Personal & Public Health

The capacity to conduct international disease outbreak surveillance and share information about outbreaks quickly has empowered both State and Non-...

In Intergenerational Contact Zones, Kaplan, Thang, Sánchez, and Hoffman introduce novel ways of thinking, planning, and designing intergenerational...

Informed by the thought of Pierre Bourdieu and framed by the philosophy of harm reduction, Habitus and Drug Using Environments provides a sociologi...

Gender inequality is entrenched in the cultural, political and market systems that operate at household, community, and national levels. Global cha...

The world is growing older and this is a historically unprecedented phenomenon. Negotiating such change, personally, socially and for governments a...

This title was first published in 2000: The first book to examine stress in doctors families in the United Kingdom, this book outlines the results ...

First published in 1998, this volume examines a major function of research which is to strengthen the knowledge base of health professions and so e...

Much of the scientific work on environmental health research has come from the clinical and biophysical sciences. Yet contributions are being made ...

This title was first published in 2000: Although the apartheid regime has now been abolished there is still a great deal of work to be done in orde...

The Handbook provides an essential resource at the interface of Genomics, Health and Society, and forms a crucial research tool for both new studen...

Through interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary perspectives, and with an emphasis on exploring patterns as well as distinct and unique conditions ...

This title was first published in 2001. Featuring contributions from the UK, Finland, The Netherlands and Greece, this unique book explores the ong...

Suicide and Social Justice unites diverse scholarly and social justice perspectives on the international problem of suicide and suicidal behavior. ...

This title was first published in 2003. The fulfilment of health care rights in a world where resources are scarce is a prominent issue. In this vo...

Prescriptive Memories in Grief and Loss: The Art of Dreamscaping introduces a wide range of therapists to a novel, strengths-based and imaginal pra...

AIDS has a unique political history. As fears grew of a global pandemic on the scale of AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, AIDS was briefly treated as an ...

This title was first published in 2003: As new medical technologies and treatments develop with increasing momentum, the legal and ethical implicat...

Gender inequality is entrenched in the cultural, political and market systems that operate at household, community, and national levels. Global cha...

First published in 1997, this volume emerged in the ongoing struggle between those favouring centralized and those favouring decentralized governme...

Object-Based Learning and Well-Being provides the first explicit analysis of the combined learning and well-being benefits of working with material...

This title was first published in 2000: Over the past decade the welfare state has come under sustained attack not only from quarters which never a...

Seeing Depression Through a Cultural Lens, the collaborative work of a clinical neuroscientist and a scholar of comparative culture, examines the e...

This title was first published in 2000: Marking the centenary of Seebohm Rowntrees first study of poverty in York, this volume examines the modern ...

This title was first published in 2000: Although the apartheid regime has now been abolished there is still a great deal of work to be done in orde...