Health & Social Care

Our Routledge Health and Social Care handbooks showcase the best in cutting edge research across health and social care from around the world and cover a number of disciplines and professions including public health, nursing, social work, the sociology of health and illness, and disability studies. Covering topics that range from health and social work education and research methodologies, through the relationship between culture and sexuality, to considerations around mental health and global health, our handbooks provide high quality, international and interdisciplinary resources for an academic audience. This subject’s full title listing can be downloaded here. As long as there are a minimum of titles available within a subject area then these titles can be purchased within a Subject Collection. New Subject Collections are created annually as new titles are added to the platform.



The Routledge Handbook of Language and Health Comm...

Edited by:
Heidi E. Hamilton
Wen-ying Sylvia Chou

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Health Communication consists of forty chapters that provide a broad, comprehensive, and systematic overview of the role that linguistics plays within health com...

Routledge International Handbook of Social Justice

Edited by:
Michael Reisch

In a world where genocide, hunger, poverty, war, and disease persist and where richer nations often fail to act to address these problems or act too late, a prerequisite to achieving even modest socia...

Routledge Handbook on the Global History of Nursin...

Edited by:
Patricia D’Antonio
Julie A. Fairman
et al.

A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2014! 2014 winner of the American Association for the History of Nursing’s Mary M.

Routledge International Handbook of Clinical Suici...

Edited by:
John R. Cutcliffe
José Carlos Santos
et al.

Suicide remains one of the most pressing public health concerns across the world.

Routledge Handbook of Global Public Health

Edited by:
Richard Parker
Marni Sommer

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, key public health issues and challenges have taken centre stage.

Routledge Handbook of Clinical Supervision

Edited by:
John R. Cutcliffe
Kristiina Hyrkäs
et al.

The Routledge Handbook of Clinical Supervision provides a global ‘state of the art’ overview of clinical supervision, presenting and examining the most comprehensive, robust empirical evidence upon wh...

Routledge Handbook of Sexuality, Health and Rights

Edited by:
Peter Aggleton
Richard Parker

The last two decades have witnessed an explosion of research on sexuality as the social sciences have worked to find new ways of understanding a rapidly changing world.

Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies

Edited by:
Nick Watson
Alan Roulstone
et al.

The Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies takes a multidisciplinary approach to disability and provides an authoritative and up-to-date overview of the main issues in the field around the world tod...

Routledge International Handbook of Qualitative Nu...

Edited by:
Cheryl Tatano Beck

Qualitative research, once on the fringes, now plays a central part in advancing nursing and midwifery knowledge, contributing to the development of the evidence base for healthcare practice.

The Routledge Handbook of Poverty in the United St...

Edited by:
Stephen Nathan Haymes
María Vidal de Haymes
et al.

In the United States, the causes and even the meanings of poverty are disconnected from the causes and meanings of global poverty.

Routledge Handbook of Complementary and Alternativ...

Edited by:
Nicola K. Gale
Jean V. McHale

The provision and use of traditional, complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has been growing globally over the last 40 years.

The Routledge Handbook Of Planning For Health And ...

Edited by:
Hugh Barton
Susan Thompson
et al.

Urban planning is deeply implicated in both the planetary crisis of climate change and the personal crises of unhealthy lifestyles.

Routledge Handbook of Cultural Gerontology

Edited by:
Julia Twigg
Wendy Martin

Later years are changing under the impact of demographic, social and cultural shifts.

Routledge International Handbook of Medical Educat...

Edited by:
Khalid A. Bin Abdulrahman
Stewart Mennin
et al.

Twenty-first century medical schools, postgraduate bodies and other medical education organisations are responding to rapid advances in medicine, healthcare delivery, educational approaches and techno...

Routledge International Handbook of Advanced Quant...

Edited by:
Susan J. Henly

Designed to support global development of nursing science, the Routledge International Handbook of Advanced Quantitative Methods in Nursing Research provides a new, comprehensive, and authoritative tr...

