Medical sociology

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

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

What does it mean to say that a human being is body and soul, and how does each affect the other?

Now in its third edition, Food in World History explores culinary cultures and food politics throughout the world, from ancient times to the present day, with expanded discussions of industrialization, indigeneity, colonialism, gender, environment, and food and power.

What does it mean to say that a human being is body and soul, and how does each affect the other?

Now in its third edition, Food in World History explores culinary cultures and food politics throughout the world, from ancient times to the present day, with expanded discussions of industrialization, indigeneity, colonialism, gender, environment, and food and power.

This comprehensive book brings together reflections, lessons and insights relating to the post Covid-19 era in Zimbabwe.

Focused on the United States, this book summarizes the secondary impacts of COVID-19 due to the increased use of technology.

Focused on the United States, this book summarizes the secondary impacts of COVID-19 due to the increased use of technology.

With thorough coverage of inequality in health care access and practice across the field it surveys, The Sociology of Health, Healing, and Illness is widely acclaimed by instructors as the most comprehensive of any available.

This volume explores in depth femicide and feminicide, bringing together our current knowledge on this phenomenon and its prevention.

This volume explores in depth femicide and feminicide, bringing together our current knowledge on this phenomenon and its prevention.

What are the barriers preventing migrants from accessing and successfully utilizing health care in their new home country?

What role might the Devil have in health and illness?

Miscarriage is a significant women's health issue.

Anthropology has long shied away from examining how human beings may lead happy and fulfilling lives.

AACN Core Curriculum for Pediatric High Acuity, Progressive, and Critical Care, Third Edition, provides content required to deliver the best care for critically ill or injured children.

In a work that spans the twentieth century, Nancy Tomes questions the popular--and largely unexamined--idea that in order to get good health care, people must learn to shop for it.

Pediatric nursing is the niche area of nursing where one works solely with babies, toddlers and children.

A handy, pocket-sized guide designed to make placements more enjoyable and less stressful for children's nursing students.

This innovative text for Neonatal Nurses and NICU clinicians introduces new, evidence-based care protocols proven to mitigate or reduce the profound morbidities and subsequent developmental challenges that afflict newborns in the NICU.

Mental, Emotional and Behavioural Needs of the General Population Following COVID-19 in India: Findings from Qualitative and Quantitative Studies explores the psychological challenges arising from COVID-19 that impacted the Indian general population.

Neonatal nurses face an ever-changing practice landscape that requires swift decisions and actions.

Written for neonatal nurses and NICU clinicians, this innovative book provides evidence-based guidelines and clinical practice recommendations that have been proven to mitigate the trauma experience of the hospitalized infantfamily dyad.

"e;This book is essential reading for researchers of tobacco policy change.

This book engages in a critical discussion on how to respect and promote patients' autonomy in difficult cases such as palliative care and end-of-life decisions.

Lifestyle Medicine From the Inside Out: Using Positive Psychology in Healthy Lifestyles for Positive Health summarizes the principles, science, and practice of how positive psychology can be integrated into lifestyle medicine for positive health in health care and self-care.

This book explores the complexities of drugs policy in Britain, contradicting the over simplified representation found in the public sphere.

This book examines the organizational consequences of the recent international preoccupation with managing patient safety in the clinic.

This book offers original knowledge, debate, and understanding from frontline fieldwork data and the relations between mental health difficulties, mental healthcare provision, and social theory.

This ambitious book provides a comprehensive history of the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Programme on AIDS (GPA), using it as a unique lens to trace the global response to the AIDS pandemic.

Qualität im Gesundheitswesen wird in besonderem Maße durch das Qualitätsverständnis in den Gesundheitsberufen und der Logik professioneller Handlungspraxis bestimmt.

The book deals with precarity within the digital age and focuses on media change and social insecurity.

This book draws on medical sociology and science and technology studies to develop a novel conceptual framework for understanding innovation processes, using the case study of deep brain stimulation in paediatric neurology.

This book discusses feature films that enrich our understanding of doctor-patient dilemmas.

This book offers valuable insights into the psychosocial characteristics of patients interested in cosmetic surgery.

This book explores how conditions for childbearing are changing in the 21st century under the impact of new biomedical technologies.

This book provides a richly detailed contribution to the understanding of healthy volunteer experiences in clinical drug trials in the UK.

This edited collection brings together the social dimensions of three key aspects of recent biomedical advance in HIV research: Treatment as Prevention (TasP), new technologies such as Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), and the Undetectable equals Untransmittable (U=U) movement.

This multifaceted book examines the free market reform of the Chinese healthcare system in the 1980s and the more collectivist or socialist counter-reforms that have been implemented since 2009 to remedy some of the problems introduced by marketization.

This book demystifies the cultural work of syphilis from the late nineteenth century to the present.

This text addresses the key issue of informal payments, or 'red packets', in the Chinese Healthcare system.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the latest theory and practice on Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) in research.

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This book provides an ethnographic account of the ways in which biomedicine, as a part of the modernization of healthcare, has been localized and established as the culturally dominant medical system in rural Bangladesh.

This book takes up the challenge of examining women's understandings of eating disorders and child sexual abuse away from a framework focused on pathology.

Despite society's current preoccupation with interrelated issues such as obesity, increasingly sedentary lifestyles and children's health, there has until now been little published research that directly addresses the place and meaning of physical activity in young people's lives.

This book uses a variety of empirical cases on topics including drug development, egg donation, and governance of healthcare facilities, to investigate how actors navigate the uncertainties that permeate the interfaces of health, technologies, and politics in post-Soviet settings and what the implications of their chosen navigation routes are.

This book, as the first exploration of suicide in Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS), illustrates the scarcity of suicide research in the discipline and argues that the leading cause of violent death worldwide is a multifaceted phenomenon that needs to be fully comprehended as a significant and often preventable form of world-wide violence.