Health and Social Care Handbooks

New and Published Handbooks

1. The Routledge Handbook of the Welfare State

   Edited by Bent Greve

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   ‘The welfare state’ in all its many forms has had a profound role in many countries around the world since at least the Second World War. The Routledge Handbook of the Welfare State explores the classical issues around the welfare state, but also investigates its key concepts, along with how these...

   Published November 22nd 2012 by Routledge
2. Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies

   Edited by Nick Watson, Alan Roulstone, Carol Thomas

   The Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies takes a multidisciplinary approach to disability and provides an authoritative and up-to-date overview of the main issues in the field around the world today. Adopting an international perspective and consisting entirely of newly commissioned chapters...

   Published February 1st 2012 by Routledge
3. Routledge Handbook of Critical Criminology

   Edited by Walter S. DeKeseredy, Molly Dragiewicz

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   The Routledge Handbook of Critical Criminology is a collection of original essays specifically designed to offer students, faculty, policy makers, and others an in-depth overview of the most up-to-date empirical, theoretical, and political contributions made by critical criminologists around the...

   Published October 25th 2011 by Routledge
4. Routledge Handbook of Deviant Behavior

   Edited by Clifton D. Bryant

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   The Handbook of Deviant Behavior presents a comprehensive, integrative, and accessible overview of the contemporary body of knowledge in the field of social deviance in the twenty-first century. This book addresses the full range of scholarly concerns within this area – including theoretical,...

   Published June 22nd 2011 by Routledge
5. Routledge Handbook of Global Public Health

   Edited by Richard Parker, Marni Sommer

   At the beginning of the twenty-first century, key public health issues and challenges have taken centre stage. They range from arsenic in drinking water to asthma among children and adults; from the re-emergence of cholera, to increasing cancer rates and other chronic diseases; from AIDS to malaria...

   Published December 16th 2010 by Routledge
6. Handbook of Youth and Young Adulthood

   New Perspectives and Agendas

   Edited by Andy Furlong

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   The parameters within which young people live their lives have changed radically. Changes in education and the labour market have led to an increased complexity of the youth phase and to an overall protraction in dependency and transitions. Written by leading academics from several countries, this...

   Published August 26th 2009 by Routledge