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Health, Technology and Society

Author : Andrew Webster
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811543542
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book Health, Technology and Society written by Andrew Webster and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-06 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book celebrates and captures examples of the excellent scholarship that Palgrave’s Health, Technology, and Society Series has published since 2006, and reflects on how the field has developed over this time. As a collection of readings drawn from twenty-two books, it is organized around five themes: Innovation, Responsibility, Locus of Care, Knowledge Production, and Regulation and Governance. Structured in this way, the book gives the reader a concise but nonetheless rich guide to the core issues and debates within the field. Complementing these narratives, the original authors have provided new reflection pieces on their texts and on their current work. This then is a book which in part looks back but also looks forward to emerging issues at the intersection of health, technology, and society. It uniquely encompasses and presents a range of expertise in a novel way that is both timely and accessible for students and others new to the field.

Health and Society

Author : James Gillett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780199015276
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book Health and Society written by James Gillett and published by . This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current and comprehensive, Health and Society brings together fourteen original chapters to provide a compelling interdisciplinary introduction to the field of health studies. Exploring the social, cultural, political, and cultural dimensions of health, illness, and health care, this textencourages students to examine how health and health care are socially and culturally constructed; what ideologies, principles, and powers underpin health and healthcare; and the future health challenges we face as a society.

Society and Health

Author : Richard K. Thomas
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0306478897
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Society and Health written by Richard K. Thomas and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-05-08 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -Rick Thomas brings his 30 years experience in the field to the text making it very applied and accessible. -Lots of boxed material. -"Recommended" purchase for all librarians as reviewed in the June 2004 issue of CHOICE.

Health, Illness, and Society

Author : Steven E. Barkan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 153817765X
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Health, Illness, and Society written by Steven E. Barkan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-12-19 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health, Illness, and Society, Updated Second Edition provides a comprehensive yet concise introduction to medical sociology. In his accessible style, Steven Barkan covers health and illness behaviors, the social determinants of health problems, the health professions and health care system in the U.S., and how the U.S. system compares to that of other countries. The updated second edition adds a new chapter, “The COVID-19 Pandemic,” which highlights several ways in which the pandemic exhibits health and health behavior disparities resulting from social inequalities and the deficiencies of the U.S. health system. The book also critically examines the achievements and limitations of the Affordable Care Act and discusses efforts of the Trump administration to weaken the ACA. Each chapter opens with learning questions to guide the student and “Health and Illness in the News” stories that apply each chapter’s contents to contemporary events. Chapter summaries reinforce key ideas and “Give it Some Thought” boxes emphasize critical thinking. New to the Updated Second Edition New Chapter 14, “The COVID-19 Pandemic,” discusses several ways in which the pandemic reveals health and health behavior disparities New data on medical students and faculty, sexual harassment in medical school, and medical school debt provide students with a deeper understanding of the issues facing doctors New health care data on peer nations and discussion of health and health care rankings of U.S. women provide a critical examination of the quality and cost of health care in the U.S. versus its peer nations Enhanced examination of health insurance status and surprise medical billing, updated survey data on health care costs, and a discussion of high deductibles emphasize the patient financial burden created by a private system of medicine

Medicine, Health and Society

Author : Hannah Bradby
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1446258459
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book Medicine, Health and Society written by Hannah Bradby and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2012-02-13 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sharp, bold and engaging, this book provides a contemporary account of why medical sociology matters in our modern society. Combining theoretical and empirical perspectives, and applying the pragmatic demands of policy, this timely book explores society′s response to key issues such as race, gender and identity to explain the relationship between sociology, medicine and medical sociology. Each chapter includes an authoritative introduction to pertinent areas of debate, a clear summary of key issues and themes and dedicated bibliography. Chapters include: • social theory and medical sociology • health inequalities • bodies, pain and suffering • personal, local and global. Brimming with fresh interpretations and critical insights this book will contribute to illuminating the practical realities of medical sociology. This exciting text will be of interest to students of sociology of health and illness, medical sociology, and sociology of the body. Hannah Bradby has a visiting fellowship at the Department of Primary Care and Health Sciences, King′s College London. She is monograph series editor for the journal Sociology of Health and Illness and co-edits the multi-disciplinary journal Ethnicity and Health.

Society and Health

Author : Benjamin C. Amick
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195085068
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Society and Health written by Benjamin C. Amick and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do some families create more healthful environments for their children? How do we explain the health status differences between men and women, blacks and whites, and different communities or cultures? How is stress generated in the workplace? What accounts for the persistent social class differences in mortality rates? Why do societies experience higher rates of mortality after economic recession? Such fundamental questions about the social determinants of health are discussed in depth in this wide-ranging and authoritative book. Well-known contributors from North America and Europe assess the evidence for the diverse ways by which society influences health and provide conceptual frameworks for understanding these relationships. The book opens with a broad review of research on the social environment's contribution to health status and then addresses particular social factors: the family, the community, race, gender, class, the economy, the workplace and culture. The concluding two chapters examine the contribution of medicine to the improved health of Americans and recast the health care policy debate in a broad social policy context.

