Medical sociology

Are painkillers mundane medications safe for use to ease human suffering?

First Edition Designated a Doody's Core Title and Winner of an AJN Book of the Year Award!

This is a book on how home is made when care enters the lives of people as they grow old at home or in 'homely' institutions.

How successful are HIV prevention programs?

This convenient and easy-to-use orientation reference and care guide provides new neonatal nurses and their preceptors with the core information they need to provide all aspects of safe, effective, holistic care to newborn infants and their families.

This book provides an introduction to food policy in the United Kingdom, examining policy development, implementation, influences and current issues.

This eight-volume encyclopedia brings together a comprehensive collection of work highlighting established research and emerging science in all relevant disciplines in gerontology and population aging.

This handbook examines health and medical care in the Arab world from a systems biology approach.

Raimund Pousset gives in this essential a concise account of senicide, the modern form of cultural killing of the elderly.

This book describes how malaria both frustrates and facilitates life for Indigenous Palawan communities living in the forested foothills of the municipality of Bataraza on the island of Palawan in the Philippines.

This book investigates the neuroscientific knowledge on addiction as an epistemic project.

This book interrogates how the so-called "e;Feminine Care"e; industry travelled from the United States to Latin America via manufactured and disposable menstrual management technologies and certain narratives about menstrual bodies.

This book describes the life and times of a physician-scientist over the last half-century.

This book examines the experiences of global healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This book examines various aspects of ethnomedicine and tribal healing practices, including its importance for inclusion and integration from a health systems perspective.

Through case studies, this book investigates the pictorial imaging of epidemics globally, especially from the late eighteenth century through the 1920s when, amidst expanding Western industrialism, colonialism, and scientific research, the world endured a succession of pandemics in tandem with the rise of popular visual culture and new media.

Through case studies, this book investigates the pictorial imaging of epidemics globally, especially from the late eighteenth century through the 1920s when, amidst expanding Western industrialism, colonialism, and scientific research, the world endured a succession of pandemics in tandem with the rise of popular visual culture and new media.

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

This book explores the growth and operations of the Japanese restaurant in Australia since the early 2000s from perspectives of both restaurant workers and consumers.

Medical humanities and disability studies are disciplines at the cutting edge of innovative critical work in the study of health and disability, but to date there has been no book-length examination of the relationship between the two.

Medical humanities and disability studies are disciplines at the cutting edge of innovative critical work in the study of health and disability, but to date there has been no book-length examination of the relationship between the two.

This book explores the growth and operations of the Japanese restaurant in Australia since the early 2000s from perspectives of both restaurant workers and consumers.

Adolescent rites of passage are ubiquitous sociocultural processes that feature across all manner of social activity.

How do social scientists create facts?

How do social scientists create facts?

The toll of America's gun violence epidemic is usually measured in lives lost-more than 35,000 each year.

Psychology of Behavioural Interventions and Pandemic Control is a unique text that examines the COVID-19 pandemic in relation to population risk factors and the efficacy of non-pharmaceutical interventions deployed by many governments around the world to bring the pandemic under control.

The toll of America's gun violence epidemic is usually measured in lives lost-more than 35,000 each year.

Bringing together a range of perspectives, this book establishes a criminology of the domestic, paying particular attention to emerging spatial and relational reconfigurations.

Bringing together a range of perspectives, this book establishes a criminology of the domestic, paying particular attention to emerging spatial and relational reconfigurations.

El eje del análisis es la Política Sanitaria y Social.

A compendium of prescribing information for more than 450 diagnoses!

Originally published in 2002 Culture, Ritual and Revolution in Vietnam is a study of the history and consequences of the revolutionary campaign to transform culture and ritual in northern Vietnam.

This book examines a selection of texts to discuss how midwifery, obstetrics and women's bodies were constructed during the (long) eighteenth century, and how these material-discursive entanglements between science, medicine, literature and culture have shaped society's views of pregnancy, childbirth and reproduction.

This book develops a theoretical framework for examining and assessing the regulatory arrangements for medical products.

Study faster, learn better, and get top gradesModified to conform to the current curriculum, Schaum's Outline of Pediatric Nursing complements these courses in scope and sequence to help you understand its basic concepts.

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The quick and easy way to learn the concepts and major theories of pediatric nursing - and how to apply them to real-world situationsIf you re looking for a fun, fast review that boils pediatric nursing down to its most essential, must-know points your search ends here!

In the years since the end of apartheid, South Africans have enjoyed a progressive constitution, considerable access to social services for the poor and sick, and a booming economy that has made their nation into one of the wealthiest on the continent.

Winner of the Sociology of Health and Illness Book PrizeHIV has changed in the presence of recent biomedical technologies.

Based on interviews with women who are HIV positive, this sobering pandemic brings to light the deeply rooted and complex problems of living with HIV.

In the early 1980s the new reproductive technologies available supposedly offered infertile women a chance to have children.

Eating disorders (EDs) have become a social epidemic in the developed world.

This edited collection problematizes trajectories of health promotion across the lifespan.

This book examines the concept of dignity from a variety of global perspectives.

This book explores the academic processes of nursing education in times of uncertainty around healthcare policy and healthcare provision.

This book offers a novel approach to understanding the complexities of communication in culturally and linguistically diverse health care contexts.

Community development, planning and partnerships have become important terms in health promotion but, up until now, debate around these concepts have been discussed more in planning science than in public health literature.