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  • Medical Sociology and Old Age

    Towards a sociology of health in later life

    by 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 ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Personhood, Identity and Care in Advanced Old Age

    by Paul Higgs, Chris Gilleard ...
    How do we sustain agency and identity amidst the frailty of advanced old age? What role does care play in this process?Pushing forward new sociological theory, this book explores the theoretical and practical issues raised by age and infirmity. It begins with a theoretical examination of the fourth age, interrogating notions of agency, identity and personhood, as well as the impact of frailty, ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Bioinformatics and Molecular Evolution

    by Paul G. Higgs, Teresa K. Attwood ...
    In the current era of complete genome sequencing, Bioinformatics and Molecular Evolution provides an up-to-date and comprehensive introduction to bioinformatics in the context of evolutionary biology.This accessible text:provides a thorough examination of sequence analysis, biological databases, pattern recognition, and applications to genomics, microarrays, and proteomicsemphasizes the ... Read more

    $123.99 CAD

  • Developing Change Leaders

    by Paul Aitken, Malcolm Higgs ...
    Implementing change is a major business challenge. Is your leadership up to the task?With change initiatives failing so frequently despite many books on the market addressing separately the topics of leadership and change management, Developing Change Leaders tackles in one concise volume the all-important question of how to develop effective change leaders who make a difference to organizational ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Social Class in Later Life

    Power, Identity and Lifestyle

    Edited by Marvin Formosa, Paul Higgs ...
    Social class in later life: Power, identity and lifestyle provides the most up-to-date collection of new and emerging research relevant to contemporary debates on the relationship between class, culture, and later life. ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Modernity, Medicine and Health

    Edited by Paul Higgs, Graham Scambler ...
    This book establishes the voice of medical sociology in key debates in the social sciences. Concerning modernity, postmodernity, structuralism and poststructuralism issues covered include: * disease and medicine in postmodern times * gender, health and the feminist debate on the postmodern * ageing, the lifecourse and the sociology of health and ageing * medicine and complementary medicine * death ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD

  • Ageing, Dementia and the Social Mind

    Edited by Paul Higgs, Chris Gilleard ...
    Series series Sociology of Health and Illness Monographs
    A groundbreaking exploration of the sociology of dementia — with contributions from distinguished international scholars and practitioners.Organised around the four themes of personhood, care, social representations and social differentiationProvides a critical look at dementia and demonstrates how sociology and other disciplines can help us understand its social context as well as the challenges ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Cultures of Ageing

    Self, Citizen and the Body

    by Chris Gilleard, Paul Higgs ...
    For undergraduate courses in sociology and psychology which examine ageing adulthood. This book focuses on the dramatic changes to the nature of post-retirement life experienced by people at the end of the twentieth century. It examines age and ageing in terms of the key preoccupations of contemporary sociology - citizenship, the body and the self. The book provides a platform for a new social ... Read more

    $129.99 CAD

  • Social Divisions and Later Life

    Difference, Diversity and Inequality

    by Chris Gilleard, Paul Higgs ...
    As the population ages, this book reveals how divides that are apparent through childhood and working life change and are added to in later life.Two internationally renowned experts in ageing look beyond longstanding factors like class, gender and ethnicity to explore new social divisions, including contrasting states of physical fitness and mental health. They show how differences in health and ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Ageing and Globalisation

    by Martin Hyde, Paul Higgs ...
    Series series Ageing in a Global Context
    Population ageing and globalisation represent two of the most radical social transformations that have occurred. This book provides, for the first time, an accessible overview of how they interact.Ageing has been conventionally framed within the boundaries of nation states, yet demographic changes, transmigration, financial globalization and the global media have rendered this perspective ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Ageing and the Media

    International Perspectives

    by Nicole Dalmer, Lucia Cedeira Serantes, Eugène Loos, Loredana Ivan, Maria Sourbati, Wenqian Xu, Christa Lykke Christensen, Karin Lövgren, Linn J Sandberg, Jeff Hearn, Dana Sawchuk, Monika Wilinska, Doris Akyere Boateng, Chin-Hui Chen, Yan-Hua Huang, Gisela Grangeiro da Silva Castro, Paul Higgs, Chris Gilleard, Laura Hurd, Raveena Mahal, Barbara Ratzenböck ...
    Series series Ageing in a Global Context
    Media representations of ageing play a role in stereotype formation and even reinforce them. Encountering these stereotypes can negatively impact the self-esteem, health status, physical wellbeing and cognitive performance of older people.This international collection examines different dimensions of ageing and ageism in a range of media. Chapters include explorations of the UK media during the ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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    The Story of My Dad and his Dementia

    by Tony Husband ...
    'Hi Dad . . . can we have a chat about your dementia . . . Can you remember how it started?'When Ron Husband started to forget things - dates, names, appointments . . . daft things, important things - it took a while to realise that this was 'a different form of forgetting'. But it was just the first sign of the illness that gradually took him away from the family he loved.This is the touching, ... Read more

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