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1. Music, Science, and the Rhythmic Brain

   Cultural and Clinical Implications

   Edited by Jonathan Berger, Gabe Turow

   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...

   To Be Published June 30th 2013 by Routledge
2. Challenging Medicine

   Edited by David Kelleher, Jonathan Gabe, Gareth Williams

   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...

   Published May 12th 2013 by Routledge
3. 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...

   Published March 4th 2009 by Routledge
4. Challenging Medicine

   2nd Edition

   Edited by David Kelleher, Jonathan Gabe, Gareth Williams

   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...

   Published December 21st 2005 by Routledge
5. The Sociology of Health and Illness

   A Reader

   Edited by Michael Bury, Jonathan Gabe

   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...

   Published September 24th 2003 by Routledge
6. Health, Medicine and Society

   Key Theories, Future Agendas

   Edited by Michael Calnan, Jonathan Gabe, Simon J. Williams

   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...

   Published February 23rd 2000 by Routledge
7. Challenging Medicine

   Edited by Jonathan Gabe, David Kelleher, Gareth Williams

   Challenging Medicine offers a lively appraisal of the current challenges to the dominance of medicine in the health service and analyzes their effects on the status and practice of health professionals. In particular, it assesses the challenges posed from within the health care system by nurses and...

   Published July 13th 1994 by Routledge
8. The Sociology of the Health Service

   Edited by Michael Bury, Michael Calnan, Jonathan Gabe

   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...

   Published February 6th 1991 by Routledge