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Explores the extent to which globalisation and commercialisation relate to health policies. This book looks at the implications for citizens, patients and social rights, as well as how policy making interacts with the interests of global and European trade and economic policies.

Do nurses still care? Based on original empirical research, this book delves into personal accounts of nurses' emotion expressions and experiences as they emerge from everyday nursing practice, and illustrates how their emotional labour is adapting in response to a constantly changing work environment.

Reflects on how our understanding and experience of health at later ages interacts with social and bio-medical developments. This book points out that debates on longevity and disability are being transformed by the emergence of a fitter and healthier older population. It is useful for students and researchers of medical sociology and gerontology.

In Western societies, 'lifestyle' as an explanation for health and illness has become increasingly popular. Based on real doctor-patient consultations as well as interviews with doctors, this book explores the ambiguity of the term 'lifestyle' and the way it is conceived and applied within medicine.

Resistance and social movements in mental health have been important in shaping current practice in both mental health and psychiatry. Building on the author's extensive research, this book provides an account and exploration of the key features. It also addresses changes in health and medicine, providing a sociological perspective on psychiatry.

Outlines what an adequate feminist analysis of women's health might look like. This book is suitable for academics and students working in sociology, women's studies, gender studies, social medicine, social policy, nursing and midwifery.

Focuses on the ways new health technologies intervene into our lives. This book explores: how new health technologies are understood by lay people and patients; how the outcomes of these technologies are communicated in various clinical settings; and, how these technologies can alter our notions of health and illness and create 'new illness'.

Essential Thinkers for Medical Sociology explores the work of key social theorists and the application of their ideas to issues around health and illness. Encouraging students and researchers to use mainstream sociological thought to inform their substantive research on health and healthcare, this text discusses the work of eleven influential contemporary thinkers Habermas, Luhmann, Wallerstein, Bauman, Bourdieu, Foucault, Merleau-Ponty, Archer, Latour and Deleuze & Guatt. Each chapter includes a critical introduction to the central theses of a major social theorist, ways in which their ideas might inform medical sociology and some worked examples of how their ideas can be applied. Containing contributions from established scholars, rising stars and innovative practitioners, this book is a valuable read for those studying and researching the sociology of health and illness.

This text explores the work of key social theorists and the application of their ideas to issues around health and illness. Each chapter includes a critical introduction to the thinker¿s central theses, ways in which their ideas might inform medical sociology and some examples of how they can be applied.

Focuses on the ways new health technologies intervene into our lives. This book explores: how new health technologies are understood by lay people and patients; how the outcomes of these technologies are communicated in various clinical settings; and, how these technologies can alter our notions of health and illness and create 'new illness'.