Disease & Health Issues

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770414198Author Dan RubinsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,Canada

This book explores how, why and when hermeneutic phenomenology can be used as a methodology in health and social research. Providing actual examples of doing robust hermeneutic phenomenology and a focus on praxis, the book demonstrates how philosophical...

Addictions to iphones, painkillers, cupcakes, alcohol and sex are taking over our lives. Our most casual daily habits can quickly become obsessions that move beyond our control. Damian Thompson, who has himself struggled with a range of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781312529380Author Donald JeffriesFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 399gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 16mm

Having spent a ground-breaking career studying the racialisation, policing, and criminalisation of HIV, Dr. Thrasher has come to understand a deeper truth at the heart of our society: that there are vast inequalities in who is able to survive viruses and...

The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) is iconic in the landscape of Indian healthcare. Established in the early years of independence, this enormous public teaching hospital rapidly gained fame for the high-quality treatment it offered at a...

Based on more than two hundred interviews with ACT UP members and rich with lessons for today's activists, Let the Record Show is a revelatory exploration - and long-overdue reassessment - of the coalition's inner workings, conflicts, achievements, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639730476Author Sam QuinonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 437g

What part do the values of growth and prosperity, freedom and justice, security and democracy play in social policy and human welfare? How can we judge the validity of these - the founding principles of Western liberalism - and the policies they shape,...

When you think of 'gambling' you might think of Vegas casinos, betting shops and football flutters but the risk of gambling is embedded in numerous corners of popular culture that many of us consume. By considering the concept of 'soft gambling', No...

Originally entitled 'Mental Health Needs of Children and Young People with Learning Disabilities', this new edition focuses on the care and support of those with moderate and severe intellectual disabilities. In addition to bringing the content fully up...

How can sociology explain the emergence of mental disorders in societies or individuals? This authoritative book makes a case for the renewal of the sociology of mental illness, proposing a reorganisation of this field around four areas: social...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593240823Author Alex JadadFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA...

Is opium a vile curse on society, a blessed medicine from God, or possibly both? This fresh history offers surprising new insights. Opium and its derivatives morphine and heroin have destroyed, corrupted, and killed individuals, families, communities,...

Kate Gunn was a social drinker, usually having a few drinks about three nights a week. But she had an inkling that alcohol was holding her back from getting on top of her life, and the hangovers were getting worse. So, when Kate's partner had to take...

Once it was difficult to see end of life care beyond conventional medical intervention, but hospice and palliative care introduced a more holistic approach, providing quality of life for the dying and their families. This ground-breaking work takes...

Award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Gerald Posner traces the heroes and villains of the trillion-dollar-a-year pharmaceutical industry and uncovers how those once entrusted with improving life have often betrayed that ideal to...

As many as 5-10 million Americans may suffer from body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) yet it remains under-recognized by both mental health professionals and the general public. Tormented by obsessive thoughts associated with physical appearance, and...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783837679540Author Joao CostaFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Transcript PublishingPublisher Transcript PublishingWeight(grams) 435gDimensions(mm)...

Now in its fourth edition, Dennis Raphael's Social Determinants of Health offers the definitive Canadian discussion of the primary factors that influence the health of Canada's population.This unique text on the social determinants of health contains...

First published in 1971, The Process of Becoming Ill is concerned with how people become ill: not with how people contract diseases but how people come to occupy the social status of 'sick person'. It is concerned with an analysis of illness behaviour in...

The authors take a social perspective to show how loneliness is shaped by illness experience, life histories, and broader social factors such as stigma, social networks, healthcare systems and social inequalities.

This 2nd edition provides readers with an updated single source reviewing and updating sociological theory in medical or health sociology. The book not only addresses the major theoretical approaches in the field today, it also identifies the future...

This edited book focuses on the social aspects and impacts of Long COVID from an international perspective, including contributions from researchers in the UK, Italy, Switzerland, the Netherlands. USA and Australia. The book highlights how Long COVID...

This book provides a broad analysis of the important and ongoing issue of municipal self-governments' response to the Covid-19 pandemic in the Visegrad Group countries with the special emphasis on the post-pandemic recovery. Focusing on municipal...

This report summarizes the actions taken by Governments and by the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) on precursors to prevent chemical diversion and to implement the provisions of the United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in...

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Stigma has long been a central concern for social scientists studying health and illness. Yet, in existing work, stigma often escapes definition and clarification, is treated as universal and...

In many countries, abortion is a contentious public opinion issue. In nations like the United States, advocates on both sides of the debate have actively worked to amplify their voices and change legislation. In other parts of the world, such as China,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789629376536Author Kenneth N. K. FongFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint City University of Hong Kong PressPublisher City University of Hong Kong...

Health and Social Justice provides a theoretical framework for health ethics, public policy and law in which Dr Ruger introduces the health capability paradigm, an innovative and unique approach which considers the capability of health as a moral...

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STDs in the United States: A Reference Handbook provides information about sexually transmitted diseases and infections and their impact on both an individual and a societal level.STDs in the United States: A Reference Handbook provides extensive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798893566017Author David ArietiFormat HardbackPage Count 798Imprint ArpressPublisher ArpressWeight(grams) 1225g

Bodies Unbound is a comparative study showing how ideologies of gendered bodies shape medical care and the ways in which patients respond to these ideologies through decisions about their bodies using three cases: transgender men seeking preventative...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798893891379Author David ArietiFormat PaperbackPage Count 798Imprint ArpressPublisher ArpressWeight(grams) 1048gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 40mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798217168422Author John GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Random House Large PrintPublisher Diversified PublishingWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm)...

This handbook explores the ways biomedicine and pop culture interact while simultaneously introducing the reader with the tools and ideas behind this new field of enquiry. From comic books to health professionals, from the arts to genetics, from sci-fi...

The COVID pandemic has shaken the material and social foundations of the world more than any event in recent history and has highlighted and exacerbated a longstanding crisis of care. While these challenges may be freshly visible to the public, they are...

This book is the first to bring together an interdisciplinary collection of essays on surrogacy and egg donation from three socially, legally and culturally distinct countries - India, Israel and Germany. It presents contributions from experts in the...