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  • Working Bodies

    Chronic Illness in the Canadian Workplace

    by Sharon-Dale Stone, Valorie Crooks, Michelle Owen ...
    While significant research has been produced in the field of disability studies, little attention has been paid to experiences of chronic illness. Working Bodies emphasizes the workplace as an important site for understanding such experiences, as employment status has an enormous impact on social and economic standing in Canadian society.The essays in this collection examine the perspectives of ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Routledge Handbook of Health Geography

    Edited by Valorie A. Crooks, Gavin J. Andrews, Jamie Pearce ...
    The places of our daily life affect our health, well-being, and receipt of health care in complex ways. The connection between health and place has been acknowledged for centuries, and the contemporary discipline of health geography sets as its core mission to uncover and explicate all facets of this connection.The Routledge Handbook of Health Geography features 52 chapters from leading ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

  • Place, Health, and Diversity

    Learning from the Canadian Experience

    Edited by Melissa D. Giesbrecht, Valorie A. Crooks ...
    Series series Geographies of Health Series
    Although health equity and diversity-focussed research has begun to gain momentum, there is still a paucity of research from health geographers that explicitly explores how geographic factors, such as place, space, scale, community, and location, inform multiple axes of difference. Such axes can include residential location, age, sex, gender, race/ethnicity, culture, religion, socio-economic ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Primary Health Care: People, Practice, Place

    Edited by Valorie A. Crooks, Gavin J. Andrews ...
    Series series Geographies of Health Series
    Health care is constantly undergoing change and refinement resulting from the adoption of new practices and technologies, the changing nature of societies and populations, and also shifts in the very places from which care is delivered. Primary Health Care: People, Practice, Place draws together significant contributions from established experts across a variety of disciplines to focus on such ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD

  • COVID-19 and Similar Futures

    Pandemic Geographies

    Edited by Gavin J. Andrews, Valorie A. Crooks, Jamie R. Pearce, Jane P. Messina ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This volume provides a critical response to the COVID-19 pandemic showcasing the full range of issues and perspectives that the discipline of geography can expose and bring to the table, not only to this specific event, but to others like it that might occur in future. Comprised of almost 60 short (2500 word) easy to read chapters, the collection provides numerous theoretical, empirical and ... Read more

    $166.99 CAD

  • Care Work and Medical Travel

    Exploring the Emotional Dimensions of Caring on the Move

    by Audrey Bochaton, Valorie A. Crooks, Matthew Dalstrom, Joyeeta Dastidar, Cinzia Greco, Driss Habti, Sarah Hartmann, Laura Kemppainen, Elizabeth Lanphier, Inna Perheentupa, Larisa Shpakovskaya, Mai See Thao, Carla Vaucher, John Pickering ...
    Series series Anthropology of Well-Being: Individual, Community, Society
    This edited volume explores the interconnection between care work, travel, and healthcare, emphasizing the emotional dimensions of seeking care away from home. It brings together contributions from disciplines such as anthropology, nursing, primary care, sociology and geography and covers experiences of medical travel and other forms of remote care in the United States, Laos, India, Italy, France, ... Read more

    $116.99 CAD

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    $137.99 CAD

  • Critical Perspectives in Public Health

    Edited by Judith Green, Ronald Labonté ...
    This book explores the concept of ‘critical’ public health, at a point when many of its core concerns appear to have moved to the mainstream of health policy. Issues such as addressing health inequalities and their socioeconomic determinants, and the inclusion of public voices in policy-making, are now emerging as key policy aims for health systems across Europe and North America.Combining ... Read more

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  • At Risk

    Social Justice in Child Welfare and Other Human Services

    by Karen Swift, Marilyn Callahan ...
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  • The Politics of Evidence

    From evidence-based policy to the good governance of evidence

    by Justin Parkhurst ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Governance and Public Policy
    The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.There has been an enormous increase in interest in the use of evidence for public policymaking, but the vast majority of work on the subject has failed to engage with the political nature of decision making and how ... Read more

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  • AQA Sociology for A-level Book 1

    by David Bown, Laura Pountney, Tomislav Maric ...
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