Medical sociology

How fictional representations of dead bodies develop over the twentieth century is the central concern of Lisa K.

This collection takes an interdisciplinary look at how the transformation towards plant-based diets is becoming more culturally acceptable, economically accessible, technically available and politically viable.

How can carers and relatives support a person's identity, relationships and emotional wellbeing through changes that occur in the later stages of dementia?

Drawing on comparative fieldwork in the UK, Pakistan and Australia, this book provides the first systematic assessment of pathways and access to CAM and how it is used in health practice and by individuals with cancer.

This book engages with, and contests, the 'new sociology of nature'.

The permanent struggle for optimisation can be seen as one of the most significant cultural principles of contemporary Western societies: the demand for improved performance and efficiency as well as the pursuit of self-improvement are con-sidered necessary in order to keep pace with an accelerated, competitive modern-ity.

Gender as a social class along with its concomitant heteronormative gender coercion seem to be intransigent across time and cultures.

In recent years, the rituals and beliefs associated with the end of life and the commemoration of the dead have increasingly been identified as of critical importance in understanding the social and cultural impact of the Reformation.

This book reviews the political significance of COVID-19 in the context of earlier pandemic encounters and scares to understand the ways in which it challenges the existing individual health, domestic order, international health governance actors, and, more fundamentally, the circulation-based modus operandi of the present world order.

AIDS has a unique political history.

This is a unique interdisciplinary exploration of the contemporary phenomenon of online medicine purchasing.

Moving beyond existing models from economics and political science, this book shows how crises in capitalism and democracy can be solved with Systemic coordinated inter-organizational networks.

Cafe culture is flourishing in cities across the world.

This new edition offers a timely update to the leading textbook dedicated to all aspects of U.

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

Issues of leisure and dying are not often discussed in depth by those in recreation or thanatology.

Going beyond the division of nature and society, this unique book explores human life as a process of biosocial becoming.

The Unmaking of Crime documents the pathways of offenders reforming their journey and desisting from crime, and assesses the opportunities and limitations of the criminal justice system in aiding this process.

Community care lies at the intersection of day-to-day life and the public world of service provision.

This book presents the latest research that shows how design thinking, making, and acting contribute to the co-designing and development of products, spaces, and services with people living with dementia.

A unique, documented case against the legalisation of ''assisted dying'', based mainly on empirical and logical ''slippery slope'' concerns.

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is predicted to be one of the greatest threats to public health in the twenty-first century.

This edited collection brings together social scientists working on race and ethnicity to address the question of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, with a focus on issues linked to racial and ethnic inequalities.

'Empowerment' is a term in widespread use today and one that is often considered to be a self-evident good.

Explore how Western-trained Asian-born scientists'' return migrations are fueling and fueled by Asia''s rise in the global scientific field.

Health Communication and Mass Media is a much-needed resource for those with a professional or academic interest in the field of health communication.

This Routledge Handbook of Childhood Studies and Global Development explores how global development agendas and economic development influence children's lives.

First published in 2006.

Death penalty has produced endless discourses not only in the context of prisons, prisoners and punishment but also in various legal aspects concerning the validity of death penalty, the right to life, and torture.

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

This book critically interrogates emerging interconnections between religion and biomedicine in Africa in the era of antiretroviral treatment for AIDS.

The entire infrastructure and culture of medicine is being transformed by digital technology, the Internet and mobile devices.

How do you become an 'amputee', 'war-wounded', 'victim' or 'disabled' person?

Taking a global viewpoint, this volume addresses issues arising from recent developments in the enduring and topical debates over Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) and their relationship to Intellectual Property (IP).

Originally published in 1986, this book discusses issues such as social class differences in health; the effect of unemployment on health; the relationship between income and health; how much of the class differences in death rates can be explained in terms of medically recognized factors.

The concept of risk is one of the most suggestive terms for evoking the cultural character of our times and for defining the purpose of social research.

Doctors and patients, inter-professional rivalries, how sociologists might tackle the study of vital topics in health - all these are enduring themes in sociology and medicine.

As modern society's routine sequestration of death and grief is increasingly replaced by late-modern society's growing concern with existential issues and emotionality, this book explores grief as a social emotion, bringing together contributions from scholars across the social sciences and humanities to examine its social and cultural aspects.

With intense and violent portrayals of death becoming ever more common on television and in cinema and the growth of death-centric movies, series, texts, songs, and video clips attracting a wide and enthusiastic global reception, we might well ask whether death has ceased to be a taboo.

This book documents food insecurity in urban communities across the United States and asks whether emerging urban food and agriculture initiatives can address the food security needs of American city dwellers.

This book departs from conventional bioethics approaches to consider the different moral and political economies involved in the donation and transformation of human organs, gametes, stem cells and breastmilk.

This book explores dementia-related aggression, violence, and homicide through a detailed analysis of "e;gray mist killings.

Recognizing Transsexuals draws on interviews with transsexuals at various stages of transition to offer an original account of transsexual embodiment and bodily aesthetics.

With thorough coverage of inequality in health care access and practice across the field it surveys, The Sociology of Health, Healing, and Illness is widely acclaimed by instructors as the most comprehensive of any available.

Focusing on reproductive and sexual justice, this important book explores in detail both the challenges that trans people face when negotiating reproductive and sexual health in restrictive social contexts, and their agency in advocating for change.

The rise of the health, beauty and fitness industries in recent years has led to an increased focus on the body.

This book provides in-depth perspectives on communal food and dining practices.