Two new publications from the School of Health and Social Studies tackle the issue of domestic violence, Violence Against Women in South Asian Communities and Domestic Violence: Working with Men.

Roger Casemore, Senior Teaching Fellow and Director of Counselling and Psychotherapy courses at Warwick,  co-edits a new collection of narratives on ethics in day-to-day therapeutic practice. Highly experienced professionals from a range of roles in the therapeutic professions explore ways of developing ethical and effective relationships.

Dr Barbara Merrill, of the University of Warwick's Centre for Lifelong Learning, co-edits a book which considers important questions about what research is for, what makes it valid, to the practical business of interviewing, analyzing and writing up of biographical data. The authors draw on their sociological and psychological orientations to provide a truly interdisciplinary approach to the subject, and provide numerous examples of biographical research across the social sciences.

Sarah Hodges, Associate Professor in the Department of History, has authored a new book detailing the hisotry of birth control in South India from 1920-1940.

It is the latest installment within the ongoing series - The History of Medicine in Context.

This book offers a unique multi-disciplinary perspective on tackling health inequalities in a rich country, examining the New Labour policy agenda for tackling health inequalities and its inherent challenges. The book presents an overview of progress since the publication of the seminal and ambitious "1998 Acheson Inquiry" into health inequalities, and the theoretical and methodological issues underpinning health inequalities. The contributors consider the determinants of inequality - for example, early childhood experience and ethnicity - the factors that mediate the relationship between determinants and health - nutrition, housing and health behaviour - and the sectoral policy interventions in user involvement, local area partnership working and social work. "Challenging Health Inequalities" offers a combination of broad analysis of progress from differing perspectives and will be key reading to academics, students and policy makers.