Forthcoming Health and Social Care Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Food and Public Health

   Contemporary Issues and Future Directions

   Edited by Wendy Wills, Alizon Draper, Ulla Gustafsson

   This book focuses on food policy, and its relationship to public health, as an increasingly important issue in today’s society. Contributors highlight the lack of global regulation in the food supply chain and explore the common tendency to leave regulation to markets and to individual consumer...

   To Be Published February 5th 2013 by Routledge
2. Care Ethics

   New Theories and Applications

   Edited by Christine Koggel, Joan Orme

   The ethic of care has developed to become a body of theory that has expanded from its roots in social psychology to many other disciplines in the social sciences as well as the humanities. This work on care has informed both theory and practice by generating complex accounts of care ethics for...

   To Be Published February 19th 2013 by Routledge
3. Key Themes in Social Policy

   By Patricia Kennedy

   Key Themes in Social Policy provides an accessible and authoritative introduction to the key concepts used in social policy, from autonomy to wellbeing. With over 100 ideas discussed, this is a comprehensive student guide and is designed to help readers to gain a deeper understanding of major...

   To Be Published February 21st 2013 by Routledge
4. From Trauma to Healing

   A Social Worker's Guide to Working with Survivors

   By Ann Goelitz, Abigail Stewart-Kahn

   From Trauma to Healing: A Social Worker’s Guide for Working With Survivors is the next significant publication on trauma in the field of social work. Since September 11 and Hurricane Katrina, social workers have come together increasingly to consider how traumatic events impact practice. From...

   To Be Published February 25th 2013 by Routledge
5. Social Work and Intimate Partner Violence

   By Mary Allen

   Intimate partner violence is now recognised as a serious human rights abuse and increasingly as an important public health problem with severe consequences for women’s physical, mental and sexual health. Therefore, a comprehensive understanding of intimate partner violence is an essential aspect of...

   To Be Published February 25th 2013 by Routledge
6. Disability in Japan

   By Carolyn Stevens

   Series: Japan Anthropology Workshop Series

   Disability and chronic illness represents a special kind of cultural diversity, the "other" to "normal" able-bodiedness. Most studies of disability consider disability in North American or European contexts; and studies of diversity in Japan consider ethnic and cultural diversity, but not the...

   To Be Published March 7th 2013 by Routledge
7. Toward Sustainable Transitions in Healthcare Systems

   Edited by Jacqueline Broerse, John Grin

   Series: Routledge Studies in Sustainability Transitions

   Over the past decades, a series of reform initiatives have been going through health systems of advanced welfare states, including the control of cost development, the tenability of health systems in globalizing economies, dissatisfaction about quality of treatment or quality of life, and the...

   To Be Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge
8. Assessing Common Mental Health and Addiction Issues With Free-Access Instruments

   By Katie M. Sandberg, Taryn E. Richards, Bradley T. Erford

   As healthcare costs rise, so too do the costs of assessment instruments, critical tools for mental health professionals. While some traditional assessment instruments have become prohibitively expensive, as with many other fields, the Internet offers a host of more affordable and equitable...

   To Be Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge
9. International Perspectives on Public Health and Palliative Care

   Edited by Libby Sallnow, Suresh Kumar, Allan Kellehear

   Series: Routledge Studies in Public Health

   Public health approaches to palliative care have been growing in policy importance and practice acceptance. This innovative volume explores the major concepts, practice examples, and practice guidelines for this new approach. The goal of ‘comprehensive care’ – seamless support for patients as they...

   To Be Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge
10. Suicide and Justice

    A Chinese Perspective

    By Fei Wu

    Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

    Sociological and psychiatric studies on suicide based on Western ideas about human nature see suicide as social or individual disorder. Suicide in China, however, should be understood differently. By analyzing 30 cases, Wu Fei studies the dynamics of suicide in terms of family politics and local...

    To Be Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge