Medical sociology

Over the past 15 years, geography has made many significant contributions to our understanding of disabled people's identities, lives, and place in society and space.

Health promotion with young people has largely been framed by theories of behaviour change to target 'unsafe', 'unhealthy' and/or 'risky' behaviours.

Discover new information and perspectives on why today's culture holds prejudice toward gay men and lesbians!

Exploring sexuality in the twenty-first century, this unique book collects together more than fifty timely and accessible contributions to create a wide-ranging and compelling picture of contemporary American sexuality.

The importance of George Brown's sustained contribution to medical sociology through his longitudinal studies of psychiatric disorder and its relationship to social context is widely recognised.

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

Disability and Inequality:Socioeconomic Imperatives and Public Policy in Jamaica explores the lived experiences of persons with disabilities (PWDs) in Jamaica, examining measurable socioeconomic deficits that establish PWDs are more likely to experience inferior education, training, and labor market outcomes compared to persons without disabilities.

Global Health Disputes and Disparities explores inequalities in health around the world, looking particularly at the opportunity for, and limitations of, international law to promote population health by examining its intersection with human rights, trade, and epidemiology, and the controversial issues of legal process, religion, access to care, and the social context of illness.

Over recent decades, the decline of trust, mounting of fears, and increasing denial of science appear as a marked shift of societal attitudes towards many institutions and professionals.

In Suffering Narratives of Older Adults, Mary Beth Quaranta Morrissey turns to the traditions of phenomenology, humanistic psychology and social work to provide an in-depth exploration of the deep structure of the suffering experience.

Impending environmental catastrophe, threat of terrorism, viruses both biological and virtual, disease: there seem to be so many reasons to panic today.

First published in 1998, this volume why and how genetic engineering has emerged as the technology most likely to change our lives, for better or worse, in the opening century of the third millennium.

This book explores the design, communication and implementation of social change programmes aimed at solving various social problems, from reducing health-risk behaviour to 'green' consumption or financial literacy.

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

A doctor grapples with the challenges of mother-and-child health in the developing world.

This book presents a broad overview of the challenges posed by COVID-19 in India and its neighboring countries.

Medical humanities and disability studies are disciplines at the cutting edge of innovative critical work in the study of health and disability, but to date there has been no book-length examination of the relationship between the two.

This book studies the sociology of health and medicine across three different countries, the USA, UK and Australia, examining the nature of disciplines and their specialties and posing sociological questions about the formation of intellectual fields and their social relations.

This book critiques the decision-making process in Article 53(a) of the European Patent Convention.

Responding to Men in Crisis is based on new research looking at gendered assumptions about rationality and men's mental health.

Inappropriate health care is an escalating and expensive problem.

This book, now in paperback, revisits Peter Townsend's classic study of residential care for older people in Britain conducted in the late 1950s.

Spending the final chapter of your life in a nursing home is considered, by many, a fate worse than death.

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

COVID-19: Cultural Change and Institutional Adaptations provides critical insights into the impact of the pandemic on the relationship between cultures and institutions.

Over the past fifty years, design and branding have become omnipotent in the market and have made their way to other domains as well.

As growing numbers of patients turn to complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), the focus of attention has largely been on whether these therapies work and whether they are safe.

This volume creates a platform to showcase health geography research from countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), and draws on theoretical and methodological innovations to initiate a discussion on the complexities of the issues impacting health in the region.

Because of the individual and varying symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome, medical guidelines encompassing the needs of every patient simply do not exist.

This book is a collective journal of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Doping - the use of performance-enhancing substances and methods - has long been a high-profile issue in sport but in recent years it has also become an issue in wider society.

Abortion remains one of the most complex and controversial issues in contemporary law and bioethics.

Meat and dairy production and consumption are in crisis.

Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems today provide increasing levels of clinical decision support and are the fulcrum for change for value-based healthcare delivery.

The groundbreaking contribution made by this unique book draws on the experiences recorded by five people who are facing death - Jenny Diski, Philip Gould, Christopher Hitchens, Michael Mayne and Cory Taylor.

Panoramic and provocative in its scope, this handbook is the definitive guide to contemporary issues associated with male sex work and a must read for those who study masculinities, male sexuality, sexual health, and sexual cultures.

The Routledge International Handbook of Race, Class, and Gender chronicles the development, growth, history, impact, and future direction of race, gender, and class studies from a multidisciplinary perspective.

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.

This book explores the power music has to address health inequalities and the social determinants of health and wellbeing.

Since the 1970s, alarming discourses about declining fertility and the difficulties of balancing work and family have flourished in Western countries.

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.

Public health law has been a subject of much controversy and contestation, especially since the COVID-19 pandemic broke out.

All behaviours, indeed all forms of agency, are viewed as emotionally-driven.

In recent decades, the governance of the environment in agri-food systems has emerged as a crucial challenge.

Recent studies into the experiences and failures of health care services, along with the rapid development of patient advocacy, consumerism and pressure groups have led historians and social scientists to engage with the issue of the medical complaint.

Anorexia tends to be studied within health disciplines, such as medicine, psychoanalysis or psychology.

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

Despite the recent history of violence and destruction, Bosnia-Herzegovina holds a positive place in history, marked by a continuous interweaving of different religious cultures.

This is a book about the dai, or traditional birth practitioner, and her place in the emerging therapeutic domain in colonial and contemporary India.

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?