Taylor & Francis India: Health and Social Care

Edited by Daryl O'Connor, Rory O'Connor

In today’s sick world, the application of psychological research and methods to issues about and around health could not be more important. Health psychologists pursue ambitious goals, including: the promotion and maintenance of health; the prevention and management of illness; the improvement of…

Hardback – 2017-09-25
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Critical Concepts in Psychology

Edited by Christine Hallett

The History of Nursing is a complex, shifting discipline engaged in an ongoing search for identity and purpose. If its earliest works were celebratory narratives of ‘great deeds’ and ‘influential nurses’, dominated by biographies of Florence Nightingale and tropes of imperial womanhood, then from…

Hardback – 2015-11-05
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Major Themes in Health and Social Welfare

Edited by Jason Corburn

While the fields of modern city planning and public health emerged together in the nineteenth century to address urban inequities and infectious diseases, they were largely disconnected for much of the twentieth century. In the twenty-first century, planning and public health are…

Hardback – 2015-07-16
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Critical Concepts in Built Environment

Edited by Sylvia Chant, Gwendolyn Beetham

Serious research into the problematic and contested relationship between notions of gender, poverty, and development continues to blossom. Indeed, the work of scholars in this cross-disciplinary field supports numerous international journals, regional organizations, and global conferences. Moreover…

Hardback – 2014-09-15
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Critical Concepts in Development Studies

Edited by Keith Hawton, Rory C. O'Connor

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…

Hardback – 2012-11-19
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Major Themes in Health and Social Welfare

Edited by Nicholas Thomas

It is increasingly recognized that the pandemic potential of many diseases holds the power to wreck economies, divide societies, and, indeed, to jeopardize the viability of nation states. In consequence, there is a growing—and urgent—need to understand and address such threats. As research in and…

Hardback – 2012-07-19
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Critical Concepts in Military, Strategic, and Security Studies

Edited by Kate Hunt, Ellen Annandale

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…

Hardback – 2011-10-17
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Major Themes in Health and Social Welfare

Edited by Kate Pickett, Richard Wilkinson

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,…

Hardback – 2008-10-14
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Major Themes in Health and Social Welfare

Edited by Teresa Scheid

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…

Hardback – 2008-09-05
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Major Themes in Health and Social Welfare

Edited by Ann Buchanan

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…

Hardback – 2008-04-01
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Major Themes in Health and Social Welfare

Edited by Moira Plant, Martin Plant

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…

Hardback – 2007-11-29
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Major Themes in Health and Social Welfare

Edited by Ken Doka

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…

Hardback – 2006-11-30
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Major Themes in Health and Social Welfare