Health, illness and addiction: social aspects Books

This reader offers some of the most important writing to date from the science of COVID-19 and what science says about its spread and social implications. The readings have been carefully selected, introduced, and interpreted for an introductory or...

This book critically analyses how politics and power affect the ways that medicine is taught and learned. Challenging society's historic reluctance to connect the realm of politics to the realm of medicine, Medical Education, Politics and Social Justice:...

This book examines the phenomenon of physician-authors. Focusing on the books that contemporary doctors write--the stories that they tell--with contributors critically engaging their work. A selection of original chapters from leading scholars in medical...

This book investigates why women choose 'birth outside the system' and makes connections between women's right to choose where they birth and violations of human rights within maternity care systems.Choosing to birth at home can force women out of...

Identifying the existing challenges and shortfalls of China's current HIV/AIDS programming, this book provides an understanding of the history of HIV/AIDS in China, comparing government responses to global best practice in prevention and treatment...

In the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan, medical patients engage a variety of healing practices to seek cures for their ailments. Patients use the expanding biomedical network and a growing number of traditional healthcare units, while also seeking...

""Native Races and the War"" is a historical book written by Josephine Elizabeth Grey Butler in 1900. The book focuses on the impact of the Boer War on the native races of South Africa. Butler explores the social and political conditions of the native...

Letters On The Cholera Asphyxia, As It Has Appeared In The City Of New York (1832) is a book written by Martyn Paine that describes the outbreak of cholera in New York City in 1832. The book is a collection of letters that Paine wrote to various medical...

Opinions of Henry Brougham on Negro Slavery: With Remarks (1826) is a book written by Henry Brougham, a British statesman and abolitionist. The book is a compilation of Brougham's speeches and writings on the issue of slavery, specifically focusing on...

Essays On Indian Topics is a collection of essays written by Theodore Beck and published in 1888. The book covers a wide range of topics related to India, including its history, culture, religion, and politics. The essays are written in a scholarly...

""The Pathology of Drunkenness"" is a book written by Charles Wilson and originally published in 1855. The book explores the effects of alcohol on the human body and mind, and how excessive drinking can lead to various diseases and health problems...

""The Names Chickahominy, Pamunkey, And The Kuskarawaokes Of Captain John Smith"" is a historical book written by William Wallace Tooker and published in 1901. The book explores the Native American tribes that interacted with Captain John Smith during...

The Mortality Experience Of The Imperial Forces During The War In South Africa, October 11, 1899 To May 31, 1902 is a historical book written by Frederick Schooling in 1903. The book provides a comprehensive account of the mortality rates of the British...

State of Facts Relative to Greenwich Hospital is a historical document written by the Greenwich Hospital in 1779. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the hospital's history, its financial situation, and its operations. It also includes...

Slavery In Kentucky is a historical book written by Ivan Eugene McDougle in 1917. The book provides a comprehensive study of the history of slavery in Kentucky, a state that was a border state during the Civil War. The author explores the origins of...

Perché questo libro?Questo libro nasce dalla necessità imperante di denunciare lo stato attuale delle cose. L'indignazione provocata dal corso intrapreso dalla nostra società mi ha portato a scrivere questo libro, nella speranza di poter portare un po'...

¿Por qué este libro? Este libro nace de la necesidad imperante de denunciar el estado actual de las cosas. La indignación de ver el rumbo que ha tomado nuestra sociedad me ha llevado a escribir este libro, esperando de aportar un poco de luz, quizás de...

Nursing is typically understood, and understands itself, as a care-giving occupation. It is through its relationships with patients - whether these are absent, present, good, bad or indifferent - that modern day nursing is defined. Yet nursing work...

This book provides a critical engagement with the intensified struggles to be found within elderly care provision. Various social and political processes, including the forces of globalisation and the de-gendering of care, have changed how we might...

This book discusses three possible human enhancement paradigms and explores how each involves different values, uses of technology, and different degrees and kinds of ethical concerns. A new framework is advanced that promotes technological innovation...

John Robertson provides a detailed analysis of the impact of housing on public health in this important book. He examines the ways in which poor housing conditions can contribute to the spread of disease and identifies strategies for improving housing...

This lucidly written textbook covers the historical background of clinical sociology as a field and its developing trends around the world. It addresses the urgent need for sociologists to develop a clinical approach in their effort to improve society,...

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is predicted to be one of the greatest threats to public health in the twenty-first century. In this context, understanding the reasons why perceptions of antibiotic risk differ between different groups is crucial when it...

