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  • Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Immigrant Health

    New Insights from Spain

    Edited by Mikolaj Stanek, Sol P. Juárez, Miguel Requena ...
    Series series IMISCOE Research Series
    This open access book analyses the ever-complex relationship between immigration and health in contemporary societies using the Spanish society as a case study. It addresses some of the main dimensions of migrant health in Spain, including migrant-specific vulnerability factors, health changes associated with time spent at the migratory destination, and differentiated problems of certain ... Read more

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  • Social Injustice and Public Health

    by Barry S. Levy;Victor W. Sidel;Marian Wright Edelman ...
    Two past presidents of the American Public Health Association have edited this book on the ways in which social injustice causes and contributes to public health problems. Their previous books War and Public Health and errorism and Public Health both dealt with specific issues of social injustice as they relate to public health. The current book addresses a broader set of issues in a more ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Global Pharmaceuticals

    Ethics, Markets, Practices

    Edited by Adriana Petryna, Andrew Lakoff, Arthur Kleinman ...
    In some parts of the world spending on pharmaceuticals is astronomical. In others people do not have access to basic or life-saving drugs. Individuals struggle to afford medications; whole populations are neglected, considered too poor to constitute profitable markets for the development and distribution of necessary drugs. The ethnographies brought together in this timely collection analyze both ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Mobility, Sexuality and AIDS

    Edited by Felicity Thomas, Mary Haour-Knipe, Peter Aggleton ...
    Series series Sexuality, Culture and Health
    Over the past two decades, population mobility has intensified and become more diverse, raising important questions concerning the health and well-being of people who are mobile as well as communities of origin and destination.Ongoing concerns have been voiced about possible links between mobility and HIV, with calls being made to contain or control migrant populations, and debate linking HIV with ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Latin American Perspectives on the Sociology of Health and Illness

    Edited by Fernando De Maio, Ignacio Llovet, Graciela Dinardi ...
    The sociology of health and illness is a rapidly growing field. Yet, as a field, it has suffered from a remarkably limited perspective dominated by scholarship produced in the global north. Scholars in the sociology of health and illness have been late to enter debates in global health and have generally failed to learn lessons from work originating in the global south. To begin to address this ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Care without Pathology

    How Trans- Health Activists Are Changing Medicine

    by Christoph Hanssmann ...
    Examining trans- healthcare as a key site through which struggles for health and justice take shapeOver the past two decades, medical and therapeutic approaches to transgender patients have changed radically, from treating a supposed pathology to offering gender-affirming care. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in New York City and Buenos Aires, Care without Pathology moves across the Americas to ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • Latinos in American Society

    Families and Communities in Transition

    by Ruth Enid Zambrana ...
    It is well known that Latinos in the United States bear a disproportionate burden of low educational attainment, high residential segregation, and low visibility in the national political landscape. In Latinos in American Society, Ruth Enid Zambrana brings together the latest research on Latinos in the United States to demonstrate how national origin, age, gender, socioeconomic status, and ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Financial and Economic Crises and Their Impact on Health and Social Well-Being

    by Vicente Navarro, Carles Muntaner ...
    Series series Policy, Politics, Health and Medicine Series
    This volume provides a timely collection of the most germane studies and commentaries on the complex links between recent changes in national economies, welfare regimes, social inequalities, and population health. Drs. Vicente Navarro and Carles Muntaner have selected 24 representative articles, organized around six themes, from the widely read pages of the International Journal of Health Services ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • Teaching Tolerance in a Globalized World

    Edited by Andrés Sandoval-Hernández, Maria Magdalena Isac, Daniel Miranda ...
    Series Book 4 - IEA Research for Education
    This open access thematic report identifies factors and conditions that can help schools and education systems promote tolerance in a globalized world. The IEA’s International Civic and Citizenship Study (ICCS) is a comparative research program designed to investigate the ways in which young people are prepared to undertake their roles as citizens, and provides a wealth of data permitting not only ... Read more

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  • Unhealthy Health Policy

    A Critical Anthropological Examination

    by Cesar E. Abadia-Barrero, Francisco Armada, Hans A. Baer, Katherine Elaine Bliss, Philippe Bourgois, David Buchanan, Claudia Chaufan, Robbie E. Davis-Floyd, Alice Desclaux, Paul Farmer, Didier Fassin, Sarah Horton, Kristen M. Jacklin, Salmaan Keshavjee, Kaveh Khoshnoo, Cathy Hodge McCoid, Carles Muntaner, Joan E. Paluzzi, James Pfeiffer, Imrana Qadeer, Susan Shaw, Tom Stopka, Wei Teng, Graham A. Tobin, Fouzieyha Towghi, Nalini Visvanathan, William Wagner, Howard Waitzkin, Wayne Warry, Linda M. Whiteford, Cathleen Willging ...
    This new collection turns a critical anthropological eye on the nature of health policy internationally. The authors reveal that in light of prevailing social inequalities, health policies may intend to protect public health, but in fact they often represent significant structural threats to the health and well being of the poor, ethnic minorities, women, and other subordinate groups. The volume ... Read more

    $60.79 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of Health and Healthcare

    Edited by David Primrose, Rodney D. Loeppky, Robin Chang ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    This handbook provides a comprehensive and critical overview of the gamut of contemporary issues around health and healthcare from a political economy perspective. Its contributions present a unique challenge to prevailing economic accounts of health and healthcare, which narrowly focus on individual behaviour and market processes. Instead, the capacity of the human body to reach its full ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Global Health Communication for Immigrants and Refugees

    Cases, Theories, and Strategies

    Edited by Do Kyun David Kim, Gary L. Kreps ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Health Communication
    This book analyzes important international cases of immigrant and refugee health from diverse communication perspectives, providing theoretical frames and effective recommendations for designing future health communication campaigns and interventions for global health promotion.Internationally renowned scholars elucidate the reality of health communication situations that immigrants and refugees ... Read more

    $62.99 USD