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Sickle Cell and the Social Sciences: Health, Racism and Disablement by Simon M. Dyson
RRP: £38.99£34.22Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a severe chronic illness and one of the world's most common genetic conditions, with 400,000 children born annually with the disorder, mainly in Sub-Saharan Africa, India, Brazil, the Middle East and in diasporic African... -
Free Your Voice Heal Your Thyroid: Reverse Thyroid Disease Naturally by Rosanne M Lindsay 9780692108703
RRP: £19.95£13.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692108703Author Rosanne M LindsayFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Nature of HealingPublisher Nature of HealingWeight(grams) 367gDimensions(mm) 229mm... -
Infectious Disease Epidemiology: Theory and Practice by Kenrad E. Nelson
£99.16ow in its third edition, this comprehensive volume is recognized as the most authoritative review of the epidemiology of infectious disease. Divided into five sections that cover methods in infectious disease epidemiology, airborne transmission,... -
Raising Lazarus: Hope, Justice, and the Future of America's Overdose Crisis by Beth Macy
RRP: £19.99£12.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316430210Author Beth MacyFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Back Bay BooksWeight(grams) 367gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 141mm * 29mm -
AIDS: Setting A Feminist Agenda Lesley Doyal 9780748401635
RRP: £46.99£40.97AIDS: Setting a Feminist Agenda" presents an overview of the important issues raised for feminist theory and practice by the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and outlines the direction in which feminist debates about the subject are developing. It makes essential... -
Substance Use Counseling: Theory and Practice by Patricia Stevens
RRP: £93.81£84.09This is the bound book only and does not include access to MyLab Coundeling with Pearson eText. To order MyLab Counseling with Pearson eText packaged with the bound book, use ISBN 0134479408 . ALERT: Before you purchase, check with your instructor or... -
Introduction to Sociology for Health Carers by Mark Walsh 9781408075050
£34.23Now in its second edition, An Introduction to Sociology for Health Carers provides an accessible grounding for all nursing and health care students who have little previous experience of studying Sociology but who, within their first year courses, need... -
Abolitionist Agroecology, Food Sovereignty and Pandemic Prevention Maywa Montenegro de Wit 9781990263033
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990263033Author Maywa Montenegro de WitFormat PaperbackPage Count 79Imprint Daraja PressPublisher Daraja PressWeight(grams) 312g -
Your Consent Is Not Required: The Rise in Psychiatric Detentions, Forced Treatment, and Abusive Guardianships by Rob Wipond
RRP: £25.00£17.73In the first work of investigative journalism in decades to give a comprehensive view into contemporary psychiatric incarceration and forced interventions, Your Consent Is Not Required exposes how rising numbers of people from many walks of life are... -
Covid-19 in Palestine: The Settler Colonial Context Nadia Naser-Najjab (University of Exeter, UK) 9780755651177
RRP: £21.99£18.10Israel and Palestine were worlds apart during the pandemic that claimed over five million lives globally. While Palestinians were forced to adopt crude survival measures and endure economic privations, Israel was praised as a vaccination world leader. ... -
Anthropology of Tobacco [Open Access]: Ethnographic Adventures in Non-Human Worlds by Andrew Russell
RRP: £38.99£34.22Tobacco has become one of the most widely used and traded commoditites on the planet. Reflecting contemporary anthropological interest in material culture studies, Anthropology of Tobacco makes the plant the centre of its own contentious, global story in... -
Health and Illness by Michael Senior
£40.49Health and Illness provides a comprehensive, concise and accessible introduction to the topic, presented in an attractive manner, with relevant activities and exercises to ensure that students' learning is as active as possible. The activities, which are... -
Indigenous Medicine Among the Bedouin in the Middle East by Aref Abu-Rabia 9781789208511
RRP: £27.95£22.58Modern medicine has penetrated Bedouin tribes in the course of rapid urbanization and education, but when serious illnesses strike, particularly in the case of incurable diseases, even educated people turn to traditional medicine for a remedy. Over the... -
