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  • Health Professionals and Patient and Public Involvement in Healthcare

    by Danielle Hitch, Rosalie A. Boyce, Jonathan Gabe, Joana Almeida, Junji Kayukawa, Guido Giarelli, Takuya Matsushige, Nelson Barros, Pamela Siegel, Elaine Marasca Garcia da Costa, Renata Carnevale, Mohammad Akram, William C. Cockerham ...
    Series series Sociology of Health Professions
    Across the globe, patients are no longer passive recipients of care — they are active participants, decision-makers and collaborators.This timely volume explores the evolving landscape of patient and public involvement (PPI) in healthcare, focusing on its intersection with the healthcare professions. Drawing on international perspectives, the book examines how patients and professionals navigate ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • Key Concepts in Medical Sociology

    Edited by Lee F. Monaghan, Jonathan Gabe ...
    Series series SAGE Key Concepts series
    How do we understand health in relation to society? What role do social processes, structures and culture play in shaping our experiences of health and illness? How do we understand medicine and healthcare within a sociological framework?Drawing on international literature and examples, this new edition of Key Concepts in Medical Sociology:· Systematically explains the concepts that have ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Health and Illness in the Neoliberal Era in Europe

    Edited by Jonathan Gabe, Mario Cardano, Angela Genova ...
    Health and illness in the Neoliberal Era in Europe discusses the impact of neoliberalism on public health and the social construction of health and illness in Europe, analysing case studies at a European and national level.The book focusses on three main topics: health inequity, self-responsibilisation and organisational reforms. Increasing inequity is one of the main outcomes of neoliberal policy ... Read more

    $91.89 USD

  • The Sociology of Health and Illness

    A Reader

    Edited by Michael Bury, Jonathan Gabe ...
    Series series Routledge Student Readers
    A wide-ranging collection of both classic writings and more recent articles in the sociology of health and illness, this reader is organized into the following sections:* health beliefs and knowledge* inequalities and patterning of health and illness* professional and patient interaction* chronic illness and disability* evaluation and politics in health care.With a thorough introduction which sets ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Challenging Medicine

    Edited by David Kelleher, Jonathan Gabe, Gareth Williams ...
    This highly topical and controversial book presents a lively re-appraisal of the current changes to the health service and analyzes their effects on the status and practice of health professionals.Modern medicine is a powerful institution. With the help of highly-developed drugs and surgical techniques, it promises to relieve suffering, improve the quality of life and extend the life-span. ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Health, Medicine and Society

    Key Theories, Future Agendas

    Edited by Michael Calnan, Jonathan Gabe, Simon J. Williams ...
    Taking as its point of departure recent developments in health and social theory Health, Medicine and Society brings together a range of eminent, international scholars to reflect upon key issues at the turn of the century.Contributors draw upon a range of contemporary theories, both modernist and postmodernist, to look at the following themes:*health and social structure*the contested nature of ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • The New Sociology of the Health Service

    Edited by Jonathan Gabe, Michael Calnan ...
    Health service policy and health policy have changed considerably over the past fifteen years and there is a pressing need for an up-to-date sociological analysis of health policy. Not only have policies themselves changed but new policy themes – such as evidence-based policy and practice, an increasing focus on a primary care led health service, a growing recognition of the need to address ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

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  • Critical Perspectives in Public Health

    Edited by Judith Green, Ronald Labonté ...
    This book explores the concept of ‘critical’ public health, at a point when many of its core concerns appear to have moved to the mainstream of health policy. Issues such as addressing health inequalities and their socioeconomic determinants, and the inclusion of public voices in policy-making, are now emerging as key policy aims for health systems across Europe and North America.Combining ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Poverty and the Myths of Health Care Reform

    by Richard (Buz) Cooper ...
    Proof that high health care spending is linked directly to poverty.In Poverty and the Myths of Health Care Reform, Dr. Richard (Buz) Cooper argues that US poverty and high health care spending are inextricably entwined. Our nation's health care system bears a financial burden that is greater than in any other developed country in large part because impoverished patients use more health care, ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Epic Measures

    One Doctor. Seven Billion Patients.

    by Jeremy N. Smith ...
    Moneyball meets medicine in this remarkable chronicle of one of the greatest scientific quests of our time—the groundbreaking program to answer the most essential question for humanity: how do we live and die?—and the visionary mastermind behind it.Medical doctor and economist Christopher Murray began the Global Burden of Disease studies to gain a truer understanding of how we live and how we die. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Landscapes of Lifelong Learning Policies across Europe

    Comparative Case Studies

    Edited by Sebastiano Benasso, Dejana Bouillet, Tiago Neves, Marcelo Parreira do Amaral ...
    Series series Palgrave Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning
    This open access book explores different landscapes of Lifelong Learning policies (LLP), producing case-based examinations of their institutional, discursive, and relational dimensions. Across Europe, young people develop their life courses amidst diverse living conditions and are confronted with a variety of institutional and structural arrangements that impact on their opportunities in education ... Read more

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  • At Risk

    Social Justice in Child Welfare and Other Human Services

    by Karen Swift, Marilyn Callahan ...
    In At Risk, Karen J. Swift and Marilyn Callahan examine risk and risk assessment in the context of professional practice in child protection, social work, and other human services. They argue that the tools, technologies, and practices used to measure risk to the individual have gone unquestioned and unstudied and that current methods of risk assessment may be distorting the principles of social ... Read more

    $33.99 USD