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White Sarisand Sweet MangoesAging, Gender, and Body in North Indiasarah lamb This book is about aging, gender, and the making and unmaking of persons.Early on in my days in Mangaldihi…[...]

Cosmopolitan Familiesin India and AbroadSarah Lamb This book uses aging as a lens to examine and reflect upon profound processesof social change under way in India and the world today.…[...]

Families in Ageing SocietiesA Multi-Disciplinary ApproachEdited bySARAH HARPER The trends towards falling fertility and mortality, and increasing longevity,which have led to the demographic ageing of all western industrialized societies,have not…[...]

Peter Morrall is Senior Lecturer in Health and Sociology at theUniversity of Leeds, UK. This lively, introductory text provides students and health practitionerswith the foundations of a sociological understanding ofhealth…[...]

Edited by Michael Grenfeil Pierre Bourdieu is now regarded as one of the foremost socialphilosophers of the twentieth century. Born in a small village in theFrench Pyrenees, his extraordinary academic…[...]

frontiers of narrativeSeries Editor: David Herman,North Carolina State University No single period or society can do without narratives. And, a good numberof contemporary thinkers hasten to add, whatever you say…[...]

Edited byKedar Nath Dwivediand Ved Prakash Varma There has been a growing awareness of the need to take the problem ofchildhood depression more seriously. It is sometimes felt that there…[...]

Handbook ofDepression inChildren andAdolescentsEdited byJohn R. Z. AbelaBenjamin L. Hankin Children and adolescents are currently experiencing depression at anunprecedented rate. As prevalence rates of depression in Western cultures have soared…[...]

Edited byHeather Eatonand Lois Ann Lorentzen TH IS VOLUME IS AN IMPORTANT EFFORT to evaluate the discourse of ecofemi- nism, which has emerged worldwide in the last three decades, and…[...]

Medical SociologyAn IntroductionHannah Bradby Teachers collaborating on a medical curriculum tend to argue that their ownspecialist subject requires a significant amount of time to be devoted to it andfierce debates…[...]