Health, illness and addiction: social aspects Books

Pandemics, Science and Policy analyses the World Health Organisation's (WHO) management of the 2009 H1N1 Pandemic. Abeysinghe illustrates the ways in which the WHO's account was vulnerable to contestation, and ultimately how uncertain risks can affect...

Global Health involves, among many things the intensified travelling of people, resources, technologies, knowledge, standards, and ideas. This book describes what happens when innovations are transferred to new settings: What work is needed to make them...

This volume presents an extended reflection on human dependency and the need to 'care' and be 'cared for'. Philosophers, theologians, social theorists, economists, and professional caregivers to discuss the challenges of professional caregiving,...

Through case studies, theoretical research and interviews with leading players in science and governance, this book introduces a new understanding of change in governance of bioscience research. In particular it examines change as it is shaped by...

In recent years, the transitioning body has become the subject of increasing scholarly, medical, and political interest. This interdisciplinary collection seeks to enable productive dialogue about bodily transformation and its many potential meanings and...

This important book not only highlights the high rates of morbidity and mortality among young black women in the US, but also provides a lens through which the reasons behind such health disparities can be understood.

This book examines the organizational consequences of the recent international preoccupation with managing patient safety in the clinic. Built on presuppositions about failsafe system-design, risk elimination, and human fallibility, the patient safety...

The Nocebo Effect documents the transformation of normal conditions into medical problems and brings out the risks that flow from this inflationary practice. One notable risk is that people labeled as sick may find themselves living up to their label...

What is the impact of new health technologies in healthcare and medicine on people's lives? This ground-breaking text explores how new technologies not only provide hope for cure and well being, but also introduce new ethical dilemmas and raise questions...

This book draws on research within neo-Weberian and neo-institutionalist perspectives to critically analyse National Health Services (NHSs) in Western Europe. Exploring the challenges posed by neo-liberal policies, it also looks at the impact of the role...

This volume includes topics analysing the meaning of the Covid-19 pandemic and the social responses to it in various domains: from sex work to wildlife crimes, from new forms of social control in Brazil, Ecuador, Canada and Thailand to the role of music,...

In the summer of 2016, NS, the performance art journal of Los Angeles, brought together 35 performance artists, scholars, and activists to discuss the impact of the ongoing AIDS crisis on queer communities and performance culture in Los Angeles...

Kemdi Chino Opara was born in Nigeria, in West Africa. As a native of Mbaitoli Local Government Area of Imo State, Nigeria. Opara graduated from Government Secondary School in Owerri. To further his education, Opara came to the United States in 1979 and...

Does Hydroxychloroquine work? Does Ivermectin work? It seems that from 2020 and now with the variants, we are suffering from a world-wide nightmare that only Joe Biden thinks has ended. So far, when it seems like it is over, the end point gets stretched...

The Economic Development of a Norfolk Manor, 1086-1565 is a historical book written by Frances Gardiner Davenport in 1906. The book explores the economic and social changes that took place in a Norfolk manor over a period of almost 500 years, from the...

Covid-19 has been a global challenge for more than two years. We do not know exactly how and when this, the worst epidemic in the last 100 years will end, but we are almost sure that it will keep mutating and remain with us well into the future. As...

Following the detection of the first HIV infections in the early 1980s, by the 1990s Thailand was routinely depicted as having the world's fastest moving HIV/AIDS epidemic. However, by the early 2000's the bulk of scholarly and medical AIDS literature...

Focusing on the broad range of attitudes Black people employ to make sense of their Blackness, this volume offers the latest research on racial identity. The first section explores meaning-making, or the importance of holding one type of racial-cultural...

Societies Of The Iowa, Kansa, And Ponca Indians is a book written by Alanson Skinner in 1915. The book provides a detailed description of the social structures of three Native American tribes - the Iowa, Kansa, and Ponca. Skinner, a renowned...

Reconstruction In Turkey: A Series Of Reports Compiled For The American Committee Of Armenian And Syrian Relief (1918) is a book written by William H. Hall. The book provides a detailed account of the reconstruction efforts that were undertaken in Turkey...

""Postscript To The Reply Point By Point"" is a book written by Robert Thorpe in 1815. It contains an expos����� of the misrepresentation of the treatment of captured Negroes at Sierra Leone. The book is a response to a previous publication that had...

""Letters From The Scenes Of The Recent Massacres In Armenia"" is a historical book written by James Rendel Harris in 1897. The book is a collection of letters written by Harris, who was a British scholar and missionary, during his travels to Armenia in...

