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Digital Health
Critical and Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives
Häftad, 2017
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789 kr
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The rise of digital health technologies is, for some, a panacea to many of the medical and public health challenges we face today. This is the first book to articulate a critical response to the techno-utopian and entrepreneurial vision of the digital health phenomenon. Deborah Lupton, …
Health Anxiety and the Quest for Safety
Interdisciplinary and Critical Perspectives
Av Márta Csabai
Häftad, 2025
534 kr
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Health Anxiety and the Quest for Safety critically examines how psychological and sociocultural processes influence anxiety and safety-seeking behaviour concerning perceived health risks in globalised information societies. It provides insights into how people respond to uncertainty and perceived …
Embodied Trauma and Healing
Critical Conversations on the Concept of Health
Av Anna Westin
Inbunden, 2022
2519 kr
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What if philosophy could solve the psychological puzzle of trauma? Embodied Trauma and Healing argues just that, suggesting that one might be needed in order to understand the other. The book demonstrates how the body-mind problem that haunted Descartes was addressed by phenomenologists, whilst …
Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Containing and Expanding Therapeutic Possibilities
Av Kevin Dew
Inbunden, 2021
2594 kr
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Complementary and Alternative Medicine is a sociological investigation of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in contemporary society, and an exploration of the forces throughout the globe, across different institutions, and within different therapeutic spaces, that constrain or foster …
Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Containing and Expanding Therapeutic Possibilities
Av Kevin Dew
Häftad, 2021
729 kr
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Complementary and Alternative Medicine is a sociological investigation of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in contemporary society, and an exploration of the forces throughout the globe, across different institutions, and within different therapeutic spaces, that constrain or foster …
Making Mental Health
A Critical History
Inbunden, 2024
2594 kr
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Making Mental Health: A Critical History historicises mental health by examining the concept from the ‘madness’ of the late nineteenth century to the changing ideas about its contemporary concerns and status. It argues that a critical approach to the history of psychiatry and mental health shows …
Making Mental Health
A Critical History
Häftad, 2024
654 kr
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Making Mental Health: A Critical History historicises mental health by examining the concept from the ‘madness’ of the late nineteenth century to the changing ideas about its contemporary concerns and status. It argues that a critical approach to the history of psychiatry and mental health shows …
Critical Ethnographic Perspectives on Medical Travel
Häftad, 2019
759 kr
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By taking an ethnographic approach to medical travel, this important book uses critical perspectives to understand inequalities in healthcare access and delivery, including gender, class and ethnicity, and explore how these are negotiated. In this key text Vindrola- Padros presents a comprehensive …
Embodied Trauma and Healing
Critical Conversations on the Concept of Health
Av Anna Westin
Häftad, 2022
635 kr
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What if philosophy could solve the psychological puzzle of trauma? Embodied Trauma and Healing argues just that, suggesting that one might be needed in order to understand the other. The book demonstrates how the body-mind problem that haunted Descartes was addressed by phenomenologists, whilst …
Selling Immunity Self, Culture and Economy in Healthcare and Medicine
Av Mark Davis
Häftad, 2022
654 kr
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Selling Immunity Self, Culture and Economy in Healthcare and Medicine provides a groundbreaking study of the ways in which immunity shapes life. Through its up-to-date discussion of immunity cultures, alongside detailed real-world examples, the book demonstrates how immunity is enmeshed in concepts …
Selling Immunity Self, Culture and Economy in Healthcare and Medicine
Av Mark Davis
Inbunden, 2022
2594 kr
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Selling Immunity Self, Culture and Economy in Healthcare and Medicine provides a groundbreaking study of the ways in which immunity shapes life. Through its up-to-date discussion of immunity cultures, alongside detailed real-world examples, the book demonstrates how immunity is enmeshed in concepts …
Health at Work
Critical Perspectives
Av Leah Tomkins, Katrina Pritchard
Inbunden, 2019
2448 kr
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Engaging with some of the most debated topics in contemporary organizations, Health at Work: Critical Perspectives presents a critical, contingent view of the healthy employee and the very notion of organizational health. Drawing on expressions such as ‘blowing a fuse’, ‘cracking under pressure’ or …
Health at Work
Critical Perspectives
Av Leah Tomkins, Katrina Pritchard
Häftad, 2019
716 kr
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Engaging with some of the most debated topics in contemporary organizations, Health at Work: Critical Perspectives presents a critical, contingent view of the healthy employee and the very notion of organizational health. Drawing on expressions such as ‘blowing a fuse’, ‘cracking under pressure’ or …
Critical Ethnographic Perspectives on Medical Travel
Inbunden, 2019
2594 kr
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By taking an ethnographic approach to medical travel, this important book uses critical perspectives to understand inequalities in healthcare access and delivery, including gender, class and ethnicity, and explore how these are negotiated. In this key text Vindrola- Padros presents a comprehensive …
Personalised Medicine
A Critical Approach to Data-Driven Medicine
Av Michael Morrison, Saheli Datta Burton
Häftad, 2026
669 kr
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This book sets out a critical sociological approach to ‘personalised medicine’ (PM), not only highlighting its limitations and flaws but also emphasising its hopeful potentialities for a better medicine in the future.Bringing together perspectives from science and technology studies, medical …
Personalised Medicine
A Critical Approach to Data-Driven Medicine
