Health, illness and addiction: social aspects Books

In an invasive, paternalistic, federal public policy environment for Indigenous communities, this book provides an in-depth account of one person's experiences as a 'Stolen Generation' Aboriginal Australian.Told from the heart, the book speaks in the raw...

This edited collection compares and analyses the most prominent political communicative responses to the outbreak and global spread of the COVID-19 strain of coronavirus within 27 nations across five continents and two supranational organisations: the EU...

Jewish Law and Sanitary Science explores the intersection of Jewish religious law (halakha) and the principles of public health and hygiene. Authored by Jacob Snowman, this work delves into the historical and practical aspects of how Jewish legal...

This interdisciplinary text develops a theory of heterosexism and provides everyday examples from health and social care environments. It engages with current debates, including intersecting identities, and presents a coherent analysis of the health and...

Color Your Complex Regional Pain Syndrome - Teen or Adult Coloring Book for CRPS Awareness has beautifully thought out images, this teen or adult coloring book has 81 full coloring pages of detail. It will provide hours of stress free entertainment and...

This book critically examines the intersection of religion, public health and human security in Nigeria. Focusing on Christianity, Islam, traditional religions and "intra-religious" doctrinal divergencies, the book explores the impact faith has on...

This book critically explores from a comparative international perspective the role medicine plays in constructing and managing natural and social risks, including those belonging to modern medical technology and expertise. Drawing together chapters...

This book explores Native American literary responses to biomedical discourses and biomedicalization processes as they circulate in social and cultural contexts. Native American communities resist reductivism of biomedicine that excludes...

Beretning Om Cholera-Epidemien I K������benhavn, 12 Juni 1853-1 October 1853 (1855) af Hubertz, Jens Rasmussen er en historisk beretning om en kolera-epidemi i K������benhavn i 1853. Bogen beskriver de forskellige stadier af epidemien og dens indvirkning...

The Present State of New England with Respect to the Indian War is a historical book written by Samuel Gardner Drake in 1833. The book provides a detailed account of the Indian War that occurred in New England during the 17th century. It covers the...

""The Panamint Indians of California"" is a historical and ethnographic study of the Panamint tribe of Native Americans, written by Frederick Vernon Coville and originally published in 1892. The book provides a detailed account of the tribe's way of...

This thought-provoking book examines breakdowns in the quality of health and social care over the past decade, exploring governance failures and the challenges of achieving lasting change.

With cutting-edge analysis drawing on domestic and international case law, legislation and policy, this comprehensive volume will prove fascinating reading for all students and researchers interested in this evolving and contentious area of study.

This comprehensive book brings together reflections, lessons and insights relating to the post Covid-19 era in Zimbabwe.

This book argues that neoliberal changes in health and social care go beyond resource allocations, priority setting, and privatisation, and manifest in an invidious erosion of the quality of our social relationships, including relationships between care...

"Do you want an interactive workbook that will support you in following THE raw vegan healing protocol that has been proven to work time and time again? Then this book is for you!" This is a strategically composed workbook which contains a series of...

"Do you want an interactive workbook that will support you in following THE raw vegan healing protocol that has been proven to work time and time again? Then this book is for you!" This is a strategically composed workbook which contains a series of...

"Do you want an interactive workbook that will support you in following THE raw vegan healing protocol that has been proven to work time and time again? Then this book is for you!" This is a strategically composed workbook which contains a series of...

"Do you want an interactive workbook that will support you in following THE raw vegan healing protocol that has been proven to work time and time again? Then this book is for you!" This is a strategically composed workbook which contains a series of...

"Do you want an interactive workbook that will support you in following THE raw vegan healing protocol that has been proven to work time and time again? Then this book is for you!" This is a strategically composed workbook which contains a series of...

"Do you want an interactive workbook that will support you in following THE raw vegan healing protocol that has been proven to work time and time again? Then this book is for you!" This is a strategically composed workbook which contains a series of...

"Do you want an interactive workbook that will support you in following THE raw vegan healing protocol that has been proven to work time and time again? Then this book is for you!" This is a strategically composed workbook which contains a series of...

