Medical sociology

This book describes and analyzes the impact of COVID-19 on the relationship between the United States and China in its human, social and political dimensions.

Navigating Digital Health Landscapes explores how users navigate the internet when searching for health information.

This book presents important fields of research in public healthcare in India from an interdisciplinary and health systems perspectives.

Genetic Counseling and Preventive Medicine in Post-War Bosnia offers a unique new perspective to longstanding debates on healthcare reforms in Bosnia.

This book investigates various experiences of teaching sexual and reproductive health to adolescents with disabilities.

This is the first transnational history of IVF and assisted reproduction.

Are you your genes?

This book provides a solid basis to understand two centuries of bodily measurement practices and their scientific and political scope throughout the Western world.

COVID-19: Proportionality, Public Policy and Social Distance explores the social and political response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This book focuses on the clinical, social and psychological aspects of HIV among gay men and examines the complex factors that can contribute to HIV risk in this key population.

This book explores the relationship between macro-social structure, social construction and micro-healthcare behaviors.

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.

This book celebrates and captures examples of the excellent scholarship that Palgrave's Health, Technology, and Society Series has published since 2006, and reflects on how the field has developed over this time.

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.

This book aims to clarify the global aspects of poor quality pharmaceuticals, generic products in particular, becoming complicated through the process of IMPACT (International Medical Products Anti-Counterfeiting Taskforce) organized by the initiative of the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2006.

Medicines are vital in improving patient health outcomes and pharmaceutical policy is a fundamental component of any health system.

This book examines how pacemakers and defibrillators participate in transforming life and death in high-tech societies.

This book aims to clarify the global aspects of poor quality pharmaceuticals, generic products in particular, becoming complicated through the process of IMPACT (International Medical Products Anti-Counterfeiting Taskforce) organized by the initiative of the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2006.

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.

This book presents and standardizes statistical models and methods that can be directly applied to both reliability and survival analysis.

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.

Towards a Sociology of Nursing offers fresh insights from recent research into the nursing profession.

This collection provides a broad coverage of recent changes in medical and vocational rehabilitation in Northern Europe.

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 explains the origins and early developments of Japanese medical insurance systems from the 1920s to the 1950s.

Pandemics are potentially very destructive phenomena, and for that reason, they both fascinate and frighten us.

This edited volume draws on ten original contributions that locate ethics at the centre-stage of public health practice.

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

This book explains the origins and early developments of Japanese medical insurance systems from the 1920s to the 1950s.

This book describes community ophthalmology professionals in South Asia who demonstrate social entrepreneurship in global health to help the rural poor.

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 provides an overview of the ongoing transition in China's health system, especially focusing on the new healthcare reform initiated in 2009.

This is the story of a professor of Medical Sociology, diagnosed with colon cancer.

This interdisciplinary book explores the affective dimensions of becoming a parent, traversing the life-cycle journey of pregnancy, childbirth, and early parenting.

In this book the authors review initiatives in improving the quality of care for family planning in India and bring them to the broader forum of policy-level discussions.

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Presss Open Access publishing program.

Drawing from the work of academics and practitioners from ten states across the country, this edited volume showcases and synthesises the diversity and richness of efforts to understand and act on the social determinants of health in India, the conditions in which we are born, grow, live work and age.

This book harnesses the theory and practice of dramatic arts for the applied use in communication education.

This timely contribution to the global literature on health inequities approaches the subject through a synthesis and analysis of relevant published literature on India.

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

 Esta obra da cuenta del proceso de configuración de las políticas públicas de salud indígena en su expresión estatal e indígena en Colombia entre 1971 y el 2017, entendido como una disputa permanente entre un sujeto político colectivo que construye un proyecto político-cultural desde la recuperación y proyección de una diversidad epistémica y política emancipatoria mediante procesos de resistencia, movilización y negociación permanente con un Estado y régimen político racista, excluyente y neoliberal.

This book investigates the profound and complex impact of the opioid epidemic on schools in the United States, focusing on diverse aspects such as its history, legislative responses, trends, and implications for students, educators, and schools.

Tras algunas décadas de investigación y deliberación rigurosas, la bioética en América Latina –Nuestra América, como la llamó José Martí– está pensando con cabeza y voz propias.

¿Qué implica envejecer en los distintos ámbitos de la vida?

This book harnesses the theory and practice of dramatic arts for the applied use in communication education.

In this book the authors review initiatives in improving the quality of care for family planning in India and bring them to the broader forum of policy-level discussions.

This timely contribution to the global literature on health inequities approaches the subject through a synthesis and analysis of relevant published literature on India.

This volume provides a literary-cum-historiographical analysis of epidemics and pandemics.

How to Live Well with Dementia: Expert Help for People Living with Dementia and their Family, Friends, and Care Partners provides an array of essential guidance about the different aspects of dementia for all whose lives are touched by dementia, including people living with dementia and their support network.

Exploring 18th-century medicine's construction of individuals with non-standard sexual anatomy as hermaphrodites , this book focuses on the genre of the case history from three different languages and national contexts-British, French, and German.