Global Health Products

Edited by Kevin Louis Bardosh

The Zika virus has challenged conventional ideas of mosquito-borne diseases, tested the resilience of global health systems and embedded itself within local sociocultural worlds, with major implications for environmental, sexual, reproductive and paediatric health, science and policy. This book…

Hardback – 2019-12-19 
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Routledge Studies in Health and Medical Anthropology

Edited by Mark Lawrence, Sharon Friel

This comprehensive text provides the latest research on key concepts, principles and practices for promoting healthy and sustainable food systems. There are increasing concerns about the impact of food systems on environmental sustainability and, in turn, the impact of environmental…

Paperback – 2019-11-07 
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Edited by Vivienne Lo, Chris Berry, Guo Liping

Chinese Film and the Medical Humanities is the first book to reflect on the power of film in representing medical and health discourse in China in both the past and the present, as well as in shaping its future. Drawing on both feature and documentary films from mainland China, the chapters each…

Hardback – 2019-11-05 
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Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific Studies

Edited by Dina Battisto, Jacob J. Wilhelm

Architecture and Health recognizes the built environment and health as inextricable encouraging a new mind-set for the profession. Over 40 international award-winning projects are included to explore innovative design principles linked to health outcomes. The book is organized into three…

Paperback – 2019-10-30 
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By Christos Lynteris

This book develops an examination and critique of human extinction as a result of the ‘next pandemic’ and turns attention towards the role of pandemic catastrophe in the renegotiation of what it means to be human. Nested in debates in anthropology, philosophy, social theory and global health, the…

Hardback – 2019-09-26
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Routledge Studies in Anthropology

Edited by Helen Macdonald, Ian Harper

Over the last two decades, attempts to control the problem of tuberculosis have become increasingly more complex, as countries adopt and adapt to evolving global TB strategies. Significant funding has also increased apace, diagnostic possibilities have evolved, and greater attention is being paid…

Paperback – 2019-09-17
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Edited by Céline Coderey, Laurent Pordié

This book unpacks the organized sets of practices that govern contemporary Asian medicine, from production of medications in the lab to their circulation within circuits and networks of all kinds, and examines the plurality of actors involved in such governance. Chapters analyze the process of…

Hardback – 2019-09-04
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Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

Edited by Lesley Henderson, Shona Hilton, Judith Green

This volume showcases new approaches to studying public health in traditional and emerging media, suggesting that we need more analyses that focus on the production of media and on power dynamics, as well as studies of audience reception of media messages. The collection asks a variety of…

Hardback – 2019-08-20
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Edited by Pat Dolan, Nick Frost

In the context of the increasing global movement of people and a growing evidence base for differing outcomes in child welfare, Routledge Handbook of Global Child Welfare provides a compelling account of child welfare, grounded in the latest theory, policy and practice. Drawing on eminent…

Paperback – 2019-08-08
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By Chris Carter

All hospitals have critically ill patients, and their management depends upon the resources available. In many low income countries, critically ill patients may be admitted to a critical care unit; however, many are nursed on wards due to a lack of critical care beds or simply die before they reach…

Paperback – 2019-06-24
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Edited by Akshaya Neil Arya, Jessica Evert

This book presents best practices for ethical and safe international health elective experiences for trainees and the educational competencies and evaluation techniques that make them valuable. It includes commentaries, discussions and descriptions of new global health education guidelines, reviews…

Paperback – 2019-06-06
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Edited by Tanya Saroj Bakhru

This book takes an intersectional, interdisciplinary, and transnational approach, presenting work that will provide the reader with a nuanced and in-depth understanding of the role of globalization in the sexual and reproductive lives of gendered bodies in the 21st century. Reproductive Justice and…

Paperback – 2019-05-21
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