Medical sociology books

This innovative book offers new empirical research and policy-relevant care practices from across the globe to understand...  Read More >>

This Open Access Book contains reports on the situation of people in the second half of life during the first year...  Read More >>

This book explores how person-centred health care could be refined to help persons alleviate pain-related distress...  Read More >>

This book is a critical response to a range of problems, some theoretical, others empirical, that shape questions...  Read More >>

‘Empowerment’ is a term in widespread use today and one that is often considered to be a self-evident good. Here,...  Read More >>

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Significant debate exists about the possible solutions for nearly all of the most important global health challenges...  Read More >>

Reconsidering Dementia Narratives explores the role of narrative in developing new ways of understanding, interacting...  Read More >>

This innovative volume exposes dementia as a condition that the aging prison population is increasingly facing....  Read More >>

Based on a study of the London Borough of Newham, this book aims to show how the selective licensing tool available...  Read More >>

Attention and Responsibility in Global Health shows the construction of health through what is neglected and how...  Read More >>

Following criticisms of the traditionally polarized view of understanding suffering through either medicine or social...  Read More >>

This book investigates how graphic medicine enables sufferers of mental illness to visualize the intricacies of...  Read More >>

Investigating the reality and significance of racial categories, Remapping Race in a Global Context examines the...  Read More >>

This innovative volume offers new insights into the social dimensions of emotional distress in abuse-related mental...  Read More >>

This book explores how people draw upon spiritual, religious, or faith-based practices to support their mental wellness...  Read More >>

This book examines how CCTV cameras expose the patient body inside the mental health ward, especially the relationship...  Read More >>

The questions addressed in the book revolve around the public nature of health as an asset and the rights associated...  Read More >>

Combining critical research with memoir, essay, poetry and creative biography, this insightful volume sensitively...  Read More >>

This volume explores how ‘the market’continues to affect and redefine health professionals as moral beings and impact...  Read More >>

By drawing broadly on international thinking and experience, this book offers a critical exploration of mad studies...  Read More >>

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Focusing on the world of Norwegian opioid substitution treatment (OST) in the aftermath of significant reforms,...  Read More >>

Through an ethnohistorical chronicling of the emotionally-laden treatment of selected suicide media-events, this...  Read More >>

This interdisciplinary collection examines the role that alcohol, tobacco and other drugs have played in framing...  Read More >>