Routledge Library Editions: Health, Disease and Society
Health Care of the Elderly: Essays in Old Age Medicine, Psychiatry and Services
1st Edition
Edited
By Tom Arie
June 30, 2024
Originally published in 1981 and edited by a pioneer in psychogeriatric services, this book spans medicine, psychiatry, social work and organisation of services of the elderly, written by eminent authors from several different professions. Chapters include those on stroke rehabilitation, dementia, ...
Health and Vital Statistics
1st Edition
By Bernard Benjamin
June 30, 2024
Originally published in 1968, this book was intended to help those in health and welfare services as well as those whose policy decisions are influenced by the movement of statistical indices of health, to understand the purpose, derivation and meaning of these indices. It teaches by presenting ...
Health, Disease and Society: A Critical Medical Geography
1st Edition
By Kelvyn Jones, Graham Moon
June 30, 2024
Originally published in 1987 this textbook is a comprehensive introduction to the rapidly developing field of medical geography. It illustrates the ideas, methods and debates that inform contemporary approaches to the subject, demonstrating the potential of a social and environmental approach to ...
India's Historical Demography: Studies in Famine, Disease and Society
1st Edition
By Tim Dyson
June 30, 2024
When this book was originally published in 1989 here had been virtually no studies of the country’s historical demography. This volume was significant for 3 reasons: it contributed greatly to the knowledge of India’s population history; it had major implications for the work of social and economic ...
Innovations in the Care of the Elderly
1st Edition
Edited
By Bernard Isaacs, Helen Evers
June 30, 2024
Originally published in 1984 and concentrating on the West Midlands area of the UK, this book describes the innovations that were made and all that was involved in bringing about changes in care provision for elderly people. The areas covered include hospital-based geriatric and psychogeriatric ...
Issues in the Political Economy of Health Care
1st Edition
Edited
By John B. McKinlay
June 30, 2024
Originally published in 1984, this book attempted to fill a gap by providing a broad-ranging structural analysis of the health care sector and the political and economic forces which influence its shape and contents, both in the western world and developing countries. The contributors examine the ...
Mental Health Care and Social Policy
1st Edition
Edited
By Phil Brown
June 30, 2024
Originally published in 1985, at a time when the previous 2 decades had witnessed dramatic changes in the US mental health system. These included the decline of the state mental hospital, the birth of the community mental health center and the expansion of psychiatric services in general hospitals....
New Directions in Health Education: School Health Education and the Community in Western Europe and the United States
1st Edition
Edited
By George Campbell
June 30, 2024
Originally published in 1985, this book is a detailed study of the ways of harmonizing school and community policies, strategies and methods in health education, with examples of work achieved in most countries of Western Europe and the USA. It is primarily a guide to ways of overcoming a piecemeal...
Nutrition and Disease
1st Edition
Edited
By R. J. Jarrett
June 30, 2024
Originally published in 1979, this book presents a coherent body of information on the inter-relation between nutrition, health and disease in its social context. The first section deals with undernutrition. The socio-cultural and economic factors underlying the deficiency diseases are discussed as...
Pharmaceuticals and Health Policy: International Perspectives on Provision and Control of Medicines
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard Blum, Andrew Herxheimer, Catherine Stenzl, Jasper Woodcock
June 30, 2024
Originally published in 1981, this comprehensive volume is intended for medical economists, clinical pharmacologists, physicians, pharmacists and consumers, as well as planner and administrators who must determine relevant policy and legislation in the area of the provision of medicines. The ...
Sociological Theory and Medical Sociology
1st Edition
Edited
By Graham Scambler
June 30, 2024
Originally published in 1987, this book builds bridges between medical sociology and mainstream theory. It does so by demonstrating in new and important ways how selected theories of major thinkers like Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Freud, Parsons, Goffman, Foucault, Habermas and Offe stand to inform, and...
The Family Life of Sick Children: A Study of Families Coping with Chronic Childhood Disease
1st Edition
By Lindy Burton
June 30, 2024
Originally published in 1975, this book traces the problems which arise for families coping with a chronic childhood disease – cystic fibrosis. The discussion of these problems is important for the families of other seriously ill or disabled children, all of whom are faced with similar implications...