Medical sociology
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Medical sociology
Paperback. The book examines the social and cultural context of new genetic knowledge associated with breast cancer. It looks at how this knowledge and technologies are used and received in two contrasting social arenas - cancer genetic clinics and a breast cancer research charity. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHB; MBS; MFN; MJCL; PSAD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349547548
- ISBN
- 9781349547548
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.34
€ 63.34
Paperback. Series: Non-Governmental Public Action. BIC Classification: MBS. Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349560592
- ISBN
- 9781349560592
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
Paperback. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTB; GTF; JFF; JHB; JPQB; MBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 389.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 283
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349686360
- ISBN
- 9781349686360
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.69
€ 63.69
Hardcover. There is a growing interest in studies that document the relationship between science and medicine-as ideas, practices, technologies and outcomes-across cultural, national, geographic terrain. Tibetan medicine is not only known as a scholarly medical tradition among other Asian medical systems.. Editor(s): Adams, Vincanne; Schreempf, Mona; Craig, Sienna R. Series: Epistemologies of Healing. Num Pages: 324 pages, 11 ills. BIC Classification: 1FPCT; HRAM3; JHM; MBS; MX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 642.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Number of pages
- 324
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845457587
- ISBN
- 9781845457587
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 159.69
€ 159.69
Hardback. Num Pages: 258 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JPA; MBNH; MBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 555.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319315065
- ISBN
- 9783319315065
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.86
€ 64.86
Hardback. Series: African Histories and Modernities. Num Pages: 382 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1H; HBJH; HBTB; MBP; MBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 217 x 27. Weight in Grams: 642.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319324609
- ISBN
- 9783319324609
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 144.79
€ 144.79
Hardcover. Editor(s): Modi, Ishwar; Benko, Zsuzsanna; Tarko, Klara. Series: Leisure Studies in a Global Era. Num Pages: 310 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, 45 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JHBS; JMH; MBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319332567
- ISBN
- 9783319332567
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 176.27
€ 176.27
Hardback. Editor(s): Broch-Due, Vigdis; Bertelsen, Bjorn Enge. Series: Culture, Mind and Society. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHMC; MBS; MMJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 22. Weight in Grams: 519.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319390482
- ISBN
- 9783319390482
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.48
€ 133.48
Hardback. Editor(s): Middleton, Hugh; Jordan, Melanie. Num Pages: 242 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, 10 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: JMB; MBNH9; MBS; MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319439693
- ISBN
- 9783319439693
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.28
€ 133.28
The Restless Compendium. Interdisciplinary Investigations of Rest and ...
. Ed(S): Callard, Felicity; Wilkes, James
Hardback. Editor(s): Callard, Felicity; Wilkes, James. Num Pages: 205 pages, 21 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: JFSR; JHBS; MBNH9; MBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 219 x 18. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
- Number of pages
- 205
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319452630
- ISBN
- 9783319452630
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 39.16
€ 39.16
Hardback. Num Pages: 15 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: GTC; JFD; MBN; MBS; PSXM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319514178
- ISBN
- 9783319514178
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.36
€ 122.36
Hardback. Exploring the connections between sociological, psychological and biological theories of exhaustion, this book examines how exhaustion manifests in the rise of burnout, depression and chronic fatigue, and analyses the interplay between mental health diagnoses, socio-cultural transformations and individual illness experiences. Editor(s): Schaffner, Anna Katharina; Neckel, Sighard; Wagner, Greta. Num Pages: 328 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JMS; MBS; MBX; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319528861
- ISBN
- 9783319528861
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 197.35
€ 197.35
Hardback. Series: Health Technology and Society. Num Pages: 242 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; KJMV6; MBS; TDCW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319532691
- ISBN
- 9783319532691
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.43
€ 64.43
Paperback. Research on health involves evaluating the disparities that are systematically associated with the experience of risk, including genetic and physiological variation, environmental exposure to poor nutrition and disease, and social marginalization. Editor(s): Panter-Brick, Catherine; Fuentes, Agustin. Series: Studies of the BioSocial Society. Num Pages: 310 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHM; MBS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 148 x 227 x 17. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 310
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845452810
- ISBN
- 9781845452810
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.58
€ 44.58
Hardback. From September 1990 to June 1991, the UK deployed 53,462 military personnel in the Gulf War. After the end of the conflict anecdotal reports of various disorders affecting troops who fought in the Gulf began to surface. This mysterious illness was given the name Gulf War SyndromeA" (GWS). Num Pages: 266 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; HBWS3; MBS; MMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845455262
- ISBN
- 9781845455262
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 158.81
€ 158.81
Paperback. Seeks to understand the relationship between HIV, medical technologies, and ideas about the body. This book is suitable for those who are engaged in questions of the social and ethical dimensions of biomedicine, biotechnology, and genomics. Series: In Vivo. Num Pages: 148 pages, 7 illus. BIC Classification: JFFH2; MBS; PSAD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 177 x 12. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 148
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295989426
- ISBN
- 9780295989426
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99
€ 41.99
Hardback. Seeks to understand the relationship between HIV, medical technologies, and ideas about the body. This book is suitable for those who are engaged in questions of the social and ethical dimensions of biomedicine, biotechnology, and genomics. Series: In Vivo. Num Pages: 148 pages, 7 illus. BIC Classification: JFFH2; MBS; PSAD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 148
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295989594
- ISBN
- 9780295989594
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.71
€ 130.71
Hardcover. Drawing on rich, ethnographic and historiographic material, this volume represents the emergent field of anthropological inquiry that links Africanist ethnography to recent concerns with science, the state, and the culture of late capitalism in Africa. Editor(s): Geissler, Paul Wenzel; Molyneux, Sassy. Num Pages: 452 pages, 32 ills. BIC Classification: 1H; JHM; MBGR; MBS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 30. Weight in Grams: 810.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 452
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857450920
- ISBN
- 9780857450920
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 210.40
€ 210.40
Epidemic Encounters: Influenza, Society, and Culture in Canada, 1918-2...
. Ed(S): Fahrni, Magda; Jones, Esyllt W.
hardcover. A multidisciplinary exploration of Canada's experience of illness and death during the 1918-20 influenza pandemic. Editor(s): Fahrni, Magda; Jones, Esyllt W. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JJG; MBNS; MBS; MJCJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- UBC Press Canada
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774822121
- ISBN
- 9780774822121
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.50
€ 112.50
paperback. This book explores the complex relationship between public health research and policy, employing tobacco control and health inequalities in the UK as contrasting case studies. It argues that focusing on research-informed ideas usefully draws attention to the centrality of values, politics and advocacy for public health debates. Series: Palgrave Studies in Science, Knowledge and Policy. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; JPP; JPQB; MBN; MBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 349.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 251
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349439263
- ISBN
- 9781349439263
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.31
€ 58.31