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  • Rethinking Obesity

    Critical Perspectives in Crisis Times

    by Lee F. Monaghan, Emma Rich, Andrea E. Bombak ...
    Series series Critical Approaches to Health
    Theoretically informed and empirically grounded, Rethinking Obesity invites readers to reconsider the medical and public health framing of population weight (gain) as a massive global problem, epidemic or crisis. Attentive to social values, scientific uncertainty and possible harms, the book furthers critique of the weight-centred health paradigm and world war on obesity. Building upon existing ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Transforming Sport and Physical Cultures through Feminist Knowledges

    Edited by Simone Fullagar, Emma Rich, Adele Pavlidis, Cathy van Ingen ...
    Transforming Sport and Physical Cultures through Feminist Knowledges contributes new perspectives on the entanglement of digital and physical cultures, more-than-human relations, post and decolonial ways of knowing, and how onto-epistemologies of sport come to matter. These perspectives are explored through a diverse array of topics, including, the embodiment of netball through Feminist Physical ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Education, Disordered Eating and Obesity Discourse

    Fat Fabrications

    by John Evans, Emma Rich, Brian Davies, Rachel Allwood ...
    Eating less, exercising more and losing weight seem the obvious solution for the oncoming 'obesity epidemic'. Rarely, however, is thought given to how these messages are interpreted and whether they are in fact inherently healthy.Education, Disordered Eating and Obesity Discourse investigates how 'body centred talk' about weight, fat, food and exercise is recycled in schools, enters educational ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Re-thinking Leisure in a Digital Age

    Edited by Michael Silk, Brad Millington, Emma Rich, Anthony Bush ...
    Digital worlds and cultures—social media, web 2.0, youtube, wearable technologies, health and fitness apps—dominate, if not order, our everyday lives. We are no longer ‘just’ consumers or readers of digital culture but active producers through facebook, twitter, Instagram, youtube and other emerging technologies. This book is predicated on the assumption that out understanding of our everyday ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Medicalization of Cyberspace

    by Andy Miah, Emma Rich ...
    The entire infrastructure and culture of medicine is being transformed by digital technology, the Internet and mobile devices. Cyberspace is now regularly used to provide medical advice and medication, with great numbers of sufferers immersing themselves within virtual communities. What are the implications of this medicalization of cyberspace for how people make sense of health and identity?The ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

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  • Foucault, Health and Medicine

    Edited by Robin Bunton, Alan Petersen ...
    The reception of Michel Foucault's work in the social sciences and humanities has been phenomenal. Foucault's concepts and methodology have encouraged new approaches to old problems and opened up new lines of enquiry. This book assesses the contribution of Foucault's work to research and thinking in the area of health and medicine, and shows how key researchers in the sociology of health and ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • The Sociology of Identity

    Authenticity, Multidimensionality, and Mobility

    by Wayne H. Brekhus ...
    How do people think about their identities? How do they express themselves individually and as part of collective groups, social movements, organizations, neighborhoods, or nations?Identity has important consequences for how we organize our lives, wield social power, and produce and reproduce privilege and marginality. In this lively and engaging book, Wayne H. Brekhus explores the sociology of ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Good Education in an Age of Measurement

    Ethics, Politics, Democracy

    by Gert J. J. Biesta ...
    The widespread use of the measurement of educational outcomes in order to compare the performance of education within and across countries seems to express a real concern for the quality of education. This book argues that the focus on the measurement of educational outcomes has actually displaced questions about educational purpose. Biesta explores why the question as to what constitutes good ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Social Work Theories and Methods

    Edited by Mel Gray, Stephen Webb ...
    The second edition of this celebrated book by two of the world′s leading researchers in social work introduces readers to the main theories, theorists and perspectives that contribute to the debate on social work theory and social work methods. It brings together some outstanding international researchers in social work to challenge the reader to critically question how they think about social ... Read more

    $78.29 USD

  • Occupational Science

    Society, Inclusion, Participation

    Edited by Gail E. Whiteford, Clare Hocking ...
    Occupational Science: Society, Inclusion, Participation is the must have resource for occupational therapists, occupational scientists, students and researchers. The book begins with a comprehensive review of the current literature and the knowledge generated to date. Reasons for the field's limited impact are proposed, including its focus on individuals rather than groups and communities, its ... Read more

    $53.00 USD

  • The Body in Society

    An Introduction

    by Alexandra Howson ...
    In everyday life we are not, for the most part, actively conscious of our bodies or the bodies of others – we simply take them for granted. This new edition of a lively introduction to the sociology of the body examines what certain aspects of our bodies, such as the size, shape, smell and demeanour, reveal about the social organization of everyday life and how the body is crucial to the way we ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • The Men and the Boys

    by Raewyn Connell ...
    In recent years, questions about men and boys have aroused remarkable media interest, public concern and controversy. Across the world, health services are noticing the relevance of men’s gender to problems as diverse as road accidents, diet and sexually transmitted disease. Teachers are increasingly preoccupied with the poor educational performance of boys, and criminologists have begun to ... Read more

    $28.95 USD