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Funding the Fight: Budgeting for HIV/AIDS in Developing Countries by Teresa Guthrie 9781919798714
£13.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781919798714Author Teresa GuthrieFormat PaperbackPage Count 353Imprint IDASA PublishersPublisher IDASA (Institute for Democracy in South... -
From Hiroshima to Fukushima to You: A Primer on Radiation and Health by Dale Dewar 9781771131278
£9.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771131278Author Dale DewarFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Between the LinesPublisher Between the Lines -
Twenty Years of Life: Why the Poor Die Earlier and How to Challenge Inequity by Suzanne Bohan 9781610918015
RRP: £28.00£23.27In Twenty Years of Life, Suzanne Bohan exposes the disturbing flip side of the American dream: your health is largely determined by your zip code. The strain of living in a poor neighborhood, with sub-par schools, lack of parks, fear of violence, few to... -
National Drug Control Strategy by Heather G. Williams 9781606925539
£65.09The National Drug Control Strategy, a balanced approach to reducing drug use in America focusing on stopping use before it starts, healing America's drug users, and disrupting the market for illegal drugs was launched in 2003. The Strategy would pursue... -
Deadly Biocultures: The Ethics of Life-making by Nadine Ehlers 9781517905071
£20.01A trenchant analysis of the dark side of regulatory life-making today In their seemingly relentless pursuit of life, do contemporary U.S. "biocultures"-where biomedicine extends beyond the formal institutions of the clinic, hospital, and lab to everyday... -
Paradoxes of Care: Children and Global Medical Aid in Egypt by Rania Kassab Sweis 9781503628502
£85.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781503628502Author Rania Kassab SweisFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Stanford University PressPublisher Stanford University PressWeight(grams) 152g -
At Risk: Indian Sexual Politics and the Global AIDS Crisis by Gowri Vijayakumar 9781503627529
£85.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781503627529Author Gowri VijayakumarFormat HardbackPage Count 261Imprint Stanford University PressPublisher Stanford University PressWeight(grams) 152g -
Inequality and African-American Health: How Racial Disparities Create Sickness by Shirley A. Hill 9781447322825
RRP: £27.99£21.57This book shows how living in a highly racialized society affects health through multiple social contexts, including neighborhoods, personal and family relationships, and the medical system. Black-white disparities in health, illness, and mortality have... -
Inequality and African-American Health: How Racial Disparities Create Sickness by Shirley A. Hill 9781447322818
RRP: £79.99£60.86This book shows how living in a highly racialized society affects health through multiple social contexts, including neighborhoods, personal and family relationships, and the medical system. Black-white disparities in health, illness, and mortality have... -
Our Unsystematic Health Care System by Grace Budrys 9781442248472
RRP: £41.14£37.42Our Unsystematic Health Care System presents readers with a comprehensive overview of the U.S. health care delivery system. Significantly revised and updated, the fourth edition explores the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, or... -
Transforming Contagion: Risky Contacts among Bodies, Disciplines, and Nations by Breanne Fahs 9780813589596
£116.462019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Moving from viruses, vaccines, and copycat murder to gay panics, xenophobia, and psychopaths, Transforming Contagion energetically fuses critical humanities and social science perspectives into a boundary-smashing... -
The Best Place: Addiction, Intervention, and Living and Dying Young in Vancouver by Danya Fast 9781978834897
RRP: £134.00£116.46In both local and international imaginations, Vancouver, Canada, is often celebrated as one of the world’s most beautiful, cosmopolitan, and livable cities. Simultaneously, the city continues to be ground zero for successive waves of public health... -
The Best Place: Addiction, Intervention, and Living and Dying Young in Vancouver by Danya Fast 9781978834880
£29.89In both local and international imaginations, Vancouver, Canada, is often celebrated as one of the world’s most beautiful, cosmopolitan, and livable cities. Simultaneously, the city continues to be ground zero for successive waves of public health... -
