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.

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.

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.

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.

The main purpose of this book is to demonstrate that disease is socially produced and distributed. Becoming sick and unhealthy is not the result of individual misfortune or an accident of nature. It is a consequence of the social political and economic organization of... Lees meer.

Modern organizations are characterized by multiple kinds of observations and systems rather than clear hierarchies. Explores how this polycontexturality plays out in the healthcare arena this book provides an analysis that takes into account the complexity of healthca... Lees meer.

Drawing 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 of the issues tha... Lees meer.

Exploring both the intrapersonal moral and interpersonal ethical nature of death and dying in the context of their development philosophical Dying in a Transhumanist and Posthuman Society shows how death and dying have been and will continue to be governed in any... Lees meer.