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1. Structural Approaches to Public Health

   Edited by Marni Sommer, Richard Parker

   That health has many social determinants is established and a myriad of structural factors are now known to impact on population well-being. Public health practice has started exploring and responding to a range of health-related challenges from a structural paradigm, including individual and...

   To Be Published February 14th 2013 by Routledge
2. Understanding Global Sexualities

   New Frontiers

   Edited by Peter Aggleton, Paul Boyce, Henrietta L Moore, Richard Parker

   Series: Sexuality, Culture and Health

   Over the course of the past thirty years, there has been an explosion of work on sexuality, both conceptually and methodologically. From a relatively limited, specialist field, the study of sexuality has expanded across a wide range of social sciences. Yet as the field has grown, it has become...

   To Be Published June 21st 2012 by Routledge
3. 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. Growing concern for issues such as population, women's and men's reproductive health, and the HIV and AIDS pandemic, has since...

   Published February 5th 2012 by Routledge
4. Can Emerging Technologies Make a Difference in Development?

   Edited by Rachel A. Parker, Richard P. Appelbaum

   In this innovative and entirely original text, which has been thoughtfully edited to ensure coherence and readability across disciplines, scientists and practitioners from around the world provide evidence of the opportunities for, and the challenges of, developing collaborative approaches to...

   Published January 3rd 2012 by Routledge
5. 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. They range from arsenic in drinking water to asthma among children and adults; from the re-emergence of cholera, to increasing cancer rates and other chronic diseases; from AIDS to malaria...

   Published December 16th 2010 by Routledge
6. Sexuality, Health and Human Rights

   By Sonia Corrêa, Rosalind Petchesky, Richard Parker

   Series: Sexuality, Culture and Health

   This new work surveys how rapid changes taking place at the start of the twenty-first century in social, cultural, political and economic domains impact on sexuality, health and human rights. The relationships between men, women and children are changing quickly, as are traditional family...

   Published June 29th 2008 by Routledge
7. New Technology @ Work

   By Paul Boreham, Rachel Parker, Paul Thompson, Richard Hall

   New computer and communications technologies have acted as the catalyst for a revolution in the way goods are produced and services delivered, leading to profound changes in the way work is organized and the way jobs are designed. This important book examines the nature, setting and impact of new...

   Published December 12th 2007 by Routledge
8. Culture, Society and Sexuality

   A Reader

   Edited by Richard Parker, Peter Aggleton

   Series: Sexuality, Culture and Health

   This new and revised edition of Culture, Society and Sexuality brings together and makes accessible a broad and international selection of readings to provide insights into the social, cultural, political and economic dimensions of sexuality and relationships, and emerging discourses around sexual...

   Published December 20th 2006 by Routledge
9. Culture, Society And Sexuality

   A Reader

   Edited by Peter Aggleton, Richard Parker

   Since the beginnings of time, people have been interested in sex - the form it takes, the pleasure it can give, the circumstances in which it occurs, and what it means - both for the individuals concerned and to society more generally. Often seen as a synonym for love, sometimes as an expression of...

   Published December 15th 1998 by Routledge
10. Beneath the Equator

    Cultures of Desire, Male Homosexuality, and Emerging Gay Communities in Brazil

    By Richard Parker

    Published November 3rd 1998 by Routledge