Av Michael Morrison, Saheli Datta Burton
Inbunden, 2026
2594 kr
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This book sets out a critical sociological approach to ‘personalised medicine’ (PM), not only highlighting its limitations and flaws but also emphasising its hopeful potentialities for a better medicine in the future.Bringing together perspectives from science and technology studies, medical …
Critical Approaches to Death, Dying and Bereavement
Av Erica Borgstrom, Renske Visser
Inbunden, 2024
2188 kr
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This book is the first of its kind to examine key topics in death, dying, and bereavement through a critical lens, highlighting how the understanding and experience of death can vary considerably, based on social, cultural, historical, political, and medical contexts. It looks at the complex ways …
Critical Approaches to Death, Dying and Bereavement
Av Erica Borgstrom, Renske Visser
Häftad, 2024
594 kr
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This book is the first of its kind to examine key topics in death, dying, and bereavement through a critical lens, highlighting how the understanding and experience of death can vary considerably, based on social, cultural, historical, political, and medical contexts. It looks at the complex ways …
Medical Humanities
Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics
Häftad, 2023
620 kr
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This ground-breaking book sets out a fresh vision for a future medical education by providing a radical reconceptualisation of the purposes of medical humanities through a lens of critical health psychology and liberatory pedagogy. The medical humanities are conceived as translational media through …
Medical Humanities
Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics
Inbunden, 2023
2519 kr
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This ground-breaking book sets out a fresh vision for a future medical education by providing a radical reconceptualisation of the purposes of medical humanities through a lens of critical health psychology and liberatory pedagogy. The medical humanities are conceived as translational media through …
Critical Health and Learning Disabilities
An Exploration of Erasure and Social Murder
Av Sara Ryan
Häftad, 2025
669 kr
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This empirically grounded book presents a critical, interdisciplinary perspective on social and cultural issues related to the health and wellbeing of people with learning disabilities. Through an exploration of healthcare, love and intimacy, pregnancy and childbirth, housing, employment and food …
Critical Health and Learning Disabilities
An Exploration of Erasure and Social Murder
Av Sara Ryan
Inbunden, 2025
2594 kr
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This empirically grounded book presents a critical, interdisciplinary perspective on social and cultural issues related to the health and wellbeing of people with learning disabilities. Through an exploration of healthcare, love and intimacy, pregnancy and childbirth, housing, employment and food …
Health Anxiety and the Quest for Safety
Interdisciplinary and Critical Perspectives
Av Márta Csabai
Inbunden, 2025
2083 kr
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Health Anxiety and the Quest for Safety critically examines how psychological and sociocultural processes influence anxiety and safety-seeking behaviour concerning perceived health risks in globalised information societies. It provides insights into how people respond to uncertainty and perceived …
Digital Health
Critical and Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives
Inbunden, 2017
2594 kr
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The rise of digital health technologies is, for some, a panacea to many of the medical and public health challenges we face today. This is the first book to articulate a critical response to the techno-utopian and entrepreneurial vision of the digital health phenomenon. Deborah Lupton, …
Critical Approach to Surrogacy
Reproductive Desires and Demands
Inbunden, 2017
2594 kr
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This comprehensive text makes an important contribution to the study of surrogacy, developing a novel theoretical framework through which to understand the broader social contexts as well as individual decisions at play within surrogacy arrangements. Drawing on empirical research conducted by the …
Critical Approach to Surrogacy
Reproductive Desires and Demands
Häftad, 2017
729 kr
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This comprehensive text makes an important contribution to the study of surrogacy, developing a novel theoretical framework through which to understand the broader social contexts as well as individual decisions at play within surrogacy arrangements. Drawing on empirical research conducted by the …
Disability and Sexual Health
A Critical Exploration of Key Issues
Av Poul Rohleder, Stine Hellum Braathen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
2594 kr
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The sexual lives of people with disabilities are rarely discussed. It is as if, because someone has a biological or psychological impairment, they do not exist as a sexual being. As such, many people with disabilities feel marginalised and powerless not only in their day-to-day lives, but also in …
Postfeminism and Health
Critical Psychology and Media Perspectives
Av Sarah Riley, Adrienne Evans m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
2519 kr
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Winner of the 2021 BPS Book Award: Academic Text category, this groundbreaking book employs a transdisciplinary and poststructuralist methodology to develop the concept of ‘postfeminist healthism,’ a twenty-first-century understanding of women’s physical and mental health formed at the …
Postfeminism and Health
Critical Psychology and Media Perspectives
Av Sarah Riley, Adrienne Evans m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
737 kr
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Winner of the 2021 BPS Book Award: Academic Text category, this groundbreaking book employs a transdisciplinary and poststructuralist methodology to develop the concept of ‘postfeminist healthism,’ a twenty-first-century understanding of women’s physical and mental health formed at the …
Urban Poverty and Health Inequalities
A Relational Approach
Av Darrin Hodgetts, Ottilie Stolte
Inbunden, 2017
2594 kr
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When discussing health, we talk about ailments and afflictions, the potential of modern medicine and the behaviours that affect our health. Yet although these relationships exist, they undermine a more socio-economic understanding of health. This timely book takes a critical perspective to argue …
