Sociology & Social Policy

Medical Careers and Feminist Agendas..

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

Medical Devices..

Medical Devices..

Before World War II, the great majority of practising doctors in England and Wales were general practitioners. They performed their own surgery, and were accustomed to treating a wide variety of illnesses and symptoms...

Conveys how medical people shape and organize the knowledge, perception, and experience of illness, as well as the substance of illness behavior, its management, and treatment. The authors believe that the understanding of specifically human rather than generally "animal" illness requires proper stu..

The most thorough major academic textbook available, this classic text presents the most important research studies in the field. The author also integrates engaging first-person accounts from patients, physicians, and other health care providers throughout the text. A much greater number of first p..

Medicine and Public Health at the End of Empire..

Mega-Events as Economies of the Imagination argues that the ‘Olympic City’ is produced by aesthetic 'imagineers', mobile groups of architects, artists and entrepreneurs, who aesthetically ‘engineer’ native cultures as utopias. Tzanelli examines how these imagineers problematize notions of creativity..

Memorializing the Past..

Memorializing the Past..

Memories of Mass Repression..