Medical sociology

The field of the medical humanities is developing rapidly, however, there has also been parallel concern from sceptics that the value of medical humanities educational interventions should be open to scrutiny and evidence.

Experiences of Health Workers in the COVID-19 Pandemic shares the stories of frontline health workers-told in their own words-during the second wave of COVID-19 in Australia.

Analyses the limitations of respect for autonomy and consent in human research ethics and explores alternative ethical approaches.

Where do law and medicine converge and diverge in their responses to and understandings of harm and suffering?

The connections between death, contemplation and the contemplative life have been a recurrent theme in the canons of both western and eastern philosophical thought.

Do you work with angry children?

With the World Health Organization estimating that nearly four percent of global deaths are due to alcohol, alcohol misuse can be an extremely damaging social problem, and one that governments around the world have endeavored to address through a range of policy strategies.

Dementia is an urgent global concern, often termed a widespread 'problem', 'tragedy' or 'burden' and a subject best addressed by health and social policy and practice.

First published in 1999, this volume examines the history of psychiatry and pathogenic parenting models over the past two centuries and contains the results of a study carried out by the author on the experiences of the parents of patients with Schizophrenia drawn from a sample of parents of patients in a forensic and a community setting.

The book outlines a range of non-pharmacological therapies clinicians can adopt in their daily practice and sets out information and advice on each therapy and how to implement them in practice, illustrated with case studies and practical examples and drawing on the author's own clinical work.

It is beyond dispute that physical activity is good for us, but what are the benefits, challenges and impacts of sport on health?

This interdisciplinary collection examines the role that alcohol, tobacco and other drugs have played in framing certain groups and spaces as 'dangerous' and in influencing the nature of formal responses to the perceived threat.

Ursula Hermann geht den Fragen nach, wie Hospiz- und Palliativteams ihre beruflichen Anforderungen erleben und welche Themen sie in der Supervision zur Sprache bringen.

Information forms the basis for education, and currently education is the only weapon available to stem the spread of HIV/AIDS and to foster empathy toward individuals already affected by the disease.

This book provides an ethnographic account of the ways in which biomedicine, as a part of the modernization of healthcare, has been localized and established as the culturally dominant medical system in rural Bangladesh.

At the end of 2019, the world came across a virus, SARS-CoV-2, which causes a disease classified as COVID-19.

This interdisciplinary collection presents valuable discourse and reflection on the nature of a good death.

This edited collection offers interdisciplinary perspectives on some of the key health challenges faced by individuals, communities, and governments during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This volume covers macro-level system issues and micro-level issues involving health and health care concerns for women, and racial and ethnic minorities.

The phenomenon of pain presents problems and puzzles for philosophers who want to understand its nature.

This book examines the discourse of a "e;post-AIDS"e; culture, and the medical-discursive shift from crisis and death to survival and living.

This study examines how hunger narratives and performances contribute to a reconsideration of neglected or prohibited domains of thinking which only a full confrontation with the body's heterogeneity and plasticity can reveal.

Icons of Life tells the engrossing and provocative story of an early twentieth-century undertaking, the Carnegie Institution of Washington's project to collect thousands of embryos for scientific study.

The financialization, globalization and industrialization of our food systems make it increasingly difficult to access quality fresh food.

This book creates a scope for achieving mental wellbeing apart from the currently dominant mental health practices, critiqued for their damaging effects on individuals and families.

This textbook is the new edition of Purnell's famous Transcultural Health Care, based on the Purnell twelve-step model and theory of cultural competence.

Qualität im Gesundheitswesen wird in besonderem Maße durch das Qualitätsverständnis in den Gesundheitsberufen und der Logik professioneller Handlungspraxis bestimmt.

Migration and Health: Critical Perspectives offers a radical rethinking of the field by unsettling conventional ideas of mobility and borders to highlight the ways in which they produce health inequalities.

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Seafood draws on controversial themes in the interdisciplinary field of food studies, with case studies from different eras and geographic regions.

The question of communication and understanding between different generations is emerging as a key issue for the twenty-first century.

From the 1600s, enslaved people, and after abolition of slavery, indentured labourers were transported to work on plantations in distant European colonies.

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

This volume of Research in the Sociology of Health Care analyses a variety of important social factors and their relationship to health and health care inequities in both the United States and the rest of the world.

This book explores patient safety themes in developed, developing and transitioning countries.

This book examines the history and evolution of Ayurveda and other indigenous medical traditions in juxtaposition with their encounter with colonial modernity.

There is a strong case today for a specific focus on mental public health and its relation to social and physical environments.

This volume draws together the work of a diverse range of thinkers and researchers to address the question of happiness critically, using a wide variety of theoretical and empirical methodologies.

What happens when a group traditionally defined as lacking the necessary capacities of citizenship is targeted by government programs that have made 'citizenship inclusion' their main goal?

A Companion to the Anthropology of Environmental Health presents a collection of readings that utilize a medical anthropological approach to explore the interface of humans and the environment in the shaping of health and illness around the world.

Focusing on the world of Norwegian Opioid Substitution Treatment (OST) in the aftermath of significant reforms, this book casts a critical light on the intersections between medicine and law, and the ideologies infusing the notions of "e;individual choice"e; and "e;patient involvement"e; in the field of addiction globally.

This important book develops a critical understanding of the bridging of arts and health domains, drawing on models and perspectives from social sciences to develop the case for arts and health as a social movement.

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

In this book, pioneering social epidemiologist Richard Wilkinson, shows how inequality affects social relations and well-being.

There is considerable rhetoric and concern about weight and obesity across an increasing range of national contexts.

As unemployment soared in Zimbabwe in the early twenty-first century, betting on football/soccer emerged as a popular, if unsustainable, livelihood option, and the number of betting halls mushroomed.

This book gives voice to justice-involved Canadian youth and young adults by sharing their views on their journey towards desistance from crime and social and community (re)integration.

Funeral monuments are fascinating and diverse cultural relics that continue to captivate visitors to English churches, yet we still know relatively little about the messages they attempt to convey across the centuries.

This book provides a comprehensive and approachable overview of Medicare under the Affordable Care Act.