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1. Handbook of the Sociology of Medical Education

   Edited by Caragh Brosnan, Bryan S. Turner

   The Handbook of the Sociology of Medical Education provides a contemporary introduction to this classic area of sociology by examining the social origin and implications of the epistemological, organizational and demographic challenges facing medical education in the twenty-first century....

   Published March 30th 2012 by Routledge
2. Interpreting Human Rights

   Social Science Perspectives

   Edited by Rhiannon Morgan, Bryan Turner

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   In recent decades, human rights have come to occupy an apparently unshakable position as a key and pervasive feature of contemporary global public culture. At the same time, human rights have become a central focus of research in the social sciences, embracing distinctive analytical and empirical...

   Published March 30th 2012 by Routledge
3. Routledge Handbook of Body Studies

   Edited by Bryan Turner

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   In the last three decades, the human body has gained increasing prominence in contemporary political debates, and it has become a central topic of modern social sciences and humanities. Modern technologies – such as organ transplants, stem-cell research, nanotechnology, cosmetic surgery and...

   Published March 21st 2012 by Routledge
4. Contested Citizenship in East Asia

   Developmental Politics, National Unity, and Globalization

   Edited by Kyung-Sup Chang, Bryan Turner

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   Theories of citizenship from the West – pre-eminently those by T.H. Marshall – provide only a limited insight into East Asian political history. The Marshallian trajectory – juridical, political and social rights – was not repeated in Asia and the late nineteenth-century debate about...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
5. Regulating Bodies

   Essays in Medical Sociology

   By Professor Bryan S Turner, Bryan S. Turner

   Bryan Turner is generally acknowledged to have been the key figure in opening up the sociological debate about the body. In this coruscating and fascinating book he shows how his thinking on the subject has developed and why sociologists must take the body seriously....

   Published November 3rd 2011 by Routledge
6. Max Weber on Economy and Society (Routledge Revivals)

   By Robert Holton, Bryan Turner

   First published in 1989, this reissue concerns itself with the relevance of Max Weber's sociology for the understanding of modern times. The book outlines key tennets of Weber's sociology and points to the valuable legacy of Weber's thought in contemporary intellectual debate,...

   Published July 31st 2011 by Routledge
7. The Routledge International Handbook of Globalization Studies

   Edited by Bryan Turner

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   The Routledge International Handbook of Globalization Studies offers students clear and informed chapters on the history of globalization and key theories that have considered the causes and consequences of the globalization process. There are substantive sections looking at demographic, economic,...

   Published July 20th 2011 by Routledge
8. The Contradictions of Israeli Citizenship

   Land, Religion and State

   Edited by Guy Ben-Porat, Bryan Turner

   Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics

   This book provides an integrated analysis of the complex nature of citizenship in Israel. Contributions from leading social and political theorists explore different aspects of citizenship through the demands and struggles of minority groups to provide a comprehensive picture of the dynamics of...

   Published May 18th 2011 by Routledge
9. The Routledge International Handbook of Globalization Studies

   Edited by Bryan S. Turner

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   The Routledge International Handbook of Globalization Studies offers students clear and informed chapters on the history of globalization and key theories that have considered the causes and consequences of the globalization process. There are substantive sections looking at demographic,...

   Published November 15th 2009 by Routledge
10. Muslims in Singapore

    Piety, politics and policies

    By Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir, Alexius Pereira, Bryan S. Turner

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

    This book examines Muslims in Singapore, analysing their habits, practices and dispositions towards everyday life, and also their role within the broader framework of the secularist Singapore state and the cultural dominance of its Chinese elite, who are predominantly Buddhist and Christian....

    Published September 14th 2009 by Routledge