Personal & Public Health

This book is a critical disability studies examination of the lived experience of chronic pain, engaging with and making a significant contribution...

This thought-provoking book examines breakdowns in the quality of health and social care over the past decade, exploring governance failures and th...

Patients have always been encouraged to be active participants in managing their health. New technologies, cultural shifts, trends in healthcare de...

This book examines the role of disability in the right to political and social participation, an act of citizenship that many disabled people do no...

This timely book explores the spatial and social injustices within our streets, malls, schools, and public institutions. Taken-for-granted acts lik...

This book offers new empirical research and policy-relevant care practices from across the globe to understand the interrelation of care, emotion, ...

This book introduces a quality of life index that compares the intra-urban particularities of 23 cities in the Argentine Republic. Integrating demo...

Originally published in 1995, The Body Under Stress, reissued here with a new preface, seeks to define positive health, the skills needed to acquir...

India ranks third in the number of people living with HIV/AIDS globally. The country has high levels of poverty and inequality, poor healthcare inf...

This title was first published in 2003. In this key volume, William Housley examines the concepts of multidisciplinarity and team practice in socia...

First published in 1998, this volume why and how genetic engineering has emerged as the technology most likely to change our lives, for better or w...

First published in 1998, this volume why and how genetic engineering has emerged as the technology most likely to change our lives, for better or w...

Health promotion with young people has largely been framed by theories of behaviour change to target unsafe, unhealthy and/or risky behaviours. The...

Now in a fully updated second edition, this essential volume provides research-based strategies to help educators address challenging behaviors in ...

This title was first published in 2002: Numerous reports have identified the serious problems of under-representation of, and discrimination agains...

On Vulnerability maps out an array of perspectives for critically examining the nature of vulnerability, its unequal patterning across different so...

The Routledge Companion to Art and Disability explores disability in visual culture to uncover the ways in which bodily and cognitive differences a...

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781351026987, has been made available under a Creat...

Ageing is widely recognised as one of the social and economic challenges in the contemporary, globalised world, for which scientific, technological...

Intimate partner violence is now recognised as a serious human rights abuse and increasingly as an important public health problem with severe cons...

This title was first published in 2002: Health systems across the globe face similar problems: controlling costs while maintaining or improving hea...

Currently a great deal of public discourse around health is on the assumed relationship between childhood inactivity, young peoples diets, and a pu...

Over the past fifty years, design and branding have become omnipotent in the market and have made their way to other domains as well. Given their p...

An understanding of the social sciences within infection prevention and control (IPC) is important for those working in health and social care. Thi...