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Menstrual Disorders Graham Scambler 9780415046466
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.95What does modern medical science know about menstruation? Less than is commonly assumed, according to Annette and Graham Scambler. In this thought-provoking book, they challenge orthodox thinking on... -
Cafe Society by Graham Scambler 9781137275929
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £90.56While tracing the historical emergence of the cafe as a social institution and noting its multiple faces and functions in the modernity of the occident, three themes run like threads of varying... -
A Critical Realist Theory of Sport by Graham Scambler
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.66This book argues that sport in the era of global or financialised capitalism has undergone a process of fracturing, which requires a re-assessment of longstanding and consensual accounts of... -
Habermas, Critical Theory and Health by Graham Scambler 9780415191821
RRP: £65.99Booksplease Price: £58.94The contribution of the German sociologist and philosopher Jurgen Habermas has proved seminal for attempts to understand the nature of social change in the context of global capitalism. This book... -
Sociological Theory and Medical Sociology by Graham Scambler 9781032255484
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £29.81Originally published in 1987, this book builds bridges between medical sociology and mainstream theory. It does so by demonstrating in new and important ways how selected theories of major thinkers... -
Rethinking Prostitution: Purchasing Sex in the 1990s Graham Scambler 9780415102070
RRP: £57.99Booksplease Price: £52.08The growth of AIDS has focused renewed attention on the institution of prostitution. In contrast to the moral panic reaction of some sectors of society, very different initiatives are being displayed... -
Healthy Societies: Policy, Practice and Obstacles Graham Scambler 9781447375302
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £66.04Can society be healthy, and how? Is Britain a ‘healthy society’ in the 21st century? When people ponder health, they usually consider the health of the individual, but individuals co-exist in a... -
Epilepsy Graham Scambler (University College London, UK) 9780415017589
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.51In examining the social and psychological aspects of epilepsy, the author takes not only the perspectives of individuals and their families, but also popular conceptions of the disorder. The result... -
Healthy Societies: Policy, Practice and Obstacles Graham Scambler 9781447370956
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.48Can society be healthy, and how? Is Britain a 'healthy society' in the 21st century? When people ponder health, they usually consider the health of the individual, but individuals co-exist in a... -
The Sociological Theory of Margaret Archer: A Critical Appraisal Graham Scambler 9781041011538
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37Margaret Archer's contribution to the development of sociological theory has been significant and lasting. This volume by Graham Scambler offers both an account of her evolving body of work over time... -
A Sociology of Shame and Blame: Insiders Versus Outsiders by Graham Scambler 9783030231422
Booksplease Price: £56.12This book presents a novel approach to framing the concept of stigma, and understanding why and how it functions. Graham Scambler extends his analysis beyond common social interactionist... -
Sociology, Health and the Fractured Society: A Critical Realist Account by Graham Scambler
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37It is now accepted that many of the determinants of health and health care are social. This volume offers a philosophical and theoretical frame within which the nature and extent of this might be... -
Contemporary Theorists for Medical Sociology Graham Scambler (University College London, UK) 9780415597838
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.51Contemporary 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... -
New Directions in the Sociology of Chronic and Disabling Conditions: Assaults on the Lifeworld by Graham Scambler 9780230222700
Booksplease Price: £112.12Bringing together disability theorists and medical sociologists for the first time in this cutting-edge collection, contributors examine chronic illness and disability, disability theory,... -
Modernity, Medicine and Health Paul Higgs 9780415149396
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £46.94This book establishes the voice of medical sociology in key debates in the social sciences. Concerning modernity, postmodernity, structuralism and poststructuralism issues covered include: * disease... -
Communal Forms: A Sociological Exploration of Concepts of Community by Aksel Tjora 9780367438920
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37Drawing on a wide range of social theory, as well as empirical inputs from studies of work, neighbourhoods, events, meeting places and online self-help groups, this book suggests that communal forms... -
Structure, Culture and Agency: Selected Papers of Margaret Archer by Tom Brock
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £42.96Professor Margaret Archer is a leading critical realist and major contemporary social theorist. This edited collection seeks to celebrate the scope and accomplishments of her work, distilling her... -
The Social Causes of Health and Disease William C. Cockerham (University of Alabama, Birmingham) 9781509540365
Booksplease Price: £18.06This stimulating book has become a go-to text for understanding the role that social factors play in the experience of health and many diseases. This extensively revised and updated third edition... -
Dying: A Social Perspective on the End of Life Alex Broom 9781138494855
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.80An inevitable and universal experience, dying is experienced by individuals in different ways, often related to the character of our relationships, family structures, gender identities, cultural... -
COVID-19 and Shame: Political Emotions and Public Health in the UK by Fred Cooper 9781350283411
Booksplease Price: £47.74This open access book examines the various ways that shame, shaming and stigma became an integral part of the United Kingdom's public health response to COVID-19 during 2020. As the Covid-19 pandemic...