Through the detailed examination of a large corpus of healthcare interactions collected from a range of settings over a 25 year period, Pilnick illustrates the ways in which there are good organisational and interactional reasons for what may look from a PCC perspective like 'bad' healthcare practice.

The Routledge Handbook of Critical Obesity Studies is an authoritative and challenging guide to the breadth and depth of critical thinking and theory on obesity. Rather than focusing on obesity as a public health crisis to be solved, this reference work offers divergent and radical strategies alongside biomedical and positivist discourses.

Originally published between 1968 and 1989, this set presents a coherent body of information on the inter-relation between nutrition, health and disease in its social context. They examine various aspects of disease ecology relating socio-geographical contrasts to a dichotomy between infectious and non-infectious diseases.