ROUTLEDGE INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK OF CRITICAL ISSUES IN HEALTH AND

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; herechapters 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.