Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness
Understanding Drugs Markets: An Analysis of Medicines, Regulations and Pharmaceutical Systems in the Global South
1st Edition
Edited
By Carine Baxerres, Maurice Cassier
May 31, 2023
Drawing on anthropology, historical sociology and social-epidemiology, this multidisciplinary book investigates how pharmaceuticals are produced, distributed, prescribed, (and) consumed, and regulated in order to construct a comprehensive understanding of the issues that drive (medicine) ...
Childlessness in the Age of Communication: Deconstructing Silence
1st Edition
By Cristina Archetti
January 21, 2023
Cristina Archetti started researching childlessness after being diagnosed with "unexplained infertility". She soon discovered that, although involuntary childlessness affects an increasing number of women and men across the world, this topic is shrouded taboo and shame. This book is both a ...
Performance Comparison and Organizational Service Provision: U.S. Hospitals and the Quest for Performance Control
1st Edition
By Christopher Dorn
August 29, 2022
Exploring the mechanisms underlying performance comparisons, Performance Comparison and Organizational Service Provision investigates how such assessments shape hospitals’ service provision and medical professionals’ work. With a focus on U.S. health care, this study outlines how medical quality ...
The Rise of Autism: Risk and Resistance in the Age of Diagnosis
1st Edition
By Ginny Russell
August 01, 2022
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429285912, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. This innovative book addresses the question of why increasing numbers of people are being ...
Assisted Reproductive Technologies in the Global South and North: Issues, Challenges and the Future
1st Edition
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By Virginie Rozée, Sayeed Unisa
April 29, 2022
Assisted Reproductive Technologies in the Global South and North critically analyses the political and social frameworks of Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART), and its impact in different countries. In the context of a worldwide social pressure to conceive – particularly for women – this ...
‘Ending AIDS’ in the Age of Biopharmaceuticals: The Individual, the State and the Politics of Prevention
1st Edition
By Tony Sandset
April 29, 2022
This book considers the change in rhetoric surrounding the treatment of AIDS from one of crisis to that of ‘ending AIDS’. Exploring what it means to ‘end AIDS’ and how responsibility is framed in this new discourse, the author considers the tensions generated between the individual and the state in...
Banking on Milk: An Ethnography of Donor Human Milk Relations
1st Edition
By Tanya Cassidy, Fiona Dykes
September 30, 2021
Banking on Milk takes the reader on a journey through the everyday life of donor human milk banking across the United Kingdom (UK) and beyond, asking questions such as the following: Why do people decide to donate? How do parents of recipients hear about human milk? How does milk donation impact on...
Living Pharmaceutical Lives
1st Edition
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By Peri Ballantyne, Kath Ryan
May 13, 2021
Increasingly, pharmaceuticals are available as the solutions to a wide range of human health problems and health risks, minor and major. This book portrays how pharmaceutical use is, at once, a solution to, and a difficulty for, everyday life. Exploring lived experiences of people at different ...
Giving Blood: The Institutional Making of Altruism
1st Edition
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By Johanne Charbonneau, André Smith
March 31, 2021
Giving Blood represents a new agenda for blood donation research. It explores the diverse historical and contemporary undercurrents that influence how blood donation takes place, and the social meanings that people attribute to the act of giving blood. Drawing from empirical studies conducted in ...
Sickle Cell and the Social Sciences: Health, Racism and Disablement
1st Edition
By Simon Dyson
March 31, 2021
Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a severe chronic illness and one of the world’s most common genetic conditions, with 400,000 children born annually with the disorder, mainly in Sub-Saharan Africa, India, Brazil, the Middle East and in diasporic African populations in North America and Europe. ...
Survivorship: A Sociology of Cancer in Everyday Life
1st Edition
By Alex Broom, Katherine Kenny
March 24, 2021
This book provides a contemporary and comprehensive examination of cancer in everyday life, drawing on qualitative research with people living with cancer, their family members and health professionals. It explores the evolving and enduring affects of cancer for individuals, families and ...
Contested Illness in Context: An Interdisciplinary Study in Disease Definition
1st Edition
By Harry Quinn Schone
December 18, 2020
What makes a disease real? Why is it that patients with chronic fatigue syndrome or fibromyalgia are doubted when they say they are in pain, and cannot access the same benefits of patient-hood that others can? What defines the limits of our belief and, ultimately, compassion, when it comes to ...