Book Reviews
A Sociology of Food and Nutrition: The Social Appetite (2nd edn)
John Germov and Lauren Williams (eds)
Reviewed by Megan Warin, Paula M Barrett
Abortion
Belinda Bennett (ed)
Reviewed by Sharyn Roach Anleu
Abortion in the USA and the UK
Colin Francome
Reviewed by Heather James
An Introduction to the Sociology of Health and Illness
Kevin White
Reviewed by Alena Heitlinger
Anorexia nervosa and bulimia: How to help
Marilyn Duker and Roger Slade
Reviewed by Lucie Ramjan
Assisted Dying: Reflections on the need for law reform
Sheila AM McLean
Reviewed by Romaine Rutnam
Assisted Dying: Reflections on the Need for Law Reform
McLean, Sheila
Reviewed by Romaine Rutnam
Biotechnological Inventions: Moral Restraints and Patent Law
Oliver Mills
Reviewed by Peter Glasner
Bodies at Risk: an Ethnography of Heart Disease
Elizabeth E Wheatley
Reviewed by Jeanne Daly
Breast cancer and the post-surgical body: Recovering the self
Samantha Crompvoets
Reviewed by Catherine Mackenzie
Children, Welfare and the State
Barry Goldson, Michael Lavalette and Jim McKechnie (eds)
Reviewed by Elspeth McInnes
Closing Asylums for the Mentally Ill: Social Consequences
Reviewed by Dianne Wynaden
Closing Asylums for the Mentally Ill: Social Consequences
Reviewed by Anthony J O'Brien
Communicating Health and Illness
Richard Gwyn
Reviewed by Bethne Hart
Community Research in Environmental Health: Studies in Science, Advocacy
Doug Brugge and H Patricia Hynes (eds)
Reviewed by Carolyn Whitzman
Counting, Health and Identity: a History of Aboriginal Health and Demography in Western Australia and Queensland 1900-1940
Gordon Briscoe
Reviewed by Maggie Walter
Critical Perspectives on Health
Stephen Kermode
Reviewed by Meei-Ling Gau
Disability/postmodernity: embodying disability theory
Mairian Corker and Tom Shakespeare (eds)
Reviewed by Cassandra Loeser
Drugs, Clubs and Young People: Sociological and public health perspectives
Bill Sanders (ed)
Reviewed by David Moore
Evaluating Research in Health and Social Care
Roger Gomm, Gill Needham and Anne Bullman (eds)
Reviewed by Carol Grbich
Evidence-Based Medicine and the Search for a Science of Clinical Care
Jeanne Daly
Reviewed by Steffan Timmermans
Fast cars, cool rides: The accelerating world of youth and their cars
Amy Best
Reviewed by Sarah Hinde
Fast Cars, Cool Rides: The Accelerating World of Youth and Their Cars
AmyBest
Reviewed by Sarah Hinde
Fed Up! Winning the War Against Childhood Obesity
Susan Okie
Reviewed by Lesley King
Fragile lives: death, dying and care
Beverley McNamara
Reviewed by Catherine Garrett
Genetics and Gene Therapy & Biotechnological Inventions: Moral Restraints and Patent Law
Sheila AM McLean (ed)
Reviewed by Peter Glasner
Grief, Mourning and Death Ritual
Jenny Hockey, Jeanne Katz and Neil Small (eds)
Reviewed by Beverley McNamara
Gut Feelings: Chronic Illness and the Search for Healing
Catherine Garrett
Reviewed by Jane Shoebridge
Health and social research in multi-ethnic societies
James Y Nazroo (ed)
Reviewed by Elizabeth Reid
Health Care and Notions of Risk
Richard C Clark
Reviewed by Michael D. Mehta
Health Informatics: A Socio-Technical Perspective
Sue Whetton
Reviewed by Chris Kelman
Health Policy and Politics: Networks, Ideas and Power
Jenny Lewis
Reviewed by Gwendolyn Gray
Health Policy in Australia
Heather Gardner and Simon Barraclough (eds)
Reviewed by Anna Donald
Health Social Science: A Transdisciplinary and Complexity Perspective
Nick Higginbotham, Glenn Albrecht and Linda Connor
Reviewed by Carol Grbich
Health sociology: An Australian perspective and Health in Australia: Sociological concepts and issues[3rd Edition]
David Gray and Carol Grbich(ed)
Reviewed by Kevin Dew
Housing, fuel poverty and health: A Pan-European analysis
