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Women's Health Matters

Edited by Dr Helen Roberts, Helen Roberts

Women's Health Matters, like its sister volume Women's Health Counts, is an invaluable practical guide to doing feminist research on women's health. Written by experienced…

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1991 | Paperback: 978-0-415-04891-0 (Routledge)

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Eugenics, Human Genetics and Human Failings

The Eugenics Society, its sources and its critics in Britain

By Pauline Mazumdar

This outstanding study follows the history of the eugenics movement from its roots to its heyday as the source of a science of human genetics.…

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1991 | Hardback: 978-0-415-04424-0 (Routledge)

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Structures of Control in Health Management

By Rob Flynn

Using a variety of evidence the author documents the rise of general management, the application of new techniques to reduce medical costs and improve efficiency,…

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1991 | Hardback: 978-0-415-04855-2 (Routledge)

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Preventing Coronary Heart Disease

Prospects, Policies, and Politics

By Michael Calnan

Coronary Heart Disease is the major cause of death in the UK, being responsible for thirty-one percent of male deaths and for twenty-four percent of…

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1991 | Hardback: 978-0-415-04490-5 (Routledge)

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Doctors' Careers

Aims and Experiences of Medical Graduates

By James Parkhouse

The training, employment, and career movement of doctors is of fundamental concern to all those working in and administrating the National Health Service and private…

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1991 | Hardback: 978-0-415-04649-7 (Routledge)

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Treating Drug Abusers

By G Bennett

Treating Drug Abusers provides a clear, practical guide to current approaches in the treatment of drug-taking. Written by practitioners for practitioners, it takes a psychological…

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1990 | Paperback: 978-0-415-05837-7 (Routledge)

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Transitioning Exceptional Children and Youth Into the Community

Research and Practice

By Jerome Beker, Ennio Cipani

Focusing on the dynamic process of mainstreaming exceptional children and youth, experts examine some of the exciting technological advances made to accompany the social changes…

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1989 | Hardback: 978-0-86656-733-6 (Routledge)

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The Meaning of Illness

By Marc Auge, Claudine Herzlich

1988 | Hardback: 978-0-415-00191-5 (Routledge)

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The Sociology of Health and Healing

A Textbook

By Professor Margaret Stacey, Margaret Stacey

... It is well-written and well-referenced... this is an important, innovative, enjoyable textbook which can be highly recommended for use in undergraduate and postgraduate sociology…

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1988 | Paperback: 978-0-415-07872-6 (Routledge)

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On Death and Dying

By Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Although most areas of human experience are nowadays discussed freely and openly, the subject of death is still surrounded by conventional attitudes and reticence that…

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1973 | Paperback: 978-0-415-04015-0 (Routledge)

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