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Series: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
Recent rapid advances in the biosciences have led to considerable debate about the social, ethical, and legal implications of research and its applications. The mapping of the human genome, advances in cloning techniques, the harvesting of embryonic stem cells for research, increasing use of...
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
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
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
SARS (Acute Respiratory Syndrome) first presented itself to the global medical community as a case of atypical pneumonia in one small Chinese village in November 2002. Three months later the mysterious illness rapidly spread and appeared in Vietnam, Hong Kong, Toronto and then Singapore. The high...
To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Public Health
What do we mean when we talk about rights in relation to health? Where does the language of health rights come from, and what are the implications of using such a discourse? During the last 20 years there have been an increasing number of initiatives and efforts – for instance in relation to HIV/...
To Be Published July 30th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology
The national public asylum system in Ireland was established during the early nineteenth century and continued to operate up to the close of the twentieth century. These asylums / mental hospitals were a significant physical and social feature of Irish communities. They were used intensively and...
To Be Published July 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology
The demographic phenomena of increased life expectancy, increasing global population of older adults, and a larger number of older people as a proportion of the total population in nations throughout the world will affect our lives and the life of each person we know. The changes will result in...
To Be Published August 19th 2013 by Routledge
Food allergies have increased over the past two decades, and it is now estimated that up to 10% of the population is affected. This book provides practical information on understanding the diagnosis and management of food allergies. Chapters are framed with clinical questions to focus the reader...
To Be Published August 20th 2013 by CRC Press
This book provides the first comprehensive information and detailed data on the welfare systems of all twenty-seven EU member states and offers the reader an invaluable introduction and basis for comparative welfare research. The introductory chapter summarizes the actual debate about...
To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge
Key Themes in Public Health consists of introductory short essays exploring fifty key themes and concepts in public health. Ranging from political and economic concern with improving population health and reducing health inequalities, to debates about how to protect the population from new health...
To Be Published October 14th 2013 by Routledge
Encyclopedic in scope, the multi-volume set, Reversibility of Chronic Degenerative Disease and Hypersensitivity, draws deeply on the clinical histories of thousands of profoundly ill patients to describe the physiology and chemical sensitivity of chronic degenerative diseases, their different...
To Be Published November 14th 2013 by CRC Press