Jonathan Healy
Reviewed by Sharon Friel
Identifying Hyperactive Children: The Medicalization of Deviant Behavior
Peter Conrad
Reviewed by Kevin White
In our own right: Black Australian nurses stories
Sally Goold and Kerrynne Liddle (eds)
Reviewed by Lesley Barclay
International Public Health: Patients' Rights versus the Protection of Patents
Yves Beigbeder
Reviewed by Stacy M Carter
Key Concepts in Medical Sociology
Jonathan Gabe, Mike Bury and Mary Ann Elston (eds)
Reviewed by Margaret Alston, Maria Zadoroznyj
Leading Health Care Organizations
Sue Dopson and Annabelle Mark (eds)
Reviewed by Beverly Sibthorpe
Living With Drugs
Michael Gossop
Reviewed by Alison Ritter
Making a difference in families: Research that creates change
Robyn Munford and Jackie Sanders (eds)
Reviewed by Felicity Croker
Measuring health equity in small areas: Findings from demographic surveillance systems
INDEPTH Network
Reviewed by Jeanettte Pope
Media and Health
Clive Seale
Reviewed by Deborah Lupton
Mental health and work: Issues and perspectives
Lou Morrow, Irene Verins, Eileen Willis (eds)
Reviewed by Ken Bridge
Mental health promotion and young people: concepts and practice
Louise Rowling, Graham Martin and Lyn Walker (eds)
Reviewed by Simone Fullagar
Meta-Study of Qualitative Health Research: A practical guide to meta-analysis and meta-synthesis
Barbara L Paterson, Sally E Thorne, Connie Canam, Carol Jillings
Reviewed by Sally Borbasi
New Labour’s State of Health: Political Economy, Public Policy and the NHS
Calum Paton
Reviewed by Angela Glasner
Palliative care and communication: Experiences in the clinic
Anne-Mei The (translated from the Dutch by Robert Pool)
Reviewed by Katrina Breaden
Postmodernism and Social Research
Mats Alvesson
Reviewed by Trudy Rudge
Poverty and Social Exclusion in Britain: The millenium survey
Christina Pantazis, David Gordon and Ruth Levitas (eds)
Reviewed by Monica Åberg Yngwe
Poverty and Social Exclusion in Britain: The Millennium Survey
Christina Pantazis, David Gordon and Ruth Levitas (eds)
Reviewed by Monica Åberg Yngwe
Promoting Health: Politics and Practice
Lee Adams, Mary Amos and James Munro (eds)
Reviewed by N Ernest Khalema
Public health Australia: an introduction
James S Lawson and Adrian E Bauman (eds)
Reviewed by Kerry Mummery
Qualitative Research Methods (2nd edn)
Pranee Liamputtong and Doug Ezzy
Reviewed by Jane Edwards
Reading doctors' writing: Race, politics and power in indigenous health research 1870-1969
David Piers Thomas
Reviewed by Helen Ware
Realworld Evaluation: Working under budget, time, data, and political constraints
Michael Bamberger, Jim Rugh and Linda Mabry
Reviewed by David McDonald
Regulating the Health Professions
Judith Allsop & Mike Saks (eds)
Reviewed by Margaret M Hall
Researching palliative care
David Field, David Clark, Jessica Corner and Carol Davis (eds)
Reviewed by Alexandra Clavarino
Responsive healthcare: Marketing for a public service
Rod Sheaff
Reviewed by Mary Harris
Restructuring Health Services: Changing Contexts and Comparative Perspectives
Kasturi Sen (editor)
Reviewed by Pauline M. Prior
Risk and Everyday Life
John Tulloch and Deborah Lupton
Reviewed by Rodney Fopp
Risky Trade: Infectious disease in the era of global trade
Ann Marie Kimball
Reviewed by Hilary Bambrick
Safety, Culture and Risk. The Organisational Causes of Disasters
Hopkins, Andrew
Reviewed by Bruce Hocking
Second Opinion. An Introduction to Health Sociology (3rd edn)
John Germov (ed)
Reviewed by Timothy Marjoribanks
Sexual Health: An Australian Perspective
Meredith Temple-Smith and Sandra Gifford (eds)
Reviewed by Lorraine Yap
Social and Behavioral Foundations of Public Health
Coreil J, Bryant C, Henderson J, with contributions from Forthofer M and Quinn G.
