Medical sociology

This is the first book to comprehensively consider reasons why some people live in squalor and how best to intervene.

This book combines empirical research with commentary on ethics, policy and legislation, raising provocative questions about reproductive donation and surrogacy.

This book combines empirical research with commentary on ethics, policy and legislation, raising provocative questions about reproductive donation and surrogacy.

The Drug Effect offers new perspectives on critical debates in the field of alcohol and other drug use.

The Drug Effect offers new perspectives on critical debates in the field of alcohol and other drug use.

An original anthropological approach to the AIDS epidemic in South Africa, arguing that music is central to understanding AIDS interventions.

This compelling new account looks back to the early twentieth-century origins and subsequent development of HIV/AIDS before 1981.

This second edition of the definitive text covers all aspects of HIV/AIDS in South Africa, from basic science to medicine.

This book offers a novel approach to understanding the complexities of communication in culturally and linguistically diverse health care contexts.

A new edition of a seminal textbook that offers an up-to-date, concise and theoretically and empirically informed introduction to the core issues in the sociology of health and health care.

This book provides a critical engagement with the intensified struggles to be found within elderly care provision.

This book examines the concept of dignity from a variety of global perspectives.

This book explores the academic processes of nursing education in times of uncertainty around healthcare policy and healthcare provision.

This collection presents stories from the field that were gathered from researchers using a breadth of visual methods.

This book explores issues raised by past and present practices of animal enhancement in terms of their means and their goals, clarifies conceptual issues and identifies lessons that can be learned about enhancement practices, as they concern both animals and humans.

This book presents an existential and psychosocial interpretation of the experiences of mental health care practitioners whose work involves use of coercion.

This book challenges and revises existing ways of thinking about leaving care policy, practice and research at regional, national and international levels.

This book explores international biomedical research and development on the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease.

In this book, Susanne Lundin explores the murky world of organ trade.

This book explores the lived, embodied experiences of aging men as a counterpoint to the weary stereotypes often imposed on them.

This book presents the early existential phenomenology of Martin Heidegger as a way to reformulate academic disability studies and activist disability politics.

This book examines the organizational consequences of the recent international preoccupation with managing patient safety in the clinic.

Human enhancement has become a major concern in debates about the future of contemporary societies.

This innovative edited collection brings together leading international academics to explore the use of various non-prescription and prescription substances for the purpose of perceived body image enhancement.

The Nocebo Effect documents the transformation of normal problems into medical ones and brings out the risks of this inflationary practice.

This book develops a new multimodal theoretical model of contagion for interdisciplinary scholars, featuring contributions from influential scholars spanning the fields of medical humanities, philosophy, political science, media studies, technoculture, literature, and bioethics.

Drawing on insights from international organization and securitization theory, the author investigates the World Health Organization and how its approach to global health security has changed and adapted since its creation in 1948.

Male Circumcision in Japan offers an analysis of the surgical procedure based on extensive ethnographic investigation, and is framed within historical and current global debates to highlight the significance of the Japanese case.

In the course of last two decades, the notion of care has become prominent in the social and cultural sciences.

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.