Critical Perspectives in Public Health (Hardcover)

Section 1: Introduction 1. Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue: Public Health in the Twenty-First Century Section 2: Unfair Cases: Social Inequalities in Health 2. Introduction 3. Social Capital and the Third Way in Public Health 4. Poverty, Policy and Pathogenesis: Economic Justice and Public Health 5. HIV Infection in Women: Social Inequalities as Determinants of Risk Section 3: Making Traces: Evidence for Practice and Evaluation 6. Introduction 7. Strong Theory, Flexible Methods: Evaluating Complex Community-Based Initiatives 8. Tackling Health Inequalities through Partnership Working: Learning from a Realistic Evaluation 9. Using Theory-Based Evaluation to Build Evidence-Based Health and Social Care Policy and Practice 10. Evaluating Evidence and Making Judgements of Study Quality: Loss of Evidence and Risks to Policy and Practice Decisions Section 4: Colonising Places: Public Health and Globalisation 11. Introduction 12. The Politics of Female Genital Surgery in Displaced Communities 13. International Governance and World Trade Organization (WTO) Reform 14. Medicine Keepers: Issues in Indigenous Health 15. Equity, Democracy and Globalisation Section 5: Edgy Spaces: Policy, Technology and the Public Health 16. Introduction 17. Moving Bodies: Injury, Disease and the Social Organisation of Space 18. Antibiotic Resistance: An Exemplary Case of Medical Nemesis 19. Introductions to Special Issue on Genetics 20. Passionate Epistemology, Critical Advocacy, and Public Health: Doing our Profession Proud