Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness
Social Crisis and Mental Health: Signs of Sanity
1st Edition
By Peter Morrall
November 22, 2023
This book focuses on the paradoxical effect of social crises on mental health. When crises occur, there's an upsurge of mental suffering due to an intensification of such social insanities as violence, inequality, and insecurity. Paradoxically, there are positive consequences due to acts of ...
Weight Bias in Health Education: Critical Perspectives for Pedagogy and Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Heather Brown, Nancy Ellis-Ordway
September 25, 2023
Weight stigma is so pervasive in our culture that it is often unnoticed, along with the harm that it causes. Health care is rife with anti-fat bias and discrimination against fat people, which compromises care and influences the training of new practitioners. This book explores how this happens ...
Ageing, the Body and the Gender Regime: Health, Illness and Disease Across the Life Course
1st Edition
Edited
By Susan Pickard, Jude Robinson
May 31, 2023
The current (postfeminist) gender order comprises a highly complex coexistence of old and new norms and expectations, freedom and constraints, within a neoliberal social order underpinned by individualism and involving a shift in gender performance by men and women. Health, illness and disease at ...
Conflict of Interest and Medicine: Knowledge, Practices, and Mobilizations
1st Edition
Edited
By Boris Hauray, Henri Boullier, Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Hélène Michel
May 31, 2023
In the context of a growing criticism on the influence of the pharmaceutical industry on physicians, scientists, or politicians, Conflict of Interest and Medicine offers a comprehensive analysis of the conflict of interest in medicine anchored in the social sciences, with perspectives from ...
Digital Transformations in Care for Older People: Critical Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Helena Hirvonen, Mia Tammelin, Riitta Hänninen, Eveline J.M. Wouters
May 31, 2023
The book investigates digitalisation in care for older people by giving insight into service users’ and professionals’ opportunities to digital agency in the context of European welfare states. With a focus on service users and providers experiences of digital care, the contributions address the ...
Dying in a Transhumanist and Posthuman Society
1st Edition
By Panagiotis Pentaris
May 31, 2023
Exploring both the intrapersonal (moral) and interpersonal (ethical) nature of death and dying in the context of their development (philosophical), Dying in a Transhumanist and Posthuman Society shows how death and dying have been and will continue to be governed in any given society. Drawing on ...
Gendered Violence, Abuse and Mental Health in Everyday Lives: Beyond Trauma
1st Edition
By Nicole Moulding
May 31, 2023
Gendered Violence, Abuse and Mental Health in Everyday Lives: Beyond Trauma offers new insights into the social dimensions of emotional distress in abuse-related mental health problems, and explores the many interconnections between gendered violence, different forms of abuse and poor mental health...
HIV in the UK: Voices from the Epidemic
1st Edition
By Jose Catalan, Barbara Hedge, Damien Ridge
May 31, 2023
This book explores the thoroughly human dimension of the health care and prevention responses to the HIV crisis in the UK, and the impact that such initiatives had on the progression of the epidemic. This book presents a compelling account of the unfolding of the epidemic and the initiatives that ...
Insane Society: A Sociology of Mental Health
1st Edition
By Peter Morrall
May 31, 2023
This book critiques the connection between Western society and madness, scrutinizing if and how societal insanity affects the cause, construction, and consequence of madness.Looking beyond the affected individual to their social, political, economic, ecological, and cultural context, this book ...
Institutionalizing Assisted Reproductive Technologies: The Role of Science, Professionalism, and Regulatory Control
1st Edition
By Alexander Styhre, Rebecka Arman
May 31, 2023
Reproductive medicine has been very successful at developing new therapies in recent years and people having difficulties conceiving have more options available to them than ever before. These developments have led to a new institutional landscape emerging and this innovative volume explores how ...
Public Discourse and Health Policies: The Price of Health in Contemporary Italy
1st Edition
By Nicoletta Bosco
May 31, 2023
The questions addressed in the book revolve around the public nature of health as an asset and the rights associated with it, by drawing attention to sociology’s role in shedding light on current dynamics and understanding how they may change in the future. In the field of public health, ...
Risk and Substance Use: Framing Dangerous People and Dangerous Places
1st Edition
Edited
By Susanne MacGregor, Betsy Thom
May 31, 2023
This interdisciplinary collection examines the role that alcohol, tobacco and other drugs have played in framing certain groups and spaces as ‘dangerous’ and in influencing the nature of formal responses to the perceived threat. Taking a historical and cross-national perspective, it explores how ...