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Medical sociology
Hardcover. A Companion to the Anthropology of Environmental Health presents a collection of readings that utilize a medical anthropological approach to explore the interface of humans and the environment in the shaping of health and illness around the world. Editor(s): Singer, Merrill. Series: Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Anthropology. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC; MBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118786994
- ISBN
- 9781118786994
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Condition: New
€ 215.82
€ 215.82
Paperback. A study of the existing and future research on the intersections between law and materiality, leading to the illumination of both. Editor(s): Faulkner, Alex; Lawless, Christopher. Series: Journal of Law and Society Special Issues. Num Pages: 188 pages. BIC Classification: JHB; MBS; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 247 x 7. Weight in Grams: 230.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444361520
- ISBN
- 9781444361520
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Condition: New
€ 29.28
€ 29.28
Hardback. Featuring the work of several up-and-coming scholars working to deepen theoretical perspectives on addiction and its relationship to social control and deviance, this volume fills a gap in addiction studies by offering critical perspectives that interrogate and challenge traditional and/or mainstream understandings of addiction. Editor(s): Netherland, Julie. Series Editor(s): KatzRothman, Barbara. Series: Advances in Medical Sociology. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: JFFH; MBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 25. Weight in Grams: 532.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780529301
- ISBN
- 9781780529301
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Condition: New
€ 216.25
€ 216.25
Hardback. Drawing on ecosystem thinking, complexity and postnormal science, Ecological Health offers a radical new way of thinking about the health issues of the 21st Century. This volume reflects on recent social scientific engagement with Ecosystem Health research and practice and sets out a vision for the future. Editor(s): Gislason, Maya K. Series: Advances in Medical Sociology. Num Pages: 300 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JHB; MBS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 163 x 33. Weight in Grams: 684.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing Limited
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781903230
- ISBN
- 9781781903230
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Condition: New
€ 185.14€ 157.16
€ 185.14
€ 157.16
Paperback. Offers a nuanced, empirically grounded picture of therapeutic culture. This title includes both an extended history and a series of critical interventions organized around keywords like pain, privacy, and narcissism. It will change the way we've been taught to see the landscape of therapy and self-help. Editor(s): Aubry, Timothy Richard; Travis, Trysh. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JM; MBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 428.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226250137
- ISBN
- 9780226250137
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Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 27.71
€ 34.99
€ 27.71
Paperback. An exploration of the symbolic role that the illicit drug user fulfills for the neoliberal state and of counterpublic health measures that do not cast health as antithetical to pleasure. Num Pages: 280 pages, 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFH1; JFSK; MBS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 231 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 406.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822345015
- ISBN
- 9780822345015
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 33.75
€ 37.99
€ 33.75
Hardback. The story of the global response to the HIV epidemic, told from the perspective of community organizers, activists, and people living with HIV in West Africa between 1994 and 2000. Series: Body, Commodity, Text. Num Pages: 256 pages, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1HFD; JFFH2; MBNH; MBS; PSXM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 164 x 22. Weight in Grams: 503.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780822348627
- ISBN
- 9780822348627
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Condition: New
€ 110.15
€ 110.15
hardcover. Offers an introduction to the sociology of diagnosis. This title presents articles that explore diagnosis as a process of definition that includes: labeling dynamics between diagnoser and diagnosed; boundary struggles between diverse constituents - both among medical practitioners and between medical authorities and others; and, more. Editor(s): McGann, PJ; Hutson, David; Rothman, Barbara Katz. Series Editor(s): Rothman, Barbara Katz. Series: Advances in Medical Sociology. Num Pages: 400 pages, Illustrations, port. BIC Classification: MBS; MJA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 162 x 37. Weight in Grams: 726.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857245755
- ISBN
- 9780857245755
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Condition: New
€ 257.97
€ 257.97
Paperback. Editor(s): Avgar, Ariel C.; Vogus, Timothy J. Series: LERA Research Volumes. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: MBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780913447123
- ISBN
- 9780913447123
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.36
€ 37.99
€ 34.36
Hardback. Medical Sociology is the among the largest and first subdisciplines in Sociology. This series presents issues and concerns in Medical Sociology. Editor(s): Chambre, Susan; Goldner, Melinda A.; Rothman, Barbara Katz. Series: Advances in Medical Sociology. Num Pages: 350 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: MBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848552142
- ISBN
- 9781848552142
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Condition: New
€ 138.27
€ 138.27
Hardback. The neurosciences are more than a collection of scientific practices - they offer up various ways of thinking about mind, body and society. This title casts light on the place, role and impact of neuroscience. It reflects on the insights the neurosciences have to offer sociology. Editor(s): Pickersgill, Martyn; Keulen, Ira Van. Series Editor(s): KatzRothman, Barbara. Series: Advances in Medical Sociology. Num Pages: 332 pages. BIC Classification: MBNS; MBS; MJN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 162 x 30. Weight in Grams: 646.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 332
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781848558809
- ISBN
- 9781848558809
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Condition: New
€ 242.48
€ 242.48
Impact of Demographics on Health and Healthcare: Race, Ethnicity and O...
Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld (Ed.)
Hardback. Focuses on differences in health and health care as linked to important social factors. This title includes six articles looking at racial disparities on a variety of topics such as: knowledge of hepatitis C Virus; health services received and patients' experiences in seeking health care; use of CAM services; and, more. Editor(s): Kronenfeld, Jennie Jacobs. Series: Research in the Sociology of Health Care. Num Pages: 312 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: MBP; MBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781849507141
- ISBN
- 9781849507141
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Condition: New
€ 134.85
€ 134.85
Paperback. Through a combination of interviews with nurses, doctors, and chaplains across the United States and close observation of their daily routines, the author takes readers inside major academic medical institutions to explore how today's doctors and hospitals address prayer and other forms of religion and spirituality. Num Pages: 328 pages, 16 halftones, 2 line drawings, 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRLK; MBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 230 x 24. Weight in Grams: 480.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226922119
- ISBN
- 9780226922119
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 26.59
€ 33.99
€ 26.59
Paperback. The author explores the role of social and economic injustices as root causes of the uneven distribution of disease across population groups according to class, race and gender. Series: Public Health/Vulnerable Populations. Num Pages: 656 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: MBN; MBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 180 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1074.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 656
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118088142
- ISBN
- 9781118088142
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Condition: New
€ 100.76
€ 100.76
Paperback. Anthropologist Alyson O'Daniel analyses the abstract debates about health policy for the sickest and most vulnerable Americans, as well as the services designated to help them, by taking readers into the daily lives of poor African American women living with HIV disease at the advent of the 2006 Treatment Modernization Act. Series: Anthropology of Contemporary North America. Num Pages: 264 pages, 3 appendixes. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFH2; JFSJ1; JFSL3; MBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 418.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803269613
- ISBN
- 9780803269613
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.58
€ 32.99
€ 29.58
Hardback. This topical and authoritative book examines how the regulation of doctors has been modernised by the introduction of the quality assurance process medical revalidation. In doing so, it questions if there indeed is evidence to support the argument that revalidation serves the public interest by ensuring individual doctors are fit to practice. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: JHB; MBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Policy Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447325444
- ISBN
- 9781447325444
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Condition: New
€ 48.90
€ 48.90
Hardback. This book critically explores the urban governance of healthy lifestyles and the contemporary problematisations of the obesity, sedentarism and alcohol "epidemics". Num Pages: 264 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; JHB; MBP; MBS; RGC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 248 x 174 x 17. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Policy Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847426383
- ISBN
- 9781847426383
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Condition: New
€ 104.63
€ 104.63
Paperback. Social epidemiology is the study of how the social world influences - and in many cases defines - the fundamental determinants of health. This link was substantiated in the first edition of Social Epidemiology, and the generation of research that followed has fundamentally changed the way we understand epidemiology and public health. Editor(s): Berkman, Lisa F., Ph.D.; Kawachi, Ichiro; Glymour, M. Maria. Num Pages: 640 pages, 35 line illustrations. BIC Classification: MBNS; MBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 178 x 40. Weight in Grams: 1314.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 640
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199395330
- ISBN
- 9780199395330
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Condition: New
€ 170.98
€ 170.98
Hardcover. In contemporary manifestations of public health rituals and events, people are being increasingly united around what they hold in common - their material being and humanity. As a cult of humanity, public health provides a moral force in society that replaces "traditional" religions in times of great diversity or heterogeneity of peoples.. Num Pages: 188 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHB; MBN; MBS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 159 x 236 x 10. Weight in Grams: 394. A Sociological Investigation. 188 pages, black & white illustrations. In contemporary manifestations of public health rituals and events, people are being increasingly united around what they hold in common - their material being and humanity. As a cult of humanity, public health provides a moral force in society that replaces "traditional" religions in times of great diversity or heterogeneity of peoples. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: JHB; MBN; MBS. Dimension: 159 x 236 x 10. Weight: 394.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857453396
- ISBN
- 9780857453396
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 163.63
€ 163.63
Hardcover. There is a growing interest in studies that document the relationship between science and medicine-as ideas, practices, technologies and outcomes-across cultural, national, geographic terrain. Tibetan medicine is not only known as a scholarly medical tradition among other Asian medical systems.. Editor(s): Adams, Vincanne; Schreempf, Mona; Craig, Sienna R. Series: Epistemologies of Healing. Num Pages: 324 pages, 11 ills. BIC Classification: 1FPCT; HRAM3; JHM; MBS; MX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 642.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Number of pages
- 324
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845457587
- ISBN
- 9781845457587
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 165.50
€ 165.50