Medical sociology books

3213 books were found.

Digital Wellness, Health and Fitness Influencers: Critical Perspectives on Digital Guru Media

Digital Wellness, Health and Fitness Influencers: Critical...

Author: Stefan Lawrence (Leeds Beckett University, UK)
ISBN: 9781032044422
Format: Hardback
$263.00

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

Life Indoors: How our homes are shaping our bodies and our planet

Life Indoors: How our homes are shaping our bodies and...

Author: Rachael Wakefield-Rann
ISBN: 9789811651786
Format: Paperback
$181.10

In this timely and expansive book, Wakefield-Rann investigates how emerging disease ecologies are undermining definitions...  Read More >>

Social Science Perspectives on Global Public Health

Social Science Perspectives on Global Public Health...

Author: Vincent La Placa ,  Julia Morgan
ISBN: 9780367652098
Format: Paperback
$75.99

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Social Science Perspectives on Global Public Health

Social Science Perspectives on Global Public Health...

Author: Vincent La Placa ,  Julia Morgan
ISBN: 9780367652111
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Healthcare in Post-Independence India: Kolkata and the Crisis of Private Healthcare Services

Healthcare in Post-Independence India: Kolkata and the...

Author: Amrita Bagchi
ISBN: 9780367762964
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book analyses the development of private healthcare in post-Independence Kolkata, India, and the rapid expansion...  Read More >>

Health Communication and Disease in Africa: Beliefs, Traditions and Stigma

Health Communication and Disease in Africa: Beliefs,...

Author: Bankole Falade ,  Mercy Murire
ISBN: 9789811625480
Format: Paperback
$284.60

This book is a collection of essays from across Africa which highlight the roles of beliefs and traditions in health...  Read More >>

Frontline Workers and Women as Warriors in the Covid-19 Pandemic

Frontline Workers and Women as Warriors in the Covid-19...

Author: R. C. Sobti ,  Vipin Sobti
ISBN: 9781032345994
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Rethinking Evidence in the Time of Pandemics: Scientific vs Narrative Rationality and Medical Knowledge Practices

Rethinking Evidence in the Time of Pandemics: Scientific...

Author: Eivind Engebretsen (Universitetet i Oslo) ,  Mona Baker (Universitetet i Oslo)
ISBN: 9781316516607
Format: Hardback
$90.54

Explores differences in beliefs of what constitutes reliable scientific evidence during public health emergencies,...  Read More >>

Mad Knowledges and User-Led Research

Mad Knowledges and User-Led Research

Author: Diana Susan Rose
ISBN: 9783031075506
Format: Hardback
$232.85

This book presents a critical examination of the development of user involvement within research, and investigates...  Read More >>

Healthcare Technology in Context: Lessons for Telehealth in the Age of COVID-19

Healthcare Technology in Context: Lessons for Telehealth...

Author: Alan Taylor
ISBN: 9789811640773
Format: Paperback
$310.47

This book investigates how the technology used by telehealth services shapes our healthcare, and how we, as humans,...  Read More >>

The Eroticizing of HIV: Viral Fantasies

The Eroticizing of HIV: Viral Fantasies

Author: Jaime García-Iglesias
ISBN: 9783031113512
Format: Hardback
$103.47

This book examines sexual fantasies and their influence on everyday life through the stories of twenty-two men who...  Read More >>

Recovering Assemblages: Unfolding Sociomaterial Relations of Drug Use and Recovery

Recovering Assemblages: Unfolding Sociomaterial Relations...

Author: Aysel Sultan
ISBN: 9789811912344
Format: Hardback
$232.85

Drawing together insights and provocations from diverse fields of inquiry, this important new book asks probing...  Read More >>

Routledge Handbook of Health and Media

Routledge Handbook of Health and Media

Author: Lester D. Friedman ,  Therese Jones
ISBN: 9780367441081
Format: Hardback
$410.00

The Routledge Handbook of Health and Media provides an extensive review and exploration of the myriad ways that...  Read More >>

Lifestyle and Medicine in the Enlightenment: The Six Non-Naturals in the Long Eighteenth Century

Lifestyle and Medicine in the Enlightenment: The Six...

Author: James Kennaway ,  Rina Knoeff
ISBN: 9781032400327
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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Performance Comparison and Organizational Service Provision: U.S. Hospitals and the Quest for Performance Control

Performance Comparison and Organizational Service Provision:...

Author: Christopher Dorn (Trier University, Germany)
ISBN: 9780367567484
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Exploring the mechanisms underlying performance comparisons, Performance Comparison and Organizational Service Provision...  Read More >>

Drugs and Public Health in Post-Soviet Central Asia: Soviet-Style Health Management

Drugs and Public Health in Post-Soviet Central Asia:...

Author: Muyassar Turaeva
ISBN: 9783031097027
Format: Paperback
$116.41

The book outlines post-Soviet style of health management in Central Asia. Regional studies on Central Asia to date...  Read More >>

Medizinische Soziologie in Deutschland: Entstehung und Entwicklungen

Medizinische Soziologie in Deutschland: Entstehung und...

Author: Johannes Siegrist ,  Ulrich Stößel
ISBN: 9783658376918
Format: Paperback
$142.29

Der Band soll ein Bild der Medizinischen Soziologie in Deutschland vermitteln: Entstehung, Themen, Einbettung in...  Read More >>

Conflict, Culture and Identity in GP Training

Conflict, Culture and Identity in GP Training

Author: Jennifer L. Johnston
ISBN: 9789811929632
Format: Hardback
$90.54

Problematising structures of GP training and highlighting how complex historical power dynamics play out in medical...  Read More >>

Reconsidering Patient Centred Care: Between Autonomy and Abandonment

Reconsidering Patient Centred Care: Between Autonomy...

Author: Alison Pilnick (University of Nottingham, UK)
ISBN: 9781800717442
Format: Hardback
$158.99

Through the detailed examination of a large corpus of healthcare interactions collected from a range of settings...  Read More >>

The Global Old Age Care Industry: Tapping into migrants for tackling the old age care crisis

The Global Old Age Care Industry: Tapping into migrants...

Author: Vincent Horn ,  Cornelia Schweppe
ISBN: 9789811622397
Format: Paperback
$284.60

This book focuses on the emerging global old age care industry developing as a response to tackle the “old age care...  Read More >>

Affect, Alienation, and Politics in Therapeutic Culture: Capitalism on the Skin

Affect, Alienation, and Politics in Therapeutic Culture:...

Author: Suvi Salmenniemi
ISBN: 9783031105715
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book contributes to research on therapeutic culture by drawing on longstanding ethnographic work and by offering...  Read More >>

Digital Health and Patient Data: Empowering Patients in the Healthcare Ecosystem

Digital Health and Patient Data: Empowering Patients...

Author: Disa Choun ,  Anca Petre
ISBN: 9781032105567
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book explores what means to empower patients in a digital world and how this empowerment will bridge the gap...  Read More >>

Schools, Space and Culinary Capital

Schools, Space and Culinary Capital

Author: Gurpinder Singh Lalli (University of Wolverhampton, UK)
ISBN: 9780367464813
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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

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