This volume looks at the key links between social determinants, health disparities and health and health care. There is a particular focus on macro-level systems and micro-level issues, including the examination of issues for patients, carers and providers of care. Coverage incl…
"This volume looks at the key links between social determinants, health disparities and health and health care. There is a particular focus on macro-level systems and micro-level issues, including the examination of issues for patients, carers and providers of care. Coverage inc…
The essays in this unique book argue for the inclusion of race as a social construction in the design of large-scale data collection efforts and how scientists must utilize race in the context of specific research questions. This landmark collection concludes on a prescriptive n…
This is an ethnography of the Tabwa people & their categorie of illness, medicine, divination & healing. The text offers an understanding of an African approach to illnesses, symptons & personal features through to methods of diagnosis and cure.
Culture, bodies and the sociology of health
This text explores the boundaries between bodies and society with special reference to uncovering the cultural components of health and the ways in which bodies are categorized according to a form of culturally embedded 'health orthodoxy'.
Culture, Bodies and the Sociology of Health
Explores the boundaries between bodies and society with reference to uncovering the cultural components of health and the ways in which bodies are catagorised according to a form of culturally embedded 'health orthodoxy'. This book is suitable for sociologists of health and scho…
Culture, bodies and the sociology of health
This text explores the boundaries between bodies and society with special reference to uncovering the cultural components of health and the ways in which bodies are categorized according to a form of culturally embedded 'health orthodoxy'
This text explores the boundaries between bodies and society with special reference to uncovering the cultural components of health and the ways in which bodies are categorized according to a form of culturally embedded 'health orthodoxy'.
This text explores the boundaries between bodies and society with special reference to uncovering the cultural components of health and the ways in which bodies are categorized according to a form of culturally embedded 'health orthodoxy'.