Description
Book SynopsisFeaturing state-of-the-art contributions from leading experts in their respective fields, the
Encyclopedia of Health Research in the Social Sciences explores an extensive range of topics, concepts, research approaches and theoretical orientations aimed at providing guidance for those undertaking health research.
Cross-disciplinary in scope, the Encyclopedia provides an accessible introduction to a wide variety of complex topics and presents a comprehensive overview of the latest findings in the field of health research. Entries examine timely issues such as big data in healthcare, complementary and alternative medicine, feminism and population health, social class and health inequalities, and vaccination debates. It ultimately exemplifies how social science perspectives can be deployed to help us better understand how individuals, institutions and society can act to support health and wellbeing.
This informative Encyclopedia will be an indispensable reference for undergraduate and postgraduate students across disciplines with an interest in the complex relations between health research and the social sciences.
Key Features:
- 65 fully-referenced entries
- An interdisciplinary approach, with topics ranging from animal studies to wellbeing
- Written in a concise and accessible style, enabling researchers and students of social science to consider how to relate entries to their own interests
Trade Review‘Kevin Dew and Sarah Donovan offer an invaluable conceptual toolkit for health researchers wanting to learn more about what the social sciences have to offer them. The range of topics covered in this volume is impressive, providing guidance to key ideas, debates and further reading on specialist topics.’ -- Alan Petersen, Monash University, Australia
Table of ContentsContents: Introduction to the Encyclopedia of Health Research in the Social Sciences x Kevin Dew and Sarah Donovan Animal studies and healthcare 1 James Gillett Big data in healthcare 7 Mary F.E. Ebeling Breastfeeding 12 Emily Hansen and Jennifer Ayton Chronic illness 18 Dima Rusho and Narelle Warren Commercial determinants of health 24 Sarah Hill Communication research on climate change 30 Eryn Campbell, Sri Saahitya Uppalapati, John Kotcher, and Edward Maibach Complementary and alternative medicine 36 Caragh Brosnan Complexity theory and evaluation 42 Elizabeth McGill Contested illness 48 Tarryn Phillips and Catherine Trundle Critical policy analysis 54 Heather Came and Dominic O’Sullivan Critical quantitative research 59 Lindsay McLaren Critical realism 65 Lee F. Monaghan Cultural health capital 71 Leslie Dubbin and Janet K. Shim Death and dying 77 Rebecca E. Olson and Zhaoxi Zheng Dementia studies 82 James Rupert Fletcher Digital health 88 Benjamin Marent and Flis Henwood Disasters and health 94 Sudeepa Abeysinghe Discourse analysis 98 Ewen Speed Economics for health equity 103 Lindsay McLaren Ethical sensibilities in ethnographies of care 109 Ignacia Arteaga and Henry Llewellyn Ethnicity, racism and health 115 Hannah Bradby Feminism and population health 122 Kalysha Closson and Allison Carter Framing pollution 128 Lesley Henderson Genetic medicine 135 Courtney Addison Harm reduction 140 Rebecca J. Haines-Saah and Elaine Hyshka Health promotion 146 Morten Hulvej Rod and Katherine L. Frohlich Hermeneutic phenomenology 151 Susan Crowther Hormonal contraception 158 Nayantara Sheoran Appleton Indigenous peoples and health research 164 Anna Adcock and Fiona Cram Indoor ecologies and health 169 Rachael Wakefield-Rann Leadership 175 David Evans LGBTQ+ health and social research 181 Anthony K.J. Smith and Christy E. Newman Life course research 187 David Blane Medicalisation 192 Kevin Dew Micro-analysis and health interactions 198 Maria Stubbe Mobilities and health 204 Judith Green Nature and wellbeing 211 Jonathan (Yotti) Kingsley Neoliberalism 216 Peri Ballantyne New medical technologies 221 John Gardner Occupational health and safety 227 Josh Barton Older age 232 Gavin J. Andrews and Stephanie Hatzifilalithis Pandemics and epidemics 237 Robert Dingwall Pharmaceuticalisation 243 Jonathan Gabe Postmodernism and health research 248 Lee Thompson Practice theory and health intervention 251 Fiona Spotswood Prenatal screening 256 Ruth P. Fitzgerald Professionalization 261 Jette Ernst Qualitative evidence synthesis 266 Christopher J. Colvin Qualitative interviews 271 Hilary Thomas and Sarah Earthy Responsibility 277 Catherine Trundle Science and Technology Studies 283 Catherine M. Montgomery Sensory methods 288 Marilys Guillemin and Susan M. Cox Sexuality and health 293 Maria Isabel Romero Ruiz Social class and health inequalities 299 Sarah Hill Social marketing 305 Fiona Spotswood Sociology of pesticides 310 Manuel Vallée Stigma and public health 317 Tamar M.J. Antin and Emile Sanders Symbolic interactionism 322 James Rupert Fletcher Translational research 328 Trisha Greenhalgh and Anne E. Ferrey Trust 335 Michael Calnan Vaccination debates 342 Brian Martin Video-reflexive ethnography 346 Katherine Carroll Violence against women 352 Janet L. Fanslow Visual methods 359 Susan M. Cox and Marilys Guillemin Wellbeing 365 Kim McLeod
