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  • Childbirth in the Global Village

    Implications for Midwifery Education and Practice

    by Dawn Hillier ...
    Is the experience of childbirth becoming 'globalised'?Is the encroachment of the western medical model dehumanising a profoundly human experience?If so, what can midwives and midwife educators do about it?These are the questions at the heart of Childbirth in the Global Village which highlights the role that globalisation plays in changing childbirth practices and its implications for midwifery ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Communicating Health Risks to the Public

    A Global Perspective

    Edited by Dawn Hillier ...
    This book reviews current health risk communication strategies, and examines and assesses the technical and psycho-sociological tools available to support risk communication plans. It brings together approaches to risk communication from a number of countries and describes the techniques, including drama, storytelling and scenarios that are used to identify and prioritise key communication issues, ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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    Edited by Theodore Macdonald ...
    The Social Significance of Health Promotion sets health promotion in its historical context and delineates its contemporary role. It explores the potential of health promotion to impact on our social values and sense of community. The book begins by exploring the historical roots of health promotion and its relationship to the medical model of health. It moves on to present analyses of ... Read more

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  • Mad World

    The Politics of Mental Health

    by Micha Frazer-Carroll ...
    Series series Outspoken by Pluto
    ‘A radical antidote to the constraints of our current conceptualisation of mental health’ Dazed‘Exposes the underlying truth that capitalism is fundamentally incompatible with our wellbeing, and teaches us how to transform the ways we understand madness, illness, and disability to build a better world’ Beatrice Adler-Bolton, co-author of Health CommunismMental health is a political issue, but we ... Read more

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  • AQA Sociology for A-level Book 1

    by David Bown, Laura Pountney, Tomislav Maric ...
    Exam Board: AQALevel: AS/A-levelSubject: SociologyFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016Build students' understanding with this concept-driven approach to the 2015 AQA A-level Sociology specification, written by a team of leading subject authors and approved by AQA.- Develop the knowledge required to master Year 1 topics with clear a... ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Politics of Evidence

    From evidence-based policy to the good governance of evidence

    by Justin Parkhurst ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Governance and Public Policy
    The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.There has been an enormous increase in interest in the use of evidence for public policymaking, but the vast majority of work on the subject has failed to engage with the political nature of decision making and how ... Read more

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  • Can We Know Better?

    by Robert Chambers ...
    This book is intended for all who are committed to human wellbeing and who want to make our world fairer, safer and more fulfilling for everyone, especially those who are ‘last’. It argues that to do better we need to know better. It provides evidence that what we believe we know in international development is often distorted or unbalanced by errors, myths, biases and blind spots. Undue weight ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Childhood, Culture and Society

    In a Global Context

    by Michael Wyness ...
    Written with clarity and thoroughly argued, Wyness confirms his place as one of the key authors within contemporary social science writing on children and childhood. A formidable exploration of the nature of contemporary childhood in globally disparate regions.′ - Pia Christensen, Professor of Anthropology and Childhood Studies, University of Leeds, UKA multifaceted and extensive analysis of the ... Read more

    $78.29 USD

  • A Wider Social Role for Sport

    Who's Keeping the Score?

    by Fred Coalter ...
    Sport is perceived to have the potential to alleviate a variety of social problems and generally to ‘improve’ both individuals and the communities in which they live. Sport is promoted as a relatively cost effective antidote to a range of social problems – often those stemming from social exclusion - including poor health, high crime levels, drug abuse and persistent youth offending, educational ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Handbook of the Sociology of Medical Education

    Edited by Caragh Brosnan, Bryan S. Turner ...
    The Handbook of the Sociology of Medical Education provides a contemporary introduction to this classic area of sociology by examining the social origin and implications of the epistemological, organizational and demographic challenges facing medical education in the twenty-first century.Beginning with reflections on the historical and theoretical foundations of the sociology of medical education, ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Understanding Early Childhood: Issues And Controversies

    by Helen Penn ...
    Understanding Early Childhood is an introductory text for students on early years courses which offers broad and insightful perspectives across a range of themes on the ways in which we understand and study young children. ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Education in Ireland

    Challenge and Change

    Edited by Sheelagh Drudy ...
    A contemporary snapshot of Irish education, this book positions 21st-century Irish education at the centre of the creation of the knowledge economy and outlines the challenges and changes presented as a result of a changing education system and society. Part 1: The Changing System charts selected changes that have taken place in Irish education in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries and considers ... Read more

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