The Ashgate Research Companion to the Globalizatio...

Edited by:
Ted Schrecker

Global health has emerged as a distinct field of academic research and professional activity.

Routledge International Handbook of Dramatherapy

Edited by:
Sue Jennings
Clive Holmwood

Routledge International Handbook of Dramatherapy is the first book of its kind to bring together leading professionals and academics from around the world to discuss their practice from a truly intern...

Routledge International Handbook of Social Work Ed...

Edited by:
Imogen Taylor
Marion Bogo
et al.

The Routledge International Handbook of Social Work Education provides an authoritative overview of current understanding through coverage of key debates, exploring the state of play in particular soc...

The Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology

Edited by:
Lenore Manderson
Elizabeth Cartwright
et al.

The Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology provides a contemporary overview of the key themes in medical anthropology.

Routledge Handbook of Global Mental Health Nursing

Edited by:
Edilma L. Yearwood
Vicki P. Hines-Martin

"I welcome, at long last, a book on global mental health targeted to nurses, the front-line health worker for billions of people around the world.

The Handbook of Social Work and Social Development...

Edited by:
Mel Gray

All recent books on international social work mention Africa only briefly and few engage with the broader field of development studies.

The Routledge Handbook of Health Tourism

Edited by:
Melanie Kay Smith
László Puczkó

The Routledge Handbook of Health Tourism provides a comprehensive and cutting-edge overview of the philosophical, conceptual and managerial issues in the field of health tourism with contributions fr...

The Routledge International Handbook to Welfare St...

Edited by:
Christian Aspalter

Developing countries may not have full-fledged welfare states like those we find in Europe, but certainly they have welfare state systems.

The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Spirituality a...

Edited by:
Beth R. Crisp

This international volume provides a comprehensive account of contemporary research, new perspectives and cutting-edge issues surrounding religion and spirituality in social work.

Routledge International Handbook of Critical Menta...

Edited by:
Bruce M. Z. Cohen

The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Mental Health offers the most comprehensive collection of theoretical and applied writings to date with which students, scholars, researchers and pract...

The Routledge Handbook of Social Care Work Around ...

Edited by:
Karen Christensen
Doria Pilling

The Routledge Handbook of Social Care Work Around the World provides both a comprehensive and authoritative state-of-the-art review of the current research in this subject.

The Routledge Handbook of Green Social Work

Edited by:
Lena Dominelli
Bala Raju Nikku
et al.

Green social work espouses a holistic approach to all peoples and other living things ? plants and animals, and the physical ecosystem; emphasises the relational nature of all its constituent parts; a...

Handbook of Genomics, Health and Society

Edited by:
Sahra Gibbon
Barbara Prainsack
et al.

The Handbook provides an essential resource at the interface of Genomics, Health and Society, and forms a crucial research tool for both new students and established scholars across biomedicine and so...

Handbook of Pediatric Psychological Screening and ...

Edited by:
Mark E. Maruish

Handbook of Pediatric Psychological Screening and Assessment in Primary Care provides an overview of the principles of screening, monitoring, and measuring of the treatment outcomes of behavioral heal...

Routledge Handbook of Well-Being

Edited by:
Kathleen T. Galvin

The Routledge Handbook of Well-Being explores diverse conceptualisations of well-being, providing an overview of key issues and drawing attention to current debates and critiques.

Routledge Handbook of Health Geography

Edited by:
Valorie A. Crooks
Gavin J. Andrews
et al.

The places of our daily life affect our health, well-being, and receipt of health care in complex ways.

The Routledge Handbook of Disability in Southern A...

Edited by:
Tsitsi Chataika

This comprehensive ground-breaking southern African-centred collection spans the breadth of disability research and practice.

Routledge Handbook on the Politics of Global Healt...

Edited by:
Richard Parker
Jonathan García

<P></P> <P>In the early twenty-first century, key public health issues and challenges have taken centre stage on the global scene, and health has been placed at the heart of our coll...

