Medical sociology

This book brings together studies from various locations to examine the growing social problems that have been brought to the fore by the COVID-19 outbreak.

How the authority of medicine is continuously shaped by relationships among physicians, industry, colleagues, and organizations Exploring how the authority of medicine is controlled, negotiated, and organized, Managing Medical Authority asks: How is knowledge shared throughout the profession?

This book brings together studies from various locations to examine the growing social problems that have been brought to the fore by the COVID-19 outbreak.

WINNER OF THE BREAD & ROSES PRIZE FOR RADICAL PUBLISHING 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE 2024A FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST SUMMER BOOK OF 2023 'Important and ambitious' Observer, Book of the Day 'An illuminating and powerful intersectional analysis of health inequalities and racism' i-D Magazine'Prepare to be blown away' Chikwe Ihekweazu, Assistant Director General at WHOIn the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, we are all too aware of the urgent health inequalities that plague our world.

Explores the forces determining the trajectory of medical progress, bringing together scientific policy, economics, sociology and innovation.

Explores the forces determining the trajectory of medical progress, bringing together scientific policy, economics, sociology and innovation.

This concise, easy-to-read book tackles the potentially awkward subject of culture in a direct, non-intimidating style.

This book connects clinical sociology to the food justice movement through gardens in incarcerated settings.

Transgender people are waiting to be seen in healthcare and waiting to be recognised as the legitimate experts on their own lives and needs.

This edited collection of contributions explores non-normative genders, sexualities, and relationality among Autistic people.

Adolescent rites of passage are ubiquitous sociocultural processes that feature across all manner of social activity.

The past 50 years have witnessed a transformation in the structure and function of families and households.

Prenatal genetic testing has changed the circumstances under which parents choose what pregnancies to carry to term.

Prenatal genetic testing has changed the circumstances under which parents choose what pregnancies to carry to term.

This new 2-volume set explores new research and perspectives in genetic engineering, which enables the precise control of the genetic composition and gene expression of organism.

This new 2-volume set explores new research and perspectives in genetic engineering, which enables the precise control of the genetic composition and gene expression of organism.

Chester Pierce's list of accomplishments was second to none: graduate of Harvard University and Harvard Medical School, president of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, president of the American Orthopsychiatric Association, founding national chair of the Black Psychiatrists of America, and namesake of the American Psychiatric Association's Human Rights Award.

This book highlights lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic and explains how these can be used to build sustainable health systems, especially in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMIC).

Intertwining policy analysis and ethnography, Jose Tenorio examines how, and why now, the promotion of healthy lifestyles has been positioned as an ideal 'solution' to obesity and how this shapes the preparation, sale and consumption of food in schools in Mexico.

This book situates sociological research as a vital tool for understanding, and responding to, the multispecies entanglements that cause, inform and arise from states of crisis involving the environment, climate and zoonotic disease transmission.

This book sets out to historicise our understanding of contemporary trends by studying the long relationship between science, food and drink marketing and the promotion of healthy lifestyles.

This book makes a powerful case that neoliberalism, the dominant economic and social policy paradigm of the post-1980 world, is hazardous to our health.

Politics, Philosophy, Culture contains a rich selection of interviews and other writings by the late Michel Foucault, many of which are hard to find.

Politics, Philosophy, Culture contains a rich selection of interviews and other writings by the late Michel Foucault, many of which are hard to find.

Safety is a combination of human judgment, ethical priorities and the pursuit of knowledge and so often much more than rules and regulations.

Safety is a combination of human judgment, ethical priorities and the pursuit of knowledge and so often much more than rules and regulations.