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  • AGRIBUSINESS AND THE SMALL-SCALE FARMER
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    AGRIBUSINESS AND THE SMALL-SCALE FARMER
    SIMON WILLIAMS / RUTH KAREN
    Based on case histories from nine Third World countries, this study examines the successful cooperation between private agribusiness firms and small farmers to increase agricultural production and income in developing countries. In such ventures, small farmers are organized around a core private company that buys their output and provides manageria ...

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  • MODERN MEDICINE
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    MODERN MEDICINE
    SIMON J. WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK / MICHAEL CALNAN UNIVERSITY OF KENT.,
    Do lay people view modern medicine as a fountain of hope or a font of despair? What are their experiences of modern medical care and technology, and how do their views and experiences differ across different social groups? Combining theoretical insights with a range of qualitative and ethnographic research, this volume examines lay experiences and evaluation of medicines and dr...

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  • SLEEP AND SOCIETY
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    SLEEP AND SOCIETY
    SIMON J. WILLIAMS
    Exploring the sociological aspects of sleep and their links to current health debates, this unique text discusses why sleep has been so neglected in sociological literature and examines significant modern issues such as: the 24-hour society sleep and work homelessness dream analysis the medicalization and commodification of sleep. Written by a key international figure in medica...

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  • GENDER, HEALTH AND HEALING
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    GENDER, HEALTH AND HEALING
    GILLIAN BENDELOW, MICK CARPENTER, CAROLINE VAUTIER AND SIMON WILLIAMS
    What do we mean by 'gender' and how does this relate to health? How is 'biology' best understood? What does a focus on the division of labour bring to our understanding of health work? Is (gender) 'equity' in health possible? How have developments such as the resurgence of emotions and the new genetics affected these and other social relations at the turn of the century? These ...

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  • INTERNATIONAL HISTORY AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
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    INTERNATIONAL HISTORY AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
    ANDREW J. WILLIAMS / AMELIA HADFIELD / J. SIMON ROFE
    This innovative new textbook seeks to provide undergraduate students of international relations with valuable and relevant historical context, bridging the gap and offering a genuinely interdisciplinary approach. Each chapter integrates both historical analysis and literature and applies this to an international relations context in an accessible fashion, allowing students to u...

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  • DEBATING BIOLOGY
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    DEBATING BIOLOGY
    BENDELOW, GILLIAN / BIRKE, LYNDA / WILLIAMS, SIMON
    Relations between the biological and social sciences have been hotly contested and debated over the years. The uses and abuses of biology, not least to legitimate or naturalize social inequalities and to limit freedoms, have rightly been condemned. All too often, however the style of debate has been reductionist and ultimately unfruitful. As we enter an age in which ultr-Darwin...

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  • CHRONIC RESPIRATORY ILLNESS
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    CHRONIC RESPIRATORY ILLNESS
    SIMON J. WILLIAMS
    Chronic obstructive airways disease (COAD: bronchitis, emphysema and chronic asthma) is a major medical, psychological, social and economic problem. Breathlessness is one of the most distressing and disabling symptoms of COAD, and it has long been apparent that the condition results in impaired quality of life. Drawing upon sociological and psychological sources, and his own de...

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  • MEDICINE AND THE BODY
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    MEDICINE AND THE BODY
    SIMON WILLIAMS
    `An intelligent and informed account of medical sociology. Simon Williams has produced an original and comprehensive sociological statement of the centrality of the body to an understanding of medicine, health and illness. His scope is impressive... It will shape future teaching and research in the field of health and illness′ - Bryan S Turner, Professor of Sociology, Universit...

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  • THE LIVED BODY
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    THE LIVED BODY
    GILLIAN A. BENDELOW / SIMON J. WILLIAMS
    The Lived Body takes a fresh look at the notion of human embodiment and provides an ideal textbook for undergraduates on the growing number of courses on the sociology of the body. The authors propose a new approach - an 'Embodied Sociology' - one which makes embodiment central rather than peripheral. They critically examine the dualist legacies of the past, assessing the ideas...

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  • EMOTION AND SOCIAL THEORY
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    EMOTION AND SOCIAL THEORY
    SIMON WILLIAMS
    The emotions have traditionally been marginalized in mainstream social theory. This book demonstrates the problems that this has caused and charts the resurgence of emotions in social theory today. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, both classical and contemporary, Simon Williams treats the emotions as a universal feature of human life and our embodied relationship to the wo...

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