Forgotten Bodies: Imperialism, Chuukese Migration, and Stratified Reproduction in Guam by Sarah A. Smith 9781978832602
£29.89Women from Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia, who migrate to Guam, a U.S. territory, suffer disproportionately poor reproductive health outcomes. Though their access to the United States is unusually easy, through a unique migration agreement, it... -
Social Aspects of Illness, Disease & Sickness Absence by Halvor Nordby 9788274774803
£21.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788274774803Author Halvor NordbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 287Imprint Oslo Academic PressPublisher Oslo Academic PressWeight(grams) 470g -
Heroin Addiction: Prevalence, Treatment Approaches & Health Consequences by Ayman M. Fareed 9781634632126
£111.20This book starts by elaborating on the history of the consumption of heroin in central Asia and how this problem came to be a current epidemic in this part of the world. Adolescents tend to hide their heroin addiction from families until it is out of... -
Substance Abuse: Prevalence, Genetic & Environmental Risk Factors & Prevention by Jeffrey Raines 9781633219496
£105.36In this book, the authors present current research in the study of alcohol and substance abuse. Topics discussed in this compilation include the correlation of alcohol misuse and team sport participation; the cutaneous effects of adultered cocaine;... -
Addiction: A Guide to Understanding its Nature & Essence by Colin O'Driscoll 9781631177064
£55.93What is available in accessible literature terms is very limited. The information that tends to be provided to those affected by addiction is often dated, includes over labelling and is based more on tradition than on sound evidence. What we know now... -
Long-Term Services & Supports for the Elderly: Elements, Trends & Financing by Lars Rudberg 9781628087888
£105.36Long-term services and supports (LTSS) refer to a broad range of health and health-related services and supports that are needed by individuals over an extended period of time. The need for LTSS affects persons of all ages and is generally measured by... -
President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief: Status & Assessments by Michelle Gautier 9781628084931
£105.36In 2013, the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) will mark nearly ten years of success with an extraordinary year of achievements. None of this would have been possible without the vision and leadership of President Bush, President... -
Drug Policies, Addiction & Eradication by David S. Wolf 9781612090856
£82.37This book presents and discusses research in the study of drug policies, the effects of substance abuse and addiction and the efforts being made to stop the flow of illegal drugs into the United States. Topics discussed include the International Drug... -
Substance Abuse Among Adolescents & Adults by Isabelle M. Giordano 9781611229332
£76.78This book examines certain cases where social and psychological issues are present among adolescents and adults with substance abuse problems. Topics discussed include cross-cultural parent-child relations; prevention strategies for parents on adolescent... -
Bodies Unbound: Gender-Specific Cancer and Biolegitimacy by Piper Sledge 9781978815797
RRP: £134.00£116.46Bodies 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... -
The Sounds of Furious Living: Everyday Unorthodoxies in an Era of AIDS by Matthew Kelly 9781978835085
£56.09Four decades have passed since reports of a mysterious “gay cancer” first appeared in US newspapers. In the ensuing years, the pandemic that would come to be called AIDS changed the world in innumerable ways. It also gave rise to one of the late... -
The Sounds of Furious Living: Everyday Unorthodoxies in an Era of AIDS by Matthew Kelly 9781978835078
£29.89Four decades have passed since reports of a mysterious “gay cancer” first appeared in US newspapers. In the ensuing years, the pandemic that would come to be called AIDS changed the world in innumerable ways. It also gave rise to one of the late... -
From A to B My 40-year story of life with mental illness by Andy Kimmons 9781804673430
£6.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804673430Author Andy KimmonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Bookvault PublishingPublisher Bookvault PublishingWeight(grams) 121g -
The Politics of Potential: Global Health and Gendered Futures in South Africa by Michelle Pentecost 9781978837485
