Disabled people experience profound discrimination and social disadvantage, but this has
not generated substantial interest among mainstream sociologists. Barnes, Mercer and …

First published in 2004 and updated in 2013, the previous editions of Key Concepts in
Medical Sociology were hugely successful. They proved popular among students of …

This updated and substantially revised second edition of a key textbook, provides students
with a comprehensive introduction to the sociology of professions including social work …

This book is explicitly comparative, and comparison is essential to the analyses it develops.
The book is explicitly concerned with the liberal democracies of western Europe. The …

Since the late 1990s, the term 'partnership'has increasingly been inserted into the literature
and rhetoric of the UK health-care system. In this paper, the assumptions and implications …

The Introduction will set the scene for the volume by placing the study of the development of
orthodox and alternative medicine in its wider context and outlining the mainstream …

We investigated the potential impact of the 2009 influenza A (H1N1) pandemic on attitudes
towards vaccination among people aged 18 to 75 years and living in metropolitan France …

Patient safety has become a health policy priority around the world. Acknowledging that 'to
err is human'has led to attempts to design systems and rules that limit the capacity for …

The relation between theory and empirical data in sociology and social policy is explored
through a critique of Ulrich Beck's influential book, Risk Society. Consideration is given to …

The 'informed consent'process has been placed at the centre of bioethical and policy
discourses about how the autonomy and rights of patients can best be protected. Although …