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  • Queering Families

    The Postmodern Partnerships of Cisgender Women and Transgender Men

    by Carla A. Pfeffer ...
    Series series Sexuality, Identity, and Society
    Ozzie and Harriet, move over. A new couple is moving into the neighborhood. In the postmodern era, advances in medical technologies allow some individuals categorized female at birth to live in accordance with their gender identities, as men. While a growing body of literature on transgender men's experiences has come to the forefront, relatively little exists to document the experiences of their ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • Fat Studies and Fat Social Justice

    Edited by Carla A. Pfeffer ...
    This book offers examinations from the field of fat studies to consider how fat social justice has been conceptualized in the past, its status today, and how we might more effectively envision and strategize around fat social justice for the future.For decades, fatness has been decried as a global public health scourge, crisis, and epidemic. An array of dietary, exercise, surgical, behavioral, ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

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  • Social Work Theories in Context

    Creating Frameworks for Practice

    by Karen Healy ...
    This popular and innovative core text book explores contemporary social work theories and perspectives in a systematic way, using an integrated and flexible framework to link context, theory, and practice approaches. Healy expertly provides an applied guide to social work theory across a range of organisational contexts, showing social work as a diverse activity that is profoundly shaped by ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Interprofessional Ethics

    Collaboration in the Social, Health and Human Services

    by Donna McAuliffe ...
    The social work, health and human services sectors employ a variety of professionals to provide care to people. There is an increasing need for practitioners to be skilled in ethical decision making as the professional practice context becomes more complex and concerned with risk management. Interprofessional Ethics explores the ethical frameworks, policies and procedures of professional practice ... Read more

    $66.99 CAD

  • Compassionate Cities

    by Allan Kellehear ...
    Once it was difficult to see end of life care beyond conventional medical intervention, but hospice and palliative care introduced a more holistic approach, providing quality of life for the dying and their families. This ground-breaking work takes end-of-life care beyond these palliative boundaries, describing a public health vision that involves whole communities adopting a compassionate ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • Health Communication

    Theoretical and Critical Perspectives

    by Ruth Cross, Sam Davis, Ivy O'Neil ...
    Health communication is key to promoting good population and individual health outcomes. As the field has developed, there is a growing need for a critical appraisal of the ideologies and theories underpinning health communication in order to ensure effective practice.This book clearly situates health communication within its social context. It provides a critical overview of three key ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • The Contemporary Reader of Gender and Fat Studies

    Edited by Amy Erdman Farrell ...
    The Contemporary Reader of Gender and Fat Studies is a key reference work in contemporary scholarship situated at the intersection between Gender and Fat Studies, charting the connections and tensions between these two fields.Comprising over 20 chapters from a range of diverse and international contributors, the Reader is structured around the following key themes: theorizing gender and fat; ... Read more

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  • The Routledge International Handbook of Fat Studies

    Edited by Cat Pausé, Sonya Renee Taylor ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    The Routledge International Handbook of Fat Studies brings together a diverse body of work from around the globe and across a wide range of Fat Studies topics and perspectives. The first major collection of its kind, it explores the epistemology, ontology, and methodology of fatness, with attention to issues such as gender and sexuality, disability and embodiment, health, race, media, ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • The Fat Pedagogy Reader

    Challenging Weight-Based Oppression Through Critical Education

    Edited by Erin Cameron, Constance Russell ...
    Series Book 467 - Counterpoints
    Over the past decade, concerns about a global «obesity epidemic» have flourished. Public health messages around physical activity, fitness, and nutrition permeate society despite significant evidence disputing the «facts» we have come to believe about «obesity». We live in a culture that privileges thinness and enables weight-based oppression, often expressed as fat phobia and fat bullying. New ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • Antiracist Occupational Therapy

    Unsettling the Status Quo

    Edited by Musharrat J. Ahmed-Landeryou ...
    Social justice, inclusion, and person-centredness are the cornerstones of occupational therapy but despite this, the experiences and inequities faced by Black and minoritised populations in health and social care often go unseen and unattended in occupational therapy practice.This timely book provides a compendium of global insights into the inequities faced by Black and minoritised groups in ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Internationalizing the Curriculum

    by Betty Leask ...
    Series series Internationalization in Higher Education Series
    The drive to internationalize higher education has seen the focus shift in recent years towards its defining element, the curriculum. As the point of connection between broader institutional strategies and the student experience, the curriculum plays a key role in the success or failure of the internationalization agenda. Yet despite much debate, the role and power of curriculum ... Read more

    $121.99 CAD

  • Teaching Social Work

    Reflections on Pedagogy and Practice

    Edited by Rick Csiernik, Susan Hillock ...
    Social work education has the potential to be transformative, consciousness raising, and to produce social change while inspiring hope in students for the creation of more just systems. An understanding of oppression, its diverse manifestations, and its differential impact on vulnerable individuals and groups is essential to contemporary social work education. What then is the best manner in which ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD