Medical sociology books

3213 books were found.

Covid Conspiracy Theories in Global Perspective

Covid Conspiracy Theories in Global Perspective

Author: Michael Butter (University of Tübingen, Germany) ,  Peter Knight (University of Manchester, UK)
ISBN: 9781032359434
Format: Paperback
$75.99

Covid Conspiracy Theories in Global Perspective examines how conspiracy theories and related forms of misinformation...  Read More >>

Why Wellness Sells: Natural Health in a Pharmaceutical Culture

Why Wellness Sells: Natural Health in a Pharmaceutical...

Author: Colleen Derkatch (Toronto Metropolitan University)
ISBN: 9781421445281
Format: Hardback
$109.00

"How and why the idea of wellness holds such rhetorical—and harmful—power. In Why Wellness Sells, Colleen Derkatch...  Read More >>

Handbook of Global Urban Health

Handbook of Global Urban Health

Author: Igor Vojnovic (Michigan State University) ,  Amber Pearson (University of Otago)
ISBN: 9781032475578
Format: Paperback
$83.99

The book is intended to be a reference in global urban health for research libraries and faculty collections. It...  Read More >>

COVID-19: Individual Rights and Community Responsibilities

COVID-19: Individual Rights and Community Responsibilities...

Author: J. Michael Ryan (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Peru)
ISBN: 9781032299075
Format: Paperback
$75.99

COVID-19: Individual Rights and Community Responsibilities provides critical insights into the tensions between...  Read More >>

Noncommunicable Diseases: A Compendium

Noncommunicable Diseases: A Compendium

Author: Nick Banatvala (WHO) ,  Pascal Bovet (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
ISBN: 9781032307923
Format: Paperback
$62.99

Focusing on cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer, and chronic respiratory disease, and their five shared main...  Read More >>

Noncommunicable Diseases: A Compendium

Noncommunicable Diseases: A Compendium

Author: Nick Banatvala (WHO) ,  Pascal Bovet (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
ISBN: 9781032307930
Format: Hardback
$263.00

Focusing on cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer, and chronic respiratory disease, and their five shared main...  Read More >>

Childlessness in the Age of Communication: Deconstructing Silence

Childlessness in the Age of Communication: Deconstructing...

Author: Cristina Archetti
ISBN: 9781032478067
Format: Paperback
$77.99

Childlessness in the Age of Communication draws on a range of disciplines and fields including sociology, health,...  Read More >>

Young People, Violence and Strategic Interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa

Young People, Violence and Strategic Interventions in...

Author: Kammila Naidoo ,  Oluwafemi Adeagbo
ISBN: 9783031206788
Format: Hardback
$310.47

This interdisciplinary and cross-cutting volume serves as a vital resource for experts at universities, in international...  Read More >>

Cancer and the Politics of Care: Inequalities and Interventions in Global Perspective

Cancer and the Politics of Care: Inequalities and Interventions...

Author: Linda Rae Bennett ,  Lenore Manderson
ISBN: 9781800080744
Format: Paperback
$51.75

Cancer and the Politics of Care presents new thinking on how social, economic, race, gender and other structural...  Read More >>

Withstanding Vulnerability throughout Adult Life: Dynamics of Stressors, Resources, and Reserves

Withstanding Vulnerability throughout Adult Life: Dynamics...

Author: Dario Spini ,  Eric Widmer
ISBN: 9789811945694
Format: Paperback
$90.54

This open access interdisciplinary book integrates the major findings and theoretical advances of a 12-year research...  Read More >>

Cancer and the Politics of Care: Inequalities and Interventions in Global Perspective

Cancer and the Politics of Care: Inequalities and Interventions...

Author: Linda Rae Bennett ,  Lenore Manderson
ISBN: 9781800080751
Format: Hardback
$103.50

Cancer and the Politics of Care presents new thinking on how social, economic, race, gender and other structural...  Read More >>

Withstanding Vulnerability throughout Adult Life: Dynamics of Stressors, Resources, and Reserves

Withstanding Vulnerability throughout Adult Life: Dynamics...

Author: Dario Spini ,  Eric Widmer
ISBN: 9789811945663
Format: Hardback
$116.41

This open access interdisciplinary book integrates the major findings and theoretical advances of a 12-year research...  Read More >>

Weathering the Storm: Stories of love, life, loss and discovery in the time of Covid

Weathering the Storm: Stories of love, life, loss and...

Author: Liz Rothschild
ISBN: 9781915220257
Format: Paperback
$46.55

This is a book about Covid-19 as it happened. It is a vivid, sometimes distressing, often uplifting and powerfully...  Read More >>

Disability and Ageing: Towards a Critical Perspective

Disability and Ageing: Towards a Critical Perspective...

Author: Ann Leahy (Maynooth University)
ISBN: 9781447357162
Format: Paperback
$69.84

Establishing a critical and interdisciplinary dialogue, this text engages with the typically disparate fields of...  Read More >>

Midwives in Mexico: Situated Politics, Politically Situated

Midwives in Mexico: Situated Politics, Politically Situated...

Author: Hanna Laako (El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Mexico) ,  Georgina Sánchez-Ramírez (El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Mexico)
ISBN: 9780367716219
Format: Paperback
$79.99

This book presents the contemporary history and dynamics of Mexican midwifery - professional, (post)modern or autonomous,...  Read More >>

Assisted Suicide and the European Convention on Human Rights

Assisted Suicide and the European Convention on Human...

Author: Stevie Martin
ISBN: 9780367628437
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Locating assisted suicide within the broader medical end-of-life context and drawing on the empirical data available...  Read More >>

Social Justice Pedagogies in Health and Physical Education

Social Justice Pedagogies in Health and Physical Education...

Author: Göran Gerdin ,  Wayne Smith
ISBN: 9781032043234
Format: Paperback
$79.99

This book makes the case that school Health and Physical Education (HPE) can make a unique contribution to young...  Read More >>

Normalizing Mental Illness and Neurodiversity in Entertainment Media: Quieting the Madness

Normalizing Mental Illness and Neurodiversity in Entertainment...

Author: Malynnda Johnson (Indiana State University, USA) ,  Christopher J. Olson (Dominican University, USA)
ISBN: 9780367762254
Format: Paperback
$79.99

This volume examines the shift towards positive and more accurate portrayals of mental illness in entertainment...  Read More >>

Flexible Dienstleistungsarbeit gesundheitsförderlich gestalten: Herausforderung für ambulante soziale Dienste und agile IT-Services

Flexible Dienstleistungsarbeit gesundheitsförderlich...

Author: Guido Becke
ISBN: 9783658370541
Format: Paperback
$131.97

Dies ist ein Open-Access-Buch.Im Zentrum des Bands steht die gesundheitsförderliche Gestaltung flexibler Dienstleistungsarbeit....  Read More >>

Health, Illness, and Society: An Introduction to Medical Sociology

Health, Illness, and Society: An Introduction to Medical...

Author: Steven E. Barkan
ISBN: 9781538177648
Format: Paperback
$127.00

Clear and concise – integrates recent research with the social determinants of health to provide a comprehensive...  Read More >>

Sexuality

Sexuality

Author: Jeffrey Weeks
ISBN: 9781032105345
Format: Paperback
$41.99

This new edition of the classic text for understanding human sexuality brings the arguments and evidence fully up...  Read More >>

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