Taylor & Francis India: Health and Social Care

By Jessica Walton

This book investigates the experiences of South Koreans adopted into Western families and the complexity of what it means to ‘feel identity’ beyond what is written in official adoption files. Korean Adoptees and Transnational Adoption is based on ethnographic fieldwork in South Korea and…

Hardback – 2019-04-10 
Routledge
Routledge Advances in Korean Studies

Edited by Peter Aggleton, Alex Broom, Jeremy Moss

This volume engages with questions of justice and equality, and how these can be achieved in modern society. It explores how theory and research can inform policy and practice to bring about real change in people’s lives, helping readers understand and interrogate patterns and causes of inequality,…

Hardback – 2019-04-10 
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Edited by Gibrán Cruz-Martínez

Social protection serves as an important development tool, helping to alleviate deprivation, reduce social risks, raise household income, and develop human capital. This book brings together an interdisciplinary team of international experts to analyse social protection systems and welfare regimes…

Hardback – 2019-04-09 
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Routledge Studies in Latin American Development

Edited by Catherine Flynn, Michelle Butler

This volume specifically examines current concerns about imprisoned fathers and highlights best practices with a group of children and parents who present significant vulnerabilities. It brings together contemporary works in this area, to share and consolidate knowledge, to encourage comparisons…

Hardback – 2019-04-08 
Routledge

By Jennifer L. Kent, Susan Thompson

Planning Australia’s Healthy Built Environments shines a quintessentially Australian light on the links between land use planning and human health. A burgeoning body of empirical research demonstrates the ways urban structure and governance influences human health—and Australia is playing a…

Hardback – 2019-04-05 
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Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design

By Hilary N. Weaver

Indigenous Peoples around the world and our allies often reflect on the many challenges that continue to confront us, the reasons behind health, economic, and social disparities, and the best ways forward to a healthy future. This book draws on theoretical, conceptual, and evidence-based…

Paperback – 2019-04-05 
Routledge

By Emma Tseris

This book argues that while notions of trauma in mental health hold promise for the advancement of women’s rights, the mainstreaming of trauma treatments and therapies has had mixed implications, sometimes replacing genuine social change efforts with new forms of female oppression by psychiatry. It…

Hardback – 2019-04-05 
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Routledge Research in Gender and Society

By Francesco E. Marino

Fatigue is a condition spanning the breadth of human functioning in health and disease and is a central concern in sport and exercise. Even so we are yet to fully understand its causes. One reason for this lack of understanding is that we seldom consider fatigue from an evolutionary perspective -…

Hardback – 2019-04-04 
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Routledge Research in Sport and Exercise Science

By Cecil E. Greek

This book, first published in 1992, demonstrates that American sociology has deep religious roots which continue, both directly and indirectly, to influence the discipline today. Early American sociology was closely aligned with the social gospel movement in Protestantism, which hope to make use of…

Hardback – 2019-04-04 
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Routledge Library Editions: Sociology of Religion

Edited by William M. Clements

This book, first published in 1989, attempts to identify from within religious cultures those elements of tradition, behaviour and lifestyle that are health protective in that, by adhering to them, physical, mental and social wellbeing will be maintained as people grow old. It examines how…

Hardback – 2019-04-04 
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Routledge Library Editions: Sociology of Religion

By Gary A. Kunkelman

The integrative role of religion has been a recurrent theme of sociological and anthropological theory. This role is apparent in the Greek-American community; religion functions as a cement of the social fabric. Indeed, it would be hard to overestimate the role of Greek Orthodoxy in joining people…

Hardback – 2019-04-04 
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Routledge Library Editions: Sociology of Religion

By Joachim Wach

This book, first published in 1947, presents the then-new subject of sociology of religion in systematic and historical theology and in the science of religion, in political theory and the social sciences, in philosophy and psychology, in philology and anthropology. Its intention is to bridge the…

Hardback – 2019-04-04 
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Routledge Library Editions: Sociology of Religion