Critical Approaches to Health
About the Book Series
The Routledge Critical Approaches to Health series aims to present critical, inter-disciplinary books around psychological, social and cultural issues related to health. Each volume in the series provides a critical approach to a particular issue or important topic, and is of interest and relevance to students and practitioners across the social sciences. The series is produced in association with the International Society of Critical Health Psychology (ISCHP).
Health at Work: Critical Perspectives
1st Edition
By Leah Tomkins, Katrina Pritchard
September 10, 2019
Engaging with some of the most debated topics in contemporary organizations, Health at Work: Critical Perspectives presents a critical, contingent view of the healthy employee and the very notion of organizational health. Drawing on expressions such as ‘blowing a fuse’, ‘cracking under pressure’ or...
Postfeminism and Health: Critical Psychology and Media Perspectives
1st Edition
By Sarah Riley, Adrienne Evans, Martine Robson
July 19, 2018
Winner of the 2021 BPS Book Award: Academic Text category, this groundbreaking book employs a transdisciplinary and poststructuralist methodology to develop the concept of ‘postfeminist healthism,’ a twenty-first-century understanding of women’s physical and mental health formed at the ...
Disability and Sexual Health: A Critical Exploration of Key Issues
1st Edition
By Poul Rohleder, Stine Hellum Braathen, Mark Carew
July 03, 2018
The sexual lives of people with disabilities are rarely discussed. It is as if, because someone has a biological or psychological impairment, they do not exist as a sexual being. As such, many people with disabilities feel marginalised and powerless not only in their day-to-day lives, but also in ...
Healthy Ageing: A Capability Approach to Inclusive Policy and Practice
1st Edition
By Christine Stephens, Mary Breheny
June 18, 2018
What does it mean to age well? This important new book redefines what ‘successful’ ageing means, challenging the idea that physical health is the only criteria to gauge the ageing process and that an ageing population is necessarily a burden upon society. Using Sen’s Capability Approach as a ...
Urban Poverty and Health Inequalities: A Relational Approach
1st Edition
By Darrin Hodgetts, Ottilie Stolte
October 09, 2017
When discussing health, we talk about ailments and afflictions, the potential of modern medicine and the behaviours that affect our health. Yet although these relationships exist, they undermine a more socio-economic understanding of health. This timely book takes a critical perspective to argue ...
A Critical Approach to Surrogacy: Reproductive Desires and Demands
1st Edition
By Damien Riggs, Clemence Due
September 18, 2017
This comprehensive text makes an important contribution to the study of surrogacy, developing a novel theoretical framework through which to understand the broader social contexts as well as individual decisions at play within surrogacy arrangements. Drawing on empirical research conducted by the...
Digital Health: Critical and Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives
1st Edition
By Deborah Lupton
August 28, 2017
The rise of digital health technologies is, for some, a panacea to many of the medical and public health challenges we face today. This is the first book to articulate a critical response to the techno-utopian and entrepreneurial vision of the digital health phenomenon. Deborah Lupton, ...
Constructing Pain: Historical, psychological and critical perspectives
1st Edition
By Robert Kugelmann
December 09, 2016
Everyone experiences pain, whether it’s emotional or physical, chronic or acute. Pain is part of what it means to be human, and so an understanding of how we relate to it as individuals - as well as cultures and societies - is fundamental to who we are. In this important new book, the first in ...