Selected online readings are available to give you more insight into chapter topics. These are also an ideal resource to help support your literature reviews, dissertations and assignments.

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Tausing, M., Subedi, S. and Subedi, J. (2007) ‘The bioethics of medical research in very poor countries’, Health:, 11 (4):145–161.

Lee-Treweek, G. (2001) ‘I’m not ill, it’s just this back: osteopathic treatment, responsibility and back problems’, Health, 5 (1): 31–49.

Stevenson, F. (2004) ‘Images of nature in relation to mood modifying medicines: a user perspective’, Health, 8(4): 241–262.

Bradby, H. (2008) Medical Sociology: An Introduction. London: Sage. Chapter 1.

Gabe, J. and Monaghan, L.F. (eds) (2013) Key Concepts in Medical Sociology. London: Sage. Chapter 1.

Lupton, D. (2012) Medicine as Culture: Illness, Disease and the Body, revised 3rd edn. London: Sage. Chapter 1.