Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness
‘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...
Living Pharmaceutical Lives
1st Edition
Edited
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
Edited
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 ...
Socio-economics of Personalized Medicine in Asia
1st Edition
By Shirley Sun
July 23, 2019
The second decade of the twenty-first century has witnessed a surging interest in personalized medicine with the concomitant promise to enable more precise diagnosis and treatment of disease and illness, based upon an individual’s unique genetic makeup. In this book, my goal is to contribute to a ...
Complaints, Controversies and Grievances in Medicine: Historical and Social Science Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Jonathan Reinarz, Rebecca Wynter
June 07, 2019
Recent studies into the experiences and failures of health care services, along with the rapid development of patient advocacy, consumerism and pressure groups have led historians and social scientists to engage with the issue of the medical complaint. As expressions of dissatisfaction, disquiet ...
Bodily Exchanges, Bioethics and Border Crossing: Perspectives on Giving, Selling and Sharing Bodies
1st Edition
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By Erik Malmqvist, Kristin Zeiler
June 06, 2019
Medical therapy, research and technology enable us to make our bodies, or parts of them, available to others in an increasing number of ways. This is the case in organ, tissue, egg and sperm donation as well as in surrogate motherhood and clinical research. Bringing together leading scholars ...
Disclosure in Health and Illness
1st Edition
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By Mark Davis, Lenore Manderson
June 06, 2019
Disclosure is a frequently used but rarely interrogated concept in health and social welfare. Abuse, disability, sexuality and health status can be ‘disclosed’ to peers and professionals, and on some occasions, disclosure is a requirement and not a choice. This innovative collection examines the ...
Health, Food and Social Inequality: Critical Perspectives on the Supply and Marketing of Food
1st Edition
By Carolyn Mahoney
June 06, 2019
Health, Food and Social Inequality investigates how vast amounts of consumer data are used by the food industry to enable the social ranking of products, food outlets and consumers themselves, and how this influences food consumption patterns. This book supplies a fresh social scientific ...
The Public Shaping of Medical Research: Patient Associations, Health Movements and Biomedicine
1st Edition
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By Peter Wehling, Willy Viehöver, Sophia Koenen
June 06, 2019
Patient organizations and social health movements offer one of the most important and illuminating examples of civil society engagement and participation in scientific research and research politics. Influencing the research agenda, and initiating, funding and accelerating the development of ...
Down's Syndrome Screening and Reproductive Politics: Care, Choice, and Disability in the Prenatal Clinic
1st Edition
By Gareth M. Thomas
May 07, 2019
Nominated for the Foundation of Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize 2018 In the UK and beyond, Down’s syndrome screening has become a universal programme in prenatal care. But why does screening persist, particularly in light of research that highlights pregnant women’s ambivalent and ...