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The End of Stigma?: Changes in the Social Experience of Long-Term Illness by Gill Green 9780415376242
RRP: £135.00£117.28This innovative book investigates the roots of contemporary experiences of stigma, throwing new light on the phenomenon by examining a variety of long-term conditions. Behaviour, lifestyle and identity are no longer the results of mass-production by... -
Promoting Young People's Sexual Health: International Perspectives by Roger Ingham 9780415374828
RRP: £135.00£117.28Valuable contributions on different aspects of sexual and reproductive health among young people are presented in this book, with a focus on developing country contexts. Key discussions on issues relating to young people and their sexual activities are... -
Medical Technologies and the Life World: The social construction of normality by Sonia Olin Lauritzen 9780415364331
RRP: £86.99£75.54Although the use of new health technologies in healthcare and medicine is generally seen as beneficial, there has been little analysis of the impact of such technologies on people's lives and understandings of health and illness. This ground-breaking... -
Medical Sociology and Old Age: Towards a sociology of health in later life by Paul Higgs 9780415398558
RRP: £135.00£117.28The nature of health in later life has conventionally been studied from two perspectives. Medical sociologists have focused on the failing body, chronic illness, infirmity and mortality, while social gerontologists on the other hand have focused on the... -
Contemporary Theorists for Medical Sociology by Graham Scambler 9780415597821
RRP: £135.00£117.28Contemporary Theorists for Medical Sociology explores the work of key social theorists and the application of their ideas to issues around health and illness. Encouraging students and researchers to use mainstream sociological thought to inform and... -
The Tyranny of Health: Doctors and the Regulation of Lifestyle by Michael Fitzpatrick 9780415235716
RRP: £135.00£117.28Topical and controversial The Tyranny of Health exposes the dangers of the explosion of health awareness for both patients and doctors, using straightforward language to explain the latest health statistics and research findings. Michael Fitzpatrick, a... -
Modernity, Medicine and Health by Paul Higgs 9780415149396
RRP: £46.99£40.97This book establishes the voice of medical sociology in key debates in the social sciences. Concerning modernity, postmodernity, structuralism and poststructuralism issues covered include: * disease and medicine in postmodern times * gender, health and... -
Chaos and Intoxication: Complexity and Adaptation in the Structure of Human Nature by Alan Dean 9780415146159
RRP: £59.99£51.93Why are people often so unpredictable? Why do they do things which can cause great personal harm even when they know this to be the case? Chaos and Intoxication examines the nature of drug and alcohol abuse, seeking to address these and many other... -
Social Inequities and Contemporary Struggles for Collective Health in Latin America by Emily E Vasquez 9780367498726
RRP: £38.99£34.22This book explores the legacy of the Latin American Social Medicine and Collective Health (LASM-CH) movements and other key approaches-including human rights activism and popular opposition to neoliberal governance-that have each distinguished the... -
Agency, Gender and Economic Development in the World Economy 1850-2000: Testing the Sen Hypothesis by Jan Luiten van Zanden 9780367349233
RRP: £39.99£35.06How has 'agency' - or the ability to define and act upon one's goals - contributed to global long-term economic development during the last 150 years? This book asserts that autonomous decision making, and female agency in particular, increases the... -
Disability and Postsocialism by Teodor Mladenov 9780367352479
RRP: £39.99£35.06In the decades following the collapse of state socialism at the end of 1980s, disabled people in Central and Eastern Europe endured economic marginalisation, cultural devaluation and political disempowerment. Some of the mechanisms producing these... -
Bodily Exchanges, Bioethics and Border Crossing: Perspectives on Giving, Selling and Sharing Bodies by Kristin Zeiler 9780367341473
RRP: £39.99£35.06Medical therapy, research and technology enable us to make our bodies, or parts of them, available to others in an increasing number of ways. This is the case in organ, tissue, egg and sperm donation as well as in surrogate motherhood and clinical... -
Living in the Shadows of China's HIV/AIDS Epidemics: Sex, Drugs and Bad Blood by Shelley Torcetti 9780367211165
RRP: £135.00£117.28Identifying the existing challenges and shortfalls of China's current HIV/AIDS programming, this book provides an understanding of the history of HIV/AIDS in China, comparing government responses to global best practice in prevention and treatment. ... -
Child Pain, Migraine, and Invisible Disability by Susan Honeyman 9780367208196
RRP: £39.99£35.06In the twenty-first century there is increasing global recognition of pain relief as a basic human right. However, as Susan Honeyman argues in this new take on child pain and invisible disability, such a belief has historically been driven by adult,... -
The Normalization of the HIV and AIDS Epidemic in South Africa by Katinka de Wet 9780367193553
RRP: £135.00£117.28This book explores the normalization of HIV and AIDS, reflecting upon the intended and unintended consequences of the multifarious "AIDS industry." The Normalization of the HIV and AIDS Epidemic in South Africa deals with the manner in... -
Living with Mental Disorder: Insights from Qualitative Research by Jacqueline Corcoran 9780367074920
RRP: £29.99£27.04This evidence-based text puts a human face on mental disorders, illuminating the lived experience of people with mental health difficulties and their caregivers. Systematically reviewing the qualitative research conducted on living with a mental... -
Health and Care in Old Age in Africa by Pranitha Maharaj 9780367074388
RRP: £135.00£117.28This book explores health and care of the older population in Africa, focusing on policy and programmatic responses, gaps and future challenges related to health and care across the continent. Part 1 sets the scene for the volume, profiling the... -
The Cosmopolitanization of Science: Stem Cell Governance in China by J. Zhang 9780230302594
RRP: £44.99£20.89Focussing on China's stem cell research, this book investigates how, over the last decade, Chinese scientists, ethicists and policy-makers have developed a cosmopolitan sensibility in comprehending and responding to ethical and regulatory concerns.Book... -
AIDS and Rural Livelihoods: Dynamics and Diversity in sub-Saharan Africa by Anke Niehof 9781849711258
RRP: £135.00£117.28AIDS epidemics continue to threaten the livelihoods of millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa. Three decades after the disease was first recognized, the annual death toll from AIDS exceeds that from wars, famine and floods combined. Yet despite... -
Structural Approaches to Address Issues in Patient Safety by Susan D. Moffatt-Bruce 9781838670856
RRP: £82.99£69.04This volume explores the ways in which structural changes in health care environments impact patient safety. It delves into the potential that design thinking can have when applied to organizational systems and structures, as well as the physical... -
Indirect Action: Schizophrenia, Epilepsy, AIDS, and the Course of Health Activism by Lisa Diedrich 9781517900007
£89.61The experience of illness (both mental and physical) figures prominently in the critical thought and activism of the 1960s and 1970s, though it is largely overshadowed by practices of sexuality. Lisa Diedrich explores how and why illness was indeed so... -
Calling the Shots: Why Parents Reject Vaccines by Jennifer A. Reich 9781479812790
£69.96Winner, 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... -
Heterosexism in Health and Social Care by J. Fish 9781403941237
RRP: £89.99£28.51This interdisciplinary text develops a theory of heterosexism and provides everyday examples from health and social care environments. It engages with current debates, including intersecting identities, and presents a coherent analysis of the health and... -
The Skills and Ethics of Professional Touch: From Theory to Practice by Taina Kinnunen 9789819948697
RRP: £39.99£33.99This book introduces readers to the ethical and goal-oriented functions of touch in professional practice. Touch is both an increasingly visible topic today and a core skill in many professions, especially in health, education and social work. This book... -
Fighting for Recovery: An Activists' History of Mental Health Reform by Phyllis Vine 9780807013342
RRP: £22.00£14.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807013342Author Phyllis VineFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
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 Global Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Institutional and Community Corrections by James M. Byrne 9781032038964
RRP: £39.99£36.06The authors of the chapters included in this volume provide preliminary answers to questions such as: How extensive were COVID-19 outbreaks in prisons, jails, and community corrections systems globally? Which regions and countries reported the largest... -
