Medical sociology

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.

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

From khat to kava to ketamine, drugs are constitutive parts of cultures, identities, economies and livelihoods.

From khat to kava to ketamine, drugs are constitutive parts of cultures, identities, economies and livelihoods.

Another Mother gives voice to women who become mothers through the routes of adoption, surrogacy and egg donation, and their silent partners - the birth mothers, surrogate mothers and egg donors - who make motherhood possible for them.

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 book focuses on the contested nature and competing narratives of food system transformations, despite it being widely acknowledged that changes are essential for the safeguarding of human and planetary health and well-being.

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, based on extensive original research, traces the development of China's public health system, showing how advances in public health have been an integral part of China's rise.

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

This highly original work examines the rise of the urban food planning movement in the Global North and provides insights into the new relationship between cities and food which has started developing over the past decade.

The Routledge Handbook on Deviance brings together original contributions on deviance, with a focus on new, emerging, and hidden forms of deviant behavior.

The HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa has defined the childhoods of an entire generation.

As urban populations rise rapidly and concerns about food security increase, interest in urban agriculture has been renewed in both developed and developing countries.

There is enormous current interest in urban food systems, with a wide array of policies and initiatives intended to increase food security, decrease ecological impacts and improve public health.

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.

Do we judge the poor?

From remote antiquity to contemporary contexts, food and the 'stuff' of food remains central to people's daily experiences as well as their sense and expression of identity.

Disabled people are routinely assumed to lack the capabilities and capacities to embody and experience sexuality and desire, as well as the agency to love and be loved by others, and build their own families, if they so choose.

Youth, Drugs, and Night Life examines the relationships between the electronic dance scene and drug use for young ravers and clubbers today.

Originally published in 1972, this book is an analytical account of the socio-medical tribulations suffered by Glasgow's east-end elderly leading to referral to geriatric wards.

Originally published in 1972, this book is an analytical account of the socio-medical tribulations suffered by Glasgow's east-end elderly leading to referral to geriatric wards.

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

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.

This book brings into dialogue approaches from anthropology, sociology, visual art, theatre, and literature to question what kinds of relations, frames and politics constitute pain across disciplines and methodologies.

This book raises questions about the changing relationships between technology, people and health.

This book provides a quantitative and qualitative overview of the overall impact that the COVID-19 pandemic had on the capacity of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS countries) to reshape global climate governance and explore areas for mutual cooperation.