Bücher der Reihe Routledge Key Themes in Health and Society

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.