"Do you want an interactive workbook that will support you in following THE raw vegan healing protocol that has been proven to work time and time again? Then this book is for you!" This is a strategically composed workbook which contains a series of...

"Do you want an interactive workbook that will support you in following THE raw vegan healing protocol that has been proven to work time and time again? Then this book is for you!" This is a strategically composed workbook which contains a series of...

"Do you want an interactive workbook that will support you in following THE raw vegan healing protocol that has been proven to work time and time again? Then this book is for you!" This is a strategically composed workbook which contains a series of...

"Do you want an interactive workbook that will support you in following THE raw vegan healing protocol that has been proven to work time and time again? Then this book is for you!" This is a strategically composed workbook which contains a series of...

"Do you want an interactive workbook that will support you in following THE raw vegan healing protocol that has been proven to work time and time again? Then this book is for you!" This is a strategically composed workbook which contains a series of...

"Do you want an interactive workbook that will support you in following THE raw vegan healing protocol that has been proven to work time and time again? Then this book is for you!" This is a strategically composed workbook which contains a series of...

"Do you want an interactive workbook that will support you in following THE raw vegan healing protocol that has been proven to work time and time again? Then this book is for you!" This is a strategically composed workbook which contains a series of...

"Do you want an interactive workbook that will support you in following THE raw vegan healing protocol that has been proven to work time and time again? Then this book is for you!" This is a strategically composed workbook which contains a series of...

"Do you want an interactive workbook that will support you in following THE raw vegan healing protocol that has been proven to work time and time again? Then this book is for you!" This is a strategically composed workbook which contains a series of...

Body Problems addresses the relationship between the body and society in a fast-food culture. Agger focuses on issues of food, exercise, work, dieting and eating disorders, fashion, bariatric and cosmetic surgery, and health. He addresses a growing,...

This book shows the potential of posthuman thinking for rethinking health care, experiences, subjects and interventions. It explores a range of posthuman dilemmas across diverse health issues as contributors grapple with the ethical, ontological and...

Adolescence and young adulthood is often a difficult enough time without serious illness. However, research has shown that cancer, and surviving cancer, at this age presents distinctive problems medically, socially and psychologically. This important...

In recent years, a number of large population-based biobanks - genetic databases that combine genetic information derived from blood samples with personal data about environment, medical history, lifestyle or genealogy - have been set up in order to...

Dr Alison Talbot-Smith, an experienced doctor and researcher, and Professor Allyson M. Pollock, one of the UKs leading authorities on the NHS, give a lucid and incisive account of the new NHS - which has emerged from a far-reaching programme of...

Tobacco has become one of the most widely used and traded commoditites on the planet. Reflecting contemporary anthropological interest in material culture studies, Anthropology of Tobacco makes the plant the centre of its own contentious, global story in...

Health, Food and Social Inequality investigates how vast amounts of consumer data are used by the food industry to enable the social ranking of products, food outlets and consumers themselves, and how this influences food consumption patterns.This book...

From neo-classical economic theory which one should we choose? Should we say YEY or NEY? Where should we stand when determination of profit comes first before social responsibilities? Should we make sure that social responsibility comes first before...

Russia and a few other Eurasian countries have been home to the fastest growing epidemics of HIV in the world over the last several years. This volume offers country-specific accounts, authored by the leading players in the analysis of the situation and...

Following extensive research in the UK, Bruce Cohen allows mental health users to tell their own stories (or 'narratives') of illness and recovery. Institutional and home treatment care is covered alongside controversial self-coping techniques such as...

This 'landmark' text by one of the most respected researchers in drug use considers the issues surrounding the gendering of drug use, and within this looks critically at two approaches - the classical and postmodern. Ettorre examines the idea of a...

Gender, Identity and Reproduction draws on a variety of perspectives relevant to an understanding of reproduction across the life-course. Through a consideration of the representation of reproductive identities and experiences, the book highlights...

This book explores the intersection between motherhood and physical disability. It is based on a study that focused on the lived experiences of women with physical disabilities, mothers and non-mothers. What meaning does motherhood have for these women?...