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

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Chamberlain, Kerry, editor.
Lyons, Antonia C., editor.
Series:
Routledge international handbooks.
Routledge international handbooks
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Medicine--Research--Social aspects.
Medicine.
World health.
Health services accessibility.
Social medicine.
Health and race.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (385 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.
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.
Contents:
Cover
Title page
Copyright
CONTENTS
EDITORS
CONTRIBUTORS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
1 CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON HEALTH AND ILLNESS
Part I Medical contexts
2 THE SOCIAL AND CULTURAL HISTORIES OF MEDICINE
3 MEDICALISATION
4 PHARMACEUTICALISATION
5 GOVERNING MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY
6 HEALTH SERVICES AND CARE
7 DIAGNOSIS
8 POPULATION-BASED SCREENING FOR DETECTION AND PREVENTION
9 PERSONALISED MEDICINE
10 COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE
Part II Life contexts
11 HEALTH INEQUALITY
12 BEYOND BINARY CATEGORIES
13 SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND GENDER IDENTITY AS DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH AND ILLNESS
14 REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE
15 ETHNICITY AND HEALTH
16 INDIGENEITY AND WELLNESS
17 DISABILITY, TECHNOLOGY, AND HEALTH
18 HEALTH AND ILLNESS AMONG OLDER PEOPLE
19 DEATH, DYING, AND END-OF-LIFE CARE
Part III Shifting contextual domains
20 BIOETHICS
21 DIGITAL HEALTH
22 MIGRATION AND HEALTH
23 MEDICAL TRAVEL
24 PLACE IN HEALTH, ILLNESS, AND HEALTHCARE
25 COMMERCIALISATION
26 TOWARDS A CRITICAL SOCIAL SCIENCE OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND HEALTH
27 GLOBALISATION AND HEALTH
INDEX.
Notes:
Includes index.
Description based on print version record.
ISBN:
1-00-318521-5
1-000-40836-1
1-003-18521-5
1-000-40842-6
9781003185215
OCLC:
1259322737

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