Health & Society

Modern organizations are characterized by multiple kinds of observations and systems, rather than clear hierarchies. Explores how this polycontexturality plays out in the healthcare arena, this book provides an analysis that takes into account the complexity of healthcare today, showing how contexts..

Modern organizations are characterized by multiple kinds of observations and systems, rather than clear hierarchies. Explores how this polycontexturality plays out in the healthcare arena, this book provides an analysis that takes into account the complexity of healthcare today, showing how contexts..

This book tackles the problem of how anxiety over death throughout the course of a life – though often denied or repressed – persists as a pervasive but unspoken worry, influencing our conduct. It applies this focus to a range of normal anxieties, frustrations and aggressions in everyday life, in ad..

This title was first published in 2001. This original study of mental health care presents a conceptual approach to the nature of the industry’s multiple outputs...

Physiotherapy needs to engage in critically informed theoretical discussion about the profession's history to explore practice from economic, philosophical, political and sociological perspectives. This book aims to explain how physiotherapy has arrived at a critical point in its history, and to poi..

A practical and detailed guide to all aspects of conducting a research project in health. The book encourages a systematic approach and emphasises the best use of modern technology, including software and the Internet...

This book explores the effects that social and economic differences have on our health as individuals and as whole societies. Richard Wilkinson argues that this takes us to the roots of social malaise and also makes suggestions about the changes required to increase life expectancy and the quality ..

Made accessible to an English-speaking readership for the first time, this study of the sacred Sanskrit text explores how earlier tantric yogic techniques were developed and mutated into the practices of hathayoga...

For the first time in one volume, many of the world’s most esteemed eating disorders prevention experts share their recommendations for future directions in the field. They offer approaches that range from large scale, macro-environmental calls for change through public policy and social justice to ..

The Value of Transnational Research re-thinks the bioethical distinction between paid and unpaid research services in the light of the social and material organisation of medical research practices. Bringing together sociologists, anthropologists and activists, the volume throws new light on the rel..

The Value of Transnational Research re-thinks the bioethical distinction between paid and unpaid research services in the light of the social and material organisation of medical research practices. Bringing together sociologists, anthropologists and activists, the volume throws new light on the rel..

This collection discusses common ways of thinking about risk and uncertainty through examining how uncertainty is handled in different settings around the world. The book challenges assumptions which associate risk with post-traditional, secular and liberal characteristics. It was originally publish..