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  • Systems Theory and the Sociology of Health and Illness

    Observing Healthcare

    Edited by Morten Knudsen, Werner Vogd ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness
    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, from religion to politics – brought together in different types of arrangements. This innovative ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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  • So Sad Today

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  • A Lucky Life Interrupted

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  • Plagues and Peoples

    by William McNeill ...
    The history of disease is the history of humankind: an interpretation of the world as seen through the extraordinary impact—political, demographic, ecological, and psychological—of disease on cultures."A book of the first importance, a truly revolutionary work." —The New YorkerFrom the conquest of Mexico by smallpox as much as by the Spanish, to the bubonic plague in China, to the typhoid epidemic ... Read more

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  • Fair Food

    Growing a Healthy, Sustainable Food System for All

    by Oran B Hesterman ...
    A host of books and films in recent years have documented the dangers of our current food system, from chemical runoff to soaring rates of diet-related illness to inhumane treatment of workers and animals. But advice on what to do about it largely begins and ends with the admonition to "eat local or "eat organic."Fair Food is an enlightening and inspiring guide to changing not only what we eat, ... Read more

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  • Social Aspects Of Health, Illness And Healthcare

    by Mary Larkin ...
    This book fills a gap for an introductory text that offers broad coverage of the sociological issues that are relevant to health students coming to the theoretical and experiential aspects of health and illness for the first time. ... Read more

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  • Mental Health, Crime and Criminal Justice

    Responses and Reforms

    Edited by Jane Winstone ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    It has long been known that the pathway through the criminal justice system for those with mental health needs is fraught with difficulty. This interdisciplinary collection explores key issues in mental health, crime and criminal justice, including: offenders' rights; intervention designs; desistance; health-informed approaches to offending and the medical needs of offenders; psychological ... Read more

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  • Diet for Weight Loss: Lose Weight with Nutritious Kale Recipes, and Follow the Clean Eating Diet

    by Lanie Karp ...
    Diet for Weight Loss: Lose Weight with Nutritious Kale Recipes, and Follow the Clean Eating Diet This Diet for Weight Loss book covers recipes for a healthy weight loss with two different diet plans to choose from with the Clean Eating Diet and the Kale Recipes diet. Both diet plans serve as a type of detox diet to help cleanse the body of impurities left behind from eating junk food. The answer ... Read more

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    by César E. Giraldo Herrera ...
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  • Ethics, Moral Life and the Body

    Sociological Perspectives

    by Rhonda M. Shaw ...
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  • The Patient Multiple

    An Ethnography of Healthcare and Decision-Making in Bhutan

    by Jonathan Taee ...
    Series Book 4 - WYSE Series in Social Anthropology
    In the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan, medical patients engage a variety of healing practices to seek cures for their ailments. Patients use the expanding biomedical network and a growing number of traditional healthcare units, while also seeking alternative practices, such as shamanism and other religious healing, or even more provocative practices. The Patient Multiple delves into this healthcare ... Read more

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