Medical sociology

The therapeutic landscape concept, first introduced early in the 1990s, has been widely employed in health/medical geography and gaining momentum in various health-related disciplines.

Originally published in 1974 Sociology and Development are a selection papers from the British Sociological Association's conference on development.

This book explores how meaning-making during the COVID-19 pandemic, and specifically during the period of the April 2020 lockdowns, may be derived from shared lived experience among participants, residing in diverse geographical regions.

Technologies of Procreation bridges the gap between medical technology and cultural values.

The Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization explores the nature of contemporary malaises, diseases, illnesses and psychosomatic syndromes, examining the manner in which they are related to cultural pathologies of the social body.

This book enquires from a sociological perspective into contemporary corporeal transformations brought about by exoskeletal devices.

This practical and accessible textbook provides an overview of the key principles for conducting ethnography in healthcare settings.

This collection opens up spaces where lives end, bodies are disposed of and memories generated: hospitals, hospices, care homes, coroners' courts, funeral premises, cemeteries, roadsides, the spirit world.

This is the story of a professor of Medical Sociology, diagnosed with colon cancer.

Adopting an anthrozoological perspective to study the participation of non-human animals in regimes of care, this book examines the use of canine scent detection to alert 'hypo-unaware' individuals to symptoms of human chronic illness.

This book is the first of its kind to explore how women challenge the powerful sociocultural and gendered phenomenon of diet culture across the broad anti-diet movement and beyond.

This book offers the first ever critical history of dementia studies.

On March 26, 1997, the bodies of 39 men and women were found in an opulent mansion outside San Diego, all victims of a mass suicide.

This expanded second edition of Mitzi Waltz's Autism: A Social and Medical History offers an in-depth examination of how the condition was perceived before it became a separate area of investigation, and how autism has been conceptualised and treated since.

This book considers the change in rhetoric surrounding the treatment of AIDS from one of crisis to that of 'ending AIDS'.

Transgender people are waiting to be seen in healthcare and waiting to be recognised as the legitimate experts on their own lives and needs.

First published in 1986, this book reviews research on the role parents play in fostering the early development of children with mental handicaps.

In der gesellschaftlichen Gesundheitswahrnehmung sind zahnärztliche Vorgänge von besonderer Bedeutung, da die Mundgesundheit einen hohen Stellenwert bei der Bevölkerung besitzt.

What is life like for women with learning disabilities detained in a secure unit?

AIDS is the number one health issue facing the nation today.

The concept of deviance is complex, given that norms vary considerably across groups, times, and places.

Commodified Bodies examines the social practice of organ transplantation and trafficking and scrutinises the increasingly neoliberal tendencies in the medical system.

Infectious disease pandemics are a rising threat in our globalizing world.

Non-representational theory is an academic approach that animates the active world; its taking-place.

This book provides an appreciative, sociological engagement with accounts of the embodied practice of self-injury.

With contributions from an international team of leading researchers, the book pulls together updated research results in the area of HIV/AIDS modeling to provide readers with the latest information in the field.

The centrality of food in life, and the importance of food as life, is undeniable.

Most aged in India are experiencing a highly protracted death in hospitals, entangled in tubes and machines.

Everyday foodways are a powerful means of drawing boundaries between social groups and defining who we are and where we belong.

What does it mean to say that a human being is body and soul, and how does each affect the other?

Love and depression are key elements in the cultural script of emotions or affectual life within contemporary Western society, and the two have become intertwined to such an extent that it is informative to talk about depressive love.

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.

The questions addressed in the book revolve around the public nature of health as an asset and the rights associated with it, by drawing attention to sociology's role in shedding light on current dynamics and understanding how they may change in the future.

Adolescence and young adulthood is often a difficult enough time without serious illness.

We all have a body, but how does it impact upon our day to day life?

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the most important themes in German HIV/AIDS prevention and care from the beginning of the epidemic to the present.

Located between three powerful phenomena, public health, the law and social stigma, methadone maintenance treatment attracts loyal advocates, vociferous critics and innumerable engaged onlookers.

Based on articles chosen from the sixth annual 'Social Aspects of AIDS' conference, this book focuses on up-to-date accounts of HIV/AIDS research and associated social/sexual issues.

This volume addresses the need for sociological insight through empirically rich, theoretically innovative chapters that range across methods, traditions and foci in order to cast new light on the place, role and impact of neuroscience.

In this crucial contribution to current debates, Natalie Darko exposes the misconception that health research and health services are equally effective for all and highlights their failures in engaging with Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) groups.

Exploring how and why communication breakdowns occur during pandemics and world disasters, this book offers solutions for improving communication and managing future public health crises.

This book offers a new, salutogenic, perspective on the development of early modern cities by exploring profound and complex ways in which architecture and landscape design served to promote public health on an urban scale.

Telling the story of a clinical trial testing an innovative gel designed to prevent women from contracting HIV, Negotiating Pharmaceutical Uncertainty provides new insight into the complex and contradictory relationship between medical researchers and their subjects.

This book is the first to provide evidence-based experience to showcase how stakeholder management can be applied within social marketing programs, as well providing contemporary discussions of social marketing research.

Food sovereignty is an emerging discourse of empowerment and autonomy in the food system with the development of associated practices in rural and some urban spaces.

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