Medical sociology

Empower patients with culture-specific strategies for promoting health, treating disease, and preventing violence!

Torticollis: Differential Diagnosis, Assessment and Treatment, Surgical Management and Bracing fulfills a need, long overdue.

Torticollis: Differential Diagnosis, Assessment and Treatment, Surgical Management and Bracing fulfills a need, long overdue.

Empower patients with culture-specific strategies for promoting health, treating disease, and preventing violence!

Through Social Work Practice in Home Health Care, social workers will discover a unique "e;how-to"e; approach to social work practice in home health care agencies.

Through Social Work Practice in Home Health Care, social workers will discover a unique "e;how-to"e; approach to social work practice in home health care agencies.

Fundamentals of Perinatal Social Work: A Guide for Clinical Practice provides perinatal social work students and beginning practitioners with an overview of the basics of perinatal social work theory and practice, allowing you to identify and promote a healthy social and emotional environment for pregnant women and/or infants.

Fundamentals of Perinatal Social Work: A Guide for Clinical Practice provides perinatal social work students and beginning practitioners with an overview of the basics of perinatal social work theory and practice, allowing you to identify and promote a healthy social and emotional environment for pregnant women and/or infants.

If you work with older adults who are developmentally disabled and are seeking ways to incorporate exercise, arts activities, and other activities into your program, this is the book for you!

If you work with older adults who are developmentally disabled and are seeking ways to incorporate exercise, arts activities, and other activities into your program, this is the book for you!

Cosmetic surgery represents an extreme form of modern grooming.

Cosmetic surgery represents an extreme form of modern grooming.

Contemporary Theorists for Medical Sociology explores the work of key social theorists and the application of their ideas to issues around health and illness.

Contemporary Theorists for Medical Sociology explores the work of key social theorists and the application of their ideas to issues around health and illness.

In the last two decades there has been a flourishing research carried out jointly by economists, psychologists and neuroscientists.

In the last two decades there has been a flourishing research carried out jointly by economists, psychologists and neuroscientists.

The Routledge Handbook of Sport, Gender and Sexuality brings together important new work from 68 leading international scholars that, collectively, demonstrates the intrinsic interconnectedness of sport, gender and sexuality.

The Routledge Handbook of Sport, Gender and Sexuality brings together important new work from 68 leading international scholars that, collectively, demonstrates the intrinsic interconnectedness of sport, gender and sexuality.

A paradigm shift in the ways in which mental health services are delivered is happening-both for service users and for professional mental healthcare workers.

A paradigm shift in the ways in which mental health services are delivered is happening-both for service users and for professional mental healthcare workers.

Technologies of Sexuality, Identity and Sexual Health highlights the complex ways in which sexuality is expressed and enacted through local ideologies, global identities and material cultures, and their influence on people's sexual health and well-being.

Technologies of Sexuality, Identity and Sexual Health highlights the complex ways in which sexuality is expressed and enacted through local ideologies, global identities and material cultures, and their influence on people's sexual health and well-being.

Learning from Near Misses can provide opportunities to improve safety without the need for harm to have first occurred.

This book focuses on the rhetoric of food and the power dimensions that intersect this most fundamental but increasingly popular area of ideology and practice, including politics, culture, lifestyle, identity, advertising, environment, and economy.

This book focuses on the rhetoric of food and the power dimensions that intersect this most fundamental but increasingly popular area of ideology and practice, including politics, culture, lifestyle, identity, advertising, environment, and economy.

This Book explains and investigates how medicines are controlled in Europe, especially the EU.

This Book explains and investigates how medicines are controlled in Europe, especially the EU.

The contribution of the German sociologist and philosopher Jurgen Habermas has proved seminal for attempts to understand the nature of social change in the context of global capitalism.

The contribution of the German sociologist and philosopher Jurgen Habermas has proved seminal for attempts to understand the nature of social change in the context of global capitalism.

Over the course of the past thirty years, there has been an explosion of work on sexuality, both conceptually and methodologically.

Over the course of the past thirty years, there has been an explosion of work on sexuality, both conceptually and methodologically.

In recent years, disability studies has been driven by a model of disability which focuses on the social and economic oppression of disabled people.

In recent years, disability studies has been driven by a model of disability which focuses on the social and economic oppression of disabled people.

The past three decades have seen enormous changes in the organisation of health care.

The past three decades have seen enormous changes in the organisation of health care.

In the post-Cold War, post financial crisis era, health care is an issue of critical political, personal and economic concern.

In the post-Cold War, post financial crisis era, health care is an issue of critical political, personal and economic concern.

Is a State free to adopt measures to protect the public health of its citizens?

Is a State free to adopt measures to protect the public health of its citizens?

This book provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary examination of disability, hate crime and violence, exploring its emergence on the policy agenda.

This book provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary examination of disability, hate crime and violence, exploring its emergence on the policy agenda.

The national public asylum system in Ireland was established during the early nineteenth century and continued to operate up to the close of the twentieth century.

The national public asylum system in Ireland was established during the early nineteenth century and continued to operate up to the close of the twentieth century.

How should we understand transgenderism, especially as it affects children and adolescents?

How should we understand transgenderism, especially as it affects children and adolescents?

Capacity building - which focuses on understanding the obstacles that prevent organisations from realising their goals, while promoting those features that help them to achieve measurable and sustainable results - is vital to improve the delivery of health care in both developed and developing countries.

Capacity building - which focuses on understanding the obstacles that prevent organisations from realising their goals, while promoting those features that help them to achieve measurable and sustainable results - is vital to improve the delivery of health care in both developed and developing countries.

A conflict arises in the clinic over the care of a critically ill, incapacitated patient.

A conflict arises in the clinic over the care of a critically ill, incapacitated patient.

This book discusses the significance of late twentieth century and early twenty first century American fiction written in response to the AIDS crisis and interrogates how sexual identity is depicted and constructed textually.