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  • SURVIVORSHIP: A SOCIOLOGY OF CANCER IN EVERYDAY LIFE
    ALEX BROOM / KATHERINE KENNY
    This book provides a contemporary and comprehensive examination of cancer in everyday life, drawing on qualitative research with people living with cancer, their family members and health professionals. It explores the evolving and enduring affects of cancer for individuals, families and communities, with attention to the changing dynamics of survivorship, including social rela...

    $1,160.00

  • BODIES AND SUFFERING
    ANA DRAGOJLOVIC / ALEX BROOM
    This book is a critical response to a range of problems – some theoretical, others empirical – that shape questions surrounding the lived experience of suffering. It explores how moral and ethical questions of personal suffering are experienced, contested, negotiated and institutionalised. Bodies and Suffering investigates the moral labour and significance invested in actions t...

    $1,200.00

  • DYING: A SOCIAL PERSPECTIVE ON THE END OF LIFE
    ALEX BROOM
    An inevitable and universal experience, dying is experienced by individuals in different ways, often related to the character of our relationships, family structures, gender identities, cultural backgrounds, and economic means. Drawing on extensive qualitative fieldwork with patients, carers and health professionals in Australia and the United Kingdom, Dying: A Social Perspecti...

    $1,420.00

  • THERAPEUTIC PLURALISM
    ALEX BROOM / PHILIP TOVEY
    The profile of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has risen dramatically over the last decade and cancer patients represent its most prolific users. As a result, the NHS and UK cancer services are attempting to develop a wider range of therapeutic options for patients. Despite such developments, little is known about why cancer patients use CAM, its perceived benefits...

    $1,640.00

  • TRADITIONAL, COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE AND CANCER CARE
    PHILIP TOVEY / JOHN CHATWIN / ALEX BROOM
    Drawing on comparative fieldwork in the UK, Pakistan and Australia, this book provides the first systematic assessment of pathways and access to CAM and how it is used in health practice and by individuals with cancer. Giving fresh and invaluable insights into how differing health and societal structures influence the use complementary and alternative medicine, the book explore...

    $1,100.00