Hannah Bradby: 3 books

Book cover of Medical Sociology

Medical Sociology

An Introduction

by Hannah Bradby
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2008

What are the limits of medical power? How has sociology helped to make sense of illness, disease, choice and risk? What are the challenges to medical practice? This timely and assured text provides lecturers and students with a well informed, penetrating analysis of the key questions in medicine...
Book cover of Global Perspectives on War, Gender and Health

Global Perspectives on War, Gender and Health

The Sociology and Anthropology of Suffering

by Hannah Bradby
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016

Rendering the suffering of the marginalized visible has been an important aspect of feminist sociological studies of health, illness and medicine, with the subjective experience of those without access to institutional power being at the forefront of the research. This volume analyzes the links between...
Book cover of Dirty Words

Dirty Words

Writings on the History and Culture of Pollution

by Hannah Bradby
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013

Did dinosaurs contribute to global warming? What is rubbish theory and what indeed is rubbish? And how did the whale become a cuddly toy? And why did we decide to saturate our land and food with pesticides? Dirty Words examines all of these questions and also includes a study of pollution in fiction,...
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