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  • Health Professionals and Patient and Public Involvement in Healthcare

    Series series Sociology of Health Professions
    Across the globe, patients are no longer passive recipients of care — they are active participants, decision-makers and collaborators.This timely volume explores the evolving landscape of patient and public involvement (PPI) in healthcare, focusing on its intersection with the healthcare professions. Drawing on international perspectives, the book examines how patients and professionals navigate ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • Key Concepts in Medical Sociology

    Series series SAGE Key Concepts series
    How do we understand health in relation to society? What role do social processes, structures and culture play in shaping our experiences of health and illness? How do we understand medicine and healthcare within a sociological framework?Drawing on international literature and examples, this new edition of Key Concepts in Medical Sociology:· Systematically explains the concepts that have ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Music, Science, and the Rhythmic Brain

    Cultural and Clinical Implications

    Edited by Jonathan Berger, Gabe Turow ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Music
    This book studies the effects of repetitive musical rhythm on the brain and nervous system, and in doing so integrates diverse fields including ethnomusicology, psychology, neuroscience, anthropology, religious studies, music therapy, and human health. It presents aspects of musical rhythm and biological rhythms, and in particular rhythmic entrainment, in a way that considers cultural context ... Read more

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  • Health, Medicine and Society

    Key Theories, Future Agendas

    Taking as its point of departure recent developments in health and social theory Health, Medicine and Society brings together a range of eminent, international scholars to reflect upon key issues at the turn of the century.Contributors draw upon a range of contemporary theories, both modernist and postmodernist, to look at the following themes:*health and social structure*the contested nature of ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Health and Illness in the Neoliberal Era in Europe

    Health and illness in the Neoliberal Era in Europe discusses the impact of neoliberalism on public health and the social construction of health and illness in Europe, analysing case studies at a European and national level.The book focusses on three main topics: health inequity, self-responsibilisation and organisational reforms. Increasing inequity is one of the main outcomes of neoliberal policy ... Read more

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  • The Sociology of the Health Service

    The Sociology of the Health Service responds directly to the need to develop a sociological analysis of current health policy. Topics covered vary from privatisation and health service management to health education and the politics of professional power. Also included is an histroical review of sociology's contributions to health policy and proposals for an agenda for sociological health policy ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • The New Sociology of the Health Service

    Edited by Jonathan Gabe, Michael Calnan ...
    Health service policy and health policy have changed considerably over the past fifteen years and there is a pressing need for an up-to-date sociological analysis of health policy. Not only have policies themselves changed but new policy themes – such as evidence-based policy and practice, an increasing focus on a primary care led health service, a growing recognition of the need to address ... Read more

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  • Challenging Medicine

    This highly topical and controversial book presents a lively re-appraisal of the current changes to the health service and analyzes their effects on the status and practice of health professionals.Modern medicine is a powerful institution. With the help of highly-developed drugs and surgical techniques, it promises to relieve suffering, improve the quality of life and extend the life-span. ... Read more

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  • The Sociology of Health and Illness

    A Reader

    Edited by Michael Bury, Jonathan Gabe ...
    Series series Routledge Student Readers
    A wide-ranging collection of both classic writings and more recent articles in the sociology of health and illness, this reader is organized into the following sections:* health beliefs and knowledge* inequalities and patterning of health and illness* professional and patient interaction* chronic illness and disability* evaluation and politics in health care.With a thorough introduction which sets ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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    Founders, Keepers

    Why Founders Are Built to Fail and What it Takes to Succeed

    Unabridged

    Based on decades of empirical research and data, Founders, Keepers gives founders a practical roadmap for navigating the inevitable challenges that come with startup growth.It’s a brutal paradox—the same founder attributes required to put a startup in motion will invariably blow it up. The difference between success and failure lies in the personal journey that every founder must pursue to avoid ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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    Blood Brothers

    The Dramatic Story of a Palestinian Christian Working for Peace in Israel

    Unabridged

    7 hours 57 min

    As a child, Elias Chacour lived in a small Palestinian village in Galilee. When tens of thousands of Palestinians were killed and nearly one million forced into refugee camps in 1948, Elias began a long struggle with how to respond. In Blood Brothers, he blends his riveting life story with historical research to reveal a little-known side of the Arab-Israeli conflict, touching on questions such as ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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    Until We Reach Home

    by Lynn Austin ...
    Narrated by Ruth Ann Phimister ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 31 min

    A Christy Award WinnerOnly in crossing a seemingly endless ocean will they find the true meaning of love, faith, and homeLife in Sweden feels like an endless winter to Elin Carlson after the deaths of her parents. When circumstances become unbearable, she determines to find a safe haven for her sisters.So begins their journey to America … the land of dreams and second chances.But as hardship ... Read more

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