Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness
Injecting Bodies in More-than-Human Worlds
1st Edition
By Fay Dennis
September 30, 2020
Drug use is widely understood in terms of its subjects, substances and settings. But what happens when these distinctions start to blur? Injecting Bodies in More-than-Human Worlds moves away from a hierarchical conceptualisation of drug use based on its subjects and their objects, offering unique ...
Self-Medication and Society: Mirages of Autonomy
1st Edition
By Sylvie Fainzang
August 14, 2020
The question of recourse to self-medication arises at the intersection of two partly antagonistic discourses: that of the public authorities, who advocate the practice primarily for economic reasons, and that of health professionals, who condemn it for fear that it may pose a danger to health and ...
Transnationalising Reproduction: Third Party Conception in a Globalised World
1st Edition
Edited
By Roisin Ryan Flood, Jenny Gunnarsson Payne
February 25, 2020
Third party conception is a growing phenomenon and provokes a burgeoning range of ethical, legal and social questions. What are the rights of donors, recipients and donor conceived children? How are these reproductive technologies regulated? How is kinship understood within these new family forms? ...
Fertility, Health and Lone Parenting: European Contexts
1st Edition
Edited
By Fabienne Portier-Le Cocq
December 12, 2019
In Europe, the percentage of lone-parent families has risen from 14% to 19% between 1996 and 2012. Only in Greece and Finland did the rates fall, while in Denmark and the Republic of Ireland the rise has reached or exceeded 10 percent. As of 2017, there are 2.9 million lone parents with ...
Public Health, Personal Health and Pills: Drug Entanglements and Pharmaceuticalised Governance
1st Edition
By Kevin Dew
December 09, 2019
Public Health, Personal Health and Pills explores the processes and effects of the increasing governance of our lives through pharmaceuticals, looking at the moral, interactional, social and political forces that shape our use of them. It demonstrates the ways in which social relationships and ...
Dementia as Social Experience: Valuing Life and Care
1st Edition
Edited
By Gaynor Macdonald, Jane Mears
November 28, 2019
A diagnosis of dementia changes the ways people engage with each other – for those living with dementia, as well their families, caregivers, friends, health professionals, neighbours, shopkeepers and the community. Medical understandings, necessary as they are, provide no insights into how we ...
Financing Healthcare in China: Towards universal health insurance
1st Edition
By S. C. Y. Luk
September 23, 2019
China’s current social medical insurance system has nominally covered more than 95 per cent of 1.4 billion population in China and is moving towards the ambitious goal of universal health insurance coverage. Challenges posed by a rapidly ageing population, an inherently discriminatory design of the...
Socio-economics of Precision Medicine in Asia
1st Edition
By Shirley Hsiao-Li 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
Edited
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
Edited
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
Edited
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 ...