Sarah Nettleton s The Sociology of Health and Illness has become a cornerstone text popular with students and academics alike for its rigorous and accessible overview of the field. Building on these strengths the fourth edition integrates fresh insights from the curre... Lees meer.

A complete highly readable and student orientated introduction. Comprehensive coverage of all the key theories debates and issues showing how sociology can answer complex questions about health and illness.... Lees meer.

First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor Francis an informa company. The Sociology of Health and Health Care in Israel is the fifth volume of Studies of Israeli Society published under the aegis of the Israeli Sociological Society. The series is... Lees meer.

Sarah Nettleton s The Sociology of Health and Illness has become a cornerstone text popular with students and academics alike for its rigorous and accessible overview of the field. Building on these strengths the fourth edition integrates fresh insights from the curre... Lees meer.

How do we understand mental health problems in their social context. A former BMA Medical Book of the Year award winner this book provides a sociological analysis of major areas of mental health and illness. The book considers contemporary and historical aspects of so... Lees meer.

A Sociology of Mental Health and Illness is an intellectual tour de force . Rogers and Pilgrim cogently dismantle professional pretensions towards mastery of mental illness and in their place construct compelling arguments for the need to focus on the social economi... Lees meer.

This innovative work combines a rigorous academic analysis of the political economy of organ supply for transplantation with autobiographical narratives that illuminate the complex experience of being an organ recipient. This thought-provoking work examines how th... Lees meer.

Increasingly pharmaceuticals are available as the solutions to a wide range of human health problems and health risks minor and major. This book portrays how pharmaceutical use is at once a solution to and a difficulty for everyday life. Exploring lived experience... Lees meer.

A graduate textbook on the relationship between society and mental illness exploring such aspects as the view of mental disorders throughout history the approaches of medical and social sciences drug abuse homelessness and the law anxiety and stress schizophrenia... Lees meer.

Praise for the First Edition. The book is a great introduction it gives the students a sound basis gets them thinking and gives them the confidence to move on - Sarah Nettleton University of York This book was a pleasure to read given its clarity and the broa... Lees meer.

Suitable for studying the effects of mental health and illness on a society this textbook presents an overview of the major aspects of the sociology of mental health and illness. It also includes chapters that take into consideration the social science and social psych... Lees meer.

This textbook in the Illustrated Colour Text series offers an integrated treatment of sociology and psychology for medical students. It is presented in a much more colourful and graphic format than is usual for books on these two subjects. This integration reflects the... Lees meer.

Up-to-date with key policy and research and including case studies and exercises to critically engage the reader this textbook shows how sociology can answer complex questions about health and illness such as why health inequalities exist. Comes with access to access... Lees meer.

Culture Bodies and the Sociology of Health explores the boundaries between bodies and society with special reference to uncovering the cultural components of health and the ways in which bodies are categorized according to a form of culturally embedded health orthodox... Lees meer.

Covering inequality in health care access and practice this leading textbook has been acclaimed by teachers as the most accessible of any available. This new edition significantly expands coverage of medical technology end-of-life issues and alternative and compleme... Lees meer.