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Series: Genetics and Society
Controlling Pharmaceutical Risks is a case study of changes in drug testing since the late 1990s, specifically geneticization of carcinogenic risk assessment and regulation of pharmaceuticals. Radically new ways of determining whether medical drugs might cause cancer have been established...
To Be Published January 30th 2014 by Routledge
The provision and use of traditional, complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has been growing globally over the last 40 years, although there have always been regions where it predominated. As CAM develops alongside and, sometimes, integrates with conventional medicine, this Handbook provides...
To Be Published January 30th 2014 by Routledge
To Be Published January 31st 2014 by Routledge
Series: Routledge International Handbooks
In this companion, editors Daniel Lee Kleinman and Kelly Moore bring together a diverse group of authors who provide thoughtful analyses of some of the most crucial technoscientific issues across the global social, economic and political landscape today. Authors’ contributions will fit into one of...
To Be Published February 27th 2014 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in Disability Studies
Design and branding have immense power to create, label and affix value to products and people. This innovative book argues that disability as a concept and category is created and reified by the way it is designed; the disabled are branded as in need of specialized, segregated services, products,...
To Be Published February 27th 2014 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness
Disclosure is a frequently used, but rarely interrogated concept in health and social welfare. Abuse, disability, sexuality and health status can be ‘disclosed’ to peers and professionals, and on some occasions, disclosure is a requirement and not a choice. This innovative collection examines the...
To Be Published March 14th 2014 by Routledge
At a time of upheaval for the NHS, this text discusses the contemporary social context and policy drivers affecting childbirth and maternity services in the UK, making clear links to practice throughout. Complex health and social care demands, and particularly the policy commitment to choice for...
To Be Published March 28th 2014 by Routledge
The adoption of the Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (CPRD) by the United Nations in 2006 marked a major watershed. The CRPD is the first comprehensive and binding treaty on the rights of people with disabilities. It establishes the right of people with disabilities to equality,...
To Be Published March 29th 2014 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series
Mortality rose very dramatically in the former Soviet republics following the collapse of the Soviet Union, with male life expectancy falling by ten years, the biggest peace time fall in life expectancy on record. This book presents the results of extensive research into the full extent of this...
To Be Published March 30th 2014 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in Disability Studies
Disabled people are among the most vulnerable populations during conflict situations or when natural disasters strike, experiencing higher mortality rates, fewer available resources and more difficulty in accessing help in refugee camps and in post-disaster environments. Already among the most...
To Be Published March 30th 2014 by Routledge
