The fully revised edition of this successful textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to medical sociology and an assessment of its significance for social theory and the social sciences. It includes a completely revised chapter on mental health and new chapters on the sociology of the body an[...]

Based on extensive historical research and fieldwork in Labrador over many years, A Way of Life that Does Not Exist brings to light the scale of the tragedies that have overtaken the Innu as the Canadian state, pursuing the policy of assimilation, has sought to extinguish both their uniqueness and t[...]