Compassionate Communities: Case Studies from Britain and Europe Klaus Wegleitner (Alpen-Adria Universitat Klagenfurt, Austria) 9781138552036
RRP: £48.99£42.66Compassionate communities are communities that provide assistance for those in need of end of life care, separate from any official heath service provision that may already be available within the community. This idea was developed in 2005 in Allan... -
Keywords for Health Humanities by Sari Altschuler 9781479808106
RRP: £22.99£20.41Introduces key concepts and debates in health humanities and the health professions. Keywords for Health Humanities provides a rich, interdisciplinary vocabulary for the burgeoning field of health humanities and, more broadly, for the study of medicine... -
Calling the Shots: Why Parents Reject Vaccines by Jennifer A. Reich
RRP: £20.99£18.37Winner, 2018 Donald W. Light Award for Applied Medical Sociology, American Sociological Association Medical Sociology Section Winner, 2018 Distinguished Scholarship Award presented by the Pacific Sociology Association Honorable Mention, 2017 ESS Mirra... -
Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight Against the Drug Companies That Delivered the Opioid Epidemic by Eric Eyre
RRP: £18.00£10.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982105327Author Eric EyreFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 211mm... -
Positive Psychology for Healthcare Professionals: A Toolkit for Improving Wellbeing Jan Macfarlane (University of Bolton, UK) 9781804559574
RRP: £45.00£37.63There has been an abundance of research carried out relating to the use of positive psychology, but a focus on staff working in care settings has been lacking. Positive Psychology for Healthcare Professionals presents applied positive psychology... -
Reconsidering Patient Centred Care: Between Autonomy and Abandonment by Alison Pilnick 9781800717442
RRP: £68.99£57.35In a major contribution to the sociology of medicine, Alison Pilnick shifts the terms of the debate around patient centred care (PCC). PCC is typically framed as a moral imperative, necessary to prevent a return to the outmoded medical paternalism of the... -
Medical Humanities: Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics by Alan Bleakley 9781032467849
RRP: £36.99£32.53Presents medical humanities in a proactive role as a therapeutic medium to reveal, and restore, medicine’s intrinsic qualities.Draws attention to the ailing condition of contemporary biomedicine.Explores the idea of “critical” from the perspective of... -
The Shape of Things to Come: Exploring the Future of the Human Body by Druin Burch 9781788543392 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£3.03In this humane and important exploration of modern medicine, Druin Burch examines the future of medicine, our changing physicalities and the implications of longer life. From birth to death and through the exploration of topics such as disease, sex,... -
The Shape of Things to Come: Exploring the Future of the Human Body by Druin Burch
RRP: £9.99£7.11In this humane and important exploration of modern medicine, Druin Burch examines the future of medicine, our changing physicalities and the implications of longer life. From birth to death and through the exploration of topics such as disease, sex,... -
Flexible Bodies by Emily Martin 9780807046272
£24.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807046272Author Emily MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 482g -
Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination by Alondra Nelson
RRP: £14.99£12.99Between its founding in 1966 and its formal end in 1980, the Black Panther Party blazed a distinctive trail in American political culture. The Black Panthers are most often remembered for their revolutionary rhetoric and militant action. Here Alondra... -
Gender, Health and Healing: The Public/Private Divide by Gill Bendelow 9780415235747
RRP: £35.99£31.69What do we mean by 'gender' and how does this relate to health? How is 'biology' best understood? What does a focus on the division of labour bring to our understanding of health work? Is (gender) 'equity' in health possible? How have developments such... -
The Invisible Siege: The Rise of Coronaviruses and the Search for a Cure by Dan Werb
RRP: £24.00£16.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593239230Author Dan WerbFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide by Steven W Thrasher
RRP: £21.99£17.56In March 2020, the COVID pandemic plunged the world into fear and chaos. People around the globe locked themselves in their houses and stocked up on food, fearing unemployment, the loss of loved ones, and an uncertain future. But as the weeks went on,... -
