Routledge international handbook of critical issues in health and illness / edited by Kerry Chamberlain and Antonia Lyons.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chamberlain, Kerry, editor.

Lyons, Antonia C., editor.

Series:

Routledge handbooks

Routledge international handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine--Research--Social aspects.

Medicine.

World health.

Health services accessibility.

Social medicine.

Health and race.

Medicine--Research.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 364 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Other Title:

International handbook of critical issues in health and illness

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Kerry Chamberlain is Emeritus Professor of Social and Health Psychology at Massey University and Senior Research Fellow at Te Herenga Waka, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He is editor-in-chief of the journal Methods in Psychology and co-editor (with Antonia Lyons) of the book series Critical Approaches to Health. Antonia Lyons is Professor of Health Psychology and Head of School of the School of Health, Te Herenga Waka, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She is co-editor for Qualitative Research in Psychology, Associate Editor for Psychology and Health, and co-editor (with Kerry Chamberlain) of the book series Critical Approaches to Health.

Summary:

"The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Issues in Health and Illness is a multidisciplinary reference book that brings together cutting-edge health and illness topics from around the globe. It offers a range of theoretical and critical perspectives to provide contemporary insights into complex health issues that can offer ways to address inequitable patterns of illness and ill-health. This collection, written by an international pool of expert academics from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, is unique in providing theoretical and critical analyses on key health topics, considering power and broader social structures that influence health and illness outcomes. The chapters are organised in three parts. The first covers medical contexts; here chapters provide commentary and critical analysis of the history of medicine, medicalisation, pharmaceuticalisation, services and care, medical technology, diagnosis, screening, medical technology, and complementary and alternative medicine. The second part covers life contexts; chapters cover a range of life contexts which have implications for health, including gender, sexuality, reproduction, disability, ethnicity, indigeneity, inequality, ageing, and dying. The third part covers shifting contextual domains; chapters consider contemporary areas of life that are rapidly changing, including health in relation to inequality, gender, sexual orientation, reproduction, ethnicity, indigeneity, disability, ageing, commercialisation, climate change, and globalisation. The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Issues in Health and Illness is a key contemporary reference text for scholars, students, researchers, and professionals across disciplines including sociology, psychology, anthropology, geography, medicine, public health, and health science"-- Provided by publisher

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 02, 2021).

Other Format:

Print version: Routledge international handbook of critical issues in health and illness.

ISBN:

9781003185215

1003185215

9781000408423

1000408426

9781000408362

1000408361

OCLC:

1235903651

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.