Health, Medicine and Society

Author : Michael Calnan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134598254
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Health, Medicine and Society written by Michael Calnan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 the body *the salience of consumption and risk *the challenge of emotions Health, Medicine and Society provides a 'state-of-the-art' assessment of health related issues at the millennium and a cogent set of arguments for the centrality of health to contemporary social theory. Written in a clear, accessible style it will be ideal reading for students and researchers in health studies, public health, medical sociology, medicine and nursing.

Animals, Health, and Society

Author : Craig Stephen
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000285464
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Animals, Health, and Society written by Craig Stephen and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-12-22 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CHOICE Recommended title 2022 This timely book reframes the historic narrative of people, animals, and nature as risks to each other, to one where we think about health as a shared capacity. This new narrative promotes the positive contributions made to health across species and generations and addresses growing calls to shift from a reactive to proactive approach in One Health. Editor Craig Stephen takes the reader on a tour of the situations wherein we can all, regardless of our job description, work across species, sectors, and generations to motivate action. Perspectives and methods from a variety of fields and experts are shared and adapted to promote collaborative understanding of and action on determinants of health at the animal-society interface. Case studies demonstrate that the principles and practices presented are feasible, empowering people to make choices that concurrently benefit the health of animals, societies, and ecosystems. The first book to adapt and explain health promotion, harm reduction, and health equity issues in a One Health context, and in terms of animal health, this is necessary reading for students of and practitioners working in planetary health, conservation, ecohealth, public health, health promotion, veterinary medicine, and animal welfare.

Sleep, Health, and Society

Author : Francesco P. Cappuccio
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198778244
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Sleep, Health, and Society written by Francesco P. Cappuccio and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sleep disturbances and sleep deprivation are increasingly common in modern society. Epidemiological methods of investigation have shown that sleep deprivation is associated with a variety of chronic conditions and health outcomes. Sleep medicine is a rapidly growing field of clinical research, affecting people across their lifespan. Relevant to a wide range of specialities including respiratory medicine, neurology, cardiology, and psychiatry, sleep also has a significant impact on the study of epidemiology, public health, and preventive medicine. Sleep, Health, and Society presents epidemiological evidence linking sleep deprivation and disruption to several chronic conditions, and explores the public health implications with the view to developing preventive strategies. The new edition of Sleep, Health, and Society provides up-to-date information on recently discovered areas of sleep medicine. Fully updated to reflect new research and data, as well as additional new chapters exploring eating patterns, nutrition, pregnancy, cancer, pain, and CBT in relation to sleep. Written by leading experts in the field of sleep medicine, Sleep, Health, and Society is ideal for students and professionals in epidemiology and public health. The research presented would also be valuable to respiratory physicians, neurologists, cardiologists, and psychiatrists who are interested in the impact of sleep disturbances and disorders.

Health, Culture and Society

Author : Elizabeth Ettorre
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319607863
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Health, Culture and Society written by Elizabeth Ettorre and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-07-19 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the history of formative, enduring concepts, foundational in the development of the health disciplines. It explores existing literature, and subsequent contested applications. Feminist legacies are discussed with a clear message that early sociological and anthropological theories and debates remain valuable to scholars today. Chapters cover historical events and cultural practices from the standpoint of ‘difference’; formulate theories about the emergence of social issues and problems and discuss health and illness in light of cultural values and practices, social conditions, embodiment and emotions. This collection will be of great value to scholars of biomedicine, health and gender.

Public Health and Society

Author : John Costello
Publisher : Red Globe Press
ISBN 13 : 0333971736
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (339 download)

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Download or read book Public Health and Society written by John Costello and published by Red Globe Press. This book was released on 2003-04-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviewing developments in public health using a critical, historical and comparative analytical framework, this text links public health explicitly to sociological theory, to demonstrate the relationship between health care and the social structures that underpin the provision of health services.

Society and Health

Author : Rosemary Gillespie
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134836759
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Society and Health written by Rosemary Gillespie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-19 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For all health professionals undergoing basic training. Explains social science concepts and theories and shows their relevance to work in health settings. Short chapters focused on key learning points with exercises and further reading

Vaccine Anxieties

Author : Melissa Leach
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136549234
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book Vaccine Anxieties written by Melissa Leach and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-04-27 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how parents understand and engage with childhood vaccination in contrasting global contexts. This rapidly advancing and universal technology has sparked dramatic controversy, whether over MMR in the UK or oral polio vaccines in Nigeria. Combining a fresh anthropological perspective with detailed field research, the book examines anxieties emerging as highly globalized vaccine technologies and technocracies encounter the deeply intimate personal and social worlds of parenting and childcare, and how these are part of transforming science-society relations. It retheorizes anxieties about technologies, integrating bodily, social and wider political dimensions, and challenges common views of ignorance, risk, trust and rumour - and related dichotomies between Northernrisk society and Southerndeveloping society - that dominate current scientific and policy debates. In so doing, the book reflects critically on the stereotypes that at times pass forexplanations of public engagement with both routine vaccination and vaccine research. It suggests routes to improved dialogue between health professionals and the people they serve, and new ways to address science-society relations in a globalized world.

