Medical sociology

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

Compulsive Body Spaces presents a spatial understanding of compulsion.

Getting older is not what it used to be.

As unrest over officer-involved shootings and deaths in custody takes center stage in conversations about policing and the criminal justice system, Guidelines for Investigating Officer-Involved Shootings, Arrest-Related Deaths, and Deaths in Custody addresses critical investigation components from an expert witness perspective, providing the insights necessary to ensure a complete investigation.

The 13th edition of Death, Society, and Human Experience provides a panoramic overview of the ways that we are touched by death and dying, both as individuals and as members of society.

In this comprehensive, accessible handbook, acclaimed social theorist Anthony Elliott brings together internationally distinguished and emergent scholars in the social sciences and humanities to review the major theoretical traditions, trends and trajectories in the hugely popular field of identity studies.

Do people with mental retardation have a special prophetic role?

It is well known that body image has been associated to health risks related to eating habits.

Blind Narrations and Artistic Subjectivities: Corporeal Refractions makes an important contribution to the field of blindness studies by highlighting the centrality of blindness in literary compositions.

Sociology offers fascinating insights into social life that tell us so much about people and society.

This book explores the human rights consequences of recent and ongoing revisions of mental health legislation in England and Ireland.

The dominance of "e;illness narratives"e; in narrative healing studies has tended to mean that the focus centers around the healing of the individual.

This book challenges the evidence-based practice movement to re-think its assumptions.

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences.

This book examines the social inequalities relating to food insecurity in the UK, as well as drawing parallels with the US.

This book examines diseases and disasters from the perspective of social and political theory, exploring the ways in which political leaders, social activists, historians, philosophers, and writers have tried to make sense of the catastrophes that have plagued humankind from Thucydides to the present COVID pandemic.

Forensic Mental Health Professionals have entered the fray of child custody litigation in ways that could not have been predicted even a decade ago.

Shaw addresses the 'ethical turn' in contemporary sociological thinking, by exploring the contribution of sociology and the social sciences to bioethical debates about morality and tissue exchange practices.

The Genome Incorporated examines the proliferation of human genomics across contemporary media cultures.

This book explores the moral and representational issues associated with engaging young people with popular media depictions of death and dying.

Leigh Hunt's contributions to English literature, although downplayed for several decades, are now acknowledged by scholars as key to our understanding of the Romantic period.

What does modern medical science know about menstruation?

Scapegoating is projected here as an occurrence in justice systems of modern democracies.

Social Theory and Health Education brings together health education scholarship with a diverse range of social theories to demonstrate the value and impact of their application to associated health and education contexts.

This book examines how legal institutions reify the value of death in the twenty-first century.

International in perspective, the essays in this volume are primarily concerned with two facets of the mixed economy of welfare--charity and mutual aid.

Medical uncertainty has been with us for centuries and remains a recurrent problem for patients, doctors, and researchers alike.

Over the past 30 years Robert Dingwall has published an influential series of articles on the professions, especially law and medicine.

In the context of the most significant influx of migrants in European history, the objective of this book is to provide healthcare professionals with essential knowledge and skills to effectively treat and prevent cardiovascular diseases in ethnic minorities.

This book analyses the economic and social impact of the Covid-19 crisis with special focus on India.

This book is the first comprehensive study of rare disorders from a historical, political, and social perspective.

Raising to the challenge of how to grasp such forms of inequalities that are mediated affectively, Affective Inequalities in Intimate Relationships focuses on subtle inequalities that are shaped in everyday affective encounters.

This groundbreaking book challenges the medicalized approach to women's experiences including menstruation, pregnancy, and menopause and suggests that there are better ways for women to cope with real issues they may face.

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

First published in 1977, this book focuses on the disability of spina bifida in children.

At a moment when reproduction is increasingly politicized, this volume explores the breadth of contemporary research on reproduction from the perspective of medical sociology, illuminating the lived experience of reproduction and offering insights to inform sociology and health policy.

This edited volume brings together leading scholars on the death penalty within international, regional and municipal law.

This book examines how pacemakers and defibrillators participate in transforming life and death in high-tech societies.

This volume explores different models of regulating the use of restrictive practices in health care and disability settings.

Drawing on fieldwork with British Pakistani clients of a UK genetics service, this book explores the personal and social implications of a genetic diagnosis .

Today, the general public craves information on food and agriculture with an unprecedented passion.

This book offers a cross-national analysis of contemporary issues and challenges for the governing of urban regions.

Around the year 1000 Rodulfus Glaber described France as being in the throes of a building boom.

Originally published in 1931, The English Medieval Feast examines the act of feasting and food during the medieval period.

Why is music so important to most of us?

Drawing on ecosystem thinking, complexity and postnormal science, Ecological Health offers a radical new way of thinking about the health issues of the 21st Century.