Disease & Health Issues

This book explores the relationship between COVID-19 and AIDS. It considers both how the earlier HIV pandemic informed our engagement with COVID-19, as well as the ways in which COVID-19 has changed how we remember and experience AIDS.Individual sections...

An anthropologist traces the intimate connections between gambling addiction and casino industry design tacticsRecent decades have seen a dramatic shift away from social forms of gambling played around roulette wheels and card tables to solitary gambling...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953534194Author Daisy HernandezFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Tin House BooksPublisher Tin House BooksWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

The Board prepares this report in accordance with the following provisions contained in article 12 of the United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances of 1988. The Board shall prepare an annual report on...

This book is a contribution to humanistic studies of illness. Medical humanities are by nature cross-disciplinary, and in recent years studies in this field have been recognized as a platform for dialogue between the "two cultures" of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982149826Author Shoshana WalterFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 513g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250374738Author Susan SontagFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 454g

Millions of low-income African Americans in the United States lack access to health care. How do they treat their health care problems? In Health Care Off the Books, Danielle T. Raudenbush provides an answer that challenges public perceptions and prior...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942155874Author Mark LefebvreFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Peter E. Randall PublisherPublisher Peter E. Randall Publisher

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781605982687Author Kenneth KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 510g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780639995595Author MistraFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint Mapungubwe Institute (Mistra)Publisher Mapungubwe Institute (Mistra)Weight(grams) 612g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578849539Author Lisette CollarFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Hero Venue, LLCPublisher Hero Venue, LLCWeight(grams) 404gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784566142Author Marie ByrneFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint FastPrint PublishingPublisher Upfront Publishing

This book explores the socio-political implications of human heredity from the second half of the nineteenth century to the present postgenomic moment. It addresses three main phases in the politicization of heredity: the peak of radical eugenics...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781638852858Author Romain U Dufour, IIIFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Covenant BooksPublisher Covenant BooksWeight(grams) 231g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354475436Author Harsh ManderFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Speaking Tiger Publishing Private LimitedPublisher Speaking Tiger Publishing Private...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788186830970Author N. RavichandranFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Pentagon PressPublisher Pentagon Press

Examines a range of current innovative health technologies, exploring how far they change the boundaries between the body, health, technology relationship, and assessing the contribution a critical social science can make towards our understanding of...

This perceptive book highlights the significance of the natural intersection between global health and sustainable development, presenting new ways to simultaneously advance progress in both fields. Showcasing narratives from a wide variety of regional...

How do we know we are ill? Are health, illness and disability universal categories? How important is the body in our understanding of health? These crucial questions are just some of the issues tackled in this comprehensive and insightful new book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952827174Author Edward ShaheenFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint K.I.P. PublishingPublisher K.I.P. PublishingWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952827020Author Edward ShaheenFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Knowledge Is Power PublishingPublisher Knowledge Is Power PublishingWeight(grams) 549g

Despite living in a 'globalized' world where advances in medicine, technology and science come at an ever-increasing pace, there exist staggering inequalities in health. Even as we celebrate new pharmaceutical developments, access to already-existing...

Creative responses to Covid 19 – no longer consumed by notions of divine retribution as in past plagues – constituted a broad cultural flowering, often within the digital world. This volume combines anthropology’s understanding of ritual and society with...

In addiction recovery, fostering a positive life that enhances satisfaction, well-being, and personal capability is crucial for long-term success. By staying motivated and actively engaging in their recovery, individuals can significantly elevate their...

This volume engages with questions of justice and equality, and how these can be achieved in modern society. It explores how theory and research can inform policy and practice to bring about real change in people's lives, helping readers understand and...

Disability and Inequality:Socioeconomic Imperatives and Public Policy in Jamaica explores the lived experiences of persons with disabilities (PWDs) in Jamaica, examining measurable socioeconomic deficits that establish PWDs are more likely to experience...

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...

This study, by two leading scholars in the field, draws on feminist theory and science and technology studies to uncover a basic injustice for the human rights of drug-using women: most women who need drug treatment in the US and UK do not get it. Why...

This book examines the concept of dignity from a variety of global perspectives. It scrutinizes how dignity informs policy and practice, and is influenced by international and domestic law, human rights values, and domestic politics. An exciting...

This book offers new empirical research and policy-relevant care practices from across the globe to understand the interrelation of care, emotion, and flourishing in the context of acute and persistent crises.From COVID-19 responses around the world to...

Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is a disease of poverty that walks the trails of injustice and inequity we blazed for it.In 2019, John Green met Henry, a young...

This monograph is the first book in medical sociology that comprehensively describes the research conceptions of the co-founder of the European medical sociology, Professor Magdalena Sokołowska (1922–1989). The study characterizes the stages of...

Voices in Medial Sociology: Contemporary Perspectives provides health sciences students with a collection of articles written by sociologists, health care providers, public health professionals, lawyers, and students. The book exposes readers to the most...

How are health systems in Asia promoting evidence based policies for healthy aging? What strategies have been tried to prevent noncommunicable chronic diseases, screen for early detection, raise quality of care, improve medication adherence, reduce...

Decolonizing Ebola Rhetorics Following the 2013-2016 West African Ebola Outbreak defends the position that, despite the supposed "lessons" that have been learned about the spread of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) after the 2013-2016 West African...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780855986032Author Alice WelbournFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Oxfam ProfessionalPublisher Oxfam PublishingWeight(grams) 415gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

This new edition of Sarah Franklin's classic monograph on the development of IVF includes two entirely new chapters reflecting on the relevance of the book's findings in the context of the past two decades and providing a 'state of the art' review of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765116029Author David E. NewtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA