Nursing Sociology Books

New and Published Books

1. Caring and Well-being

   A Lifeworld Approach

   By Kathleen Galvin, Les Todres

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness

   Something is missing in contemporary health and social care. Health and illness is often measured in policy documents in economic terms, and clinical outcomes are enmeshed in statistical data, with the patient’s experience left to one side. This stimulating book is concerned with how to humanise...

   Published October 21st 2012 by Routledge
2. Dimensions of Pain

   Humanities and Social Science Perspectives

   Edited by Lisa Folkmarson Käll

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness

   Pain research is still dominated by biomedical perspectives and the need to articulate pain in ways other than those offered by evidence based medical models is pressing. Examining closely subjective experiences of pain, this book explores the way in which pain is situated, communicated and formed...

   Published September 12th 2012 by Routledge
3. Handbook of the Sociology of Medical Education

   Edited by Caragh Brosnan, Bryan S. Turner

   The Handbook of the Sociology of Medical Education provides a contemporary introduction to this classic area of sociology by examining the social origin and implications of the epistemological, organizational and demographic challenges facing medical education in the twenty-first century....

   Published February 20th 2012 by Routledge
4. Life After Cancer in Adolescence and Young Adulthood

   The Experience of Survivorship

   By Anne Grinyer

   Adolescence and young adulthood is often a difficult enough time without serious illness. However, research has shown that cancer, and surviving cancer, at this age presents distinctive problems medically, socially and psychologically. This important work offers a glimpse into a previously...

   Published April 14th 2009 by Routledge
5. Reconstructing Motherhood and Disability in the Age of Perfect Babies

   By Gail Landsman

   Examining mothers of newly diagnosed disabled children within the context of new reproductive technologies and the discourse of choice, this book uses anthropology and disability studies to revise the concept of "normal" and to establish a social environment in which the expression of full lives...

   Published August 19th 2008 by Routledge
6. Inventing Disease and Pushing Pills

   Pharmaceutical Companies and the Medicalisation of Normal Life

   By Jörg Blech

   This is a highly accessible and reassuring account of how the pharmaceutical industry is redefining health, making it a state that is almost impossible to achieve. Many normal life processes – states as natural as birth, ageing, sexuality, unhappiness and death – are systematically being...

   Published June 14th 2006 by Routledge
7. Mainstreaming Midwives

   The Politics of Change

   Edited by Robbie Davis-Floyd, Christine Barbara Johnson

   Providing insights into midwifery, a team of reputable contributors describe the development of nurse- and direct-entry midwifery in the United States, including the creation of two new direct-entry certifications, the Certified Midwife and the Certified Professional Midwife, and examine the...

   Published March 27th 2006 by Routledge
8. Sociology and Nursing

   An Introduction

   By Peter Morrall

   This introductory text provides nurses with the foundations of a sociological understanding of health issues which they should find of great help in thinking about their work and the role of their profession. It explains the key sociological theories and debates with humour and imagination in a way...

   Published December 13th 2000 by Routledge