Medical sociology

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.

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.

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.

This volume covers the latest advances in the mechanisms of pathogenesis of the HIV-1 virus on target cells.

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