Medical sociology

In the pursuit of more muscle, enhanced strength, sustained endurance and idealised physiques, an increasing number of elite athletes, recreational sport enthusiasts and body-conscious gym-users are turning to performance and image enhancing drugs and substances (PIEDS).

In contemporary western societies, the fat body has become a focus of stigmatizing discourses and practices aimed at disciplining, regulating and containing it.

In contemporary western societies, the fat body has become a focus of stigmatizing discourses and practices aimed at disciplining, regulating and containing it.

The ambition of the book is to investigate a possible transition in the markets for food in the Nordic countries.

Three-quarters of deaths in the U.

Three-quarters of deaths in the U.

This book offers an essential, comprehensive, yet accessible reference of contemporary food security discourse and guides readers through the steps required for food security analysis.

This book offers an essential, comprehensive, yet accessible reference of contemporary food security discourse and guides readers through the steps required for food security analysis.

Livestock production and its use of finite resources is devastating biodiversity and pushing wildlife to the brink of extinction.

Livestock production and its use of finite resources is devastating biodiversity and pushing wildlife to the brink of extinction.

This volume engages with questions of justice and equality, and how these can be achieved in modern society.

This volume engages with questions of justice and equality, and how these can be achieved in modern society.

This book expands the art historical perspective on art's connection to anatomy and medicine, bringing together in one text several case studies from various methodological perspectives.

This book expands the art historical perspective on art's connection to anatomy and medicine, bringing together in one text several case studies from various methodological perspectives.

This book examines depression as a widely diagnosed and treated common mental disorder in India and offers a significant ethnographic study of the application of a traditional Indian medical system (Ayurveda) to the very modern problem of depression.

This book examines depression as a widely diagnosed and treated common mental disorder in India and offers a significant ethnographic study of the application of a traditional Indian medical system (Ayurveda) to the very modern problem of depression.

Autoimmunity refers to the phenomenon whereby an organism or body mounts an immune response against its own tissues.

Autoimmunity refers to the phenomenon whereby an organism or body mounts an immune response against its own tissues.

Despite some significant advances in the creation and protection of rights affecting women's health, these do not always translate into actual health benefits for women.

Despite some significant advances in the creation and protection of rights affecting women's health, these do not always translate into actual health benefits for women.

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.

In this book Jo Maybin draws on rare access to the inner-workings of England's Department of Health to explore what kinds of knowledge civil servants use when developing policy, how they use it and why.

Occupational health issues have been identified as crucially important in the debate about socio-economic determinants of health and illness.

The taboo on death is at last breaking down.

Managing productivity and profitability in retailing has taken on a particular role since the onset of the recession of the late 1980s.

How can retail brand power be built and maintained?

Health and Illness provides a comprehensive, concise and accessible introduction to the topic, presented in an attractive manner, with relevant activities and exercises to ensure that students' learning is as active as possible.

Throughout the world, the threat of HIV/AIDS to women's health has become the focus of increased concern.

Throughout the world, the threat of HIV/AIDS to women's health has become the focus of increased concern.

Bisexual Women in the Twenty-First Century reflects the brave new world of bisexual women's lives through an eclectic collection of articles that typifies an ongoing feminist process of theory grounded in life experience.

Bisexual Women in the Twenty-First Century reflects the brave new world of bisexual women's lives through an eclectic collection of articles that typifies an ongoing feminist process of theory grounded in life experience.

The editors of Stress, Trauma, and Substance Use have gathered a collection of innovative chapters written by cutting edge researchers that depict both the breadth of the relationships between stress, trauma, and substance use, as well as how closely these phenomena are all too often linked.

The editors of Stress, Trauma, and Substance Use have gathered a collection of innovative chapters written by cutting edge researchers that depict both the breadth of the relationships between stress, trauma, and substance use, as well as how closely these phenomena are all too often linked.

In The HIV-Negative Gay Man: Developing Strategies for Survival and Emotional Well-Being, you'll get instant access to some of the most recent information on the market today about remaining HIV-negative.

In The HIV-Negative Gay Man: Developing Strategies for Survival and Emotional Well-Being, you'll get instant access to some of the most recent information on the market today about remaining HIV-negative.

On the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, feminists are at a critical juncture to re-envision and re-engage in a politics of human rights.

On the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, feminists are at a critical juncture to re-envision and re-engage in a politics of human rights.

This book addresses key questions on biofuels within agrarian political economy, political sociology and political ecology.

This book addresses key questions on biofuels within agrarian political economy, political sociology and political ecology.

Health, Culture and Religion in South Asia brings together top international scholars from a range of social science disciplines to critically explore the interplay of local cultural and religious practices in the delivery and experiences of health in South Asia.

Health, Culture and Religion in South Asia brings together top international scholars from a range of social science disciplines to critically explore the interplay of local cultural and religious practices in the delivery and experiences of health in South Asia.

This proposed book draws on the expertise of 35 experts in the field of Addiction Medicine to provide the reader with a current and comprehensive view of addiction as related to women, pregnancy, newborns, infants and children.

This proposed book draws on the expertise of 35 experts in the field of Addiction Medicine to provide the reader with a current and comprehensive view of addiction as related to women, pregnancy, newborns, infants and children.

Medical geography is a fascinating area of rapidly evolving study that aims to analyse and improve worldwide health issues based on the geographical factors which have an impact on them.

Medical geography is a fascinating area of rapidly evolving study that aims to analyse and improve worldwide health issues based on the geographical factors which have an impact on them.

Forensic Mental Health Professionals have entered the fray of child custody litigation in ways that could not have been predicted even a decade ago.