Sociology & Social Policy

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

In Hospital Land USA, Wendy Simonds analyzes the wide-reaching powers of medicalization: the dynamic processes by which medical authorities, institutions, and ideologies impact our everyday experiences, culture, and social life. Simonds documents her own Hospital Land adventures and draws on a wide ..

Hospital Policy in the United Kingdom provid es the most comprehensive analysis of hospital services in t he United Kingdom to date and examines key factors that shou ld be taken into account when planning health care systems...

Examines the social crisis in American medicine. Here, the authors, two well-known sociologists, search out - and find - the roots of this crisis in three areas: the organization of the hospital, the attitudes of the hospital toward its patients, and the relationship of hospitals to one another...

This title was first published in 2000:  Using micro-level data, this text shows that rural Russian households have made significant adaptations to an emerging market economy in just a few years. It focuses on how household capital (household labour, social networks and comunity attachment) effect t..

In an effort to explain why housing remains among the United States’ most enduring social problems, Housing America explores five of the U.S.’s most fundamental, recurrent issues in housing its population: affordability of housing, homelessness, segregation and discrimination in the housing market, ..

While trying to understand society sociologists in the Policy, Welfare and Social Work set of the International Library of Sociology consider the policy and planning implications of attempts to respond to and meet social needs by institutions...

Housing Urban America..

Housing Vouchers..

Housing Vouchers..

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...