An authoritative, state-of-the-art collection that brings together key experts to provide an overview of the field. This new paperback edition includes 3 new chapters on human resources and health, end-of-life care and complementary and alternative medicine as well as thorough updates to the introduction and conclusion.
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Dimensions: 155 x 235mm
Publication Date: 26 Jun 2012
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781137015143
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SHELLY N. ABDOOL Technical Officer in the Department of Gender Women and Health at the World Health Organization JOY ADAMSON Senior Lecturer in the Department of Health Sciences University of York UK AVNI AMIN Technical Officer in the Department of Gender Women and Health at the World Health Organization PAT ARMSTRONG Professor in Sociology at York University Canada JIM BARRY Professor of Gender and Organization Studies at the University of East London UK SUSAN E. BELL Professor of Sociology and A. Myrick Freeman Professor of Social Sciences at Bowdoin College in Maine USA CECILIA BENOIT Scientist at the Centre for Addictions Research of British Columbia and Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Victoria Canada ELISABETH BERG Professor of Sociology in the Department of Human Work Science Luleå University of Technology Sweden and Visiting Professor at the University of East London UK CHLOE E. BIRD Senior Sociologist at the RAND Corporation and Professor of Sociology at Pardee RAND Graduate School USA ROBERT H. BLANK Research Scholar at the New College of Florida USA and Professor at the University of Canterbury Christchurch New Zealand IVY L. BOURGEAULT Professor of Health Sciences at the University of Ottawa Canada VIOLA BURAU Associate Professor of Public Policy in the Department of Political Science University of Aarhus Denmark JOAN BUSFIELD Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex UK JOHNCHANDLER Reader in Organization Studies in the Business School University of East London UK ANOSHUA CHAUDHURI Associate Professor in the Department of Economics San Francisco State University USA LING-FANG CHENG Associate Professor in the Graduate Institute of Gender Studies Kaohsiung Medical University Taiwan RAYMOND DE VRIES Professor in the Bioethics Program and the Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Medical Education at the University of Michigan Medical School USA EUGENE DECLERCQ Professor of Community Health Sciences and Assistant Dean for Doctoral Education at the Boston University School of Public Health and Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the Boston University School of Medicine USA LESLEY DOYAL Emeritus Professor in the School for Policy Studies University of Bristol UK and Visiting Professor University of Cape Town South Africa JANE EDWARDS is undertaking research on the impact of work-life issues on sustainable lifestyles at the Centre for Work and Life at the University of South Australia ELIZABETH ETTORE Professor of Sociology in the School of Sociology and Social Policy University of Liverpool UK ANNE E. FIGERT Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology Loyola University Chicago USA PAUL GALDAS Assistant Professor at the School of Nursing University of British Columbia Canada CLAUDIA GARCIA-MORENO Physician from Mexico with a Masters in Community Medicine from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine UK LEAH GILBERT Professor of Health Sociology in the Department of Sociology University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg South Africa KATE HUNT Honorary Professor in the Division of Community-based Sciences at Glasgow University UK and Professorial Fellow at Stirling University UK CAROL KINGDON Research Fellow at the Faculty of Health University of Central Lancashire UK INEKE KLINGE Associate Professor of Gender/Diversity Medicine at School Caphri Maastricht University Netherlands PETRA KOLIP Professor of Prevention and Health Promotion at Bielefeld University Germany TOINE LAGRO-JANSSEN Principal Lecturer and Head of the Unit Women's Health Department of Primary Care and Public Health at St Radboud University Nijmegen the Netherlands MARTHA E. LANG Visiting Assistant Professor in Sociology/Anthropology and Coordinator of Gay Lesbian Bisexual and Transgendered Resources at Guilford College USA VIVIAN LIN Professor of Public Health at La Trobe University in Melbourne Australia HELEN L'ORANGE Honorary Associate School of Public Health La Trobe University Australia TULSI PATEL Professor of Sociology and teaches at the Department of Sociology Delhi School of Economics Delhi University India SARAH PAYNE Reader in the School for Policy Studies Bristol University UK PATRICIA P. RIEKER Adjunct Professor of Sociology Boston University and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School USA ELIANNE RISKA Professor of Sociology at the Swedish School of Social Science University of Helsinki Finland KAKOLI ROY Senior Economist at the Centers for Disease Control of Prevention (CDC) United States Department of Health and Human Services JANE SANDALL Professor of Social Sciences and Women's Health in the Department of Public Health King's College London UK TONI SCHOFIELD Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Health Sciences University of Sydney Australia TERRY-ANN SELIKOW Lecturer in the Department of Sociology University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg South Africa HILARY STANDING Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies University of Sussex UK REBECCA SUTHERNS specializes in researching and creating sustainable accessible models of healthcare for marginalized populations HILDEGARD THEOBALD Professor at the Research Centre on Ageing and Society Vechta University Germany EDWIN VAN TEIJLINGEN Professor of Maternal and Perinatal Health at Bournemouth University UK SIRPA WREDE Research Coordinator at the Centre for Research on Ethnic Relations and Nationalism (CEREN) Swedish School of Social Science and Adjunct Professor in Sociology at the University of Helsinki Finland