PWR: Rhetorics of Health, Illness, and Medicine: Handbooks
This guide page supports the program in writing and rhetoric course on health, illness and medicine for PWR1SBB
Utilizing handbooks for background information
- The Oxford handbook of global health politicsGlobal health politics has emerged over the last two decades as a distinct, interdisciplinary field of study which is beginning to demonstrate signs of maturity. It is concerned with the actions, practices, and policies that govern the sphere of global health. The field addresses not only the processes of decision-making, but also the structures of power that shape what is possible and the requirement for collective action to address global problems. Politics is unavoidable, necessary, and integral to effectively addressing global health challenges. The study of global health politics therefore is not about how to minimise interference in rational decision-making, but rather about explaining and improving the quality of political institutions and processes that will, in turn, improve global health action and, ultimately, outcomes
- Oxford handbooks onlineThe complete texts of the Oxford handbooks in Archaeology, Business and Management, Classical Studies, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Economics and Finance, History, Linguistics, Literature, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, Religion, and Sociology online. Extensive links make the online handbooks easy to navigate making these valuable reference resources more easily discoverable, accessible and searchable. Contains 13,000+ in-depth essays by the world's leading scholars.
- SAGE researchmethodsSAGE Research Methods focuses on methodology rather than disciplines, it can be used across the social sciences, health sciences, and other areas of research.
- Wiley online libraryConsists of a multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities. Includes over 4 million articles from 1500 journals, 9000 books, handbooks, etc.
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Subjects: Medicine and health, Sociology
Tags: communication, Health, illness, Rhetoric, social science, Well-Being