Ethnicity, Health and Health Care: Understanding Diversity, Tackling DisadvantageISBN: 978-1-4051-6898-4
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168 pages
May 2008, Wiley-Blackwell
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Waqar I. U. Ahmad is a leading contributor to research on
ethnicity and health, especially in relation to disability and
chronic illness. He edited (with Charles Husband) the Open
University book series, Race, Health and Social Care. Waqar
has published in leading journals in social science
(Sociology, Social Science & Medicine,
Sociology of Health & Illness, Ageing and
Society) and medicine (The Lancet, Journal of Public
Health Medicine). He has been a member of the Economic and
Social Research Council’s Strategic Research Board (2002-06).
Outside of academia, Waqar has been Vice Chair of a Primary Care
Trust and Chief Social Scientist at the Office of the Deputy Prime
Minister (2001-04). He is Assistant Vice Chancellor (Research and
Enterprise) at Middlesex University.
Hannah Bradby has published research papers in Sociology of Health & Illness, Ethnicity & Health and Social Science & Medicine, among other journals. Her latest book is an interpretation of medical sociology for medical students, to be published in 2008 and she is the monograph editor for Sociology of Health & Illness. She teaches at the University of Warwick where she co-directs the Institute of Health.