Published May, 2022
By Stanton Newman, Graham Scambler, Ray Fitzpatrick, James Thompson and John Hinton
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Originally published in 1984, this book focuses on how patients interpret and act in response to symptoms of illness; secondly on how social and psychological factors influence the treatment process; and thirdly, on certain kinds of illness where the psychosocial perspective is of particular importance to the providers of health care.

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Published May, 2022
By Graham Moon and Kelvyn Jones
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Originally published in 1987 this textbook is a comprehensive introduction to the rapidly developing field of medical geography. It illustrates the ideas, methods and debates that inform contemporary approaches to the subject, demonstrating the potential of a social and environmental approach to illness and health.

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Published May, 2022
By Richard G. Wilkinson
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Originally published in 1986, this book discusses issues such as social class differences in health; the effect of unemployment on health; the relationship between income and health; how much of the class differences in death rates can be explained in terms of medically recognized factors.

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Published May, 2022
By Milton J. Lewis, Milton Lewis and Roy Macleod
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Originally published in 1988, the essays in this book focus primarily on colonial medicine in the British Empire but comparative material on the experience of France and Germany is also included.

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Published May, 2022
By Tim Dyson
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When this book was originally published in 1989 here had been virtually no studies of the country's historical demography.

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Published May, 2022
By Gwyn Bevan, Harold Copeman, John Perrin and Rachel Rosser
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Originally published in 1980, this book explores how the NHS confronts perennial stresses and problems, considering in particular the allocation of the scarce resources within the health service.

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Published May, 2022
By Graham Scambler
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Originally published in 1987, this book builds bridges between medical sociology and mainstream theory.

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Published May, 2022
By B Benjamin and Bernard Benjamin
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Originally published in 1968, this book was intended to help those in health and welfare services as well as those whose policy decisions are influenced by the movement of statistical indices of health, to understand the purpose, derivation and meaning of these indices.

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Published May, 2022
By John B. McKinlay
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Originally published in 1984, this book attempted to fill a gap by providing a broad-ranging structural analysis of the health care sector and the political and economic forces which influence its shape and contents, both in the western world and developing countries.

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Published May, 2022
By E. J. Clegg and J. P. Garlick
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Originally published in 1980, this book focusses attention on various aspects of disease ecology. A series of contrasts appear, between urban and rural, temperate and tropical, and affluent and poor communities.

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