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L’économie de la santé sous surveillance médicale (1960-1990)
Histoire, Médecine et Santé, 2013 In France, economics gradually became more relevant to health issues in the past few decades. This resulted from a social process in which the medical profession played a crucial role.
Daniel Benamouzig
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Social Change Review, 2014 The aim of this paper is to analyse the sociological literature on pharmaceuticalisation and see how sociology helps us understand and explain the phenomenon.
Bordogna Mara Tognetti
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Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 2018 This article analyses some of the emerging problems in the field of social studies at the juncture of the domains of health and science. Building on critical perspectives, namely those hailing from social history, postcolonial studies and collaborative ...
Tiago Pires Marques
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Tissue donation to biobanks: a review of sociological studies [PDF]
, 2011 Collections of human tissue (biobanks) are thought to be an essential resource for biomedical research. Biobanks, have however, been a source of debate in both bioethics and sociology.
Wendy Lipworth +8 more
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The social evolution of COVID-19: pandemics as total social facts
Frontiers in SociologyThe COVID-19 pandemic was an unprecedented global event in recent history. Beginning with an initial outbreak in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, the virus spread rapidly across the globe, causing millions of deaths and triggering an unprecedented health,
Juan José Labora González +1 more
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The Sociology of Sports Work, Emotions and Mental Health: Scoping the Field and Future Directions
, 2017 The central object of this introductory essay, and of this Special Issue more broadly, is to explore relations between the study of work and the continuing evolution of the sociology of sport with a particular focus on the mental health of sports ...
Martin J. Roderick, A. Smith, P. Potrac
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Health care through the `lens of risk' and the categorisation of health risks – An editorial [PDF]
, 2012 This editorial will introduce a four issue series of Risk, Health & Society special editions, Health Care Through the `Lens of Risk'. The editorial will argue that risk-thinking offers a particular approach to contingency, its culturally universal ...
Heyman, Bob +6 more
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Barataria, 2014 This research emerges from the necessity of facing health problems in a holistic way, able to capture the subjects’ perspective about their situation and context, and the way they are perceived and understood. This paper presents the qualitative research
Beatriz Mañas Ramírez +2 more
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Sociology of Health and Illness
South African Family Practice, 1991 No abstract available.
R.J. Henbest
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Changes in the socio-demographic patterning of late adolescent health risk behaviours during the 1990s: analysis of two West of Scotland cohort studies [PDF]
, 2011 Background: Substance use and sexual risk behaviour affect young people's current and future health and wellbeing in many high-income countries. Our understanding of time-trends in adolescent health-risk behaviour is largely based on routinely collected ...
Sweeting, H. +12 more
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