Medical sociology

Psychiatry Under the Influence investigates the actions and practices of the American Psychiatric Association and academic psychiatry in the United States, and presents it as a case study of institutional corruption.

Laws Relating to Sex, Pregnancy, and Infancy examines case law and legislation in regards to reproduction, pregnancy, and infancy.

The HIV epidemic remains one of the most challenging of modern times, despite the enormous promise of anti-retroviral treatment.

Based on extensive research, this book is a fundamental critique of psychiatry that examines the foundations of psychiatry, refutes its basic tenets, and traces the workings of the industry through medical research and in-depth interviews.

Even though sub-Saharan Africa is the region most affected by HIV/AIDS in the world, no new theories have been discovered, and questions about life and death are ignored.

This book explores the complexities of drugs policy in Britain, contradicting the over simplified representation found in the public sphere.

There is a great variety of sex and relationship education in the global North and South and this book draws together the global perspectives and debates on this key topic.

Bringing together a range of authors from the multidisciplinary field of disability studies, this book uses disability and the experiences of disabled people living in the United States and Canada to explore and analyze dynamic sites of human interaction in both historical and contemporary contexts to provide readers with new ways of envisioning home, care, and family.

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

This book demonstrates that the symbol of maternal sacrifice is the notion that 'proper' women put the welfare of children, whether born, in utero or not conceived, over and above any choices and desires of their own.

This book describes how Christian communities in South Africa have responded to HIV/AIDS and how these responses have affected the lives HIV-positive people, youth and broader communities.

Everyday foodways are a powerful means of drawing boundaries between social groups and defining who we are and where we belong.

Institutions Incorporated draws together aspects of human and organizational corporeality and links them to institutions.

This book examines the forces that shape psychoactive drug use.

This book provides a unique and innovative perspective on the controversial phenomenon of 'stem cell tourism'.

This book explores the new ways in which biology is becoming technology.

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS or ME) is a problematic diagnosis which can be interpreted in conflicting ways by doctors, patients and others.

Pandemics, Science and Policy analyses the World Health Organisation's (WHO) management of the 2009 H1N1 Pandemic.

Drawing on a detailed case study of Scotland's National Health Service, this book argues that debates about citizen participation in health systems are disproportionately dominated by techniques of invited participation.

It has long been known that the pathway through the criminal justice system for those with mental health needs is fraught with difficulty.

Drawing together interview material, medical publications, and first-hand accounts, this book shows that what is being remade in the burgeoning medical field of face transplantation is not only the lives of patients, but also the very ways that state institutions, surgeons, and families make sense of rights, claims for inclusion, and life itself.

Ted Schrecker and Clare Bambra argue that the obesity, insecurity, austerity and inequality that result from neoliberal (or 'market fundamentalist') policies are hazardous to our health, asserting that these neoliberal epidemics require a political cure.

This book offers a comprehensive Marxist critique of the business of mental health, demonstrating how the prerogatives of neoliberal capitalism for productive, self-governing citizens have allowed the discourse on mental illness to expand beyond the psychiatric institution into many previously untouched areas of public and private life including the home, school and the workplace.

Multiple sclerosis is an incurable neurological disease of unknown cause with a fearful reputation for generating disability, unemployment, poverty and early death.

This book explores the often contentious relationship between health, concepts of race and ethnicity, and the impact on South Asian groups.

Drawing from work in a wide range of fields, this book presents novel approaches to key debates in thinking about and defining disability.

Disability and Inequality:Socioeconomic Imperatives and Public Policy in Jamaica explores the lived experiences of persons with disabilities (PWDs) in Jamaica, examining measurable socioeconomic deficits that establish PWDs are more likely to experience inferior education, training, and labor market outcomes compared to persons without disabilities.

This book provides new insights into how new biology, and the emergence of "e;translational"e; policies to drive the health bioeconomy, is reshaping the innovation ecosystem for new therapies.

This book looks at a sample of female drug addicts seeking recovery in Narcotics Anonymous (NA).

This volume addresses key issues such as the cultural and discursive context in which physical activity is discussed; the process of becoming physically active; the role of care settings in enabling physical activity; pleasure; gender; and place and space.

In The Hyper(in)visible Fat Woman Gailey investigates the interface between fat women's perceptions of their bodies and of the social expectations and judgments placed on them.

This book provides an appreciative, sociological engagement with accounts of the embodied practice of self-injury.

This book discusses three possible human enhancement paradigms and explores how each involves different values, uses of technology, and different degrees and kinds of ethical concerns.

This book analyses how consumer food choices have undergone profound changes in the context of the economic crisis, including the rediscovery of local products and the diffusion of multi-ethnic food.

This book diagnoses the social, mental and political consequences of working and economic organizations that generate value from communication.

Psychiatry suffers a lot of criticism, not least from within its own scientifically founded medical world.

This book explores the socio-political implications of human heredity from the second half of the nineteenth century to the present postgenomic moment.

Total pain management mandates that an ethic of adjusted care be implemented at the end-stage of life which acknowledges ethically, legally, and clinically the use of terminal sedation as efficacious treatment.

This volume presents an extended reflection on human dependency and the need to 'care' and be 'cared for'.

Through case studies, theoretical research and interviews with leading players in science and governance, this book introduces a new understanding of change in governance of bioscience research.

India's health failures remain visible and pronounced despite high rates of economic growth since the 1980s and more than six decades of democratic rule.

The phenomenon of transnational health care has grown rapidly over recent years and this book provides a comprehensive landscape of diverse research communities' attempts to capture its implications for existing bodies of knowledge in selected aspects of medicine, medical ethics, health policy and management, and tourism studies.

Fusing the disciplines of health care, spiritual care, and social services, this book examines the relationship between chronic illness and spirituality.

Informal folk narrative genres such as gossip, advice, rumor, and urban legends provide a unique lens through which to discern popular formations of gender conflict and AIDS beliefs.

Offers a perceptive critique of the universalized model of psychiatry and its apparent exportation from the West to the developing world.

The Psy complex governs us all by inscribing, diagnosing and interfering in our lives.

Shaw addresses the 'ethical turn' in contemporary sociological thinking, by exploring the contribution of sociology and the social sciences to bioethical debates about morality and tissue exchange practices.

South Africa has the world's largest number of people living with HIV.

This volume examines concepts of disability and wellness in Native American communities, prominently featuring the life's work of Dr.

Human embryos and foetuses are highly public and contested figures.