Key Concepts in Health Studies

Yuill, Chris, Duncan, Eilidh, Crinson, Iain

ISBN 10: 1848606745 / ISBN 13: 9781848606746

Editore: SAGE Publications, Limited, 2010

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• Titolo: Key Concepts in Health Studies
• Editore: SAGE Publications, Limited
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1848606745
• ISBN 13: 9781848606746
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Edizione: 1st Edition.
• Condizione: Good

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Riassunto

Key Concepts in Health Studies provides a much needed guide to the central concepts used across the subject, and offers the reader a comprehensive overview of the core topics, theories and debates. Drawing together the fundamentals within the disciplines of health, nursing, and social policy this book is an ideal text both for students studying health in a range of academic fields, and for health and social care practitioners. From ageism to public health, and gender to obesity, the book offers an exciting guide to the multidisciplinary field.

Informazioni sull?autore

Chris Yuill is a sociologist at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, whose work focuses on the sociology of health and the sociology of urban experiences. In addition to a variety of journal publications and research reports he has written and co-edited a number of textbooks for SAGE, one of his most recent being Sociology for Social Work co-edited with Alastair Gibson. Other texts include Understanding the Sociology of Health: An Introduction with Anne-Marie Barry, which is now in its third edition and has also been translated into Chinese. Chris has also served two terms on the executive of the British Sociological Association.