Medical sociology books

2811 books were found.

Visceral Prostheses: Somatechnics and Posthuman Embodiment

Visceral Prostheses: Somatechnics and Posthuman Embodiment...

Author: Professor Margrit Shildrick (Stockholm University, Sweden) ,  Rosi Braidotti (Utrecht University the Netherlands)
ISBN: 9781350224940
Format: Paperback
$59.99

In the postmodern era, when the interface of bodies, biologies and technologies increasingly challenges the very...  Read More >>

Culture, Spirituality and Religious Literacy in Healthcare: Nordic Perspectives

Culture, Spirituality and Religious Literacy in Healthcare:...

Author: Daniel Enstedt ,  Lisen Dellenborg
ISBN: 9781032320540
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Elaborating with the concepts of culture and religious literacy, this volume examines theoretical, methodological...  Read More >>

Community Intervention: Clinical Sociology Perspectives

Community Intervention: Clinical Sociology Perspectives...

Author: Jan Marie Fritz ,  Jacques Rhéaume
ISBN: 9783030936976
Format: Paperback
$290.37

This edition includes several new gender-focused chapters, addressing local level initiatives based on the recommendations...  Read More >>

Dynamics of Drug Addiction and Abuse in India

Dynamics of Drug Addiction and Abuse in India

Author: Ranjit Singh Ghuman (Punjab, India) ,  Jatinder Singh (Chandigarh, India)
ISBN: 9781032258416
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Drug addiction and abuse is a major socio-economic and political problem in India – both at the national level in...  Read More >>

Syphilis: A Short Biography

Syphilis: A Short Biography

Author: Andrew P. Zbar
ISBN: 9783031097737
Format: Paperback
$145.17

I have tried to put the organism as the principal protagonist of the story, firmly in an historical focus which...  Read More >>

Persuasive Mittel in Corona-Präventionsvideos: Eine gattungsanalytische Untersuchung globaler Gesundheitskommunikation

Persuasive Mittel in Corona-Präventionsvideos: Eine...

Author: Judith Reinbold
ISBN: 9783658426309
Format: Paperback
$158.37

In diesem Buch werden 199 Videoclips, in denen Gesundheitsbehörden aus 17 Ländern Corona-Präventionsmaßnahmen nahelegen...  Read More >>

Pandemic, States and Societies in the Asia-Pacific, 2020–2021: Responding to COVID

Pandemic, States and Societies in the Asia-Pacific,...

Author: Charles Hawksley (University of Wollongong, Australia.) ,  Nichole Georgeou (Associate Professor and Director, Humanitarian and Development Research Initiative, University of Western Sydney)
ISBN: 9781032318219
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Hawksley and Georgeou bring together scholars and practitioners from across the region to analyse the main effects...  Read More >>

Risk and Crisis Communication During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Muddled Messages

Risk and Crisis Communication During the COVID-19 Pandemic:...

Author: Martin N. Ndlela (Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway)
ISBN: 9781032513560
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book examines the challenges of communicating risk and crisis messages during the COVID-19 pandemic to provide...  Read More >>

Gut Knowledges: Culinary Performance and Activism in the Post-Truth Era

Gut Knowledges: Culinary Performance and Activism in...

Author: Kristin Hunt
ISBN: 9781032372242
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Alcohol, Social Work, and Helping

Alcohol, Social Work, and Helping

Author: Stewart Collins
ISBN: 9781032592282
Format: Hardback
$179.00

First published in 1990, Alcohol, Social Work and Helping provides coherent and imaginative advice on how to counsel...  Read More >>

Environment and Health in Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh: Historical and Contemporary Scenario

Environment and Health in Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh:...

Author: Rais Akhtar
ISBN: 9781032346311
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This engaging book presents an insightful look into the contributing factors which have shaped the modern public...  Read More >>

Culture, Consolation, and Continuing Bonds in Bereavement: The Selected Works of Dennis Klass

Culture, Consolation, and Continuing Bonds in Bereavement:...

