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  • The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Public Health

    Edited by Sridhar Venkatapuram, Alex Broadbent ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Applied Ethics
    In comparison to medicine, the professional field of public health is far less familiar. What is public health, and perhaps as importantly, what should public health be or become? How do causal concepts shape the public health agenda? How do study designs either promote or demote the environmental causal factors or health inequalities? How is risk understood, expressed, and communicated? Who is ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Philosophy of Medicine

    by Alex Broadbent ...
    Philosophy of Medicine asks two central questions about medicine: what is it, and what should we think of it? Philosophy of medicine itself has evolved in response to developments in the philosophy of science, especially with regard to epistemology, positioning it to make contributions that are medically useful. This book locates these developments within a larger framework, suggesting that much ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Medicine

    Edited by Alex Broadbent ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Medicine is a guide to areas of current activity and change, not only in philosophy of medicine, but also in medical science and practice. It asks questions that concern core problems for this discipline as well as metaphysical questions about the nature of health and truth in medicine, offering critical insights into the evolving landscape of medical thought. ... Read more

    $158.79 USD

  • Philosophy for Graduate Students

    Metaphysics and Epistemology

    by Alex Broadbent ...
    When graduate students start their studies, they usually have sound knowledge of some areas of philosophy, but the overall map of their knowledge is often patchy and disjointed. There are a number of topics that any contemporary philosopher working in any part of the analytic tradition (and in many parts of other traditions too) needs to grasp, and to grasp as a coherent whole rather than a rag ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Power, Knowledge, and Covid-19

    The Making of a Scientific Orthodoxy

    by Alex Broadbent, Pieter Streicher ...
    Power, Knowledge, and Covid-19: The Making of a Scientific Orthodoxy shows, step by step, how a dominant scientific line on Covid-19 was built and defended – and what it left out.Through tightly argued case studies, Alex Broadbent and Pieter Streicher reconstruct how early modelling distinctions (notably the suppression/mitigation frame) and threshold-based reasoning made lockdown the default; how ... Read more

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  • Designing and Conducting Gender, Sex, and Health Research

    Edited by John Oliffe, Lorraine J. Greaves ...
    This book is the first textbook dedicated to critically examining gender and sex in study designs, methods, and analysis in health research. In order to produce ethical, accurate, and effective research findings it is vital to integrate both sex (biological characteristics) and gender (socially constructed factors) into any health study. This book draws attention to some of the methodological ... Read more

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  • Critical Realism for Health and Illness Research

    A Practical Introduction

    by Priscilla Alderson ...
    Winner of the 2022 Cheryl Frank Memorial Prize.Critical realism, as a toolkit of practical ideas, helps researchers to extend and clarify their analyses. It resolves problems arising from splits between different research approaches, builds on the strengths of different methods and overcomes their individual limitations.This original text draws on international examples of health and illness ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Rethinking Culture in Health Communication

    Social Interactions as Intercultural Encounters

    by Elaine Hsieh, Eric M. Kramer ...
    Rethinking Culture in Health CommunicationAn interdisciplinary overview of health communication using a cultural lens—uniquely focused on social interactions in health contextsPatients, health professionals, and policymakers embody cultural constructs that impact healthcare processes. Rethinking Culture in Health Communication explores the ways in which culture influences healthcare, introducing ... Read more

    $62.00 USD

  • General Practice and Ethics

    by Christopher Dowrick, Lucy Frith ...
    Series series Professional Ethics
    Explores the ethical issues faced by GPs in their everyday practice, addressing two central themes; the uncertainty of outcomes and effectiveness in general practice and the changing pattern of general practitioners' responsibilities. ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Sexual Health: A Public Health Perspective

    by Kaye Wellings, Larry Bencze, Erminia Pedretti ...
    This key textbook provides a firm grounding in theoretical and practical aspects of the study of sexual health for both undergraduates and post-graduates. ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Care & Cure

    An Introduction to Philosophy of Medicine

    by Jacob Stegenga ...
    The author of Medical Nihilism examines the philosophical complications and controversies underlying medicine.The philosophy of medicine has become a vibrant and complex intellectual landscape, and Care and Cure is the first extended attempt to map it. In pursuing the interdependent aims of caring and curing, medicine relies on concepts, theories, inferences, and policies that are often ... Read more

    $20.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Sociology Of Mental Health And Illness

    by Anne Rogers, David Pilgrim ...
    This book provides a sociological analysis of major areas of mental health and illness. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD