1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910131524703321

Autore

D. Butler Colin

Titolo

Health of people, places and planet : reflections based on Tony McMichael's four decades of contribution to epidemiological understanding / / edited by Colin D. Butler, Jane Dixon and Anthony G. Capon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

ANU Press, 2015

Acton, Australia : , : Australian National University Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-925022-41-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (690 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

614.4

Soggetti

Epidemiology

Epidemiology - History

Public health

Public health surveillance

Social change - Health aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

Pages:1 to 34; Pages:35 to 68; Pages:69 to 102; Pages:103 to 136; Pages:137 to 170; Pages:171 to 204; Pages:205 to 238; Pages:239 to 272; Pages:273 to 306; Pages:307 to 340; Pages:341 to 374; Pages:375 to 408; Pages:409 to 442; Pages:443 to 476; Pages:477 to 510; Pages:511 to 544; Pages:545 to 578; Pages:579 to 612; Pages:613 to 646; Pages:647 to 680; Pages:681 to 690

Sommario/riassunto

This book has three main goals. The first is to celebrate the work of a great public health figure, the late A.J. (Tony) McMichael (1942–2014). The second is to position contemporary public health issues in an interdisciplinary context and in ways that highlight the interdependency between the environment, human institutions and behaviours; a broad approach championed by Tony. The third is to encourage emerging and future public health leaders to advocate for policies and cultural change to sustain and improve human health, from a foundation of objective



scholarship. The book’s foreword and 38 chapters were written by people who were inspired by Tony; many of whom worked with him at some point in the last 40 years. Its structure reflects five major public health domains, each of which Tony made major contributions to in an extremely productive academic life: occupational health and safety; environmental and social epidemiology; nutrition and food systems; climate change and health; and ecosystem change and infectious disease. The final section, ‘Transformation’, is dedicated to Tony’s desire for public health scientists to propose adaptive and mitigating solutions to the problems they were observing. Each section contains at least one key publication involving Tony. There is also a selection of artworks from an exhibition which formed part of the conference held to honour Tony at The Australian National University in 2012. This conference formed the first part of Tony’s festschrift, completed by this book.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910820881303321

Autore

Davie Grace

Titolo

Religion in Britain / / Grace Davie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, England : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2015

2015

ISBN

1-394-26024-5

1-119-00431-4

1-119-00407-1

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (283 p.)

Collana

New York Academy of Sciences

Disciplina

200.941/09051

Soggetti

Christian sociology - Great Britain

Great Britain Religion 20th century

Great Britain Religion 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminaries. Introduction -- Contexts and generations -- Facts and figures -- Religious legacies. Cultural heritage, believing without



belonging and vicarious religion -- Territory, politics and institutions -- Presence: who can do what for whom? -- Shifting priorities: from obligation to consumption. An emerging market: gainers and losers -- Proliferations of the spiritual -- Public religion and secular reactions. Managing diversity -- Religion in public life -- Thinking theoretically. Religion and modernity continued.

Sommario/riassunto

Religion in Britain evaluates and sheds light on the religious situation in twenty-first century Britain; it explores the country's increasing secularity alongside religion's growing presence in public debate, and the impact of this paradox on Britain's society. Describes and explains the religious situation in twenty-first century BritainBased on the highly successful Religion in Britain Since 1945 (Blackwell, 1994) but extensively revised with the majority of the text re-written to reflect the current situationInvestigates the paradox of why Britain has become increasingly secular and how r