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Indigenous Medicine Among the Bedouin in the Middle East by Aref Abu-Rabia 9781789208511
RRP: $47.94$38.73Modern 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... -
Healing Roots: Anthropology in Life and Medicine by Julie Laplante 9781782385547
RRP: $169.81$137.62Umhloyane, also known as Artemisia afra, is one of the oldest and best-documented indigenous medicines in South Africa. This bush, which grows wild throughout the sub-Saharan region, smells and tastes like "medicine," thus easily making its way... -
Organising Care Around Patients: Stories from the Frontline of the NHS by Naomi Chambers 9781526147455
RRP: $145.80$103.21The NHS, along with many health sectors worldwide, has long declared its commitment to 'patient-centred care,' in which the health care decisions are driven by the needs and desires of the individual; however, a devastating gap remains between this... -
Head On: An All Black's memoir of rugby, dementia, and the hidden cost of success by Carl Hayman 9781775542353
RRP: $29.14$19.67An All Black's memoir of rugby, dementia, and the hidden cost of success 'The best sports book I have read in decades' - Kevin Norquay, Stuff'Startlingly honest' - Phil Gifford'A brilliant read. Bold, brave and honest' - Mike Hosking, Newstalk ZBCarl... -
How We Hurt: The Politics of Pain in the Opioid Epidemic by Melina Sherman 9780197698235
RRP: $34.29$31.24How We Hurt dives into the institutional and cultural dimensions of the ongoing opioid epidemic. In a detailed analysis of pain management, opioid regulation, pharmaceutical branding, self-help, and public discourses on opioid addiction, Melina Sherman... -
The Cancer Problem: Malignancy in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Agnes Arnold-Forster 9780198885092
RRP: $60.04$51.63The Cancer Problem offers the first medical, cultural, and social history of cancer in nineteenth-century Britain. It begins by looking at a community of doctors and patients who lived and worked in the streets surrounding the Middlesex Hospital in... -
Medical Negligence: What Doctors, Patients & Hospitals Should Know by P. D. Shenoy 9788120778078
RRP: $61.73$40.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788120778078Author P. D. ShenoyFormat HardbackPage Count 475Imprint Sterling Publishers Pvt.LtdPublisher Sterling Publishers Pvt.LtdWeight(grams) 982g -
Global Health Communication for Immigrants and Refugees: Cases, Theories, and Strategies by Do Kyun David Kim 9781032136370
RRP: $68.59$60.14This book analyzes international cases of immigrants and refugees from a health communication perspective - A useful contribution to debates on the wellbeing of immigrants and refugees It provides theoretical frames and effective recommendations for... -
Dementia and Literature: Interdisciplinary Perspectives by Tess Maginess 9781138633476
RRP: $231.57$201.17Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Routledge Handbook of Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Perspectives from Social Science and Law by Nicola K. Gale 9781138503434
RRP: $84.03$73.86The provision and use of traditional, complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has been growing globally over the last 40 years. As CAM develops alongside - and sometimes integrates with - conventional medicine, this handbook provides the first major... -
RX Appalachia: Stories of Treatment and Survival in Rural Kentucky by Lesly-Marie Buer 9781642591231
RRP: $29.14$20.02Using the narratives of women who use(d) drugs, this account challenges popular understandings of Appalachia spread by such pundits as JD Vance by documenting how women, families, and communities cope with generational systems of oppression. Prescription... -
The Coronavirus Crisis and Its Teachings: Steps towards Multi-Resilience by Dr Roland Benedikter 9781642598087
RRP: $68.61$46.19COVID provoked a multi-dimensional crisis that overwhelmed existing concepts of social resilience that focus on a singular crisis. This volume proposes an alternative. In The Coronavirus Crisis and Its Teachings: Steps towards Multi-Resilience Roland... -
After Life: A Collective History of Loss and Redemption in Pandemic America by Rhae Lynn Barnes 9781642598292
RRP: $37.72$25.44After Life is a collective history of how Americans experienced, navigated, commemorated, and ignored mass death and loss during global the COVID-19 pandemic, mass uprisings for racial justice, and the near presidential coup in 2021 following the 2020... -
After Life: A Collective History of Loss and Redemption in Pandemic America by Rhae Lynn Barnes 9781642598759
RRP: $82.33$55.06After Life is a collective history of how Americans experienced, navigated, commemorated, and ignored mass death and loss during global the COVID-19 pandemic, mass uprisings for racial justice, and the near presidential coup in 2021 following the 2020... -
