Medicine: general issues books

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 >>

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 >>

This book looks at COVID-19, along with other recent infectious...  Read More >>

International Issues in SEND and Inclusion brings together a collection of cutting-edge researches on approaches...  Read More >>

This volume explores the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for the sustainability of the present global political...  Read More >>

This book explores the social, ethical and legal implications of Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART). Providing...  Read More >>

This comprehensive book brings together research published during 2021 analysing the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic...  Read More >>

Drawing on Falloppia's Observationes anatomicae of 1561 and on dozens of handwritten and published sets of student...  Read More >>

The contributors to this volume contemplate on the impact of the pandemic on our relationships with children and...  Read More >>

This book provides a theoretically and empirically grounded examination of the struggle for maternity care in contemporary...  Read More >>

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