Books in the Routledge Key Themes in Health and Society series

Combining a collection of international perspectives from a range of fields, including social gerontology, social policy, sociology, psychology, anthropology, gender studies, communication and marketing, this book weaves empirical evidence with theoretical insights on the role of digital technologies across the life course.

This book looks at how troubles can be transformed into specific diseases and dysfunctions, identifiable by professionals. Old, new, controversial, and dissenting approaches will be represented in contributions that address the experience of troubles and problematized identities in childhood and adolescence, the working years, and in later life.

Professional identity is a central topic in all courses of professional training and educators must decide what kind of identity they hope their students will develop, as well as think about how they can recruit for, facilitate and assess this development.

Combining a collection of international perspectives from a range of fields, including social gerontology, social policy, sociology, psychology, anthropology, gender studies, communication and marketing, this book weaves empirical evidence with theoretical insights on the role of digital technologies across the life course.

This volume explores crucial issues surrounding the impact of loss, death and dying for criminal offenders, for whom the bereavement process can be a complicated experience. The first section considers theoretical approaches to loss; the next section explores practical applications; and the final section introduces an offender perspective.

Digital Media Usage Across the Lifecourse seeks to portray the see-saw like relationship that we have with technology and how that relationship impacts upon our lived lives. Drawing on a range of theoretical perspectives that cross traditional subject boundaries it examine's the ways in which we both react to and are, to an extent, shaped by the technologies we interact with and how we construct the relationships with others that we facilitate via the use of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) be it as discreet online only relationships or the blending of ICTs enabled communication with real life co present interactions.

This book provides the first major volume describing and examining compassionate community experiments in end of life care from a highly practical perspective. Focusing on community development initiatives and practice challenges, it offers practitioners and policy makers practical discussions on the strengths and limitations of such initiatives.

What is the value of social theory to nursing? What are the implications of overlooking or excluding the social for nursing knowledge and practice? These are some of the questions debated in this lively new book which aims to tease out the tensions, contradictions and synergies between two starkly different intellectual paradigms. Leading scholars consider how social theories have infiltrated nursing, whether the outcome has been productive or not, and what solutions are available to answer some of the challenges posed. Exploring the philosophical, theoretical, empirical and political dimensions of its subject, this is a robust and wide-ranging analysis and critique.

Portrays the relationship that we have with technology and how that relationship impacts upon our lived lives. Drawing on a range of theoretical perspectives that cross traditional subject boundaries, this title examines the ways in which we both react to and are, to an extent, shaped by the technologies we interact with.

Compassionate Communities: Case Studies from Britain and Europe provides the first major volume describing and examining compassionate community experiments in end of life care from a highly practical perspective. Focusing on community development initiatives and practice challenges, the book offers practitioners and policy makers from the health and social care sectors practical discussions on the strengths and limitations of such initiatives.

Evidence-based practice (EBP) makes huge demands of nurses and can be much more complex than it seems. This innovative book acknowledges that EBP doesn¿t always fit comfortably within established healthcare practices and unpicks some of the most interesting tensions that have emerged in contemporary debates.

This book looks at how troubles can be transformed into specific diseases and dysfunctions, identifiable by professionals. Old, new, controversial, and dissenting approaches will be represented in contributions that address the experience of troubles and problematized identities in childhood and adolescence, the working years, and in later life.