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  • The Body in Health and Social Care

    by Julia Twigg ...
    Focusing on health and social care, this book shows how important the body can be to a range of issues such as disability, old age, sexuality, consumption, food and public space. Twigg illustrates how constructions of the body affect how we see different social groups and explores the significance of it in the provision and delivery of care. ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Bathing - the Body and Community Care

    by Julia Twigg ...
    Community care lies at the intersection of day-to-day life and the public world of service provision. Using the lens of one particular activity - bathing - this book explores what happens when the public world of professionals and service provision enters the lives of older and disabled people. In doing so it addresses wider issues concerning the management of the body, the meaning of carework and ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Fashion and Age

    Dress, the Body and Later Life

    by Julia Twigg ...
    Throughout history certain forms and styles of dress have been deemed appropriate - or more significantly, inappropriate - for people as they age. Older women in particular have long been subject to social pressure to tone down, to adopt self-effacing, covered-up styles. But increasingly there are signs of change, as older women aspire to younger, more mainstream, styles, and retailers realize the ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Cultural Gerontology

    Edited by Julia Twigg, Wendy Martin ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    The second edition of this landmark handbook provides an authoritative overview of the emergence and development of cultural gerontology. It reveals the vibrancy and diversity of theory, methodology and research methods, and reflects on changes in the field since the first edition and examines future directions.Over the last two decades, cultural gerontology has emerged as one of the most lively ... Read more

    $345.99 USD

  • Body Work in Health and Social Care

    Critical Themes, New Agendas

    Edited by Julia Twigg, Carol Wolkowitz, Rachel Lara Cohen, Sarah Nettleton ...
    Series Book 14 - Sociology of Health and Illness Monographs
    The first book to fully explore the multiple ways in which body work features in health and social care and the meanings of this work both for those employed to do it and those on whose bodies they work.Explores the commonalities between different sectors of work, including those outside health and social careContributions come from an international range of expertsDraws on perspectives from ... Read more

    $33.00 USD

  • Ageing in Everyday Life

    Materialities and Embodiments

    by Laura Hurd Clarke, Mineko Wada, Kim Sawchuk, Barbara Marshall, Julia M Twigg, Alisa Grigorovich, Pia Kontos, Brenda Vrkljan, Amanda Grenier, Jessica Gish, Linn J Sandberg, Julia Rozanova, Sally Chivers, Gavin Andrews, Susan Braedley, David J Ekerdt ...
    Series series Ageing in a Global Context
    Applying interdisciplinary perspectives about everyday life to vital issues in the lives of older people, this book maps together the often taken-for-granted aspects of what it means to age in an ageist society.Part of the Ageing in a Global Context series, the two parts address the materialities and the embodiments of everyday life respectively. Topics covered include household possessions, ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

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  • 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

  • Research Ethics in Exercise, Health and Sports Sciences

    by Mike J. McNamee, Stephen Olivier, Paul Wainwright ...
    Series series Ethics and Sport
    Research Ethics in Exercise, Health and Sports Sciences puts ethics at the centre of research in these rapidly expanding fields of knowledge. Placing the issues in historical context, and using informative case studies, the authors examine how moral theory can guide research design, education, and governance. As well as theoretical analysis, key practical concerns are critically discussed, ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Making Sense of Everyday Life

    by Susie Scott ...
    This accessible, introductory text explains the importance of studying 'everyday life' in the social sciences. Susie Scott examines such varied topics as leisure, eating and drinking, the idea of home, and time and schedules in order to show how societies are created and reproduced by the apparently mundane 'micro' level practices of everyday life.Each chapter is organized around three main themes ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Medical Sociology and Old Age

    Towards a sociology of health in later life

    by Paul Higgs, Ian Rees Jones ...
    Series series Critical Studies in Health and Society
    The nature of health in later life has conventionally been studied from two perspectives. Medical sociologists have focused on the failing body, chronic illness, infirmity and mortality, while social gerontologists on the other hand have focused on the epidemiology of old age and health and social policy. By examining these perspectives, Higgs and Jones show how both standpoints have a restricted ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Ageing, Meaning and Social Structure

    Connecting Critical and Humanistic Gerontology

    Edited by Jan Baars, Joseph Dohmen, Amanda Grenier, Chris Phillipson ...
    Ageing, meaning and social structure is a unique book advancing critical discourse in gerontology and makes a major contribution to understanding key social and ethical dilemmas facing ageing societies. It confronts and integrates approaches that have been relatively isolated from each other, and interrelates two major streams of thought within critical gerontology: analyses of structural issues ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Methods in Health Research

    Edited by Ivy Bourgeault, Robert Dingwall, Ray de Vries ...
    The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Methods in Health Research is a comprehensive and authoritative source on qualitative research methods.The Handbook compiles accessible yet vigorous academic contributions by respected academics from the fast-growing field of qualitative methods in health research and consists of:- A series of case studies in the ways in which qualitative methods have contributed ... Read more

    $35.99 USD