The Routledge Handbook of Disability Arts, Culture...

Edited by:
Bree Hadley
Donna McDonald

<P>In the last 30 years, a distinctive intersection between disability studies ? including disability rights advocacy, disability rights activism, and disability law ? and disability arts, cultu...

The Routledge Handbook of Critical Social Work

Edited by:
Stephen A. Webb

<P><EM>The Routledge Handbook of Critical Social Work</EM> brings together the world?s leading scholars in the field to provide a cutting-edge overview of classic and current researc...

The Routledge Handbook of Visual Impairment

Edited by:
John Ravenscroft

<P><EM>The Routledge Handbook of Visual Impairment</EM> examines current debates as well as cross-examining traditionally held beliefs around visual impairment.

Men’s Health Equity

Edited by:
Derek M. Griffith
Marino A. Bruce
et al.

Worldwide, men have more opportunities, privileges, and power, yet they also have shorter life expectancies than women.

Handbook of Global Urban Health

Edited by:
Igor Vojnovic
Amber L. Pearson
et al.

Through interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary perspectives, and with an emphasis on exploring patterns as well as distinct and unique conditions across the globe, this collection examines advanced a...

The Routledge Handbook of Social Work Ethics and V...

Edited by:
Stephen M. Marson
Robert E. McKinney

The Routledge Handbook of Social Work Ethics and Values is a comprehensive exploration and assessment of current and future issues facing social work practice and education.

The Routledge Handbook of Social Work Theory

Edited by:
Malcolm Payne
Emma Reith-Hall

The Routledge Handbook of Social Work Theory provides an interdisciplinary and international introduction to social work theory.

Routledge handbook of the medical humanities

Edited by:
Alan Bleakley

This authoritative new handbook offers a comprehensive and cutting-edge overview of the state of the medical humanities globally, showing how clinically oriented medical humanities, the critical stud...

The Routledge Handbook of Postcolonial Social Work

Edited by:
Tanja Kleibl
Ronald Lutz
et al.

The Routledge Handbook of Postcolonial Social Work reflects on and dissects the challenging issues confronting social work practice and education globally in the post-colonial era.

Routledge International Handbook of Delinquency an...

Edited by:
Michael G. Vaughn
Christopher P. Salas-Wright
et al.

The Routledge International Handbook of Delinquency and Health presents state-of-the-art research and theorizing on the intersections between health, delinquency, and the juvenile justice system.

Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies

Edited by:
Nick Watson
Simo Vehmas

This fully revised and expanded second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies takes a multidisciplinary approach to disability and provides an authoritative and up-to-date overview of...

The Routledge Handbook of Disability Activism

Edited by:
Maria Berghs
Tsitsi Chataika
et al.

The onslaught of neoliberalism, austerity measures and cuts, impact of climate change, protracted conflicts and ongoing refugee crisis, rise of far right and populist movements have all negatively imp...

The Routledge Handbook of Critical Pedagogies for ...

Edited by:
Christine Morley
Phillip Ablett
et al.

The Routledge Handbook of Critical Pedagogies for Social Work traverses new territory by providing a cutting-edge overview of the work of classic and contemporary theorists, in a way that expands thei...

The Routledge Handbook Of Adoption

Edited by:
Gretchen Miller Wrobel
Emily Helder
et al.

Adoption is practiced globally yielding a multidimensional area of study that cannot be characterized by a single movement or discipline.

The Routledge Handbook of Social Work and Addictiv...

Edited by:
Audrey L. Begun
Margaret M. Murray

The Routledge Handbook of Social Work and Addictive Behaviors is a definitive resource about addictive behaviors, emphasizing substance misuse, gambling, and problematic technology use.

The Routledge Handbook of Social Work Practice Res...

Edited by:
Lynette Joubert
Martin Webber

The Routledge Handbook of Social Work Practice Research is the first international handbook to focus on practice research for social work.

