Advances in Medical Sociology – serie
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17 produkter
Social Assumptions, Medical Categories
Inbunden, 1997
1639 kr
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A study of social assumptions, specific events, medical categories, distinct groups and ideas of control in health research. This book examines presumptions about gender, race and age with particular reference to the "biological clock" and notions of "civilized countries" and "primitive races". The …
Social Networks and Health
Av Judith A. Levy, B.A. Pescosolido
Inbunden, 2002
1884 kr
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This volume is directed toward researchers and health professionals with an interest in the interstices of social networks and health. It consists of original papers that address critical themes in health-related social network research and disease prevention. The sections discuss the dynamics of …
Bioethical Issues
Sociological Perspectives
Av Barbara Katz Rothman, Elizabeth M. Armstrong m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
1249 kr
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This volume deals with the topic of health inequalities and health disparities. The volume is divided into five sections. The first section includes an introductory look at the issue of health care inequalities and disparities and also an introduction to the volume. One of the backdrops to this …
Sociology of Diagnosis
Av PJ McGann, David Hutson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
1717 kr
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Diagnosis is central to medical practice, medical knowledge and research, medicalization dynamics, and health and illness experience. Embedded in social relations, diagnoses reflect and shape social dynamics and cultural concerns. Diagnoses are integral to resource allocation, form the basis for …
Case and Care Management
Inbunden, 1996
1243 kr
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This is the sixth volume in a series dedicated to publishing current research and conceptual papers in the broad ranging area of the sociology of health.
Sociological Reflections on the Neurosciences
Av Martyn Pickersgill, Ira Van Keulen
Häftad, 2012
596 kr
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This volume addresses the need for sociological insight through empirically rich, theoretically innovative chapters that range across methods, traditions and foci in order to cast new light on the place, role and impact of neuroscience.
Critical Perspectives on Addiction
Inbunden, 2012
1429 kr
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Our understandings of addiction are rapidly changing. New technologies and biomedical treatments are reconfiguring addiction as a brain disease, and the concept of "addiction" is expanding to cover an ever widening array of substances and behaviours, from food to shopping. This volume looks …
Ecological Health
Society, Ecology and Health
Inbunden, 2013
1645 kr
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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 …
Genetics, Health, and Society
Inbunden, 2015
1659 kr
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This volume focuses on critical issues surrounding the intersection of genetics, health, and society. It provides a critical examination of sociological and biomedical approaches to genomics, including strengths and limitations of each perspective.
50 Years after Deinstitutionalization
Mental Illness in Contemporary Communities
Inbunden, 2016
1659 kr
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Throughout the 1960’s and 1970’s, a revolution in mental health policy and practice known as deinstitutionalization occurred in Europe and the US. This movement was catalyzed by criticisms of psychiatric institutions and resulted in the release of thousands of people with serious mental illness …
Food Systems and Health
Av Sara Shostak
Inbunden, 2017
1401 kr
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In recent years, the ways in which food is produced, distributed, and consumed have emerged as prominent health and social issues. With rising concern about rates of obesity, food systems have attracted the attention of state actors, leading to both innovative and controversial public health …
Immigration and Health
Av Reanne Frank
Inbunden, 2019
1137 kr
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The current politicized climate around immigration includes heated debate over the potential costs of continued immigration for the health and well-being of the nation. Amid the controversy one pattern that has escaped significant notice is that immigrants today are healthier than the native-born. …
Reproduction, Health, and Medicine
Av Elizabeth Mitchell Armstrong, Susan Markens m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
1372 kr
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At a moment when reproduction is increasingly politicized, this volume explores the breadth of contemporary research on reproduction from the perspective of medical sociology, illuminating the lived experience of reproduction and offering insights to inform sociology and health policy. …
Sexual and Gender Minority Health
Av Brea L. Perry, Allen J. LeBlanc
Inbunden, 2021
1300 kr
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Research concerning sexual and gender minority (SGM) health has flourished in recent years in conjunction with a period of intense social, political, and legal discourse about SGM persons. While this attention has increased understanding and recognition of SGM experiences, recent advances have …
Understanding Emerging Epidemics
Social and Political Approaches
Inbunden, 2010
1429 kr
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This volume focuses on the contributions that social scientists can make to understanding emerging epidemics, their impact, the threats they pose, and their social and political contexts. While many of the international articles focus on infectious disease, some discussion is given to treating …
Patients, Consumers and Civil Society
Av Susan Chambre, Melinda A. Goldner m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
1458 kr
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Medical Sociology is among the largest and first subdisciplines in Sociology. It is an area of ongoing work, advancing theory, method and our substantive understanding of social life. This series brings together the newest issues and most current concerns in Medical Sociology, in an ongoing …
Sociological Reflections on the Neurosciences
Av Martyn Pickersgill, Ira Van Keulen
Inbunden, 2011
1602 kr
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This volume addresses the need for sociological insight through empirically rich, theoretically innovative chapters that range across methods, traditions and foci in order to cast new light on the place, role and impact of neuroscience.
