1st Edition
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.
Editors
Contributors
Acknowledgements
1. Critical perspectives on health and illness
Antonia Lyons & Kerry Chamberlain
PART I: MEDICAL CONTEXTS
2. The social and cultural histories of medicine
Catharine Coleborne
3. Medicalisation
Felicity Thomas
4. Pharmaceuticalisation: Origins, drivers and new directions
Jonathan Gabe & Paul Martin
5. Governing medical technology
Stuart Hogarth & Fiona A. Miller
6. Health services and care: Political and affective economies
Rebecca E. Olson
7. Diagnosis: A social and political phenomenon
Annemarie Jutel
8. Population-based screening for detection and prevention
Natalie Armstrong
9. Personalised medicine
Michael Morrison & Susan Kelly
10. Complementary and alternative medicine
Kevin Dew & Supuni Liyanagunawardena
PART II: LIFE CONTEXTS
11: Health inequality
Dennis Raphael & Toba Bryant
12. Beyond binary categories: A contemporary gender studies perspective on health and illness
Lisa Jean Moore & Jonathan N. Torres
13. Sexual orientation and gender identity as determinants of health and illness
Alex Müller
14. Reproductive justice: Revitalising critical reproductive health research
Tracy Morison
15. Ethnicity and health
Dharmi Kapadia & Hannah Bradby
16. Indigeneity and wellness: Critically understanding the health of Indigenous peoples and communities
Sarah de Leeuw, Margo Greenwood, & May Farrales
17. Disability, technology and health
Dan Goodley, Rebecca Lawthom, & Katherine Runswick-Cole
18. Health and illness among older people: What has age got to do with it?
Christine Stephens
19. Death, dying and end-of-life care
Erica Borgstrom
PART III: SHIFTING CONTEXTUAL DOMAINS
20. Bioethics: Critical reflections and future directions
Kathryn MacKay & Angus Dawson
21. Digital health
Benjamin Marent & Flis Henwood
22. Migration and health
Heide Castañeda
23. Medical travel: Critical perspectives
Cecilia Vindrola-Padros
24: Place in health, illness and health care
Robin A. Kearns & Gavin J. Andrews
25. Commercialization: The role of unhealthy commodity industries
Peter J. Adams
26. Towards a critical social science of climate change and health
Sara MacBride-Stewart
27. Globalisation and health
Angelina Taylor & Johanna Hanefeld
Index
Biography
Kerry Chamberlain is Emeritus Professor of Social and Health Psychology at Massey University and Senior Research Fellow at Te Herenga Waka, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He is editor-in-chief of the journal Methods in Psychology and co-editor (with Antonia Lyons) of the book series Critical Approaches to Health.
Antonia Lyons is Professor of Health Psychology and Head of School of the School of Health, Te Herenga Waka, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She is co-editor for Qualitative Research in Psychology, Associate Editor for Psychology and Health, and co-editor (with Kerry Chamberlain) of the book series Critical Approaches to Health.