The Routledge Handbook of Service User Involvement...

Edited by:
Hugh McLaughlin
Peter Beresford
et al.

Worldwide, there has been a growth in service user involvement in education and research in recent years.

The Routledge Handbook of Disability and Sexuality

Edited by:
Russell Shuttleworth
Linda R. Mona

This handbook provides a much-needed holistic overview of disability and sexuality research and scholarship.

The Routledge International Handbook of Domestic V...

Edited by:
John Devaney
Caroline Bradbury-Jones
et al.

This book makes an important contribution to the international understanding of domestic violence and shares the latest knowledge of what causes and sustains domestic violence between intimate pa...

The Routledge International Handbook of Social Wor...

Edited by:
Kieran O’Donoghue
Lambert Engelbrecht

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of social work supervision internationally and presents an analytical review of social work supervision theory, practice, and research.

The Routledge International Handbook of Social Wor...

Edited by:
SJ Dodd

This Handbook is the first volume to address the dynamic issues related to sexuality from a social work perspective by providing a comprehensive, current and international overview of issues related t...

The Routledge Handbook of Public Health and the Co...

Edited by:
Ben Y.F. Fong
Martin C.S. Wong

Community health is an emerging and growing discipline of public health and it focuses on the physical, social, and mental well-being of the people of specific districts.

The Routledge International Handbook of Mad Studie...

Edited by:
Peter Beresford
Jasna Russo

By drawing broadly on international thinking and experience, this book offers a critical exploration of Mad Studies and advances its theory and practice.

Routledge Handbook of Critical Obesity Studies

Edited by:
Michael Gard
Darren Powell
et al.

The Routledge Handbook of Critical Obesity Studies is an authoritative and challenging guide to the breadth and depth of critical thinking and theory on obesity.

The Routledge International Handbook of Indigenous...

Edited by:
Hilary N. Weaver

This handbook provides a comprehensive and cutting-edge strengths-based resource on the subject of Indigenous resilience.

Routledge Handbook of Health and Media

Edited by:
Lester D. Friedman
Therese Jones

The Routledge Handbook of Health and Media provides an extensive review and exploration of the myriad ways that health and media function as a symbiotic partnership that profoundly influences contempo...

The Routledge Handbook of International Critical S...

Edited by:
Stephen A. Webb

The Routledge Handbook of International Critical Social Work is a companion volume to the Routledge Handbook of Critical Social Work.

The Routledge International Handbook of Psychoanal...

Edited by:
Aner Govrin
Tair Caspi

The Routledge International Handbook of Psychoanalysis and Philosophy provides a rich panoramic view of what philosophy offers or disturbs in psychoanalysis and what it represents for psychoanalytic t...

The Routledge International Handbook of Critical A...

Edited by:
Damian Milton
Sara Ryan

This handbook provides an authoritative and up-to-date overview of Critical Autism Studies and explores the different kinds of knowledges and their articulations, similarities, and differences across ...

Handbook on Optimizing Patient Care in Psychiatry

Edited by:
Amresh Shrivastava
Avinash De Sousa
et al.

This handbook examines current mental health research, challenges in patient care, and advances in clinical psychiatry with the aim of improving approaches toward the screening of at-risk individuals,...

The Routledge Handbook of Homelessness

Edited by:
Joanne Bretherton
Nicholas Pleace

The Routledge Handbook of Homelessness brings together many of the world’s leading scholars in the field to provide a cutting-edge overview of classic and current research and future trends in the sub...

The Routledge International Handbook of Digital So...

Edited by:
Antonio López Peláez
Gloria Kirwan

This handbook provides an authoritative and cutting-edge overview of current research and trends related to the emerging field of digital technology and social work.

The Routledge International Handbook of Children's...

Edited by:
Angharad E. Beckett
Anne-Marie Callus

This handbook provides authoritative and cutting-edge analyses of various aspects of the rights and lives of disabled children around the world.
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