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  • Infrastructures of Informal Care

    Inequality, Exploitation, Emancipation

    by Jala Burton, Julia Cook, Morag Kelly, Sukhmani Khorana, Elise Klein, Amy Marshall, Greg Marston, Kathleen Mee, Emma Mitchell, Emma Power, Sally Robinson, Jordana Silverstein, Lisa Slater, Ben Spies-Butcher, Kylie Valentine, Ilan Wiesel, Amy Conley Wright ...
    Series series Transforming Care
    Care is fundamental to our individual and collective well-being, but it is also deeply implicated in historical and present-day injustices.Taking seriously the darker potentialities of care as a relation of exploitation and domination, this edited collection interrogates the social and governance infrastructures that variously shape, expropriate, necessitate and unravel care at the ‘private’ ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

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  • A World of Resistance

    India and the Global Antibiotic Crisis

    by Assa Doron, Alex Broom ...
    A sweeping analysis uncovers the causes of—and solutions to—one of the most daunting public health challenges facing the world today: antibiotic resistance exploding in India.The discovery of antibiotics was one of the most significant medical breakthroughs of the twentieth century, dramatically increasing human lifespans. Yet today, with antibiotic-resistant superbugs implicated in as many deaths ... Read more

    $27.09 USD

  • Survivorship: A Sociology of Cancer in Everyday Life

    by Alex Broom, Katherine Kenny ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness
    This book provides a contemporary and comprehensive examination of cancer in everyday life, drawing on qualitative research with people living with cancer, their family members and health professionals. It explores the evolving and enduring affects of cancer for individuals, families and communities, with attention to the changing dynamics of survivorship, including social relations around waiting ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Practical Justice: Principles, Practice and Social Change

    Edited by Peter Aggleton, Alex Broom, Jeremy Moss ...
    This volume engages with questions of justice and equality, and how these can be achieved in modern society. It explores how theory and research can inform policy and practice to bring about real change in people’s lives, helping readers understand and interrogate patterns and causes of inequality, while investigating how these might be remedied. Chapters outline ways in which theories of justice ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Evidence-Based Healthcare in Context

    Critical Social Science Perspectives

    by Jon Adams ...
    With new methods of treatment standardisation resulting in various benefits for patient outcomes, evidence-based medicine and evidence-based practice have emerged as defining features of western healthcare provision in recent years. Most health professions are now adopting some form of 'evidence-based' framework for clinical training and practice. However, the rise of evidence-based healthcare has ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Gender and Masculinities

    Histories, Texts and Practices in India and Sri Lanka

    Edited by Assa Doron, Alex Broom ...
    Series series Routledge South Asian History and Culture Series
    Gender persists as a key site of social inequality globally, and within contemporary south Asian contexts, the cultural practices which make upmasculinities remain vital for understanding everyday life and social relations. Yet masculinities, and their discontents, are an understudied and often misrepresented facet of gender relations and cultural dynamics. Gender and Masculinities offers a ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Primary Health Care And Complementary And Integrative Medicine: Practice And Research

    by Jon Adams, Parker Magin, Alex Broom ...
    Complementary and integrative medicine (CIM) has become big business. Alongside the increased consumption of complementary medicine and the swelling numbers of complementary health practitioners has emerged a growing interest in these medicines and therapies from within the ranks of conventional primary health care. At the level of practice and beyond, a culture of confrontation and antagonism has ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Bodies and Suffering

    Emotions and Relations of Care

    by Ana Dragojlovic, Alex Broom ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in the Medical Humanities
    This book is a critical response to a range of problems – some theoretical, others empirical – that shape questions surrounding the lived experience of suffering. It explores how moral and ethical questions of personal suffering are experienced, contested, negotiated and institutionalised. Bodies and Suffering investigates the moral labour and significance invested in actions to care for others, ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Health, Culture and Religion in South Asia

    Critical Perspectives

    Edited by Assa Doron, Alex Broom ...
    Series series Routledge South Asian History and Culture Series
    Health, Culture and Religion in South Asia brings together top international scholars from a range of social science disciplines to critically explore the interplay of local cultural and religious practices in the delivery and experiences of health in South Asia. This groundbreaking text provides much needed insight into the relationships between health, culture, community, livelihood, and the ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Women's Health and Complementary and Integrative Medicine

    Edited by Jon Adams, Amie Steel, Alex Broom, Jane Frawley ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Public Health
    Complementary and integrative medicine (CIM) has become big business internationally, in particular with regards to a range of women’s health issues. With this context in mind, Women's Health and Complementary and Integrative Medicine constitutes a valuable and timely resource for those looking to understand, initiate and expand CIM research and evidence-based debate with regards to a wide range ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Therapeutic Pluralism

    Exploring the Experiences of Cancer Patients and Professionals

    by Alex Broom, Philip Tovey ...
    The profile of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has risen dramatically over the last decade and cancer patients represent its most prolific users. As a result, the NHS and UK cancer services are attempting to develop a wider range of therapeutic options for patients. Despite such developments, little is known about why cancer patients use CAM, its perceived benefits and the ... Read more

    $81.99 USD

  • Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicine and Cancer Care

    An International Analysis of Grassroots Integration

    by Philip Tovey, John Chatwin, Alex Broom ...
    Drawing on comparative fieldwork in the UK, Pakistan and Australia, this book provides the first systematic assessment of pathways and access to CAM and how it is used in health practice and by individuals with cancer.Giving fresh and invaluable insights into how differing health and societal structures influence the use complementary and alternative medicine, the book explores:the empirical, ... Read more

    $54.99 USD