Forthcoming Public Health Policy and Practice Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Social Work in the Middle East

   Edited by Hussein Hassan Soliman

   Series: Routledge Studies in Social Welfare in Asia

   Countries across the Middle East face a number of social problems such as poverty, unemployment, housing, internal immigration and caring for vulnerable groups such as children, women, the disabled and the elderly. Providing an overview of the wide range of social issues addressed by social work...

   To Be Published May 21st 2013 by Routledge
2. Health, Culture and Religion in South Asia

   Critical Perspectives

   Edited by Assa Doron, Alex Broom

   Series: Routledge South Asian History and Culture Series

   Health, Culture and Religion in South Asia brings together top international scholars from a range of social science disciplines to critically explore the interplay of local cultural and religious practices in the delivery and experiences of health in South Asia. This groundbreaking text provides...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
3. Governance of HIV/AIDS

   Making Participation and Accountability Count

   Edited by Sophie Harman, Franklyn Lisk

   Series: Routledge/Warwick Studies in Globalisation

   Nearly thirty years since HIV/AIDS was first identified, confusion over effective mechanisms of controlling and eradicating the illness remain prevalent. This book highlights the need for comprehensive approaches to governance, as responses to HIV/AIDS become increasingly focused upon the health...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
4. Intimate Partner Violence in LGBTQ Lives

   Edited by Janice L. Ristock

   Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Society

   Queer lives remain at the margins of most academic inquiry into domestic violence. When same-sex violence is considered, it is most commonly as an "added on," without close attention to the specificity and meaning of violence within the lives of lesbian/ gay/ bisexual/ transgender/Two-Spirit and...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
5. Perspectives on Care at Home for Older People

   Edited by Christine Ceci, Kristín Björnsdóttir, Mary Ellen Purkis

   Series: Routledge Studies in Health and Social Welfare

   Demographic and epidemiological changes mean that frail older people have come to be seen as an expensive problem for health care systems. The challenge for professionals and policy-makers is to find ways to respond to the coming crisis by delivering high-quality care in the home. This collection...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
6. Rethinking Labour in Africa, Past and Present

   Edited by Lynn Schler, Louise Bethlehem, Galia Sabar

   This book offers a broad range of perspectives on major transformations in the research of labor in Africa contexts over the last twenty years. This is a groundbreaking work by social scientists and historians; adopting innovative paradigms in the study of African laborers,...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
7. Medical Geography (Routledge Revivals)

   Progress and Prospect

   Edited by Michael Pacione

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   Geographers have for a long time contributed much valuable detailed data on the geographical patterns of disease and health care delivery to the medical world. On its first publication in 1985, this edited collection addressed the need for a review of progress in the field of medical geography that...

   To Be Published June 2nd 2013 by Routledge
8. Practising Social Inclusion

   Edited by Ann Taket, Beth R. Crisp, Melissa Graham, Lisa Hanna, Sophie Goldingay, Linda Wilson

   Practising Social Inclusion presents what we know about what works, and why, in promoting social inclusion and practising in a socially inclusive way. Contributing to the growing debates on social inclusion, this book moves beyond discussion of who it is that is socially excluded and the processes...

   To Be Published June 5th 2013 by Routledge
9. Food

   By John Coveney

   Series: Shortcuts

   The centrality of food in life, and the importance of food as life, is undeniable. As a source of biological substrates, personal pleasure and political power, food is and has been an enduring requirement of human biological, social and cultural existence. In recent years, interest in food has...

   To Be Published July 8th 2013 by Routledge
10. Coercive Care

    Rights, Law and Policy

    Edited by Bernadette Mcsherry, Ian Freckelton

    Series: Biomedical Law and Ethics Library

    There has been much debate about mental health law reform and mental capacity legislation in recent years with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities also having a major impact on thinking about the issue. This edited volume explores the concept of ‘coercive care’ in relation...

    To Be Published July 9th 2013 by Routledge