Health, Medicine, and Society in Victorian England

Author : Mary Wilson Carpenter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 031306542X
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Health, Medicine, and Society in Victorian England written by Mary Wilson Carpenter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-11-19 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work offers a social and cultural history of Victorian medicine "from below," as experienced by ordinary practitioners and patients, often described in their own words. Health, Medicine, and Society in Victorian England is a human story of medicine in 19th-century England. It's a story of how a diverse and competitive assortment of apothecary apprentices, surgeons who learned their trade by doing, and physicians schooled in ancient Greek medicine but lacking in any actual experience with patients, was gradually formed into a medical profession with uniform standards of education and qualification. It's a story of how medical men struggled with "new" diseases such as cholera and "old" ones known for centuries, such as tuberculosis, syphilis, and smallpox, largely in the absence of effective drugs or treatments, and so were often reduced to standing helplessly by as their patients died. It's a story of how surgeons, empowered first by anesthesia and later by antiseptic technique, vastly expanded the field of surgery—sometimes with major benefits for patients, but sometimes with disastrous results. Above all, it's a story of how gender and class ideology dominated both practitioners and patients. Women were stridently excluded from medical education and practice of any kind until the end of the century, but were hailed into the new field of nursing, which was felt to be "natural" to the gentler sex. Only the poor were admitted to hospitals until the last decades of the century, and while they often received compassionate care, they were also treated as "cases" of disease and experimented upon with freedom. Yet because medical knowledge was growing by leaps and bounds, Victorians were fascinated with this new field and wrote novels, poetry, essays, letters, and diaries, which illuminate their experience of health and disease for us. Newly developed techniques of photography, as well as improved print illustrations, help us to picture this fascinating world. This vivid history of Victorian medicine is enriched with many literary examples and visual images drawn from the period.

Body, Society, and Nation

Author : Chieko Nakajima
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674987173
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (871 download)

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Download or read book Body, Society, and Nation written by Chieko Nakajima and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chieko Nakajima tells the story of China's unfolding modernity, exploring changing ideas, practices, and systems related to health and body in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century Shanghai. She explains how local customs fashioned and constrained public health and, in turn, how hygienic modernity helped shape local cultures and behavior.

Anthropology and Public Health

Author : Robert A. Hahn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199705542
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Anthropology and Public Health written by Robert A. Hahn and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many serious public health problems confront the world in the new millennium. Anthropology and Public Health examines the critical role of anthropology in four crucial public health domains: (1) anthropological understandings of public health problems such as malaria, HIV/AIDS, and diabetes; (2) anthropological design of public health interventions in areas such as tobacco control and elder care; (3) anthropological evaluations of public health initiatives such as Safe Motherhood and polio eradication; and (4) anthropological critiques of public health policies, including neoliberal health care reforms. As the volume demonstrates, anthropologists provide crucial understandings of public health problems from the perspectives of the populations in which the problems occur. On the basis of such understandings, anthropologists may develop and implement interventions to address particular public health problems, often working in collaboration with local participants. Anthropologists also work as evaluators, examining the activities of public health institutions and the successes and failures of public health programs. Anthropological critiques may focus on major international public health agencies and their workings, as well as public health responses to the threats of infectious disease and other disasters. Through twenty-four compelling case studies from around the world, the volume provides a powerful argument for the imperative of anthropological perspectives, methods, information, and collaboration in the understanding and practice of public health. Written in plain English, with significant attention to anthropological methodology, the book should be required reading for public health practitioners, medical anthropologists, and health policy makers. It should also be of interest to those in the behavioral and allied health sciences, as well as programs of public health administration, planning, and management. As the single most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of anthropology's role in public health, this volume will inform debates about how to solve the world's most pressing public health problems at a critical moment in human history.

Social Work and Health Care in an Aging Society

Author : Barbara Berkman
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780826115430
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Social Work and Health Care in an Aging Society written by Barbara Berkman and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2003-06 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen chapters by scholars of social work relate the well-being of older adults to social work practice and the current model of service delivery. Chapters concentrate on issues affecting the health of older adults (depression, dementia, abuse), services to specific populations (African American women, grandparents raising grandchildren, the developmentally disabled), and professional issues (home care, case management, standardized assessment). The implications for training, research, and policy are highlighted. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).