The Sociology of Health and Medicine

The fully revised edition of this highly respected textbook addresses the most important theoretical and empirical debates in the sociology of heal...

A new edition of a seminal textbook that offers an up-to-date, concise and theoretically and empirically informed introduction to the core issues i...

A complete, highly readable and student orientated introduction. Comprehensive coverage of all the key theories, debates and issues showing how soc...

Based on years of experience teaching sociology to health care students, Lani Russell has written a truly introductory text which explains the main...

-The medical establishment has become a major threat to health.- This is the opening statement and basic contention of Ivan Illich's searing social...

DescriptionChinese medicine has a rich history that has only been made more complex by its integration with "Western" biomedicine. Legitimization o...

Helps researchers to plan, carry out, and analyse health research, and evaluate the quality of research studies. This book is suitable for research...

Drawing on case studies from optometrists, physiotherapists, pedorthists and allied health assistants, this book offers an innovative comparison of...

With expanded coverage of Fleck and a new section on 'Transformations of the Medical Profession', this updated Third Edition provides students with...

Health and legal experts from England and Canada consider the influence of medical doctors on reforms in this comparative study. With reflections o...

This illuminating volume explores the challenges and possibilities for developing a social view of sickle cell, and for improving the quality of li...

Reducere. Health Equity: A Solutions-Focused Approach is a comprehensive textbook that illustrates existing conditions of health disparities across a range o...

Shortlisted for the British Sociological Association's Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize in 2011 By the 1970s, medicine appeared to have c...

Reducere. With The Energy Cure, Dr. William Bengston presents astonishing evidence that challenges us to totally rethink what we believe about our ability to...

Reducere. The practice of curanderismo, or Mexican American folk medicine, is part of a historically and culturally important health care system deeply roote...

Reducere. Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe offers students a concise introduction to health and healing in Europe from 1500 to 1800. Bringing toge...

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a biological mechanism whereby a micro-organism evolves over time to develop the ability to become resistant to a...

Reducere. Alternative medicine is not a fashionable new trend but an established cultural strategy, as well as a dynamic feature of mainstream contemporary m...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Teresa L. ScheidEditor: Eric R. WrightWith chapters written by leading scholars and researchers, the third edition of A Han...

Reducere. This book offers a unique, interdisciplinary, and thoughtful look at the challenges and potency of Black women's struggle for inner peace and menta...

A New York Times Notable Book of 2007 The Invisible Cure is an account of Africa's AIDS epidemic from the inside--a revelatory dispatch from the in...

A complex subject approached with playfulness and skill. Weaving the whimsy and the profound, the philosophical and the physical. The book offers f...

Reducere. DescriptionWith knowledge and compassion, Caring for Your Adopted Child offers the wisdom that adoptive parents need to provide the best possible c...

Social problems in many domains, including health, education, social relationships, and the workplace, have their origins in human behavior. The do...

Reducere. In this completely revised and updated edition of Raising Adopted Children, Lois Melina, editor of Adopted Child newsletter and the mother of two c...

The Open Access version of this book, available at https: //www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781351234146, has been made available under a Creative Com...

DescriptionHailed by Mark Kuczewski as an "outstanding achievement, " and "must-reading for any serious student of bioethics, " Methods in Medical ...

Reducere. Sport is often thought of as simply games, but it can in fact be much more. Sport can be responsible for guiding social justice movements, igniting...