Author: Dennis Klass (Webster University, Missouri, USA)
ISBN: 9781032194448
Format: Paperback
$81.99

Culture, Consolation, and Continuing Bonds in Bereavement presents Dennis Klass’s most important contributions to...  Read More >>

We, Other Utopians: Recombinant DNA, Genome Editing, and Artificial Life

We, Other Utopians: Recombinant DNA, Genome Editing,...

Author: Eva Šlesingerová
ISBN: 9780367608033
Format: Paperback
$81.99

We, Other Utopians analyzes the topics of genome editing/recombinant DNA based on ethnographic research in the post-communist...  Read More >>

Older Adults and COVID-19: Implications for Aging Policy and Practice

Older Adults and COVID-19: Implications for Aging Policy...

Author: Edward Alan Miller (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA)
ISBN: 9780367633011
Format: Paperback
$81.99

This book explores the myriad ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has affected older adults and their families,...  Read More >>

Race and Ethnicity in Pandemic Times

Race and Ethnicity in Pandemic Times

Author: John Solomos (University of Warwick, UK)
ISBN: 9781032073538
Format: Paperback
$81.99

This edited collection brings together social scientists working on race and ethnicity to address the question of...  Read More >>

Community Sport and Social Inclusion: Enhancing Strategies for Promoting Personal Development, Health and Social Cohesion

Community Sport and Social Inclusion: Enhancing Strategies...

Author: Marc Theeboom ,  Hebe Schaillée
ISBN: 9781032125282
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book examines sport as an inclusive and developmental environment, exploring the conditions by which community...  Read More >>

Zainichi Koreans and Mental Health: Psychiatric Problem in Japanese Korean Minorities, Their Social Background and Life Story

Zainichi Koreans and Mental Health: Psychiatric Problem...

Author: Taeyoung Kim (Toyo University, Japan)
ISBN: 9781032010830
Format: Paperback
$83.99

"Using a qualitative, interview-based approach, Kim investigates how conflicting identities and social marginalization...  Read More >>

The Routledge Handbook of Vegan Studies

The Routledge Handbook of Vegan Studies

Author: Laura Wright
ISBN: 9780367742300
Format: Paperback
$92.99

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Ageing and COVID-19: Making Sense of a Disrupted World

Ageing and COVID-19: Making Sense of a Disrupted World...

Author: Maria Łuszczyńska (Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow, Poland) ,  Marvin Formosa (University of Malta, Malta)
ISBN: 9781032194691
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This volume presents a range of research approaches to the exploration of ageing during a pandemic situation, offering...  Read More >>

Ageing as a Social Challenge: Individual, Family and Social Aspects in Poland

Ageing as a Social Challenge: Individual, Family and...

Author: Maria Łuszczyńska (Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow, Poland)
ISBN: 9781032194868
Format: Paperback
$83.99

With a focus on the case of Poland, this book considers the ways in which the experience of ageing is shaped by...  Read More >>

Contemporary Narratives of Ageing, Illness, Care

Contemporary Narratives of Ageing, Illness, Care

Author: Katsura Sako ,  Sarah Falcus (University of Huddersfield, UK)
ISBN: 9781032200149
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This collection of essays explores cultural narratives of care in the contexts of ageing and illness  Read More >>

Empty Suffering: A Social Phenomenology of Depression, Anxiety and Addiction

Empty Suffering: A Social Phenomenology of Depression,...

Author: Domonkos Sik (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary)
ISBN: 9781032053899
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Interdisciplinary in approach, this book offers an analysis of contemporary forms of suffering, including depression,...  Read More >>

The Social Exclusion of Incarcerated Women with Cognitive Disabilities: Shut Out, Shut In

The Social Exclusion of Incarcerated Women with Cognitive...

Author: Julie-Anne Toohey (University of Adelaide, Australia)
ISBN: 9781032125763
Format: Paperback
$83.99

The Social Exclusion of Incarcerated Women with Cognitive Disabilities presents a theoretical and practical exploration...  Read More >>

Asian Medical Industries: Contemporary Perspectives on Traditional Pharmaceuticals

Asian Medical Industries: Contemporary Perspectives...

Author: Stephan Kloos ,  Calum Blaikie
ISBN: 9781032110257
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book develops the concept of Asian Medical Industries as a novel perspective on traditional Asian medicines....  Read More >>

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