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An Analysis of Everyday Health Practices of Migrant Youth and Families

by Uwe H. Bittlingmayer, Zeynep Islertas, Elias Sahrai, Stefanie Harsch, Isabella Bertschi, Diana Sahrai ...

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This book presents a health ethnology of health literacy among vulnerable groups. In addition to a comprehensive state of research and the development of a theory-oriented health literacy research, three case studies on vulnerable minorities from Germany and Switzerland are presented. The social dimension of health and health literacy, which can hardly be conceptualized in the individualistic ... Read more

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This book presents a health ethnology of health literacy among vulnerable groups. In addition to a comprehensive state of research and the development of a theory-oriented health literacy research, three case studies on vulnerable minorities from Germany and Switzerland are presented. The social dimension of health and health literacy, which can hardly be conceptualized in the individualistic
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Social Networks and Health Inequalities

A New Perspective for Research

Edited by Andreas Klärner, Markus Gamper, Sylvia Keim-Klärner, Irene Moor, Holger von der Lippe, Nico Vonneilich ...

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This open access book applies insights from the network perspective in health research to explain the reproduction of health inequalities. It discusses the extant literature in this field that strongly correlates differences in social status with health behaviours and outcomes, and add to this literature by providing a coherent theoretical explanation for the causes of these health inequalities. ... Read more

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The History of Emotions

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by Jan Plamper ...

Series series Emotions in History
The history of emotions is one of the fastest growing fields in current historical debate, and this is the first book-length introduction to the field, synthesizing the current research, and offering direction for future study. The History of Emotions is organized around the debate between social constructivist and universalist theories of emotion that has shaped most emotions research in a ... Read more

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The history of emotions is one of the fastest growing fields in current historical debate, and this is the first book-length introduction to the field, synthesizing the current research, and offering direction for future study. The History of Emotions is organized around the debate between social constructivist and universalist theories of emotion that has shaped most emotions research in a
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Epistemology and Methodology

by Francis Müller ...

Translated by Anna Brailovsky ...

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Edited by Franziska Krause, Joachim Boldt ...

Series series Social Sciences (R0)
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book examines the concept of care and care practices in healthcare from the interdisciplinary perspectives of continental philosophy, care ethics, the social sciences, and anthropology. Areas addressed include dementia care, midwifery, diabetes care, psychiatry, and reproductive medicine. Special attention is paid to ambivalences and tensions ... Read more

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Evidence Contestation

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Series series Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science
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by Andreas Kruse ...

Series series Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies Research Papers
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by Frieder R. Lang, Stephan Lessenich, Klaus Rothermund ...

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Edited by Sabine Weinert, Hans-Günther Rossbach, Jutta von Maurice, Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Cordula Artelt ...

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The contributions to the open access volume are comprehensive summaries of important research findings from the two comprehensive interdisciplinary longitudinal studies BiKS-3-18 and BiKS-8-18 conducted by the research unit "BiKS" (“Educational Processes, Development of Competencies, and Formation of Educational Decisions”) funded by the German Research Foundation. The aim of the book is to ... Read more

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by Ingrid Paus-Hasebrink, Jasmin Kulterer, Philip Sinner ...

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This open access book presents a qualitative longitudinal panel-study on child and adolescent socialisation in socially disadvantaged families. The study traces how children and their parents make sense of media within the context of their everyday life over twelve years (from 2005 to 2017) and provides a unique perspective on the role of different socialisation contexts, drawing on rich data from ... Read more

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