Award-Winning Books: Health and Health Policy

2277 reg

Conceiving Masculinity

Male Infertility, Medicine, and Identity

Liberty Walther Barnes

228 pages
5.5 x 8.25
1 table

PB: 978-1-4399-1042-9 $30.95 Apr 14
HC: 978-1-4399-1041-2 $90.50 May 14
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1043-6 $30.95

British Sociological Association's Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize, 2015

453 reg

Dangerous Passage

The Social Control of Sexuality in Women's Adolescence

Constance A. Nathanson

304 pages



PB: 978-1-56639-077-4 $27.95 Jan 93
HC: 978-0-87722-824-0 $77.50 Jun 91

Eliot Freidson Outstanding Book in Medical Sociology, American Sociological Association, 1993

890 reg

Deviance and Medicalization

From Badness to Sickness

Peter Conrad and Joseph W Schneider

352 pages
7 x 10


PB: 978-0-87722-999-5 $44.95 Oct 92
HC: 978-0-87722-998-8 $59.95 Oct 92
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0349-0 $44.95

Charles Horton Cooley Book Award, Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, 1981

1670 reg

The Gold Standard

The Challenge of Evidence-Based Medicine and Standardization in Health Care

Stefan Timmermans and Marc Berg

280 pages
6 x 9
4 tables, 1 figs., 4 halftones

PB: 978-1-59213-188-4 $30.95 Jun 03
HC: 978-1-59213-187-7 $70.50 Jun 03
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0281-3 $30.95 Jun 03

Winner of the Robert Merton Professional Book Award from the Science, Knowledge, and Society section of the American Sociological Association for the best book published in the past three years in the area of science studies, 2005

908 reg

Medical Malpractice

Law, Tactics, and Ethics

Frank M. McClellan

328 pages
6 x 9


PB: 978-1-56639-066-8 $42.95 Nov 93
HC: 978-1-56639-065-1 $90.50 Nov 93
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0384-1 $42.95 Nov 93

Philadelphia Book Clinic Certificate of Award, 1995

1811 reg

Of Others Inside

Insanity, Addiction, and Belonging in America

Darin Weinberg and Bryan S Turner

248 pages
6 x 9


PB: 978-1-59213-404-5 $30.95 Sep 05
HC: 978-1-59213-403-8 $76.50 Sep 05
Ebook: 978-1-59213-405-2 $30.95 Sep 05

Melvin Pollner Prize in Ethnomethodology by the American Sociological Association Section on Ethnomethodology & Conversation Analysis, 2011

825 reg

Who Cares for the Elderly?

Public Policy and the Experiences of Adult Daughters

Emily K. Abel

248 pages
6 x 9


HC: 978-0-87722-814-1 $65.50 Apr 91

Distinguished Contribution to Qualitative Gerontology, American Sociological Association, 1994