Medicine: general issues books

Employing Deleuzo-Guattarian orientations to assemblage and feminist approaches to care, this book offers a critique...  Read More >>

This book reviews the challenges and opportunities in the implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco...  Read More >>

Originating in the popular Sociología en Cuarantena blog, this volume provides a detailed and multifaceted analysis...  Read More >>

This book introduces the notion of culinary capital to investigate socialisation and school mealtime experiences...  Read More >>

Focusing on end-of-life care for people who use, or have used, substances, this book explores their social and health...  Read More >>

This book looks at the trajectories of reproduction and abortion rights in diverse socio-cultural contexts in various...  Read More >>

This book takes religion as an entry point for a deeper exploration into why practices of gender-based violence...  Read More >>

This book explores two public sector scandals in the UK, drawing on Max Weber’s thought on ‘the iron cage’ to understand...  Read More >>

Oral health is integral to well-being and quality of life. This important edited volume brings together leading...  Read More >>

This book studies the critical issues that dominate contemporary discourse on biomedical ethics. It brings together...  Read More >>

This innovative book provides a new conceptual analysis of loneliness – a condition associated with severe health...  Read More >>

This anthropological study explores the beliefs and practices that emerged around masking in the United States during...  Read More >>

This book examines the phenomenon of ‘digital guru media’ (DGM), the self-styled online influencers, life coaches,...  Read More >>

This book examines the regulatory framework for untested and unapproved (off-label) uses of medicines in the EU,...  Read More >>

Although sport participation decreases on average for women once they become mothers, athletes have demonstrated...  Read More >>

This book is about older women’s strength, freedom, tenacity, determination, resilience, independence, social and...  Read More >>

This innovative work combines a rigorous academic analysis of the political economy of organ supply for transplantation...  Read More >>

This book is the first ethnography of the little-known world of clozapine clinics in Australia and the United Kingdom....  Read More >>

Interweaving ethnography and autoethnography, this book documents the emergence of doulas as care professionals...  Read More >>

This ground-breaking book uses organizational ethics and stakeholder theory to explore the ethical accountability...  Read More >>

This book explores previously unexamined overlaps between the poetic imagination and the medical mind. It shows...  Read More >>

This book explores the history of international efforts to contagious animal diseases from the 1860s to the mid-1940s....  Read More >>

This significant volume is the first to use primary research evidence to examine tourism, ageing, and the implications...  Read More >>

The Plague Years collects scholarly and essayistic reflections on literary, visual, and sonic representations of...  Read More >>

2020 was the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the most significant global pandemic since the ‘Spanish flu’ in...  Read More >>