Sociology of Health and Illness

This book examines contemporary challenges to the stigma associated with chronic illnesses, and is centred on an analysis of a range of studies on illness and stigma in HIV, multiple sclerosis, mental illness and substance misuse...

This book pays attention to lived experiences of sex, drugs and the scientific practices that make these experiences intelligible. Through a series of empirically and historically detailed case studies, the book examines how new technologies and scientific artifacts mediate sexual encounters and sha..

This book pays attention to lived experiences of sex, drugs and the scientific practices that make these experiences intelligible. Through a series of empirically and historically detailed case studies, the book examines how new technologies and scientific artifacts mediate sexual encounters and sha..

What is ‘good care’ and does more choice lead to better care? This innovative and compelling work investigates good care and argues that the often touted ideal of ‘patient choice’ will not improve healthcare in the ways hoped for by its advocates...

'Cyberspace' plays a significant role in the new medicalized world of the twenty-first century. This book explores the complex social interactions between health, medicalization, cyberculture, the body and identity...

'Cyberspace' plays a significant role in the new medicalized world of the twenty-first century. This book explores the complex social interactions between health, medicalization, cyberculture, the body and identity...

_x005F_x000D_ The New Sociology of the Health Service provides a vital new sociological framework for analysing health policy and health care, covering a broad range of key contemporary health services issues. It will be an important read for all students and researchers of medical sociology and hea..

_x000D_ The New Sociology of the Health Service provides a vital new sociological framework for analysing health policy and health care, covering a broad range of key contemporary health services issues. It will be an important read for all students and researchers of medical sociology and health po..

A collection of essays which offer an analysis of current policies in the sociological aspects of the health services. Following an historical overview of medical sociology, contributors discuss such topics as health service management, the outcomes of health care and future policy research...

While medical language is soaked in metaphor, medicine – that is, medical culture, clinical practice, and medical education – outwardly rejects metaphor for objective, literal scientific language. Arguing that this is a misstep, this book critically considers what embracing the use of metaphors, sim..

Shortlisted for the BSA Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize 2009_x000D_ In this important text, Ellen Annandale provides a comprehensive and persuasive analysis of the contemporary social relations of gender and women’s health, outlining what an adequate feminist analysis of women’s health mi..

Health workers and academics join to distil the results of their efforts to understand, oppose and change health inequalities. The contributors detail processes by which inequalities are maintained as well as how to combat them...