Medical sociology

HIV/AIDS and HIV/AIDS-Related Terminology: A Means of Organizing the Body of Knowledge offers an adaptable and extensive framework for organizing the ever-expanding number of resources on the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

Shamanism is commonly understood through reference to spirits and souls.

Medical advances prolong life.

This book examines narratives of dementia in contemporary literary texts, studying what is now a pressing issue with deep political, economic, and social implications for many ageing societies.

This book constitutes the first publication to utilise a range of social science methodologies to illuminate diverse and new aspects of health research in prison settings.

The question of communication and understanding between different generations is emerging as a key issue for the twenty-first century.

The importance of community health workers is increasingly recognized within many of today's most high-profile global health programs, including campaigns focused on specific diseases and broader efforts to strengthen health systems and achieve universal health care.

Originally published in 1989, Death, Ritual and Bereavement examines the social history of death and dying from 1500 to the 1930s.

Human variation represented a central research topic for life scientists and posed challenging administrative issues for colonial bureaucrats in the first half of the 20th century.

Ageism: Past, Present, and Future presents perspectives for understanding ageism and puts ageism in the context of specific social institutions.

The Routledge Handbook of Tea Tourism provides comprehensive and cutting-edge insights into global tea tourism.

Women's Health Matters, like its sister volume Women's Health Counts, is an invaluable practical guide to doing feminist research on women's health.

In the course of last two decades, the notion of care has become prominent in the social and cultural sciences.

This volume provides a literary-cum-historiographical analysis of epidemics and pandemics.

This volume breaks new ground by asking how our understandings of gender can be informed by exploring the socio-technical relations of ICTs in health care, and how far an appreciation of the ways in which gender works can inform and improve our understanding of how ICTs are being developed, implemented, and used in health care contexts.

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

By focusing on quantitative and qualitative research in Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires, this book expands on the notion of "e;therapeutic culture.

This book focuses on justice and its demands in the way of providing people with medical care.

Policy, performance and finance are the issues currently headlining the healthcare agenda and are likely to remain so for the foreseeable future.

Bildungschancen sind in allen westlichen Gesellschaften sozial ungleich verteilt, ebenso wie die Chancen auf ein gesundes Aufwachsen von Kindern.

COVID-19: Surviving a Pandemic provides critical insights into survival strategies employed by communities and individuals around the world during the pandemic.

Weight stigma is so pervasive in our culture that it is often unnoticed, along with the harm that it causes.

Drug Injecting and HIV Infection is a comparative international study of drug injecting behaviour and HIV infection based on the World Health Organization's study of 13 cities as disparate as Athens, Bangkok, Glasgow and Rio de Janeiro.

This book examines the discourse of a "e;post-AIDS"e; culture, and the medical-discursive shift from crisis and death to survival and living.

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.

In our post-welfare society, health is increasingly viewed as a commodity and individuals are defined as 'health care consumers'.

Embark on a Journey to Fortify Your Business in the Digital AgeAttention small business owners: The digital landscape is fraught with dangers, and the threat grows more sophisticated every day.

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

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.

Pandemics.

Pandemics.

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

Im The Living ProofTHERE IS NO HIV, The Rainbow Warrior, Exposing The Truth About HIV Antibody Testing and the Metaphysics of Self-Healing Through Chakra and Kundalini Awareness is the authors personal story of healing and a journey toward spiritual awakening having transcended the HIV Debacle and Crisis.

Das Alkoholentzugssyndrom ist eine ernsthafte Herausforderung, die sowohl körperliche als auch psychische Auswirkungen haben kann.

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

"La ENFERMEDAD que CURA".

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

Krebs durch Alkohol das Krebsrisiko Welche Krebsarten löst Alkohol aus – Erfahrungen - Informationen Sie erhalten detaillierte Informationen zu diesen Themen und sind dadurch in der Lage, die gewonnen Erkenntnisse für sich, für Betroffene und für den Unterricht einzusetzen.

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

Racism is a public health crisis and we can do something about it.

WINNER OF THE BREAD & ROSES PRIZE FOR RADICAL PUBLISHING 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE 2024A FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST SUMMER BOOK OF 2023 'Important and ambitious' Observer, Book of the Day 'An illuminating and powerful intersectional analysis of health inequalities and racism' i-D Magazine'Prepare to be blown away' Chikwe Ihekweazu, Assistant Director General at WHOIn the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, we are all too aware of the urgent health inequalities that plague our world.

Dieses praxisorientierte Handbuch bietet Ärzten und Ärztinnen eine strukturierte Orientierung für den medizinischen Arbeitsalltag.

Salud y enfermedad se expresan en el cuerpo, y éste habla por tanto de manera nítida a través de la enfermedad.

In this groundbreaking and absorbing book Dr.

In an era when capitalism leaves so many to suffer and to die, with neoliberal 'self-care' offering little more than a bandaid, how can we take health and care back into our hands?

'Thrilling.