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Health and Illness in a Changing Society

By Michael Bury

Health and illness are intensely personal matters. It seems self evident that health is a basic necessity of the 'good life', though it is often…

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1997 | Paperback: 978-0-415-11515-5 (Routledge)

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Nursing Perspectives on Quality of Life

By Peter Draper

One of the fundamental aims of nursing is to safeguard or promote patients' 'quality of life'. In Nursing Perspectives on Quality of Life, Peter Draper…

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1997 | Paperback: 978-0-415-14170-3 (Routledge)

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Foucault, Health and Medicine

Edited by Robin Bunton, Alan Petersen

The reception of Michel Foucault's work in the social sciences and humanities has been phenomenal. Foucault's concepts and methodology have encouraged new approaches to old…

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1997 | Paperback: 978-0-415-15178-8 (Routledge)

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Death, Gender and Ethnicity

Edited by David Field, Dr David Field, Jenny Hockey, Neil Small

Death, Gender and Ethnicity examines the ways in which gender and ethnicity shape the experiences of dying and bereavement, taking as its focus the diversity…

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1997 | Paperback: 978-0-415-14679-1 (Routledge)

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Nutritional Abnormalities in Infectious Diseases

Effects on Tuberculosis and AIDS

By Chris E. Taylor

Listed in the 1997 edition of Doody’s Rating Service: A Buyer’s Guide to the 250 Best Health Sciences Books!

Until recently, it had been presumed that…

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1997 | Paperback: 978-0-7890-0019-4 (Routledge)

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AIDS as a Gender Issue

Psychosocial Perspectives

Edited by Lydia Bennett, Catherine Hankins, Lorraine Sherr

1997 | Hardback: 978-0-7484-0231-1 (Taylor & Francis)

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Rethinking Prostitution

Purchasing Sex in the 1990s

Edited by Graham Scambler, Graham Scambler

The growth of AIDS has focused renewed attention on the institution of prostitution. In contrast to the moral panic reaction of some sectors of society,…

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1996 | Paperback: 978-0-415-10207-0 (Routledge)

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Crossing Borders

Migration, Ethnicity and AIDS

Edited by Mary Haour-Knipe, the late Richard Rector

Academics and activists have come together in this edited volume to tackle the complex issues surrounding migration and AIDS. The book sets the agenda for…

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1996 | Paperback: 978-0-7484-0378-3 (Taylor & Francis)

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Unhealthy Societies

The Afflictions of Inequality

By Richard G. Wilkinson

Among the developed countries it is not the richest societies which have the best health, but those which have the smallest income differences between rich…

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1996 | Paperback: 978-0-415-09235-7 (Routledge)

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Health and Social Organization

Towards a Health Policy for the 21st Century

Edited by David Blane, Eric Brunner, Richard Wilkinson

There is widespread recognition that the most powerful determinants…

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1996 | Paperback: 978-0-415-13070-7 (Routledge)

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