Emotions and Reflexivity in Health & Social Care Field Research by Helen T. Allan 9783319655024
RRP: $154.36$86.57This book is about emotions and reflexivity when doing field research in health and social care settings. Health and social care students often undertake field research in their own area of practice using observation and interviews. All contributing... -
Delivering Health: Midwifery and Development in Mexico by Lydia Z. Dixon 9780826501134
$63.892021 Honorable Mention for the Association for Feminist Anthropology’s Rosaldo Book Prize Maternal health outcomes are a key focus of global health initiatives. In Delivering Health, author Lydia Z. Dixon uncovers the ways such outcomes have been shaped... -
The Anthropology of Drugs by Neil Carrier 9780367625269
RRP: $61.73$54.36An ideal book for those coming to the anthropology of drugs for the first time, filling a surprisingly big gap in the literature Includes many case studies, such as drug tourism, the opioid crisis and 'county lines' in the UK as well as global examples... -
Women’s Drug Use in Everyday Life by Emma Eleonorasdotter 9783031460593
RRP: $60.02$54.53This open access book explores the increasing role of psychoactive substances in contemporary everyday life, focussing on women's use. Drawing on an ethnographic study in Sweden, it uses cultural studies and queer phenomenology to analyse the women’s... -
Understanding Health Care in America: Culture, Capitalism, and Communication by Michael Pagano 9781138592933
RRP: $63.45$56.48This book examines the current state of American health care using a social science lens to focus on the interdependent, intercultural, economic, and communication aspects of access and delivery. This text explores how the cultures of health care... -
Communicating Pain: Exploring Suffering through Language, Literature and Creative Writing by Stephanie de Montalk 9781032570433
RRP: $66.88$58.70Combining critical research with memoir, essay, poetry and creative biography, this insightful volume sensitively explores the lived experience of chronic pain. Confronting the language of pain and the paradox of writing about personal pain,... -
Empowerment: A Critique by Kenneth McLaughlin 9781032569727
RRP: $66.88$58.70'Empowerment' is a term in widespread use today and one that is often considered to be a self-evident good. Here, McLaughlin explores its emergence in the 1960s through to its rise in the 1990s and ubiquity in present day discourse and interrogates its... -
Reconsidering Dementia Narratives: Empathy, Identity and Care by Rebecca Bitenc 9781032570624
RRP: $66.88$58.70Reconsidering Dementia Narratives explores the role of narrative in developing new ways of understanding, interacting with, and caring for people with dementia. It asks how the stories we tell about dementia – in fiction, life writing and film – both... -
Conceptualising Public Health: Historical and Contemporary Struggles over Key Concepts by Johannes Kananen 9781032570013
RRP: $66.88$58.70In Germanic and Nordic languages, the term for ‘public health’ literally translates to ‘people’s health’, for example Volksgesundheit in German, folkhälsa in Swedish and kansanterveys in Finnish. Covering a period stretching from the late nineteenth... -
Institutionalizing Assisted Reproductive Technologies: The Role of Science, Professionalism, and Regulatory Control by Alexander Styhre 9780367223984
RRP: $66.88$58.70Reproductive medicine has been very successful at developing new therapies in recent years and people having difficulties conceiving have more options available to them than ever before. These developments have led to a new institutional landscape... -
Drink: An Economic and Social Study by Hermann Levy 9781032615691
$161.24Originally published in 1951, this title was the last book by Hermann Levy who died in 1949 before it was finished. Completed by his friend and fellow academic Rolf P. Lynton, this title looks alcohol as a drink, both economically and socially. Divided... -
State–Society Relations around the World through the Lens of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Rapid Test by Federica Duca 9781032343259
RRP: $63.45$55.80The collection examines state–society relations during the COVID-19 pandemic, from governance at the outset of the pandemic to vaccine rollouts, via a series of case studies from around the world. With a focus on the Global South, the book includes... -
The Sociology of Health, Healing, and Illness by Denise Copelton 9781032418117
RRP: $214.41$185.01With thorough coverage of inequality in health care access and practice, this leading textbook is widely acclaimed by instructors as the most comprehensive of any available. Written in an engaging and accessible style, with multiple student-friendly... -
