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.
This book pays attention to lived experiences of sex, drugs and the scientific practices that make these experiences intelligible. Through a series of..
Health workers and academics join to distil the results of their efforts to understand, oppose and change health inequalities. The contributors detail..
An opportunity for medical sociology to establish a voice in the key debates in social science today: modernity, postmodernity, structuralism and post..
This 'state of the art' overview of Foucaldian scholarship in health and medicine assesses the profound impact of Foucault's work and shows how key re..
Shortlisted for the BSA Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize 2009_x000D_
In this important text, Ellen Annandale provides a comprehensive and pe..
Stigma and Social Exclusion in Healthcare provides practical solutions to problems, recommendations for training and a blue print for the future. Inva..
Gender, Health and Healing brings together leading names in the sociology of health, this volume provides a critical review of contemporary debates i..
In MMR and Autism Michael Fitzpatrick explains why he believes the anti-MMR campaign is misguided, in a way that will reassure parents considering vac..
Based on field research and interviews this text discusses the challenges faced by young men in poor urban settings and examines education, employment..
Exploring the sociological aspects of sleep and their links to current health debates, this unique text discusses why sleep has been so neglected in s..
What is the impact of new health technologies in healthcare and medicine on people's lives? This ground-breaking text explores how new technologies no..