Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing & Allied Health Handbooks

New and Published Handbooks

1. Routledge Handbook of Body Studies

   Edited by Bryan Turner

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   In the last three decades, the human body has gained increasing prominence in contemporary political debates, and it has become a central topic of modern social sciences and humanities. Modern technologies – such as organ transplants, stem-cell research, nanotechnology, cosmetic surgery and...

   Published March 21st 2012 by Routledge
2. Handbook of Health Psychology

   Second Edition

   Edited by Andrew Baum, Tracey A. Revenson, Jerome Singer

   Considered the most comprehensive handbook in the field, this rich resource reviews the biological, psychological, and social factors that affect health, health behavior, and illness. Many chapters review the latest theories and research while others illustrate how research is translated into...

   Published December 13th 2011 by Psychology Press
3. 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
4. Routledge Handbook of Clinical Supervision

   Fundamental International Themes

   Edited by John R. Cutcliffe, Kristiina Hyrkas, John Fowler

   The Routledge Handbook of Clinical Supervision provides a global ‘state of the art’ overview of clinical supervision, presenting and examining the most comprehensive, robust empirical evidence upon which to base practice. This authoritative volume builds on a previous volume, Fundamental Themes in...

   Published October 3rd 2010 by Routledge
5. Routledge Handbook of Biomechanics and Human Movement Science

   Edited by Youlian Hong, Roger Bartlett

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   The Routledge Handbook of Biomechanics and Human Movement Science is a landmark work of reference. Now available in a concise paperback edition, it offers a comprehensive and in-depth survey of current theory, research and practice in sports, exercise and clinical biomechanics, in both established...

   Published June 10th 2010 by Routledge
6. Routledge Handbook of Sexuality, Health and Rights

   Edited by Peter Aggleton, Richard Parker

   The last two decades have witnessed an explosion of research on sexuality as the social sciences have worked to find new ways of understanding a rapidly changing world. Growing concern for issues such as population, women's and men's reproductive health, and the HIV and AIDS pandemic, has since...

   Published January 11th 2010 by Routledge
7. Handbook of the Sociology of Medical Education

   Edited by Caragh Brosnan, Bryan S. Turner

   The Handbook of the Sociology of Medical Education provides a contemporary introduction to this classic area of sociology by examining the social origin and implications of the epistemological, organizational and demographic challenges facing medical education in the twenty-first century....

   Published July 27th 2009 by Routledge