Routledge Key Themes in Health and Society
Culturally Competent Spiritual Care during Health Disasters and Emergencies: Developments in the Era of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
1st Edition
By Irena Papadopoulos, Runa Lazzarino, Christina Koulouglioti
November 10, 2025
This innovative book draws together a wide range of multidisciplinary research to illuminate how the helping professions can provide person-centred spiritual care to their patients in a health emergency, making use of new digital technologies alongside more established modes of care. Drawing on ...
Exploring End of Life Experience: Facing Death
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By Helen Besemeres
April 14, 2025
The groundbreaking contribution made by this unique book draws on the experiences recorded by five people who are facing death – Jenny Diski, Philip Gould, Christopher Hitchens, Michael Mayne and Cory Taylor. Analysing the key themes that emerge from a psychodynamic perspective, the book describes ...
Understanding the Grief and Loss Experiences of Carers: Research, Practitioner and Personal Perspectives
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By Kerry Jones, Joanna Horne
October 01, 2024
This book draws on recent research and cutting-edge ideas about bereavement and carers’ experiences across the life course to explore carers’ experience of loss and discuss their specific needs prior and or following the death of those they care for. Whether care provided is related to a long term ...
Men and Loss: New Perspectives on Bereavement, Grief and Masculinity
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By Kerry Jones, Martin Robb
July 19, 2024
This important book draws together new research and theories about bereavement, on the one hand, and men and masculinities on the other, to increase our understanding of men’s experience of loss and contribute towards improving support services for men following bereavement. Bereavement and loss ...
Leadership at the Intersection of Gender and Race in Healthcare and Science: Case Studies and Tools
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By Danielle Laraque-Arena, Lauren Germain, Virginia Young, Rivers Laraque-Ho
May 27, 2024
This book takes a case study approach to explore leadership narratives of women in healthcare and science, paying attention to the intersection of gender, identity, and race in each story. Putting forward a new vision and pathway inclusive of the lived experiences and contributions of women ...
Trade Union Strategies against Healthcare Marketization: Opportunity Structures and Local-Level Determinants
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By Jennie Auffenberg
September 25, 2023
Marketization in the healthcare sector affects the quality and delivery of care, as well as healthcare workers’ working conditions. Based on a comparison of England and Germany, along with an in-depth case study looking at New York, USA, this volume examines how trade unions respond to ...
Empowerment: A Critique
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By Kenneth McLaughlin
May 31, 2023
‘Empowerment’ is a term in widespread use today and one that is often considered to be a self-evident good. Here, McLaughlin explores its emergence in the 1960s through to its rise in the 1990s and ubiquity in present day discourse and interrogates its social status, paying particular attention to ...
Marketisation, Ethics and Healthcare: Policy, Practice and Moral Formation
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By Therese Feiler, Joshua Hordern, Andrew Papanikitas
May 31, 2023
How does the market affect and redefine healthcare? The marketisation of Western healthcare systems has now proceeded well into its fourth decade. But the nature and meaning of the phenomenon has become increasingly opaque amidst changing discourses, policies and institutional structures. Moreover,...
Professional Identity in the Caring Professions: Meaning, Measurement and Mastery
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By Roger Ellis, Elaine Hogard
May 31, 2023
Professional identity is a central topic in all courses of professional training and educators must decide what kind of identity they hope their students will develop, as well as think about how they can recruit for, facilitate and assess this development. This unique book explores professional ...
Loss, Dying and Bereavement in the Criminal Justice System
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By Sue Read, Sotirios Santatzoglou, Anthony Wrigley
December 09, 2019
Life is characterised by movement, change and development, including transitions, losses and grief. People experiencing loss must learn to accommodate it and, sometimes, relearn new roles. Whether the offender is accommodating general loss (such as transition), the loss of others or facing their ...
Negotiating Ageing: Cultural Adaptation to the Prospect of a Long Life
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By Simon Biggs
September 11, 2019
The world is growing older and this is a historically unprecedented phenomenon. Negotiating such change, personally, socially and for governments and international organisations requires an act of cultural adaptation. Two key questions arise: What is the purpose of a long life? and How do we adapt ...
Masculinities, Gender Equality and Crisis Management
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By Mathias Ericson, Ulf Mellström
August 27, 2019
The overarching mission of the rescue services comprises three main areas of responsibility: protection against disasters and accidents; crisis management; and civil defence. This mission covers a long chain of obligations in trying to improve societal prevention capabilities and manage threats, ...