Creating Space models the way in which practice development emerges from reflecting on the human story and reveals to healthcare, the Church and the community, the unique role of the chaplain's experiences as a resource to others.

The recovered possess the key to overcoming anorexia. Although individual sufferers do not know how the affliction takes hold, piecing their stories together reveals two accidental afflictions. One is that activity disorders-dieting, exercising, healthy...

We with COPD. Do you know us? We suffer in silence not understood. You see us in commercials and you see us with our portable oxygen packs and our walkers with wheels and seats or wheelchairs. Wonder how we live? What it's like? Why some who look healthy...

This book explores the power music has to address health inequalities and the social determinants of health and wellbeing. It examines music participation as a determinant of wellbeing and as a transformative tool to impact on wider social, cultural and...

This edited collection problematizes trajectories of health promotion across the lifespan. It provides a distinctive critical social science perspective of the various directions taken by dominant policies in their approach to promoting sport for all...

This book explores the academic processes of nursing education in times of uncertainty around healthcare policy and healthcare provision. Grounded in research examining current theory, policy and culture around nursing pedagogy, Sue Dyson addresses the...

""Bericht �����ber die Cholera-Epidemie in Stettin im Jahre 1866"" ist ein historisches Buch von Adolph Ludwig Friedrich Goeden, das im Jahr 1867 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Es beschreibt die Ausbreitung der Cholera in der Stadt Stettin im Jahr 1866, die...

""Bericht �����ber die Cholera-Epidemie des Jahres 1866 in Halle, in der Straf-Anstalt zu Halle und im Saalkreise"" ist ein Buch von Ernst Delbr�����ck, das im Jahr 1867 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Das Buch beschreibt die Auswirkungen der Cholera-Epidemie...

"Represents a long-overdue examination of anthropology's role in the fight against AIDS, bringing together the anthropological perspective and the problem of AIDS like no other."--Brian Joseph Gilley, University of VermontUntil now, there has been no one...

Journey Home is a set of essays about living and dying with an open heart. While many of us fear death and dying, these essays argue that embracing life and death can help us reclaim a richness we’re denied in a death-phobic culture. What’s...

CHOICE Recommended title 2022This timely book reframes the historic narrative of people, animals, and nature as risks to each other, to one where we think about health as a shared capacity. This new narrative promotes the positive contributions made to...

This book examines the public controversies surrounding lifestyle risks in the consumer society. Comparing news coverage of the globesity pandemic in Britain and the USA, it illustrates the way moral panic brought childrens food marketing to the centre...

Health professionals have shown a growing interest in the therapeutic value of 'hope' in recent years. However, hope has been examined mainly from psychological and biomedical perspectives. Importantly, Hope in Health explores how hope manifests and is...

What did South African AIDS activists contribute, politically, to early international advocacy for free HIV medicines for the world's poor? Mandisa Mbali demonstrates that South Africa's Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) gave moral legitimacy to the...

This book aims to tackle the issues that are central to understanding and addressing one of the most important employment policy problems facing governments in the UK and beyond: the high number of people of working age claiming 'disability' or...

Since its appearance in the United States, AIDS has been called a plague. Yet when we view AIDS in the cultural context of other diseases named as plagues throughout history, it reveals that many diseases become plagues because they are associated with...

Religion and the Health of the Public fills a major gap in academic literature on religion and public health. Its innovative concepts provide a comprehensive theoretical framework for understanding and working on the interface between religion and public...

The current HIV and AIDS regime has opened up unknown vistas in intellectual pursuits and knowledge creation. One such newly opened up area of research is studying HIV and AIDS in relation to gender issues. However, owing to the devastating nature of the...

The allure of tardiness costs the average American not only dollars but also missed opportunities and strained relationships. Despite our constant apologies and avoidance, the key to our being on time remains concealed. In Why I Am Late:...

Most of the HIV/AIDS caregivers in Kenya live in various parts of the country and share many of the trials and tribulations associated with providing care to someone suffering from a terminal illness. Some have been forced into the role due to the death...

Heavy Yokes is a novel written by Janet H. Hadermann and published in 1875. The story is set in the mid-19th century and follows the lives of two sisters, Mary and Martha, who are struggling to make ends meet on their family farm in rural America. The...

""Four Essays On Colonial Slavery"" is a book written by John Jeremie in 1831, which discusses the issue of colonial slavery in the British colonies during the 19th century. The book is divided into four essays, each of which examines different aspects...