Disease & Health Issues

-- Accessible introductory text to biomedical ethics and practice -- Utilizes clinical experience, personal narrative, and case studies to introduce ethical reflection and practice -- Timely and important text for a growing fieldBook InformationISBN...

This book explores health and care of the older population in Africa, focusing on policy and programmatic responses, gaps and future challenges related to health and care across the continent. The first part of the book sets the scene for the volume,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781517911713Author Anne PollockFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780367341503Author Carol-Ann FarkasFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint RoutledgePublisher RoutledgeWeight(grams) 159g

This engaging book will appeal to people interested in the town of Asbestos and its complicated past, advocacy groups that work in the area of asbestos regulation, the mining industry, and anyone interested in environmental history, labour history,...

Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. With...

A bioethicist's eloquent and riveting memoir of opioid dependence and withdrawal-a harrowing personal reckoning and clarion call for change not only for government but medicine itself, revealing the lack of crucial resources and structures to handle this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632860781Author Sir Michael MarmotFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Bloomsbury Academic USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PlcWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250849298Author Rupa MaryaFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 137g

What’ s been missing the past 30-years that prevented voters and leaders from hearing or acting upon the Gierach call — and the Civil Society call— for legalized, controlled and regulated drugs and drug markets? Why...

Do we want to perpetuate a Jim Crow health system?" A brilliant, idealistic physician asked that question in Alabama in 1966. Her answer was no—it led to her murder. Unearthing the truth of Jean Cowsert's life and death is a central concern of David...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781921348082Author Mary TerszakFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint eContent Management Pty LtdPublisher eContent Management Pty LtdWeight(grams) 227g

Problems with alcohol and drugs differ for women and men in development, risk factors, negative consequences, metabolism, relapse triggers, and related issues. Left untreated, alcohol and other drug use disorders can have unwanted impacts on your...

Obesity is the public health crisis of the twenty-first century. Over 150 million Americans are overweight or obese, and across the globe an estimated 1.5 billion are affected. In A Big Fat Crisis , Dr. Deborah A. Cohen has created a major new work that...

All My Friends Live in my Computer combines personal stories, media studies, and interdisciplinary theories to examine case studies from three unique parts of society. From illness narratives among breast cancer patients to political upheaval among...

In the spring of 2020, COVID-19 arrived in New York City. Before long, America's largest metropolis was at war against a virus that mercilessly swept through its five boroughs. It became apparent that if Covid wasn't somehow halted, the death count...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922332325Author Dr Kate DolanFormat PaperbackImprint Glass House BooksPublisher Interactive Publications

The SARS-CoV-2 virus, commonly referred to as COVID-19, is perhaps the greatest threat to life, and lifestyles, around the world in more than a century. Although there is little global agreement on many issues related to the virus, there is widespread...

A comprehensive health care system consists of services that are coordinated and integrated along the full continuum of care. For HIV patients, this includes physical health care, infectious disease management, crisis care, mental health care, substance...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780975771068Author David NapoliFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint eContent Management Pty LtdPublisher eContent Management Pty LtdWeight(grams) 386g

One 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...

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...

Originally published in 1975, this book traces the problems which arise for families coping with a chronic childhood disease - cystic fibrosis. The discussion of these problems is important for the families of other seriously ill or disabled children,...

This transdisciplinary collection engages with key issues of social exclusion, inequality, power and knowledge in the context of COVID-19 for a more equitable and inclusive human future.Book InformationISBN 9781529223125Author Paul MartinFormat...

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,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570674006Author Albert BatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Book Publishing CompanyPublisher Book Publishing CompanyWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978830639Author Asia FriedmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781517911164Author Emma Bedor HilandFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota Press

'Threat Talk' exposes how US and Chinese scientists and policy-makers have understood and responded to the problem of internet addiction in their societies. Is the internet good or bad for society? American analysts like Lessig and Zittrain suggest that...

Longer life expectancy, the aging baby boom population, and increasing numbers of older adults with chronic health conditions who want to remain at home are generating an urgent need for providers who possess specialized knowledge and skills in home...

The Devil's Fruit describes the facets of the strawberry industry as a harm industry, and explores author Dvera Saxton’s activist ethnographic work with farmworkers in response to health and environmental injustices. She argues that dealing with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807008119Author Margaret PeacockFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807079614Author Phyllis VineFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 567g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977574230Author Deborah Perlmutter BlochFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint eContent Management Pty LtdPublisher eContent Management Pty...

This book presents a sociological study of the COVID-19 pandemic in the context of India. It invites readers to understand disasters and crises as triggers of radical transformations in society, changing the very nature of every day and the meaning of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978815780Author Piper SledgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University PressWeight(grams) 152g

This 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...

Originally published in 1974, and written by paediatricians, social workers, nurses and a parent who cared for her dying child, this book is concerned with pinpointing the problems which exist for parents and those involved in the care of sick children,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978829879Author Serge BouznahFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University PressWeight(grams) 140g

Contradictions in philosophy and practice in a residential drug abuse treatment facilityBook InformationISBN 9780877229179Author Geoffrey SkollFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Temple University Press,U.S.Publisher Temple University Press,U.S.