Reviewed by Helen Keleher
Social Work and the Third Way: Tough Love as Social Policy
Bill Jordan with Charlie Jordan
Reviewed by Liz Beddoe
Social Work: Critical Theory and Practice
Jan Fook
Reviewed by Margaret Alston, Phil Harington
Sociology of Health, Illness, and Health Care: A Critical Approach (3rd Edn)
Rose Weitz
Reviewed by Dr Karen Willis
Solving the Health Care Problem. How Other Nations Succeeded and Why the United States Has Not
Pamela Behan
Reviewed by Peter Woodley
Substance Use & Abuse
Russell Durrant and Jo Thakker
Reviewed by Sherry Saggers
Talking with angel about illness, death and survival
Evelyn Elsaesser-Valarino
Reviewed by Dorothy H Broom
The Dying Soul: Spiritual care at the end of life
Mark Cobb
Reviewed by Gail Bateman
The Handbook of Social Studies in Health and Medicine
Gary Albrecht, Ray Fitzpatrick, and Susan Scrimshaw (eds)
Reviewed by Fran Collyer
The Political Economy of Narcotics: Production, Consumption, and Global
Julia Buxton
Reviewed by Jocelyn Grace
The politics and experience of ritual abuse: beyond disbelief
Sarah Scott
Reviewed by Mary Freer
The Practice of Health Program Evaluation
David Grembowski
Reviewed by Anne Magarey, Libby Kalucy
The Sage Dictionary of Health and Society
Kevin White
Reviewed by Emily Mauldon
The Social Origins of Health and Well-Being
Richard Eckersley, Jane Dixon and Bob Douglas (eds)
Reviewed by Marwan Khawaja
Theory in a nutshell: A guide to health promotion theory
Don Nutbeam and Elizabeth Harris (eds)
Reviewed by Deirdre Davis, Jennifer Dodd
Transcultural health and social care: Development of culturally competent practitioners
Irena Papadopoulos (ed)
Reviewed by Jeffrey Fuller
Understanding Health Inequalities
Hilary Graham (editor)
Reviewed by John Germov
Understanding health: A determinants approach
Helen Keleher and Berni Murphy (eds)
Reviewed by Bo Burström
Understanding health: A sociological discussion
Anne-Marie Barry and Chris Yuill
Reviewed by Kevin White
Unfiltered: Conflicts Over Tobacco Policy and Public Health
Eric Feldman and Ronald Bayer (eds)
Reviewed by Judith Peppard
Welfare State and Welfare Change
Martin Powell and Martin Hewitt
Reviewed by Adam Jamrozik
What Works in Tackling Health Inequalities? Pathways, Policies and Practice
Sheena Asthana and Joyce Halliday
Reviewed by Lareen Newman
Who cares? The changing health care system
Judy Lumby
Reviewed by Eileen Clark
Xenotransplantation: Law and Ethics
Craig Fry
Reviewed by Sheila McLean, Laura Williamson
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