Medical sociology

This edited volume offers a rich collection of up-to-date research and critical scholarship from various African institutions on incidents of youth violence, intervention and prevention in sub-Saharan Africa.

Este libro recoge buena parte de los escritos sobre temas médicos (el ejercicio médico, la formación, el sistema de salud colombiano, la ética médica y otros asuntos relacionados con la medicina) divulgados por el doctor Fernando Sánchez Torres a través de su columna de opinión en el periódico El Tiempo desde 1957 hasta 2022.

En 1925, el diario La Nación señalaba que la Madre María "ofrecía a todos, ricos y pobres, lo que la ciencia no puede ofrecer y la religión se niega a dar".

Originally published in 1980, this book presents a detailed empirical analysis of the key dimensions of inequality and poverty in Wales, discussing such aspects as the distribution of income and wealth, the housing situation, the functioning of the NHS and urban deprivation.

Originally published in 1980, this book presents a detailed empirical analysis of the key dimensions of inequality and poverty in Wales, discussing such aspects as the distribution of income and wealth, the housing situation, the functioning of the NHS and urban deprivation.

This new 2-volume set explores new research and perspectives in genetic engineering, which enables the precise control of the genetic composition and gene expression of organism.

Examining historical, clinical, and artistic material, in both written and visual form, this book traces the figure of the contemporary hysteric as she rebels against the impossible demands made upon her.

Examining historical, clinical, and artistic material, in both written and visual form, this book traces the figure of the contemporary hysteric as she rebels against the impossible demands made upon her.

Exploring the potential of poetry and poetic language as a means of conveying perspectives on later life, this book examines questions such as 'how can we understand ageing and later life?

Das Virus SARS-CoV-2 und die dadurch ausgelöste Coronapandemie haben die Gesellschaft in einen Krisenmodus versetzt: Die Coronapandemie hat tiefgreifenden Einfluss auf den Alltag von Subjekten in allen Lebenslagen genommen, gesellschaftliche Bedingungen verändert und institutionelle Veränderungen angestoßen.

How does a patient with sensory disability - such as a hearing or vision impairment, or both - get effective communication from a health care provider?

What role might the Devil have in health and illness?

Miscarriage is a significant women's health issue.

Anthropology has long shied away from examining how human beings may lead happy and fulfilling lives.

In a work that spans the twentieth century, Nancy Tomes questions the popular--and largely unexamined--idea that in order to get good health care, people must learn to shop for it.

"e;This book is essential reading for researchers of tobacco policy change.

This book engages in a critical discussion on how to respect and promote patients' autonomy in difficult cases such as palliative care and end-of-life decisions.

This book explores the complexities of drugs policy in Britain, contradicting the over simplified representation found in the public sphere.

This book examines the organizational consequences of the recent international preoccupation with managing patient safety in the clinic.

This book offers original knowledge, debate, and understanding from frontline fieldwork data and the relations between mental health difficulties, mental healthcare provision, and social theory.

This ambitious book provides a comprehensive history of the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Programme on AIDS (GPA), using it as a unique lens to trace the global response to the AIDS pandemic.

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

The book deals with precarity within the digital age and focuses on media change and social insecurity.

This book draws on medical sociology and science and technology studies to develop a novel conceptual framework for understanding innovation processes, using the case study of deep brain stimulation in paediatric neurology.

This book discusses feature films that enrich our understanding of doctor-patient dilemmas.

This book offers valuable insights into the psychosocial characteristics of patients interested in cosmetic surgery.

This book explores how conditions for childbearing are changing in the 21st century under the impact of new biomedical technologies.

This book provides a richly detailed contribution to the understanding of healthy volunteer experiences in clinical drug trials in the UK.

This edited collection brings together the social dimensions of three key aspects of recent biomedical advance in HIV research: Treatment as Prevention (TasP), new technologies such as Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), and the Undetectable equals Untransmittable (U=U) movement.

This multifaceted book examines the free market reform of the Chinese healthcare system in the 1980s and the more collectivist or socialist counter-reforms that have been implemented since 2009 to remedy some of the problems introduced by marketization.

This book demystifies the cultural work of syphilis from the late nineteenth century to the present.

This text addresses the key issue of informal payments, or 'red packets', in the Chinese Healthcare system.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the latest theory and practice on Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) in research.

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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.

This book takes up the challenge of examining women's understandings of eating disorders and child sexual abuse away from a framework focused on pathology.

This book uses a variety of empirical cases on topics including drug development, egg donation, and governance of healthcare facilities, to investigate how actors navigate the uncertainties that permeate the interfaces of health, technologies, and politics in post-Soviet settings and what the implications of their chosen navigation routes are.

This book, as the first exploration of suicide in Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS), illustrates the scarcity of suicide research in the discipline and argues that the leading cause of violent death worldwide is a multifaceted phenomenon that needs to be fully comprehended as a significant and often preventable form of world-wide violence.

Are painkillers mundane medications safe for use to ease human suffering?

Fast-track medical settings call for at-your-fingertips information.

This is a book on how home is made when care enters the lives of people as they grow old at home or in 'homely' institutions.

This convenient and easy-to-use orientation reference and care guide provides new neonatal nurses and their preceptors with the core information they need to provide all aspects of safe, effective, holistic care to newborn infants and their families.

Raimund Pousset gives in this essential a concise account of senicide, the modern form of cultural killing of the elderly.

This book describes how malaria both frustrates and facilitates life for Indigenous Palawan communities living in the forested foothills of the municipality of Bataraza on the island of Palawan in the Philippines.

This book investigates the neuroscientific knowledge on addiction as an epistemic project.

This book interrogates how the so-called "e;Feminine Care"e; industry travelled from the United States to Latin America via manufactured and disposable menstrual management technologies and certain narratives about menstrual bodies.

This book describes the life and times of a physician-scientist over the last half-century.