Medical sociology

This persuasive volume develops a novel approach to medical education and the medical humanities, making a case for the integration of the two to explore the ways in which 'warm' humanism and 'cold' technologies can come together to design humane posthumanist futures in medicine.

This book is the first of its kind to examine key topics in death, dying, and bereavement through a critical lens, highlighting how the understanding and experience of death can vary considerably, based on social, cultural, historical, political, and medical contexts.

This thought-provoking book exposes the values, judgements, and hierarchies that underlie ageism in care settings.

The Routledge Handbook of Law and Death provides a comprehensive survey of contemporary scholarship on the intersections of law and death in the 21st century.

This important book introduces the Health in All Policies (HiAP) approach to health promotion, not only detailing how policy-making at all levels can foster the right conditions for better public health but also examining the inherent challenges to such an overarching approach.

The Routledge Handbook of Health Communication and Popular Culture offers rich insights into the ways in which communication about health through popular culture can become a part of healing, wellness, and health-related decisions.

Food allergy has increased over the past two decades, with a larger number of patients presenting a myriad of related symptoms and illnesses to physicians and allied health professionals.

In Post-Colonial Realism, Hanna Samir Kassab develops a theoretical framework to explain, understand, and predict international conflict, placing culture at the center of international political analysis.

First published in 1986, Where it hurts provides a straightforward and accessible introduction to sociology for beginning students.

In health care, we come across daily promises of miraculous cures for various ailments.

Changing Abortion Laws in Mexico Through Advocacy and Human Rights presents the recent evolution of abortion laws in Mexico (2007-2021) and how advocates have shaped them through human rights discourses, challenging social norms.

This book explores the complicated dynamics of the global diaspora and its central role in times of crisis.

Wellness has become a mainstream concept, yet we have limited sociological understanding of how wellness functions in contemporary Western culture.

Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are enabling the construction of "e;digital ghosts"e;: algorithmic reconstructions of deceased individuals based on patterns of interaction in their text messages, social media posts, and other personal data.

This compelling collection of essays examines how historically significant marketing schemes have profoundly impacted women's health and healthcare across the world.

This is the first interdisciplinary edited collection that examines the manifestation of social inequalities and polarisations in Britain throughout the dual crises of the Brexit vote and the Covid-19 pandemic.

The purposeful production, exchange, and consumption of alcohol, like all human endeavour, is always a matter of time and temporality - and ranges from the universality of Einsteinian space-time relativity through to species-specific nature times and the myriad of anthropocentric constructs of nature time and of social times/temporalities.

Culinary Man and the Kitchen Brigade offers an exploration of the field of normative subjectivity circulated within western fine dining traditions, presenting a theoretical analysis of the governing relationship between the chef, who embodies the Culinary Man, and the fine dining brigade.

This comprehensive resource provides a one-stop information repository, exploring all psychological aspects of Covid-19.

This compelling collection of essays examines how historically significant marketing schemes have profoundly impacted women's health and healthcare across the world.

Disability Justice in Public Health Emergencies is the first book to highlight contributions from critical disability scholarship to the fields of public health ethics and disaster ethics.

This fascinating collection shines a social epidemiological spotlight on the key public health issues affecting sub-Saharan Africa today.

This book examines the biological, psychological, and sociocultural aspects of challenges related to ageing in India.

In the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, motherhood in Canada, as elsewhere in the western world, became contested terrain.

Creating Meaning in Funerals is a book about the ways in which bereaved families and communities create meaningful ceremonies against a backdrop of what is culturally appropriate, even when their choices might make little economic sense to those outside the culture.

A Psychoanalytic Approach to the Feminine sees Houari Maidi dissect the concepts and characteristics of the feminine in both males and females, separating them from womanhood and femininity, and equipping readers with the tools to better understand pathologies such as masochism, narcissism, depression, and paranoia.

This vivid account by a nationally prominent doctor reports the daily challenges of offering and receiving abortion services in a volatile political and social atmosphere.

Wellness has become a mainstream concept, yet we have limited sociological understanding of how wellness functions in contemporary Western culture.

The Emerald Guide to Ann Oakley offers a comprehensive guide to reading and understanding the development of Oakley's sociological ideas, placing them in the context of her life and her ground-breaking research into domestic and gender sociology.

This book examines the impact of climate change on eye disease and eye health.

In this study of representations of children and childhood, a global team of authors explores the theme of undeadness as it applies to cultural constructions of the child.

Disability Justice in Public Health Emergencies is the first book to highlight contributions from critical disability scholarship to the fields of public health ethics and disaster ethics.

In the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, motherhood in Canada, as elsewhere in the western world, became contested terrain.

This book examines how the principle of ecological integrity in international law and governance can help address our current global crises.

Creating Meaning in Funerals is a book about the ways in which bereaved families and communities create meaningful ceremonies against a backdrop of what is culturally appropriate, even when their choices might make little economic sense to those outside the culture.

This book explores the moral and political significance of gastrospaces: the spaces where we eat.

The Emerald Guide to Ann Oakley offers a comprehensive guide to reading and understanding the development of Oakley's sociological ideas, placing them in the context of her life and her ground-breaking research into domestic and gender sociology.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the discourse on health in India, examining governance, policies, programmes, and the involvement of the state and civil society in ensuring health for all and especially for people living with HIV/AIDS.

This book uniquely examines, across cultures, the health benefits and detriments of religious beliefs, with important implications for individual wellbeing and human survival.

This book examines the biological, psychological, and sociocultural aspects of challenges related to ageing in India.

What part did the British voluntary hospital system play in the health of the community in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?

This book critically analyses diverse experiences related to disability in India.

This book presents recent sociological research investigating the intersection of technology, human sexuality, and health.

This book argues that the catastrophe of COVID-19 provided a momentous time for groups, institutions, and states to reassess their worldviews and relationship to the entire world.

This is a book about food, philosophy, and intellectual property rights.

Policing the Pandemic explores how police agencies in United Kingdom and the United States have adjusted to their changing environments, both during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic and later, when the restrictions have been relaxed and the societies have begun to develop their new normal.

This collection draws upon a range of thematic and regional case studies and uses the right to health as a normative framework to explore the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa.

This collection draws upon a range of thematic and regional case studies and uses the right to health as a normative framework to explore the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa.