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Environmental Destruction and Psychosocial Breakdown: Health and human development
By Roberto De Vogli
Global warming and the depletion of natural resources are widely recognized as the major threats to the future of industrial society and the survival of human species. However, this environmental destruction is paired with an often-overlooked deterioration of psychosocial wellbeing. In spite of...
August 2011 | 978-0-415-49069-6 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Gender and Health
Edited by Kate Hunt, Ellen Annandale
Life expectancy is higher for women than men in almost every country, leading the World Health Organization to suggest that ‘their innate constitution’ gives women ‘an advantage over men’. However, this differential is far greater in some countries (e.g. Japan) than others (e.g. Qatar and Botswana)...
August 2011 | 978-0-415-56976-7 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Global Health: An introduction to current and future trends
By Kevin McCracken, David R. Phillips
The health of human populations around the world is constantly changing and the health profiles of most nations in the early twenty first century global health landscape are unrecognizable compared with those of just a century ago. This book examines and explains these health changes. While the...
July 2011 | 978-0-415-55757-3 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Barcoding Nature: Shifting Taxonomic Practices in an Age of Biodiversity Loss
By Claire Waterton, Rebecca Ellis, Brian Wynne
This book is based on six years of ethnographic research and documentary analysis carried out by the authors, on changing contemporary practices in the identification and the classification of natural species. It assumes from the outset that the practices of knowing nature observed cannot be...
June 2011 | 978-0-415-55479-4 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Manipulative Tenants: Bacteria Associated with Arthropods
By Elinat Zchori-Fein, Kostas Bourtzis
In efforts to summarize the most up-to-date information available on bacterial symbionts of arthropods, this text provides an overview of primary symbionts in addition to 10 of the most abundant secondary symbionts known to date. The editors have brought together entomogists and microbiologists to...
June 2011 | 978-1-4398274-9-9 | Hardback (CRC Press)
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Contemporary Theorists for Medical Sociology
Edited by Graham Scambler
Essential Thinkers for Medical Sociology explores the work of key social theorists and the application of their ideas to issues around health and illness. Encouraging students and researchers to use mainstream sociological thought to inform their substantive research on health and healthcare,...
June 2011 | 978-0-415-59783-8 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Eating Disorders in Women and Children: Prevention, Stress Management, and Treatment, Second Edition, 2nd Edition
Edited by James R. Clopton, Jacalyn J. Robert-McComb, Kristen Goodheart
Offering treatment, prevention, and stress management techniques and modalities specific for women and children (from grade school to adulthood) with eating disorder symptoms, this new edition focuses on helping others understand the illness and providing prevention strategies with emphasis on...
June 2011 | 978-1-4398248-1-8 | Hardback (CRC Press)
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New Directions in Feminism and Human Rights
Edited by Dana Collins, Sylvanna Falcon, Sharmila Lodhia, Molly Talcott
On the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, feminists are at a critical juncture to re-envision and re-engage in a politics of human rights. Interdisciplinary feminist conversations among scholar-activists can both challenge and enrich new directions in feminism and...
May 2011 | 978-0-415-61030-8 | Hardback (Routledge)