Sexualities, Transnationalism, and Globalisation: New Perspectives by Yanqiu Rachel Zhou 9780367769901
RRP: $66.88$58.70This innovative book explores the dynamic and contested interactions – including the mutually constitutive relationships – among sexualities, transnationalism, and globalisation. Bringing together contributors with a variety of disciplinary, geographic,... -
Transforming Healthcare with Qualitative Research by Frances Rapport 9780367557751
RRP: $66.88$58.70Drawing on the knowledge and experiences of world-renowned scientists and healthcare professionals, this important book brings together academic, medical and health systems accounts of the impact of applying qualitative research methods to transform... -
Medical Humanities, Sociology and the Suffering Self: Surviving Health by Wendy Lowe 9780367672997
RRP: $66.88$58.70Following criticisms of the traditionally polarized view of understanding suffering through either medicine or social justice, Lowe makes a compelling argument for how the medical humanities can help to go beyond the traditional biographical and... -
Understanding Drugs Markets: An Analysis of Medicines, Regulations and Pharmaceutical Systems in the Global South by Carine Baxerres 9781032043135
RRP: $66.88$58.70Drawing on anthropology, historical sociology and social-epidemiology, this multidisciplinary book investigates how pharmaceuticals are produced, distributed, prescribed, (and) consumed, and regulated in order to construct a comprehensive understanding... -
Rethinking Pain in Person-Centred Health Care: Around Recovery by Stephen Buetow 9780367699024
RRP: $66.88$58.70This book explores how person-centred health care could be refined to help persons alleviate pain-related distress and construct pain as a potentially positive experience. Rethinking Pain in Person-Centred Health Care is a fascinating contribution to the... -
The Sociology of Health, Healing, and Illness by Denise Copelton 9781032418124
RRP: $58.30$51.46With thorough coverage of inequality in health care access and practice, this leading textbook is widely acclaimed by instructors as the most comprehensive of any available. Written in an engaging and accessible style, with multiple student-friendly... -
Health and Care in Neoliberal Times by NEIL SMALL 9781032365145
RRP: $214.41$185.01This book argues that neoliberal changes in health and social care go beyond resource allocations, priority setting and privatisation, and manifest in an invidious erosion of the quality of our social relationships, including relationships between care... -
Power, Policy and the Pandemic: A Sociological Analysis of COVID-19 Policy in England by Michael Calnan 9781802620108
RRP: $82.32$68.65Providing a sociological analysis of the policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic in England, this study places particular analytical emphasis on the interplay between powerful structural interests and the influence on the development of COVID-19 policy... -
Challenging Medicine by David Kelleher 9780415389549
RRP: $68.59$60.14This highly topical and controversial book presents a lively re-appraisal of the current changes to the health service and analyzes their effects on the status and practice of health professionals.Modern medicine is a powerful institution. With the help... -
Genetic Governance: Health, Risk and Ethics in a Biotech Era by Robin Bunton 9780415354073
RRP: $29.14$26.11Ethical and practical issues around genetic research are of major international concern, both in academia and in the public domain. Questions concerning what interventions are possible and appropriate with the increasing amount of genetic information... -
Africanizing Oncology: Creativity, Crisis, and Cancer in Uganda by Marissa Mika 9780821424650
$106.35Combining methods from African studies, science and technology studies, and medical anthropology, Marissa Mika considers the Uganda Cancer Institute as a microcosm of the Ugandan state and as a lens through which to trace the political, technological,... -
COVID-19: Proportionality, Public Policy and Social Distancing by Peter Murphy 9789811575167
RRP: $94.32$59.73COVID-19: Proportionality, Public Policy and Social Distance explores the social and political response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It details the sociological aspects of the spread of the virus, the role played by social distancing in virus mitigation,... -
Inequality Kills Us All: COVID-19's Health Lessons for the World by Stephen Bezruchka 9781032326214
RRP: $214.41$185.01Since the pandemic, the lifespan of the average American has dropped by nearly two years - an unprecedented decline unseen since World War II. But even before Covid-19, U.S. health steadily declined relative to other countries. The complex answer to why...