Health & Society

As populations throughout the world grow older, the health of older people becomes more and more important for policy makers and the public alike. This book reflects on how our understanding and experience of health at later ages interacts with social and bio-medical developments..

Mental Health at the Crossroads is a timely analysis of the psychosocial approach as it resonates across the discipline divide, considering the past and future development. This book presents an alternative approach to conventional thinking in mental health, providing a fascinating and valuable reso..

Mental Health at the Crossroads is a timely analysis of the psychosocial approach as it resonates across the discipline divide, considering the past and future development. This book presents an alternative approach to conventional thinking in mental health, providing a fascinating and valuable reso..

Drawing on three main disciplines, geography, sociology, and epidemiology, author Tony Gatrell makes strong connections between these areas of inquiry, drawing on (for example) social theorising, geographical concepts, and epidemiological methods and data. The book will be of interest to the growing..

Current approaches to Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) in health and social development are often expensive and are conducted  in order to demonstrate success, rather than to learn how change occurs and what works within a particular context. Responding to these concerns, this book will illustrate th..

This book evaluates four of the most dominant contemporary discourses on the question of long life, explores key conceptual tools for the reconceptualization of the purpose of long life and examines the implications of cultural adaption for the spheres of policy, business and politics as well as ide..

In this timely and unique work, Calum Paton assesses the political economy and politics of current health policy in order to explain the underlying causes of problems in the National Health Service. He argues that the fundamental nature of health policy is dependent upon the prevailing regime in pol..

In this timely and unique work, Calum Paton assesses the political economy and politics of current health policy in order to explain the underlying causes of problems in the National Health Service. He argues that the fundamental nature of health policy is dependent upon the prevailing regime in pol..

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Northern Exposures..

Northern Exposures..

First published in 1997, this work makes a substantial reexamination of the social processes behind the labelling of patients in hospital care...