This important book explores the dimensions, dynamics and implications of emerging pandemic societies, shedding new light on how pandemics are socially produced and, in turn, shape societies in governance, work…

This book offers a sociological perspective on digital health, highlighting the impacts of digital technologies on our understandings of health and approaches to healthcare. It will provide an invaluable resource…

This book examines ‘the body’ from a critical socio-cultural perspective. It shows how our conceptions of the body are affected by processes of individualization, medicalization, and commodification.

The authors of Consuming Health explore the diverse meanings and applications of the term consumer in the field of health care and the implications for policy making, health care delivery…

Contributors look at how the ‘new’ genetics, healthcare and arising health policy can or should be governed and regulated, rather than focusing on individualistic ethical issues, this text takes a…

Aging Men, Masculinities and Modern Medicine explores the multiple socio-historical contexts surrounding men’s aging bodies in modern medicine from a global perspective. It discusses both healthy and diseased states of…

Perspectives on the relationship between the Old and New Testaments as they concern theological systems, Mosaic law, salvation, hermeneutics, the people of God, and kingdom promises. From a respected group…