Health Sociology – alle Bücher und DVDs, Seite 5

Tanisha Spratt
Ungrievable Lives

A distinctive and damning exploration of the devaluation of Black and Brown lives in contemporary neoliberal societies.

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Pandemic Policies and Resistance

Southern feminists assess the gendered social repercussions of Covid-19 across 12 countries in the Global South.

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Christine Sargent
Making Down Syndrome

Making Down Syndrome: Motherhood and Kinship Futures in Urban Jordan draws on ethnographic research conducted primarily in Jordan's capital city of Amman to explore how the label and identity of Down synd…

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Christopher Ojeda
The Sad Citizen

For many citizens, politics is depressing. How has this come to be the norm? And, how is it influencing democracy?From rising polarization to climate change, today's politics are leaving many Western demo…

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Lorece V Edwards
Redlining Childhood

"This work discusses the cost youths pay for trying to survive in under resourced communities"--

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Angela Garbes
Essential Labor

NATIONAL BESTSELLER"Angela Garbes has given us the definitive explanation for something we all share: the sense that something is not right about our society's treatment of parenting. Essential Labor…

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Susan Newman
Just One

Discover why having one child is not only a preferred family size, but also a most enriching path to creating a thriving, happy family.Drawing from groundbreaking new research and interviews with over 100…

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Tess Wilkinson-Ryan
Fool Proof

The fear of playing the fool is a universal psychological phenomenon and an underappreciated driver of human behavior; in the spirit of Malcolm Gladwell's Blink, Dan Ariely's Predictably Irrational, and S…

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Holly M Karibo
Rehab on the Range

The first study of the Fort Worth Narcotic Farm, an institution that played a critical role in fusing the War on Drugs, mass incarceration, and public health in the American West.

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Tamara Lea Spira
Queering Families

"The intimacies of queer family formation can deviously embody the very ideological assumptions that support capitalist heteropatriarchy and its essential reliance on the perpetuation of racism. As T…

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Claudia Huang
Dancing for Their Lives

Dancing for Their Livesdelves into the world of retired Chinese "dancing grannies" who seek fulfillment amid broad social transformation. Based on ethnographic research, it challenges convention…

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Claudia Huang
Dancing for Their Lives

Dancing for Their Livesdelves into the world of retired Chinese "dancing grannies" who seek fulfillment amid broad social transformation. Based on ethnographic research, it challenges convention…

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Emily Hauser
Penelope's Bones

Weaving together literary and archaeological evidence, Emily Hauser illuminates the rich, intriguing lives of the real women behind Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.Achilles. Agamemnon. Odysseus. Hector. The liv…

lieferbar ab 19.4.2026.

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Murray Carpenter
Sweet and Deadly

How Coca-Cola makes Americans sick---and makes sure we don't know it.If we knew that Coca-Cola was among the deadliest products in our diet, would we continue drinking it in such great quantities? The Coc…

lieferbar ab 24.2.2026.

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René Esparza
From Vice to Nice

Shifting the focus of AIDS history away from the coasts to the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, this impressive book uncovers how homonormative political strategies weaponized the AIDS crisis to f…

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Teresa Ghilarducci
Work, Retire, Repeat

Now in paperback, a damning portrait of the dire realities of retirement in the United States--and how we can fix it.While the French went on strike in 2023 to protest the increase in the national retirem…

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Andy Norman
Mental Immunity

Why do people reject science and believe online conspiracy theories? How are people radicalized online and go on to commit acts of violence? Why is our society so politically polarized?Astonishingly irrat…

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William C Cockerham
Social Causes of Health and Disease

This masterful guide to the social determinants of health has become a go-to text for understanding the role that social factors play in the experience of health and many diseases. In this updated edition…

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William Von Hippel
The Social Paradox

From the author of The Social Leap comes this thought-provoking exploration into humans' two core evolutionary needs, for connection and autonomy, how the modern world has thrown them out of whack, and ho…

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William C Cockerham
The Social Causes of Health and Disease

This masterful guide to the social determinants of health has become a go-to text for understanding the role that social factors play in the experience of health and many diseases. In this updated edition…

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