The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Issues in Health
and Illness is a multidisciplinary reference book that brings
together cutting-edge health and illness topics from around the
globe. It offers a range of theoretical and critical perspectives
to provide contemporary insights into complex health issues that
can offer ways to address inequitable patterns of illness and ill
health. This collection, written by an international pool of expert
academics from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, is unique in
providing theoretical and critical analyses on key health topics,
considering power and broader social structures that influence
health and illness outcomes. The chapters are organised in three
parts. The first covers medical contexts; here, chapters provide
commentary and critical analysis of the history of medicine,
medicalisation, pharmaceuticalisation, services and care, medical
technology, diagnosis, screening, personalised medicine, and
complementary and alternative medicine. The second part covers life
contexts; chapters include a range of life contexts that have
implications for health, including gender, sexuality, reproduction,
disability, ethnicity, indigeneity, inequality, ageing, and dying.
The third part covers shifting contextual domains; chapters
consider contemporary areas of life that are rapidly changing,
including bioethics, digital health, migration, medical travel,
geography and "place", commercialisation, globalisation, and
climate change. The Routledge International Handbook of Critical
Issues in Health and Illness is a key contemporary reference text
for scholars, students, researchers, and professionals across
disciplines, including sociology, psychology, anthropology,
geography, medicine, public health, and health science.
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