The Process of Becoming Ill by David Robinson 9781032604190
RRP: £86.99£75.54First published in 1971, The Process of Becoming Ill is concerned with how people become ill: not with how people contract diseases but how people come to occupy the social status of ‘sick person’. It is concerned with an analysis of illness behaviour in... -
Suffering Narratives of Older Adults: A Phenomenological Approach to Serious Illness, Chronic Pain, Recovery and Maternal Care by Mary Beth Quaranta Morrissey 9781138703216
RRP: £42.99£37.59In Suffering Narratives of Older Adults, Mary Beth Quaranta Morrissey turns to the traditions of phenomenology, humanistic psychology and social work to provide an in-depth exploration of the deep structure of the suffering experience. She draws upon the... -
Culture, Ethnicity and Chronic Conditions: A Global Synthesis by Charles Agyemang 9781138953963
RRP: £51.99£45.19The global burden of chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs), such as hypertension, diabetes and cancers, and of common mental disorders such as depression and anxiety, has a disproportionate impact on the low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) of... -
Monitoring and Evaluation in Health and Social Development: Interpretive and Ethnographic Perspectives by Stephen Bell 9781138844155
RRP: £130.00£112.11New approaches are needed to monitor and evaluate health and social development. Existing strategies tend to require expensive, time-consuming analytical procedures. The growing emphasis on results-based programming has resulted in evaluation being... -
Medicine, Health and Being Human by Lesa Scholl 9781138301184
RRP: £135.00£117.28Medicine, Health and Being Human begins a conversation to explore how the medical has defined us: that is, the ways in which perspectives of medicine and health have affected cultural understandings of what it means to be human. With chapters that span... -
Alcohol, Drinking, Drunkenness: (Dis)Orderly Spaces by Dr. Mark Jayne 9781138253278
RRP: £53.99£46.87While disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, politics, social policy and the health and medical sciences have a tradition of exploring the centrality of alcohol, drinking and drunkenness to people's lives, geographers have only previously... -
Spirituality and Childbirth: Meaning and Care at the Start of Life by Susan Crowther 9781138229402
RRP: £135.00£117.28Highlighting aspects of birth often taken for granted, ignored or left silenced, this book questions the art and meaning of childbirth. Addressing spirituality in and around the start of life from a variety of thought-provoking perspectives, it examines... -
Risk and Substance Use: Framing Dangerous People and Dangerous Places by Susanne MacGregor 9781138491243
RRP: £135.00£117.28This interdisciplinary collection examines the role that alcohol, tobacco and other drugs have played in framing certain groups and spaces as 'dangerous' and in influencing the nature of formal responses to the perceived threat. Taking a historical... -
Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative by Priscilla Wald 9780822341284
£89.54How should we understand the fear and fascination elicited by the accounts of communicable disease outbreaks that proliferated, following the emergence of HIV, in scientific publications and the mainstream media? The repetition of particular characters,... -
Testing Fate: Tay-Sachs Disease and the Right to Be Responsible by Shelley Z. Reuter 9780816699957
£86.61In today's world, responsible biocitizenship has become a new way of belonging in society. Individuals are expected to make "responsible" medical choices, including the decision to be screened for genetic disease. Paradoxically, we have even... -
Blood Sugar: Racial Pharmacology and Food Justice in Black America by Anthony Ryan Hatch 9780816696178
£67.86Why 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... -
Pain: A Sociological Introduction by Elaine Denny 9780745655543
RRP: £52.00£45.20Pain in one form or another is probably the most common symptom presented to medical and healthcare professionals. Long a subject of biomedical interest, more recent biopsychosocial theories have extended the study of pain as a concept which is highly... -
Ethical and Legal Debates in Irish Healthcare: Confronting Complexities by Mary Donnelly 9780719099465
RRP: £90.00£63.91The Irish health system is confronted by a range of challenges, both emerging and recurring. This collection provides a foundation for ongoing engagement with selected issues in contemporary Irish health contexts. It includes contributions from...