Public health & preventive medicine books

This book examines diseases and disasters from the perspective of social and political theory, exploring the ways...  Read More >>

This book explores ways in which education supports or negates the wellbeing and rights of young people in/from...  Read More >>

This book takes a case study approach to explore leadership narratives of women in healthcare and science, paying...  Read More >>

This book critically reflects on the responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)...  Read More >>

This book provides a gender perspective on the impact of extended working life on the different dimensions of well-being,...  Read More >>

Hearing, health and technologies are entangled in multi-faceted ways. The edited volume addresses this complex relationship...  Read More >>

This book provides rich insights into the pre and post care experiences of boys who were pupils in a residential...  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to Art and Disability explores disability in visual culture to uncover the ways in which...  Read More >>

This book explores the perpetuation of gender-based violence in the Anglophone Caribbean, and proposes viable policy...  Read More >>

Providing a critical humanities approach to ageing, this book addresses new directions in age studies.  Read More >>

This book is focused on the critical clinical initiatives introduced by the 21st Century Cure Act passed by the...  Read More >>

The Routledge Handbook of Critical Obesity Studies is an authoritative and challenging guide to the breadth and...  Read More >>

The Handbook on Inequalities in Sentencing and Corrections among Marginalized Populations offers state-of-the-art...  Read More >>

Crowdsourcing is a means by which public interest is sought and leveraged to achieve specific goals, and this fascinating...  Read More >>

Women, Migration, and Aging in the Americas analyzes how immigrant women have coped with life after they settled...  Read More >>

Many people think that profound disability presents us with a real problem, often because it seems difficult to...  Read More >>

Employing Deleuzo-Guattarian orientations to assemblage and feminist approaches to care, this book offers a critique...  Read More >>

This book takes religion as an entry point for a deeper exploration into why practices of gender-based violence...  Read More >>

This book explores two public sector scandals in the UK, drawing on Max Weber’s thought on ‘the iron cage’ to understand...  Read More >>

Oral health is integral to well-being and quality of life. This important edited volume brings together leading...  Read More >>

This innovative book provides a new conceptual analysis of loneliness – a condition associated with severe health...  Read More >>

This book examines the phenomenon of ‘digital guru media’ (DGM), the self-styled online influencers, life coaches,...  Read More >>

Although sport participation decreases on average for women once they become mothers, athletes have demonstrated...  Read More >>

This book is about older women’s strength, freedom, tenacity, determination, resilience, independence, social and...  Read More >>

This innovative work combines a rigorous academic analysis of the political economy of organ supply for transplantation...  Read More >>