Medical sociology

This book provides a thought-provoking guide to conducting collaborative arts-based research.

Tabona Shoko contends that religion and healing are intricately intertwined in African religions.

Get an inside perspective on life as a disabled gay man!

Teenage pregnancy is seen as a problem by researchers and policymakers alike all over the world, but particularly so in the context of developing countries.

Analysing emotions and emotion-management in the academic organization, Passion and Paranoia shows how focusing on emotions in organizations can offer insights into important aspects and the dynamics of organizational processes.

Paediatric Neurosurgery for Nurses: Evidence-based care for children and their families provides accessible and up-to-date information for nurses working in paediatric neurosurgery.

The most thorough major academic textbook available, this classic text presents the most important research studies in the field.

This proposed book draws on the expertise of 35 experts in the field of Addiction Medicine to provide the reader with a current and comprehensive view of addiction as related to women, pregnancy, newborns, infants and children.

Over the last two decades, attempts to control the problem of tuberculosis have become increasingly more complex, as countries adopt and adapt to evolving global TB strategies.

This book theorizes the roles of optimism in anthropological thinking, research, writing, and practice.

Following the routinization of assisted reproduction in the industrialized world, technologies such as in vitro fertilization, preimplantation genetic diagnosis, and DNA-based paternity testing have traveled globally and are now being offered to couples in numerous non-Western countries.

Waisted: The Biology of Body Fat outlines the fascinating, often misunderstood and sometimes controversial biology of fat, otherwise known as adipose tissue.

Allopathy is often described as 'western' medicine, the antithesis of homeopathy, yet all medical systems are infused with culture-specific values, ideas and beliefs.

Exploring both the intrapersonal (moral) and interpersonal (ethical) nature of death and dying in the context of their development (philosophical), Dying in a Transhumanist and Posthuman Society shows how death and dying have been and will continue to be governed in any given society.

This book, based on extensive original research, traces the development of China's public health system, showing how advances in public health have been an integral part of China's rise.

How do social scientists create facts?

Death affects all aspects of life, it touches our emotions and influences our identity.

First published in 1986, this study explores the increased public concern with policies of 'community care' and their effects on informal carers, at that time.

Home Gardens for Improved Food Security and Livelihoods demonstrates how home gardens hold particular significance for resource-poor and marginalized communities in developing countries, and how they offer a versatile strategy toward building local and more resilient food systems.

Once a synonym for death, cancer is now a prognosis of multiple probabilities and produces a world of uncertainty for carers.

This book explores the changing landscapes of the commercialisation of medical care in China.

This book provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to the past, present, and future direction of death rituals and deathcare systems within Japan.

Originally published in 2002 Culture, Ritual and Revolution in Vietnam is a study of the history and consequences of the revolutionary campaign to transform culture and ritual in northern Vietnam.

Practising Social Inclusion presents what we know about what works, and why, in promoting social inclusion and practising in a socially inclusive way.

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.

Auf Basis von Feldforschungen und Interviews in 6 forensischen Kliniken werden die Herausforderungen der Therapie und Resozialisierung im Maßregelvollzug untersucht.

In recent years everyone from politicians to celebrity chefs has been proselytizing about how we should grow, buy, prepare, present, cook, taste, eat and dispose of food.

Foodways in Southern Oman examines the objects, practices and beliefs relating to producing, obtaining, cooking, eating and disposing of food in the Dhofar region of southern Oman.

With specially commissioned introductions from international experts, the Psychological Insights for Understanding COVID-19 series draws together previously published chapters on key themes in psychological science that engage with people's unprecedented experience of the pandemic.

This collection discusses appropriate methodologies for comparative research and applies this to the issue of trial transformation in the context of achieving justice in post-conflict societies.

Death is at once a universal and everyday, but also an extraordinary experience in the lives of those affected.

This thought-provoking book exposes the values, judgements, and hierarchies that underlie ageism in care settings.

Grief and Bereavement in Contemporary Society is the authoritative guide to the study of and work with major themes in bereavement.

Mandatory sterilization laws enacted in dozens of states coast-to-coast and approved by the U.

The Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology provides a contemporary overview of the key themes in medical anthropology.

This book describes and analyzes the impact of COVID-19 on the relationship between the United States and China in its human, social and political dimensions.

The Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity brings the ecological turn to sociocultural understandings of self.

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.

'Reducing and Preventing Alcohol Misuse and Its Consequences' is one of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare's Grand Challenges for Social Work, a programme launched in 2012.

Expertise is recast as fluid collaboration on complex tasks that requires envisioning the future and mastering change.

This handbook will raise awareness about the importance of health and well-being of people with disabilities in the context of the global development agenda: Leaving No-one Behind.

In this exciting symposium, the editor brings to print important new information on AIDS and how HIV affects the brain.

This book covers a wide range of topics relating to the health and wellbeing of the construction workforce.

Seventeenth-century England was a country obsessed with property rights.

Do nurses still care?

Despite living in a 'globalized' world where advances in medicine, technology and science come at an ever-increasing pace, there exist staggering inequalities in health.

The Routledge Handbook of Health Communication and Popular Culture offers rich insights into the ways in which communication about health through popular culture can become a part of healing, wellness, and health-related decisions.

The past decade has witnessed a significant increase in the construction of health as a security issue by national governments and multilateral organizations.