Blood Sugar: Racial Pharmacology and Food Justice in Black America by Anthony Ryan Hatch 9780816696185
RRP: £21.99£19.19Why do African Americans have exceptionally high rates of hypertension, diabetes, and obesity? Is it their genes? Their disease-prone culture? Their poor diets? Such racist explanations for racial inequalities in metabolic health have circulated in... -
Mad Matters: A Critical Reader in Canadian Mad Studies by Brenda A. LeFrancois 9781551305349
RRP: £69.00£68.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551305349Author Brenda A. LeFrancoisFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Brown Bear PressPublisher Brown Bear PressWeight(grams) 690gDimensions(mm)... -
Sickening: Anti-Black Racism and Health Disparities in the United States by Anne Pollock
RRP: £16.99£15.07An event-by-event look at how institutionalized racism harms the health of African Americans in the twenty-first century A crucial component of anti-Black racism is the unconscionable disparity in health outcomes between Black and white Americans... -
On Immunity: An Inoculation by Eula Biss 9781555977207
RRP: £16.00£9.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555977207Author Eula BissFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 140mm * 15mm -
What's Wrong with Fat? by Abigail C. Saguy 9780199377114
RRP: £26.49£19.51The United States, we are told, is facing an obesity epidemic-a "battle of the bulge" of not just national, but global proportions-that requires drastic and immediate action. Experts in the media, medical science, and government alike are scrambling to... -
Prozak Diaries: Psychiatry and Generational Memory in Iran by Orkideh Behrouzan 9780804799416
RRP: £23.99£20.72Prozak Diaries is an analysis of emerging psychiatric discourses in post-1980s Iran. It examines a cultural shift in how people interpret and express their feeling states, by adopting the language of psychiatry, and shows how experiences that were once... -
Inequality Kills Us All: COVID-19's Health Lessons for the World by Stephen Bezruchka
RRP: £33.99£30.00The complex answer to why the United States does so poorly in health measures has at its base one pervasive issue: The United States has by far the highest levels of inequality of all the rich countries. Inequality Kills Us All details how living in a... -
Fat Tactics: The Rhetoric and Structure of the Fat Acceptance Movement by Erec Smith 9781498531184
RRP: £35.00£30.95This book explores and analyzes the ways fat acceptance activists have advocated through language and tactical action. Using Anthony Giddens’ concept of Structuration in the make-up of ideology, the book identifies how fat acceptance activists use... -
Self-Injury, Medicine and Society: Authentic Bodies by Amy Chandler 9781349680665
RRP: £54.99£54.36This book provides an appreciative, sociological engagement with accounts of the embodied practice of self-injury. It shows that in order to understand self-injury, it is necessary to engage with widely circulating narratives about the nature of bodies,... -
The Health of People: How the social sciences can improve population health by Campaign for Social Science
RRP: £15.99£13.35As Britain ages amid austerity, more and more people will suffer from long-term health conditions. Obesity and diabetes are on the rise. Mental health problems are widespread. Tobacco and addictions are well-known killers. Each condition brings high... -
Storytelling Encounters as Medical Education: Crafting Relational Identity Sally G. Warmington 9781032177007
RRP: £38.99£34.22This innovative volume provides fresh perspectives on how medical students and patients construct identities in relation to each other, using stories of their clinical encounters. It explores how paying attention to medical students' and patients'... -
Technologies of Procreation: Kinship in the Age of Assisted Conception by Jeanette Edwards
RRP: £46.99£40.97Technologies of Procreation bridges the gap between medical technology and cultural values. It looks at the ways in which the 'technologies of procreation' affect society from an anthropological perspective.About the AuthorJeanette Edwards, Sarah... -
The World Is Fat: The Fads, Trends, Policies, and Products That Are Fattening the Human Race by Barry Popkin
RRP: £24.00£16.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583333815Author Barry PopkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Penguin Publishing GroupPublisher Penguin Publishing GroupWeight(grams)...