Digital Health: Critical and Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives (Lupton Deborah)(Paperback)

Digital Health: Critical and Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives (Lupton Deborah)(Paperback)

The rise of digital health technologies is, for some, a panacea to many of the medical and public health challenges we face today. This is the first book to articulate a critical response to the techno-utopian and entrepreneurial vision of the digital health phenomenon. Deborah Lupton,

The Digital Academic: Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education (Lupton Deborah)(Paperback)

Academic work, like many other professional occupations, has increasingly become digitised. This book brings together leading scholars who examine the impacts, possibilities, politics and drawbacks of working in the contemporary university, using digital technologies. The contributors take a

Data Selves: More-Than-Human Perspectives (Lupton Deborah)(Paperback)

As people use self-tracking devices and other digital technologies, they generate increasing quantities of personal information online. These data have many benefits, but they can also be accessed and exploited by third parties. Using rich examples from popular culture and empirical research,

Digital Sociology (Lupton Deborah)(Paperback)

We now live in a digital society. New digital technologies have had a profound influence on everyday life, social relations, government, commerce, the economy and the production and dissemination of knowledge. People's movements in space, their purchasing habits and their online communication with

The Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives of Management: Challenges and Opportunities (Weber Yaakov)(Pevná vazba)

Whilst existing studies on research management focus on single disciplinary perspectives in isolation, this new collection integrates a range of theories and business models from multiple fields to offer insights and examples of cross-disciplinary management perspectives. As the workplace

Science, Technology, and Society: New Perspectives and Directions (Pittinsky Todd L.)(Paperback)

This book gathers inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary perspectives on the effects that today's advances in science and technology have on issues ranging from government policy-making to how we see the differences between men and women. The chapters investigate how invention and innovation

The Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies (Turner Lynn)(Paperback)

Provides cross-disciplinary perspectives on the study of animals in humanities This volume critically investigates current topics and disciplines that are affected, enriched or put into dispute by the burgeoning scholarship on Animal Studies. What new questions and modes of research need come into

Child Development: Theories and Critical Perspectives (Shute Rosalyn H.)(Paperback)

Child Development: Theories and Critical Perspectives provides an engaging and perceptive overview of both well-established and recent theories in child and adolescent psychology. This unique summary of traditional scientific perspectives alongside critical post-modern thinking will provide

Social Psychology - Traditional and Critical Perspectives (Dickerson Paul)(Paperback / softback)

Social Psychology: Traditional and Critical Perspectives addresses the key issues in social psychology - such as prejudice, aggression, conformity, persuasion, attraction, relationships and prosocial behaviour - in a bold and innovative way. As well as providing detailed coverage of classic and

Critical Perspectives on Cultural Memory and Heritage: Construction, Transformation and Destruction (Apaydin Veysel)(Paperback)

Critical Perspectives on Cultural Memory and Heritage focuses on the importance of memory and heritage for individual and group identity, and for their sense of belonging. It aims to expose the motives and discourses related to the destruction of memory and heritage during times of war, terror,

Food, the Body and the Self (Lupton Deborah)(Paperback)

In this wide-ranging and thought-provoking analysis of the sociocultural and personal meanings of food and eating, Deborah Lupton explores the relationship between food and embodiment, the emotions and subjectivity. She includes discussion of the intertwining of food, meaning and culture in the

Migration, Multilingualism and Education: Critical Perspectives on Inclusion, 91 (Mary Latisha)(Paperback)

Ethics in Design and Communication: Critical Perspectives (Scherling Laura)(Paperback)

This timely collection brings together critical, analytic, historical, and practical studies to address what ethics means in the practice of design.Designers face the same challenges as everyone else in the complex conditions of contemporary cultural life-choices about consumption, waste,

Adorno, Foucault and the Critique of the West (Cook Deborah)(Paperback)

The alliance of critical theory between Frankfurt and

Liquid Bread: Beer and Brewing in Cross-Cultural Perspective (Schiefenhvel Wulf)(Paperback)

Critical Issues in Clinical and Health Psychology (Rohleder Poul)(Paperback)

This textbook gives a clear and thought-provoking introduction to the critical issues related to health, illness and disability in clinical and health psychology. Challenging some of the preconceptions of ill-health of the biomedical approach, the book explores how health and illness is often

A Beginner's Guide to Critical Thinking and Writing in Health and Social Care (Aveyard Helen)(Paperback)

A practical introduction to the skills of critical appraisal and writing in

A Companion to Criminal Justice, Mental Health and Risk (Taylor Paul)(Paperback)

Exploring the relationship and critical debates between criminal justice and mental health care, this topical collection provides a reference guide to over 245 key terms and concepts in both fields, consolidating analysis of theory, policy, and practice for each. In addition to theoretical and

Mental Health and Wellbeing: Intercultural Perspectives (Watters Charles)(Paperback)

Mental Health and Wellbeing is a timely new book that explores these increasingly important subjects from an intercultural perspective. This is essential reading for anyone studying or working in mental health at this time of unprecedented levels of human migration and when mutual understanding of

Critical Perspectives on Wives: Roles, Representations, Identities, Work (O'Brien Hallstein Lynn)(Paperback)

This interdisciplinary volume opens an innovative space for critical discussion, and production of new imaginaries within, feminist scholarship, analysis and feminist politics, about what is and has been meant by, involved in, required of, and what it means to be, a 'wife.' Contributions within

Critical Realism for Health and Illness Research: A Practical Introduction (Alderson Priscilla)(Paperback)

Critical realism, as a toolkit of practical ideas, helps researchers to extend and clarify their analyses. It resolves problems arising from splits between different research approaches, builds on the strengths of different methods and overcomes their individual limitations. This original text

Digital Art and Meaning: Reading Kinetic Poetry, Text Machines, Mapping Art, and Interactive Installations (Simanowski Roberto)(Paperback)

In a world increasingly dominated by the digital, the critical response to digital art generally ranges from hype to counterhype. Popular writing about specific artworks seldom goes beyond promoting a given piece and explaining how it operates, while scholars and critics remain unsure about how to

Comparative Health Systems: A Global Perspective (Johnson James a.)(Paperback)

Global health policy, administration, and practice continue to evolve while countries throughout the world seek to balance their economic and health goals through health system reform, improvement, and modification. The Second Edition of Comparative Health Systems: A Global Perspective addresses

Digital Lives in the Global City: Contesting Infrastructures (Cowen Deborah)(Paperback)

Digital technologies have changed the world, transforming how, where, and when we communicate, love, learn, produce, distribute, and consume. Digital Lives in the Global City examines those changes in the context of urban life, investigating how urban land, governance, and the economy are being