Critical scrutiny of public health care and medical strategy depends, among other things, on
how individual states of health and illness are assessed. One of the complications in …

Background: The public gets most of its information about genetic research from the media. It
has been suggested that media representations may involve exaggeration, called …

Most doctors believe medicine to be a force for good. Why else would they have become
doctors? Yet while all know medicine's power to harm individual patients and whole …

Incorporating the latest developments from the field, this eagerly awaited new edition once
again provides an important and comprehensive analysis of the key issues in public health …

The discourse of the patient as an active agent in managing illness and health care has
become very important in medicine. It is seen in the significance attached to patient …

In this book Sami Timimi, a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist, goes to the heart of
the problem and challenges contemporary conceptualisations of children and child …

The entire infrastructure and culture of medicine is being transformed by digital technology,
the Internet and mobile devices. Cyberspace is now regularly used to provide medical …

Understanding how genetic science is communicated to the lay public is of great import. To
address this issue, this study examines the presentation of genetic research relating to …

Although the 'inherited susceptibility'genes BRCA 1 and 2 are only thought to be involved in
approximately 5–10 per cent of all cases of breast cancer, risk assessment and genetic …

During the 19th and early 20th century, public health and genetics shared common ground
through similar approaches to health promotion in the population. By the mid-20th century …