""Early History of Georgia: Embracing the Embassy of Alexander Cumin to the Country of the Cherokees, in the Year 1730"" is a historical book written by Samuel Gardner Drake and published in 1872. The book focuses on the early history of Georgia, a state...

Des Maladies Des Gens De Cour Et Du Beau Monde Francois (1771) de Langhans, Daniel est un livre qui traite des maladies courantes qui affectent la noblesse fran�����aise et les gens de la haute soci�����t�����. L'auteur, un m�����decin allemand,...

In The COVID Fight: Why It Matters & Other Essays, Tom Renz exposes the darker facets of malfeasance during a time of pandemic crisis and informs the reader of the far-reaching consequences of unchecked fraud, compelling us to...

Dementia is a particularly cruel and teasing disease for which there is no known cure. No vaccine... and no escape, once it takes a hold. My book is a personal, yet hopefully objective, and sociological, reflection on all aspects of caring for my...

The Community Health Problem is a book written by Athel Campbell Burnham in 1920. The book focuses on the public health issues and challenges faced by communities during the early 20th century. Burnham provides a comprehensive analysis of the various...

The Convention of Drunkards is a satirical essay on the subject of intemperance, written by Charles Giles and originally published in 1840. The book presents a humorous take on the issue of excessive drinking and its negative effects on individuals and...

Yoga Science is an ancient Indian discipline that traces its roots back five thousand years to the Vedas, a collection of texts authored by Vedvyas during the Treta Yuga. The essence of Yoga is elucidated within these sacred scriptures, which form part...

The Trades Union Movement is a historical book written by Annie Besant in 1890. The book provides a detailed account of the origin and development of the trade union movement in Britain during the 19th century. It covers the various struggles and...

This guidance note is designed to help developing member countries of the Asian Development Bank strengthen their health systems and security as they recover from the impact of COVID-19.Drawing on evidence-based and expert-validated interventions, it...

Jeremy Schreiber was on top of the world-athletic, newly married, successful. And then something went terribly wrong. In this moving memoir, he shares his journey after he received a terrifying diagnosis: ALS.As the devastating disease robbed him of...

""Essays on Asylums for Inebriates"" is a book written by Samuel Bayard Woodward and published in 1838. The book focuses on the treatment and care of individuals suffering from alcoholism and drug addiction, and the need for specialized institutions to...

""England and the Opium Trade with China"" is a historical book published in 1880 by Dyer Brothers. It explores the controversial opium trade between England and China during the 19th century. The book delves into the political and economic motivations...

Myths And Legends Of British North America is a book written by Katharine Berry Judson and originally published in 1917. The book is a collection of myths and legends from various regions of British North America, including Canada and the United States...

The World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control is a closed shop. It suffers strategic and resource weaknesses. The result is more harm to tobacco consumers than would otherwise be the case. As long as the sole strategy is supply...

अनुवादक का परिचय मयूरी वाळके एक लेखक और अनुवादक हैं। उन्होंने बेल्स बुक के अलावा, संवाद साधने का हुनर, दोबारा पटरी पर, मिलिए खिलौने वाले मजाकिया टॉमी से, और मिलिए प्यारे अग्निरोधक फ्रेडी से, जैसी कई बाल-कथाएँ, अंग्रेजी से...

This collection is dedicated to the diagnostic moment and its unrivaled influence on encompassment and exclusion in health care. Diagnosis is seen as both an expression and a vehicle of biomedical hegemony, yet it is also a necessary and speculative tool...

Recent studies into the experiences and failures of health care services, along with the rapid development of patient advocacy, consumerism and pressure groups have led historians and social scientists to engage with the issue of the medical complaint...

This book discusses environmental health in the context of public health, the role of the profession, issues of visibility and opportunities for impact in today's policy landscape

""Etudes sur le Cher pendant la R�����volution"" est un livre �����crit par Theodore Lemas en 1887. Ce livre est une �����tude approfondie sur l'histoire du d�����partement du Cher pendant la R�����volution fran�����aise. L'auteur explore les...

The Confessions Of A Drunkard: A Narrative Founded On Fact is a book written by Luke Howard and originally published in 1821. The book is a first-person narrative of a man who struggles with alcoholism, detailing his descent into addiction and the...

""The Sanitary Condition of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania"" is a non-fiction book written by Hugh Hamilton in 1886. The book describes the sanitary conditions of the city of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania during the late 19th century. It provides a detailed account...