Routledge Revivals
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The Management of Normality: Critical Essays in Health and Welfare
1st Edition
By Abram De Swaan
December 01, 2026
Maintaining normality is hard work. It takes time, effort, and foresight. However, because it is romantic, it is also taken for granted – not least by social scientists. In a series of dazzling case studies, the author shows in his book The Management of Normality (first published in 1990, now ...
The Mind of the Growing Child
1st Edition
Edited
By Viscountess Erleigh
December 01, 2026
Originally published in 1928 and now reissued with a new Preface by Anthony Hulse and a substantial introduction by Gill Gregory, the granddaughter of the author Dr. Hazel Chodak Gregory, this is a remarkable collection of essays. It represents a major contribution to a subject that is increasingly...
The Restrictive Society: A Report on Restrictive Practices
1st Edition
By John A. Lincoln
December 01, 2026
Originally published in 1967, despite the controversial nature of the subject and non-cooperation from Trade Unions and employers’ organisations alike, John A. Lincoln produced the first comprehensive survey of Restrictionism. It is his case that restrictive practices had a stranglehold on almost ...
The Secondary Technical School: A Usable Past?
1st Edition
By Gary McCulloch
December 01, 2026
Originally published in 1989, Gary McCulloch’s work provided an elegant and pointed answer to the plea for more historical study in the curriculum domain. He focuses on a fascinating episode in the long history of vocationalism in Britain – the Secondary Technical School. In undertaking this ...
The Shared Experience: Writing and Teaching: Towards a Disciplined Freedom in the Work of Students and Children
1st Edition
By Eileen MacKinlay
December 01, 2026
What makes children want to write? What does the writing of ‘criticism’ mean to sixth formers and students? What is the relation between a writer’s experience and imagination? First published in 1970, The Shared Experience looks for answers to these questions in the writing of students at colleges ...
The Social Dynamics of Schooling: Participants, Priorities and Strategies
1st Edition
By F. J. Hunt
December 01, 2026
Originally published in 1990, when there was a period of social change, with profound implications for schooling. In many societies efforts were being directed to change the priorities of school activity at all levels and in all sectors. The author examines schooling in commonly used structuralist ...
The Youth Training Scheme: A New Curriculum?: Episode 1
1st Edition
By Terry Edwards
December 01, 2026
Originally published in 1984, this book was the first serious attempt to grapple with the curricular implications of the Youth Training Scheme and with the questions about the organization, administration and manpower policy objectives of the scheme. The book develops an organizational perspective ...
Traditional Country Craftsmen
1st Edition
By J. Geraint Jenkins
December 01, 2026
The country craftsmen have always been an essential member of every rural community. He looked no further than the bounds of his own village or locality for his livelihood and was often carrying on a tradition which went back more than a thousand years. First published in 1965 (reissuing the ...
Two Kinds of Values
1st Edition
By L. M. Loring
December 01, 2026
Originally published in 1966, this book neither presents nor advocates any ethical thesis. It is concerned with ethics only in so far as it selects for treatment one of the various distinctions which may be drawn between ethical and non-ethical evaluation. The two kinds of values here contrasted ...
An Introduction to English Economic History and Theory: Part II: The End of the Middle Ages
1st Edition
By Sir William Ashley
November 30, 2026
First published in 1893, An Introduction to English Economic History and Theory by Sir William Ashley examines England’s economic transformation from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries. Covering topics like town supremacy, crafts, the woollen industry, agrarian revolution, and poverty relief, ...
Doctoring the Media: The Reporting of Health and Medicine
1st Edition
By Anne Karpf
November 30, 2026
First published in 1988, Doctoring the Media by Anne Karpf offers a lively and incisive critique of how the broadcast media reports on health and medicine. From the wartime Radio Doctor to TV coverage of the AIDS crisis, Karpf examines the media’s portrayal of medicine as a triumphant conqueror of ...
Florence Nightingale: A Biography
1st Edition
By Irene Cooper Willis
November 30, 2026
First published in 1931, Florence Nightingale by Irene Cooper Willis offers a detailed account of Nightingale’s life and legacy. Covering her early years, transformative role in the Crimean War, pioneering work in nursing, hospital reform, and statistics, as well as her contributions to Indian ...