Routledge International Handbook of Critical Issues in Health and Illness

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. "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, medical technology, and complementary and alternative medicine. The second part covers life contexts; chapters cover a range of life contexts which 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 health in relation to inequality, gender, sexual orientation, reproduction, ethnicity, indigeneity, disability, ageing, commercialisation, climate change, and globalisation. 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"-- Provided by publisher 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. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Editors Contributors Acknowledgements Chapter 1 Critical perspectives on health and illness Part I Medical contexts Chapter 2 The social and cultural histories of medicine Chapter 3 Medicalisation Chapter 4 Pharmaceuticalisation: Origins, drivers, and new directions1 Chapter 5 Governing medical technology Chapter 6 Health services and care: Political and affective economies Chapter 7 Diagnosis: A social and political phenomenon Chapter 8 Population-based screening for detection and prevention Chapter 9 Personalised medicine Chapter 10 Complementary and alternative medicine Part II Life contexts Chapter 11 Health inequality Chapter 12 Beyond binary categories: A contemporary gender studies perspective on health and illness Chapter 13 Sexual orientation and gender identity as determinants of health and illness Chapter 14 Reproductive justice: Revitalising critical reproductive health research Chapter 15 Ethnicity and health Chapter 16 Indigeneity and wellness: Critically understanding the health of Indigenous peoples and communities Chapter 17 Disability, technology, and health Chapter 18 Health and illness among older people: What has age got to do with it? Chapter 19 Death, dying, and end-of-life care Part III Shifting contextual domains Chapter 20 Bioethics: Critical reflections and future directions Chapter 21 Digital health Chapter 22 Migration and health Chapter 23 Medical travel: Critical perspectives Chapter 24 Place in health, illness, and healthcare Chapter 25 Commercialisation: The role of unhealthy commodity industries Chapter 26 Towards a critical social science of climate change and health Chapter 27 Globalisation and health Index