Public Health Policy and Practice Books

New and Published Books

1. Emergency Planning Guide for Utilities, Second Edition

   By Samuel Mullen

   An increase in major natural disasters—and the growing number of damaging events involving gas, electric, water, and other utilities—has led to heightened concerns about utility operations and public safety. Due to today's complex, compliance-based environment, utility managers and planners often...

   Published January 21st 2013 by CRC Press
2. The Challenges of Being a Rural Gay Man

   Coping with Stigma

   By Deborah Bray Preston, Anthony R. D'Augelli

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   Gay men often face struggles in the conservative world of rural life, due to the pervasive social stigmas associated with homosexuality and the lack of anonymity in a small-town setting. In this book, Preston and D’Augelli present the results of in-depth interviews and surveys with rural gay men,...

   Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
3. Progress or Collapse

   The Crises of Market Greed

   By Roberto De Vogli

   Human progress is heading toward collapse. There are converging ecological crises looming on the horizon: climate change, peak oil, water shortages, fish depletion and food scarcities. The world is on a collision course against the limits of the ecosystem. Modern societies are consuming,...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
4. Biopolitics and the 'Obesity Epidemic'

   Governing Bodies

   Edited by Jan Wright, Valerie Harwood

   Series: Routledge Studies in Health and Social Welfare

   Biopolitics and the ‘Obesity Epidemic’ is the first edited collection of critical perspectives on the 'obesity epidemic.' The volume provides a comprehensive discussion of current issues in the critical analysis of health, obesity and society, and the impact of obesity discourses on different...

   Published December 9th 2012 by Routledge
5. European Union Public Health Policy

   Regional and global trends

   Edited by Scott Greer, Paulette Kurzer

   Series: Routledge Advances in European Politics

   Ranging from influence over world trade laws affecting health to population health issues such as obesity to the use of comparative data to affect policy, the EU’s public health policies are increasingly important, visible, expensive and effective. They also provide an invaluable case study for...

   Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge
6. An Introduction to Global Health Ethics

   Edited by Andrew Pinto, Ross Upshur

   The field of global health is expanding rapidly. An increasing number of trainees are studying and working with marginalized populations, often within low and middle-income countries. Such endeavours are beset by ethical dilemmas: mitigating power differentials, addressing cultural differences in...

   Published December 4th 2012 by Routledge
7. Human Dignity in Bioethics

   From Worldviews to the Public Square

   Edited by Stephen Dilley, Nathan J. Palpant

   Series: Routledge Annals of Bioethics

   Human Dignity in Bioethics brings together a collection of essays that rigorously examine the concept of human dignity from its metaphysical foundations to its polemical deployment in bioethical controversies. The volume falls into three parts, beginning with meta-level perspectives and moving to...

   Published December 2nd 2012 by Routledge
8. Gender-based Violence and Public Health

   International perspectives on budgets and policies

   Edited by Keerty Nakray

   Series: Routledge Studies in Public Health

   Gender-based violence is a multi-faceted public health problem with numerous consequences for an individual’s physical and mental health and wellbeing. This collection develops a comprehensive public health approach for working with gender-based violence, paying specific attention to...

   Published November 18th 2012 by Routledge
9. Alcohol, Tobacco and Obesity

   Morality, Mortality and the New Public Health

   Edited by Kirsten Bell, Darlene McNaughton, Amy Salmon

   Series: Routledge Studies in Public Health

   Although drinking, smoking and obesity have attracted social and moral condemnation to varying degrees for more than two hundred years, over the past few decades they have come under intense attack from the field of public health as an ‘unholy trinity’ of lifestyle behaviours with apparently...

   Published November 14th 2012 by Routledge
10. Global Health Disputes and Disparities

    A Critical Appraisal of International Law and Population Health

    By Dru Bhattacharya

    Series: Routledge Studies in Public Health

    Global Health Disputes and Disparities explores inequalities in health around the world, looking particularly at the opportunity for, and limitations of, international law to promote population health by examining its intersection with human rights, trade, and epidemiology, and the controversial...

    Published November 8th 2012 by Routledge