Sociology of Health and Illness

Gender, Health and Healing brings together leading names in the sociology of health, this volume provides a critical review of contemporary debates in health care for a broad based interdisciplinary readership...

This book looks at how social, cultural, geographical and economic environment as well as different legal and juridical systems have shaped and influenced the access of women and men to the economy and to the market and how these systems allowed spaces for economic actions, according to a gendered p..

Current reports show that Black Americans have the highest death rate of all racial and ethnic groups. Clearly a different approach to health education and promotion is needed to end this tragic waste of valuable human lives. This volume proposes an innovative model for health professionals working ..

The invention of a whole range of diseases including penis-size anxiety and internet addiction is turning us all into patients. Jörg Blech investigates how inventing disease is fast becoming a profitable business and unearths the real motives of those pulling the strings...

Increasingly, we question ‘what makes us healthy?’, as well as ‘what makes us ill?’. What does this shift mean for frailty? This ground-breaking book takes a holistic approach to frailty. It connects the medical literature with the wider social science discourse on ageing, and focuses on promoting w..

This volume explores how ‘the market’continues to affect and redefine health professionals as moral beings and impact on the care they provide. By reflecting on the meaning of the market and the medical profession, this ground-breaking volume identifies a variety of ways to help preserve healthcare ..

What is the impact of new health technologies in healthcare and medicine on people's lives? This ground-breaking text explores how new technologies not only provide hope for cure and well being, but also introduce new ethical dilemmas and raise questions about the 'natural' body...

This book explores how the medical has defined us: that is, the ways in which perspectives of medicine and health have affected understandings of what it means to be human. With chapters that span from the early modern period to the contemporary world, and are drawn from a range of disciplines and a..

Lee F. Monaghan offers a timely, critical and original take on the obesity debate, bringing male bodies into the frame and questioning the claim from public health that millions of people are unhealthy because they are ‘overweight’ or ‘obese’...

In MMR and Autism Michael Fitzpatrick explains why he believes the anti-MMR campaign is misguided, in a way that will reassure parents considering vaccination and also relieve the anxieties of parents of autistic children...

An opportunity for medical sociology to establish a voice in the key debates in social science today: modernity, postmodernity, structuralism and poststructuralism. Essential reading for students of the sociology of medicine, health and illness...

An opportunity for medical sociology to establish a voice in the key debates in social science today: modernity, postmodernity, structuralism and poststructuralism. Essential reading for students of the sociology of medicine, health and illness...