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1. Suicide

   Edited by Keith Hawton, Rory O'Connor

   Series: Major Themes in Health and Social Welfare

   Suicide is increasingly recognized as a major global issue of public health, with far-reaching social, economic, and emotional consequences. The World Health Organization estimates that around 800,000 people die each year by suicide, with suicide attempts perhaps up to twenty times more frequent...

   Published November 18th 2012 by Routledge
2. Gender and Health

   Edited by Kate Hunt, Ellen Annandale

   Series: Major Themes in Health and Social Welfare

   Publisher’s note: The publishers would like to confirm that for Volume 1: ‘Theoretical and Methodological Developments’ and Volume 3: ‘Gender and Healthcare’ Ellen Annandale was the lead editor and lead author of the introductions. Kate Hunt was the lead editor for Volume 2: ‘Understanding the...

   Published October 16th 2011 by Routledge
3. Health and Inequality

   Edited by Kate Pickett, Richard Wilkinson

   Series: Major Themes in Health and Social Welfare

   Some groups of people are healthier than others. Overwhelmingly, for almost all kinds of morbidity and mortality, groups at the bottom of the social scale are less healthy than those at the top. But this simple observation describes a complex phenomenon that has become a major focus of research,...

   Published October 13th 2008 by Routledge
4. Mental Health

   Edited by Teresa L. Scheid

   Series: Major Themes in Health and Social Welfare

   Mental health and illness is one of the most fascinating and contested interdisciplinary areas of research, theory, and study. Scholars from fields such as psychology, sociology, social work, and law have, in particular, contributed to a rich literature which revolves around a number of key...

   Published September 4th 2008 by Routledge
5. Social Work

   Edited by Ann Buchanan

   Series: Major Themes in Health and Social Welfare

   With just over a century of history, social work has come of age as a powerful global profession in possession of its own body of knowledge based on research, skills, competence, and an international value system with a code of ethics. Today, social work has developed from humble origins to become...

   Published March 31st 2008 by Routledge
6. Disability

   Major Themes in Health and Social Welfare

   Edited by Nick Watson

   Series: Major Themes in Health and Social Welfare

   Disability Studies is a relatively new area of academic thought, emerging in its current form in the early 1990s. It is, by its nature, broad ranging and has seen a rapid expanse in scholarly research. It is an international development or movement, with active organizations of academics in Britain...

   Published December 12th 2007 by Routledge
7. Addiction

   Edited by Moira Plant, Martin Plant

   Series: Major Themes in Health and Social Welfare

   Millions of us make use of psychoactive—or mind-altering—drugs. Such drugs, both legal and otherwise, can cause pleasure or pain (or both). So, too, can sex, gambling, shopping, dieting, exercise, and Internet use. ‘Addiction’ or ‘dependence’ on substances like alcohol, tobacco, illicit and...

   Published November 28th 2007 by Routledge
8. Death, Dying and Bereavement (4 volumes)

   Major Themes in Health and Social Welfare

   Edited by Ken Doka

   Series: Major Themes in Health and Social Welfare

   The study of death and dying truly crosses disciplinary boundaries. Scholars in the field represent a wide spectrum of disciplines in medicine, nursing, social work, sociology, psychology, philosophy, health education and the humanities. The volumes in this collection therefore take a broad and...

   Published November 29th 2006 by Routledge
9. Health Care Systems

   Edited by Professor Jonathan Watson

   Series: Major Themes in Health and Social Welfare

   This four-volume collection covers the organization, financing and regulation of health care systems in four distinct contexts: financing and delivering health care, reforming health care systems, new forms of health system, and rethinking health care systems. A general introduction provides a...

   Published September 19th 2005 by Routledge
10. Medical Sociology

    Major Themes in Health and Social Welfare

    Edited by Graham Scambler

    Series: Major Themes in Health and Social Welfare

    Medical sociology was first recognizable as a distinct area of study in the 1950s and is now probably the largest specialized area of sociology. This collection comprises a comprehensive statement of the history, current concerns and relevance of medical sociology to an understanding of health and...

    Published November 24th 2004 by Routledge