Therapeutic Pluralism

Exploring the Experiences of Cancer Patients and Professionals

By Alex Broom, Philip Tovey

The profile of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has risen dramatically over the last decade and cancer patients represent its most prolific users. As a...

Published March 19th 2008 by Routledge.

Edited by Sander L. Gilman

With the first patent being granted to “BiDil,” a combined medication that is deemed to be most effective for a specific “race,” African-Americans for a...

Published December 21st 2007 by Routledge.

Charity and Mutual Aid in Europe and North America since 1800

Edited by Bernard Harris, Paul Bridgen

International in perspective, the essays in this volume are primarily concerned with two facets of the mixed economy of welfare--charity and mutual aid. Emphasizing the close...

Published December 18th 2007 by Routledge.

Edited by David Inglis, Debra Gimlin, Chris Thorpe

In the last five years or so, there has been a huge explosion of scholarly work on the history of food and, likewise, pressing problems...

Published August 9th 2007 by Routledge.

Caesarean

Just Another Way of Birth?

By Rosemary Mander

This book critically analyzes the place of caesarean in childbearing at the beginning of the twenty first century. It questions the changes that are taking...

Published May 31st 2007 by Routledge.

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Published March 31st 2007 by Routledge.

New Genetics, New Social Formations

Edited by Peter Glasner, Paul Atkinson, Helen Greenslade

New genetic technologies cut across a range of public regulatory domains and private lifeworlds, often appearing to generate an institutional void in response to the...

Published December 14th 2006 by Routledge.

New Genetics, New Identities

Edited by Paul Atkinson, Peter Glasner, Helen Greenslade

What implications are applications of new genetic technologies in biomedicine having on social identity in today’s society?

New Genetics, New Identities, a wide-ranging multi-disciplinary volume...

Published December 14th 2006 by Routledge.

Lifestyle in Medicine

By Emily Hansen, Gary Easthope

In Western societies, 'lifestyle' as an explanation for health and illness has become increasingly popular.

Lifestyle in Medicine explores the ambiguity of the term 'lifestyle' and the...

Published November 21st 2006 by Routledge.

From Scrapie to Prion

By Kiheung Kim

A historical exploration of scientific disputes on the causation of so-called ‘prion diseases’, this fascinating book covers diseases including Scrapie, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) and Bovine...

Published October 26th 2006 by Routledge.