Health & Illness Books

New and Published Books

1. The International Migration of Health Workers

   Edited by John Connell

   Series: Routledge Research in Population and Migration

   This volume provides the first detailed overview of the growing phenomenon of the international migration of skilled health workers. The contributors focus on who migrates, why they migrate, what the outcomes are for them and their extended families, what their experiences in the workforce are, and...

   Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge
2. Productive Engagement in Later Life

   A Global Perspective

   Edited by Nancy Morrow-Howell, Ada Mui

   Productive Ageing is the involvement of older adults in society through employment, volunteering, caregiving, education and skill building. In 2020 there will be 248 million people in China aged 60 and over. At the same time, the birth rate continues to drop and family structures are being...

   Published January 15th 2012 by Routledge
3. How Ethical Systems Change: Tolerable Suffering and Assisted Dying

   By Sheldon Ekland-Olson, Elyshia Aseltine

   Series: Framing 21st Century Social Issues

   Medical advances prolong life. They also sometimes prolong suffering. Should we protect life or alleviate suffering? This dilemma formed the foundation for a powerful right-to-die movement and a counterbalancing concern over an emerging culture of death. What are the qualities of a life worth...

   Published December 15th 2011 by Routledge
4. Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Decides?: Abortion, Neonatal Care, Assisted Dying, and Capital Punishment

   By Sheldon Ekland-Olson

   Series: Contemporary Sociological Perspectives

   Issues of Life and Death such as abortion, assisted suicide, capital punishment and others are among the most contentious in many societies. Whose rights are protected? How do these rights and protections change over time and who makes those decisions? Based on the author’s award-winning and hugely...

   Published October 18th 2011 by Routledge
5. Genetic Testing

   Accounts of Autonomy, Responsibility and Blame

   By Michael Arribas-Ayllon, Srikant Sarangi, Angus Clarke

   Series: Genetics and Society

   Advances in molecular genetics have led to the increasing availability of genetic testing for a variety of inherited disorders. While this new knowledge presents many obvious health benefits to prospective individuals and their families it also raises complex ethical and moral dilemmas for families...

   Published October 3rd 2011 by Routledge
6. Globalisation, Markets and Healthcare Policy

   Redrawing the Patient as Consumer

   By Jonathan Tritter, Meri Koivusalo, Eeva Ollila, Paul Dorfman

   Series: Critical Studies in Health and Society

   Although the last two decades have seen the healthcare systems of most developed countries face pressure for major reform, the impact of this reform on the relationship between empowerment, consumerism and citizen’s rights has received limited research attention. Globalisation, Markets and...

   Published March 1st 2011 by Routledge
7. Human Genetics: The Basics

   By Ricki Lewis

   Series: The Basics

   Human genetics has blossomed from an obscure branch of biological science and occasional explanation for exceedingly rare disorders to a field all of its own that affects everyone. Human Genetics: The Basics introduces the key questions and issues in this emerging field, including: The common...

   Published September 30th 2010 by Routledge
8. Neurogenetic Diagnoses

   The Power of Hope and the Limits of Today’s Medicine

   By Carole H. Browner, H. Mabel Preloran

   Series: Genetics and Society

   As world populations continue to age, the incidence of very common, ultimately fatal neurodegenerative diseases (some of medicine’s most puzzling illnesses) will increase exponentially. Neurogenetic Diagnoses, the Power of Hope, and the Limits of Today’s Medicine explores the diverse impacts and...

   Published June 3rd 2010 by Routledge
9. Global Public Health Vigilance

   Creating a World on Alert

   By Lorna Weir, Eric Mykhalovskiy

   Series: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society

   Global Public Health Vigilance is the first sociological book to investigate recent changes in how global public health authorities imagine and respond to international threats to human health. This book explores a remarkable period of conceptual innovation during which infectious disease,...

   Published April 6th 2010 by Routledge
10. Interdependency and Care over the Lifecourse

    By Sophia Bowlby, Linda McKie, Susan Gregory, Isobel Macpherson

    Series: Relationships and Resources

    Interdependency and Care over the Lifecourse draws upon theories of time and space to consider how informal care is woven into the fabric of everyday lives and is shaped by social and economic inequalities and opportunities. The book comprises three parts. The first explores contrasting social...

    Published January 13th 2010 by Routledge