Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness
Framing Age: Contested Knowledge in Science and Politics
1st Edition
Edited
By Iris Loffeier, Benoît Majerus, Thibauld Moulaert
May 07, 2019
Ageing populations have gradually become a major concern in many industrialised countries over the past fifty years, drawing the attention of both politics and science. The target of a raft of health and social policies, older people are often identified as a specific, and vulnerable, population. ...
Recovery, Mental Health and Inequality: Chinese Ethnic Minorities as Mental Health Service Users
1st Edition
By Lynn Tang
May 07, 2019
Mental health has long been perceived as a taboo subject in the UK, so much so that mental health services have been marginalised within health and social care. There is even more serious neglect of the specific issues faced by different ethnic minorities. This book uses the rich narratives of the...
The Dying Body as a Lived Experience
1st Edition
By Alan Blum
May 07, 2019
The anxiety over death persists in everyday life- though often denied or repressed- lingering as an unconscious worry or intuition that typically seems to compromise one’s feelings of well-being and experience in a range of areas; coming out often as malaise, depression, and anger in much conduct. ...
Social Science of the Syringe: A Sociology of Injecting Drug Use
1st Edition
By Nicole Vitellone
March 28, 2019
This book addresses the history of harm reduction. It evaluates the consequences and constraints, stakes and costs of the policy of needle exchange for the purposes of harm prevention and health research. Vitellone situates the syringe at the centre of empirical research and theoretical analysis, ...
Systems Theory and the Sociology of Health and Illness: Observing Healthcare
1st Edition
Edited
By Morten Knudsen, Werner Vogd
June 29, 2017
Modern societies and organizations are characterized by multiple kinds of observations, systems, or rationalities, rather than singular identities and clear hierarchies. This holds true for healthcare where we find a range of different perspectives – from medicine to education, from science to law,...
Dimensions of Pain: Humanities and Social Science Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Lisa Folkmarson Käll
May 31, 2017
Pain research is still dominated by biomedical perspectives and the need to articulate pain in ways other than those offered by evidence based medical models is pressing. Examining closely subjective experiences of pain, this book explores the way in which pain is situated, communicated and formed ...
Aging Men, Masculinities and Modern Medicine
1st Edition
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By Antje Kampf, Barbara L. Marshall, Alan Petersen
September 03, 2015
Aging Men, Masculinities and Modern Medicine explores the multiple socio-historical contexts surrounding men’s aging bodies in modern medicine from a global perspective. The first of its kind, it investigates the interrelated aspects of aging, masculinities and biomedicine, allowing for a timely ...
Caring and Well-being: A Lifeworld Approach
1st Edition
By Kathleen Galvin, Les Todres
June 19, 2014
Something is missing in contemporary health and social care. Health and illness is often measured in policy documents in economic terms, and clinical outcomes are enmeshed in statistical data, with the patient’s experience left to one side. This stimulating book is concerned with how to humanise ...