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  • Fashion and Age

    Dress, the Body and Later Life

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Cultural Gerontology

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

    $345.99 USD

  • The Body in Health and Social Care

    de 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. ... Leer más

    $46.99 USD

  • Bathing - the Body and Community Care

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $63.99 USD

  • Body Work in Health and Social Care

    Critical Themes, New Agendas

    Edición de Julia Twigg, Carol Wolkowitz, Rachel Lara Cohen, Sarah Nettleton ...
    Series Libro 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 ... Leer más

    $33.00 USD

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  • The Body in Society

    An Introduction

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $23.00 USD

  • Research Ethics in Exercise, Health and Sports Sciences

    de 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, ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

  • Medical Sociology and Old Age

    Towards a sociology of health in later life

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • Applied Sociology for Social Work

    de Ewan Ingleby ...
    Sociology can help students understand why and how so many of the problems their service users face occur in the first place, helping them choose effective ways to communicate and make informed decisions on how their needs can be fully met. This book offers students a framework to explore how their professional responsibility to understanding sociology can be realised in every aspect of their work ... Leer más

    $67.99 USD

  • Foucault, Health and Medicine

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

    $80.99 USD

  • Contexts of Nursing

    An Introduction

    de John Daly, Sandra Speedy, Debra Jackson ...
    Contexts of Nursing 3e builds on the strengths of previous editions and continues to provide nursing students with comprehensive coverage of core ideas and perspectives underpinning the practice of nursing. The new edition has been thoroughly revised and updated. New material on Cultural Awareness and Contemporary Approaches in Nursing has been introduced to reflect the realities of practice. ... Leer más

    $77.99 USD

  • Social Work Theories and Methods

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

    $78.99 USD