Oxford University Press

This volume brings together an international group of leading scholars from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds to consider the implications of the demographic ageing of western societies on intergenerational relationships and the family. Large data sets from the US, UK, and Europe are drawn on to examine the impact of changing kin structures,...

Barbara Korsch reveals what she has learned about the doctor-patient relationship dilemma during almost half a century of investigation and practice. The book teaches us how to ask the right questions of our doctors, to understand the answers, and shows us how to take more control of visits to the doctor and of our own health....

Ecological thinking is the regulative principle for a theory of knowledge informed by feminism, multiculturalism, and other post-colonial theories. Drawing on ecological theory and naturalized epistemology, it interrogates the instrumental rationality and exploitation of people and places that western epistemologies of mastery legitimate, to...

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There is a growing awareness that peatlands are a key component of the global carbon cycle due to their role as an important carbon sink. However, many ecologists and conservation biologists lack a general understanding of peatlands despite the fact that they are also often repositories for rare species and, in many regions, represent the last...

Revivals are outbursts of religious enthusiasm in which there are numerous        conversions. In this book the phenomenon of revival is set in its broad historical        and historiographical context. David Bebbington provides detailed case-studies of        awakenings that took place between 1841 and 1880 in Britain, North America...