Identity and Health

Edited by David Kelleher, Gerard Leavey

Experiences of health and illness are fundamental to how we understand ourselves, and the postmodern obsession with body image has made health even more significant...

2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-30792-5 (Routledge)

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Genetic Databases

Socio-Ethical Issues in the Collection and Use of DNA

Edited by Oonagh Corrigan, Richard Tutton

Genetic Databases offers a timely analysis of the underlying tensions, contradictions and limitations of the current regulatory frameworks for, and policy debates about, genetic databases....

2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-31680-4 (Routledge)

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Power and Conflict Between Doctors and Nurses

Breaking Through the Inner Circle in Clinical Care

By Maureen A. Coombs

Through observations in three intensive care units, this book draws on the reality of practice to explore how nurses and doctors work in intensive care...

2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-30193-0 (Routledge)

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Sport, Professionalism and Pain

Ethnographies of Injury and Risk

By David Howe

Are pain and injury managed appropriately in the environment of professional sport?
Is sports medicine a tool to empower or to disempower athletes?

David Howe considers these...

2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-24730-6 (Routledge)

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Queer Crips

Disabled Gay Men and Their Stories

By Phd, John Dececco, Bob Guter, John R. Killacky

Get an inside perspective on life as a disabled gay man!

Queer Crips: Disabled Gay Men and Their Stories reverberates with the sound of...

2003 | Paperback: 978-1-56023-457-9 (Routledge)

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Welfare and the State

Edited by Nicholas Deakin, Catherine Jones Finer, Bob Matthews

One of the most contested issues of the 20th century is that of welfare - how it should be available, to whom, on what terms...

2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-26287-3 (Routledge)

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Mainstreaming Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Studies in Social Context

Edited by Philip Tovey, Gary Easthope, Jon Adams

Stepping back from the immediate demands of policy-making, Mainstreaming Complementary and Alternative Medicine allows a complex and informative picture to emerge of the...

2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-26700-7 (Routledge)

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The Palestinian Diaspora

By Helena Lindholm Schulz

From the refugee camps of the Lebanon to the relative prosperity of life in the USA, the Palestinian diaspora has been dispersed across the world....

2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-26821-9 (Routledge)

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The Sociology of Health and Illness

A Reader

Edited by Michael Bury, Jonathan Gabe

A wide-ranging collection of both classic writings and more recent articles in the sociology of health and illness, this reader is organized into the following...

2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-25756-5 (Routledge)

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The Body

Critical Concepts in Sociology

Edited by Andrew Blaikie, Mike Hepworth, Mary Holmes, Alexandra Howson, David Inglis, Sheree Sartain

This collection offers a uniquely comprehensive guide to the sociology of the body. With a strong historical scope and conceptual framework, it provides an indispensable...

2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-26662-8 (Routledge)

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