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Category : Hardware
Languages : en
Pages : 1154
Book Description
Medical Sociology on the Move
Author: William C. CockerhamPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400761937
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
This book provides readers with a single source reviewing and updating sociological theory in medical or health sociology. The book not only addresses the major theoretical approaches in the field today, it also identifies the future directions these theories are likely to take in explaining the social processes affecting health and disease. Many of the chapters are written by leading medical sociologists who feature the use of theory in their everyday work, including contributions from the original theorists of fundamental causes, health lifestyles, and medicalization. Theories focusing on both agency and structure are included to provide a comprehensive account of this important area in medical sociology.
The Pharmaceutical Studies Reader
Author: Sergio SismondoPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118488830
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
The Pharmaceutical Studies Reader is an engaging survey of the field that brings together provocative, multi-disciplinary scholarship examining the interplay of medical science, clinical practice, consumerism, and the healthcare marketplace. Draws on anthropological, historical, and sociological approaches to explore the social life of pharmaceuticals with special emphasis on their production, circulation, and consumption Covers topics such as the role of drugs in shaping taxonomies of disease, the evolution of prescribing habits, ethical dimensions of pharmaceuticals, clinical trials, and drug research and marketing in the age of globalization Offers a compelling, contextually-rich treatment of the topic that exposes readers to a variety of approaches, ideas, and frameworks Provides an accessible introduction for readers with no previous background in this area
Author: Henk A.M.J. ten HaveThe Wrong Prescription for Women
Author: Maureen C. McHughPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
This groundbreaking book challenges the medicalized approach to women's experiences including menstruation, pregnancy, and menopause and suggests that there are better ways for women to cope with real issues they may face. Before any woman diets, douches, botoxes, reduces, reconstructs, or fills a prescription for antidepressants, statins, hormones, menstrual suppressants, or diet pills, she should read this book. Contesting common medical practice, the book addresses the many aspects of women's lives that have been targeted as "deficient" in order to support the billion-dollar profits of the medical-pharmacological industry and suggests alternatives to these "remedies." The contributors—psychologists, sociologists, and health experts—are also gender experts and feminist scholars who recognize the ways in which gender is an important aspect of the human experience. In this eye-opening work, they challenge the marketing and "science" that increasingly render women's bodies and experiences as a series of symptoms, diseases, and dysfunctions that require treatment by medical professionals who prescribe pharmaceutical and surgical interventions. Each article in the book addresses the marketing of a specific "condition" that has been constructed in a way that convinces a woman that her body is inadequate or her experience and behavior are not good enough. Among the topics addressed are menstruation, menopause, pregnancy, post-partum adjustment, sexual desire, weight, body dissatisfaction, moodiness, depression, grief, and anxiety.
The Political Economy of Media and Power
Author: Jeffery KlaehnPublisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9781433107733
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The Political Economy of Media and Power is a highly interdisciplinary and innovative edited collection, bringing together a diverse range of chapters that address some of the most important issues of our times. Contributors cut through media spectacle and make visible the intersections between mass media and the politics of power in the contemporary social world. The book is intended to foster critical pedagogy; chapters explore ways in which media connect with a broad range of topics and issues, including globalization; war and terrorism; foreign affairs; democracy; governmental relations; the cultural politics of militarization; gender inequality and the sexist saturation of the public sphere; media representations of women; media spin and public relations within the broader context of corporate and ideological power. The volume features notable contributors, including a preface by Cees Hamelink, an introduction by David Miller and William Dinan, and chapters from Justin Lewis, Robin Andersen, Henry Giroux, James Winter, Robert Jensen, Stuart Allan, Richard Keeble, Yasmin Jiwani, David Berry, Gerald Sussman, and Andrew Mullen.
Psychology of Decision Making in Legal, Health Care and Science Settings
Author: Gloria R. BurtholdPublisher: Nova Publishers
ISBN: 9781600219320
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
In a fast-moving world, the necessity of making decisions, and preferably good ones, has become even more difficult. One reason is the variety and number of choices perhaps available which often are not presented or understood. Alternatives are often unclear and complex paths to them confusing and misleading. Thus the process of decision making itself requires analysis on an ongoing basis. Decision making is often made based on cultural factors whereas the best alternative might be quite different. The subject touches ethical aspects as well as psychological considerations. This book presents important research on the psychology of decision making related to law and law enforcement, health care and science.
Killer commodities
Author: Merrill SingerPublisher: Rowman Altamira
ISBN: 0759112401
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Killer Commodities enters the increasingly heated debate regarding consumer culture with a critical examination of the relationship between corporate production of goods for profit and for public health. This collection analyzes the nature and public health impact of a wide range of dangerous commercial products from around the world, and it addresses the question of how policies should be changed to better protect the public, workers, and the environment.
Sex, Lies and Pharmaceuticals
Author: Ray MoynihanPublisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1459613279
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
A brilliant dissection of the tragedy of greed preying on fear...this book offers the possibility of a different and less cruel future. Read, think and act ' - Dr Iona Heath, President, Royal College of General Practitioners, London 'An engaging expose of drug company campaigns...' - Amy Allina, National Women's Health Network, Washington DC 'Th...
Heal Thyself
Author: Pieter De WetPublisher: Tate Publishing
ISBN: 1616636726
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
With our health care system at its breaking point, it is incumbent upon each of us to learn how to better take care of ourselves. Is it conceivable that disease is a blessing, not a curse—a biological solution to internal imbalances created by unresolved inner conflicts, lifestyle, environmental toxins, and infectious agents? Author and doctor Pieter J. De Wet sheds new light on why and how you get sick and guides you through the most critical steps on how to gain your health back in Heal Thyself: Transform Your Life, Transform Your Health. 'Every patient should read this book in order to gain optimum health. Heal Thyself helps even the novice patient understand how most illnesses actually develop and how the patient can take responsibility for their own recovery using safe, effective, noninvasive techniques.' —William Lee Cowden, MD, MD(H) By understanding the purpose of disease and its root causes, the solutions become readily apparent. Follow Dr. De Wet's twelve-week plan, and let Heal Thyself empower you to embrace these solutions and no longer feel that you are at the mercy of unpredictable and devastating scourges.
