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Understanding Emerging Epidemics
This volume focuses on the contributions that social scientists can make to understanding emerging epidemics, their impact, the threats they pose, and their social and political …
Patients, Consumers and Civil Society
Medical Sociology is among the largest and first subdisciplines in Sociology. It is an area of ongoing work, advancing theory, method and our substantive understanding of social …
Case and Care Management
This is the sixth volume in a series dedicated to publishing current research and conceptual papers in the broad ranging area of the sociology of health.
50 Years after Deinstitutionalization
Throughout the 1960’s and 1970’s, a revolution in mental health policy and practice known as deinstitutionalization occurred in Europe and the US. This movement was catalyzed by …
Reproduction, Health, and Medicine
At a moment when reproduction is increasingly politicized, this volume explores the breadth of contemporary research on reproduction from the perspective of medical sociology, …
Ecological Health
Drawing on ecosystem thinking, complexity and postnormal science, Ecological Health offers a radical new way of thinking about the health issues of the 21st Century. This volume …
Social Networks and Health
This volume is directed toward researchers and health professionals with an interest in the interstices of social networks and health. It consists of original papers that address …
Sociological Reflections on the Neurosciences
This volume addresses the need for sociological insight through empirically rich, theoretically innovative chapters that range across methods, traditions and foci in order to cast …
Social Assumptions, Medical Categories
A study of social assumptions, specific events, medical categories, distinct groups and ideas of control in health research. This book examines presumptions about gender, race and …
Critical Perspectives on Addiction
Our understandings of addiction are rapidly changing. New technologies and biomedical treatments are reconfiguring addiction as a brain disease, and the concept of "addiction" is …
Food Systems and Health
In recent years, the ways in which food is produced, distributed, and consumed have emerged as prominent health and social issues. With rising concern about rates of obesity, food …
Immigration and Health
The current politicized climate around immigration includes heated debate over the potential costs of continued immigration for the health and well-being of the nation. Amid the …