syndrome, and "e;Acquired Punishment"e; Syndrome at the micro, meso and macro levels, so as to investigate higher-intensity negative emotions.

The book outlines post-Soviet style of health management in Central Asia.

This book examines the landscape of sustained investment in research and innovation in Africa, which are critical for development.

Shamanism is commonly understood through reference to spirits and souls.

This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the interdisciplinary field of the Social Studies of Science and Technology (SSST).

This book is about emotions and reflexivity when doing field research in health and social care settings.

This book provides an empirical and philosophical investigation of self-tracking practices.

Autoethnography is an ideal method to study the 'feminist I'.

Recent work in the mobilities literature has highlighted the importance of thinking about mobility and immobility as a continuum, where movement intersects with processes that might entail episodes of transition, waiting, emptiness, and fixity.

This book takes as its point of departure a humble cell lying on the intersection of ideas as diverse and yet interlaced as life, knowledge, commerce, governance, and ethics.

This book is a collection of essays from across Africa which highlight the roles of beliefs and traditions in health behaviour.

This book approaches the subject of AIDS pedagogy by analysing the complex links between representation or discourse, ideology, power relations and practices of self, understood from the perspective of embodiment.

This book provides a historical analysis of the Frontier Nursing Services in the Eastern Appalachians of the United States, as well as a review of the oral history tradition of former frontier and non-frontier nurses.

This book explores the new ways in which biology is becoming technology.

This book is an attempt to understand suicide from the perspective of a group of men who decided to take their own lives.

This lucidly written textbook covers the historical background of clinical sociology as a field and its developing trends around the world.

This book is a companion to Clinical Ethics on Film and deals specifically with the myriad of healthcare ethics dilemmas.

This book examines how modern medicine's mechanistic conception of the body has become a defense mechanism to cope with death anxiety.

This book explores the power music has to address health inequalities and the social determinants of health and wellbeing.