Medical sociology

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 examines a diverse range of community food initiatives in light of their everyday practices, innovations, and contestations.

This book examines a diverse range of community food initiatives in light of their everyday practices, innovations, and contestations.

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

This is a highly accessible and reassuring account of how the pharmaceutical industry is redefining health, making it a state that is almost impossible to achieve.

This thought-provoking book examines breakdowns in the quality of health and social care over the past decade, exploring governance failures and the challenges of achieving lasting change.

This is a highly accessible and reassuring account of how the pharmaceutical industry is redefining health, making it a state that is almost impossible to achieve.

First published in 2006.

This thought-provoking book examines breakdowns in the quality of health and social care over the past decade, exploring governance failures and the challenges of achieving lasting change.

First published in 2006.

This book covers a wide range of topics relating to the health and wellbeing of the construction workforce.

Written specifically for nurses, this clinical handbook provides unmatched comprehensive information on pain management for the vulnerable neonatal population.

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.

This book is a critical disability studies examination of the lived experience of chronic pain, engaging with and making a significant contribution to crip theory and the concept of 'crip time'.

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

This book is a critical disability studies examination of the lived experience of chronic pain, engaging with and making a significant contribution to crip theory and the concept of 'crip time'.

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

The rapid onset of the COVID-19 pandemic presented a multi-faceted challenge to older adults, carers, and care institutions globally.

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 third edition of a popular text introduces healthcare students and professionals to a wide range of health beliefs and practices in world religions.

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.

Bu and her contributors illustrate the complexity of tensions and negotiations in the development of different types of public health systems in Asia during the early Cold War.

This book examines the state of child health and well-being in India.

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

This book enquires from a sociological perspective into contemporary corporeal transformations brought about by exoskeletal devices.

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 book enquires from a sociological perspective into contemporary corporeal transformations brought about by exoskeletal devices.

This book examines how the digital revolution has reorganized the model of healthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic and argues for a continued paradigm shift to digital healthcare.

This book draws on research within neo-Weberian and neo-institutionalist perspectives to critically analyse National Health Services (NHSs) in Western Europe.

This book examines the drug dealer in contemporary society from an interdisciplinary perspective and considers the increasingly blurred demarcation between illegitimate and legitimate drug markets.

Blind Narrations and Artistic Subjectivities: Corporeal Refractions makes an important contribution to the field of blindness studies by highlighting the centrality of blindness in literary compositions.

Blind Narrations and Artistic Subjectivities: Corporeal Refractions makes an important contribution to the field of blindness studies by highlighting the centrality of blindness in literary compositions.

This book examines how the digital revolution has reorganized the model of healthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic and argues for a continued paradigm shift to digital healthcare.

This book draws on research within neo-Weberian and neo-institutionalist perspectives to critically analyse National Health Services (NHSs) in Western Europe.

Bu and her contributors illustrate the complexity of tensions and negotiations in the development of different types of public health systems in Asia during the early Cold War.

This book examines the drug dealer in contemporary society from an interdisciplinary perspective and considers the increasingly blurred demarcation between illegitimate and legitimate drug markets.

This book delves into the intricate landscape of respiratory diseases among older people, shedding light on their biosocial encounters while grappling with chronic breathlessness.