This is an anthology of technical essays on the social aspects of medical research and education in the neurosciences. The editors are based in the UK and the Netherlands, and the contributors are mos
Sociologists mostly in the US explore social and political processes that cause diagnostic categories to emerge and disappear, how they are contested within and outside medicine, how diagnostic catego
In recent years, the ways in which food is produced, distributed, and consumed have emerged as prominent health and social issues. With rising concern about rates of obesity, food systems have attrac
Featuring the works of several up-and-coming scholars, this volume offers a fresh perspective on our understanding of addiction and the expansion of its meaning. By challenging the conventional defini
Editor Gislason (sociology, U. of Sussex, UK) offers this compilation on environmental contributors to health and disease, aimed toward recovering a more holistic understanding of medicine to compleme
The current politicized climate around immigration includes heated debate over the potential costs of continued immigration for the health and well-being of the nation. Amid the controversy one patter
Throughout the 1960’s and 1970’s, a revolution in mental health policy and practice known as deinstitutionalization occurred in Europe and the US. This movement was catalyzed by criticisms of psychiat