RRP: £134.00£116.46The first one thousand days of human life, or the period between conception and age two, is one of the most pivotal periods of human development. Optimizing nutrition during this time not only prevents childhood malnutrition but also determines future... -
Bishops and Bodies: Reproductive Care in American Catholic Hospitals by Lori Freedman 9781978828865
£24.14One out of every six patients in the United States is treated in a Catholic hospital that follows the policies of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. These policies prohibit abortion, sterilization, contraception, some treatments for miscarriage and... -
Making Uncertainty: Tuberculosis, Substance Use, and Pathways to Health in South Africa by Anna Versfeld 9781978822474
£23.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978822474Author Anna VersfeldFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University Press -
Masks, Misinformation, and Making Do: Appalachian Health-Care Workers and the COVID-19 Pandemic by Wendy Welch 9780821425015
£39.18This collection of first-person accounts by doctors, nurses, and others at the front lines in Appalachia explains how rural communities have responded to COVID-19, addresses stereotypical assumptions about and challenges within rural medical care, and... -
Making Sense: Markets from Stories in New Breast Cancer Therapeutics by Sophie Mutzel 9781503632554
£70.41Breast cancer is one of the most commonly diagnosed cancers and a leading cause of death for women worldwide. With advances in molecular engineering in the 1980s, hopes began to rise that a non-toxic and non-invasive treatment for breast cancer could be... -
Opioid Reckoning: Love, Loss, and Redemption in the Rehab State by Amy C. Sullivan 9781517914677
RRP: £18.95£13.71Examines the complexity and the humanity of the opioid epidemic America's opioid epidemic continues to ravage families and communities, despite intense media coverage, federal legislation, criminal prosecutions, and harm reduction efforts to prevent... -
Prescription for the People: An Activist's Guide to Making Medicine Affordable for All by Fran Quigley 9781501713750
RRP: £22.95£15.85In Prescription for the People, Fran Quigley diagnoses our inability to get medicines to the people who need them and then prescribes the cure. He delivers a clear and convincing argument for a complete shift in the global and U.S. approach to developing... -
Agency, Gender and Economic Development in the World Economy 1850-2000: Testing the Sen Hypothesis by Jan Luiten van Zanden 9780415791335
RRP: £135.00£117.68How has 'agency' - or the ability to define and act upon one's goals - contributed to global long-term economic development during the last 150 years? This book asserts that autonomous decision making, and female agency in particular, increases the... -
Generational Intelligence: A Critical Approach to Age Relations by Simon Biggs 9780415546553
RRP: £39.99£35.06The question of communication and understanding between different generations is emerging as a key issue for the twenty-first century. The advent of ageing populations may lead to increased conflict or solidarity in society, and provokes a profound... -
Life After Cancer in Adolescence and Young Adulthood: The Experience of Survivorship by Anne Grinyer 9780415477024
RRP: £135.00£117.28Adolescence 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... -
Biobanks: Governance in Comparative Perspective by Herbert Gottweis 9780415427371
RRP: £130.00£112.11In 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... -
Men and the War on Obesity: A Sociological Study by Lee F. Monaghan 9780415407120
RRP: £36.99£32.53Is obesity really a public health problem and what does the construction of obesity as a health problem mean for men?According to official statistics, the majority of men in nations such as England and the USA are overweight or obese. Public health... -
Inventing Disease and Pushing Pills: Pharmaceutical Companies and the Medicalisation of Normal Life by Joerg Blech 9780415390699
RRP: £135.00£117.28This is a highly accessible and reassuring account of how the pharmaceutical industry is redefining health, making it a state that is almost impossible to achieve. Many normal life processes - states as natural as birth, ageing, sexuality, unhappiness... -
Health, Risk and Vulnerability by Alan R. Petersen 9780415383080
RRP: £36.99£32.53The concept of risk is one of the most suggestive terms for evoking the cultural character of our times and for defining the purpose of social research. Risk attitudes and behaviours are understood to comprise the dominant experience of culture, politics...