In recent decades virtually every sphere of life has become subject to a new emotional culture. Professor Furedi suggests that the recent cultural turn toward the realm of the emotions coincides with a radical redefinition of personhood.

Frank Furedi, Routledge, 2002

It seems that every day there is a warning about your children: everything from cots, babysitters, schools, supermarkets and public parks pose a danger. We are told that children's health, safety and welfare and constantly at risk.

Frank Furedi, Continuum, December 2002

The modern world's growing preoccupation with ageing has little or nothing to do with demography but rather that it is used to justify further reductions in the role of government in the economy and the curbing of the welfare state

Phil Mullan, I B Tauris, 25 January 2002

In this book contributors from a variety of healthcare backgrounds make the case for and against CAM

Various, Hodder Arnold and Stoughton, 2001

There are no official statistics collected systematically making it impossible to gain a true picture of the role of alcohol in crime at a national level

Social Issues Research Centre, Social Issues Research Centre, 2001

This book exposes the dangers of the explosion of health awareness for both patients and doctors. The author argues that we need to establish a clear boundary between the worlds of medicine and politics.

Michael Fitzpatrick, Routledge, 11 October 2000