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Therapy Tech: The Digital Transformation of Mental Healthcare by Emma Bedor Hiland
RRP: £90.00£78.08Apologies 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: The Comparative Politics of Internet Addiction by Mary Manjikian
RRP: £49.99£43.50'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... -
Gerontological Home Health Care: A Guide for the Social Work Practitioner by Goldie Kadushin
RRP: £100.00£77.93Longer 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: Farmworkers, Health, and Environmental Justice by Dvera I. Saxton
RRP: £38.00£29.05The 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... -
A Deeper Sickness: Journal of America in the Pandemic Year by Margaret Peacock
RRP: £15.99£11.61Apologies 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 -
Fighting for Recovery: An Activists' History of Mental Health Reform by Phyllis Vine
RRP: £34.00£21.72Apologies 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 -
SoulWork: Finding the Work You Love, Loving the Work You Have by Deborah Perlmutter Bloch
RRP: £82.99£72.15Apologies 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... -
Sociological Reflections on the Covid-19 Pandemic in India: Redefining the Normal by Gopi Devdutt Tripathy
RRP: £109.99£98.73This 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... -
Bodies Unbound: Gender-Specific Cancer and Biolegitimacy by Piper Sledge
RRP: £31.00£24.14Apologies 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 -
Masks, Misinformation, and Making Do: Appalachian Health-Care Workers and the COVID-19 Pandemic by Wendy Welch
RRP: £21.99£17.54This 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... -
Care of the Child Facing Death by Lindy Burton
£106.61Originally 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,... -
Spirits in the Consulting Room: Eight Tales of Healing by Serge Bouznah
RRP: £56.00£45.10Apologies 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 -
Walk the Walk and Talk the Talk: An Ethnography of a Drug Abuse Treatment Facility by Geoffrey Skoll
RRP: £64.00£51.01Contradictions 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. -
Transcending Crisis by Attending to Care, Emotion, and Flourishing by Marci Cottingham
RRP: £125.00£107.86This 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... -
Making Uncertainty: Tuberculosis, Substance Use, and Pathways to Health in South Africa by Anna Versfeld
RRP: £134.00£107.04In Cape Town, South Africa, many people with tuberculosis also use substances. This sets up a seemingly impossible problem: People who use substances are at increased risk of tuberculosis disease; and substance use seems to result in erratic behavior... -
Biobanks: Governance in Comparative Perspective by Herbert Gottweis
RRP: £39.99£35.06In 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... -
Health, Food and Social Inequality: Critical Perspectives on the Supply and Marketing of Food by Carolyn Mahoney
RRP: £39.99£35.06Health, Food and Social Inequality investigates how vast amounts of consumer data are used by the food industry to enable the social ranking of products, food outlets and consumers themselves, and how this influences food consumption patterns.This book... -
AIDS and Rural Livelihoods: Dynamics and Diversity in sub-Saharan Africa by Anke Niehof
RRP: £47.99£41.81AIDS epidemics continue to threaten the livelihoods of millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa. Three decades after the disease was first recognized, the annual death toll from AIDS exceeds that from wars, famine and floods combined. Yet despite... -
At Risk: Indian Sexual Politics and the Global AIDS Crisis by Gowri Vijayakumar
RRP: £23.99£19.19In the mid-1990s, experts predicted that India would face the world's biggest AIDS epidemic by 2000. Though a crisis at this scale never fully materialized, global public health institutions, donors, and the Indian state initiated a massive effort to... -
The Next Pandemic by Betsy McCaughey
RRP: £5.99£4.25America is suffering from two public health crises. One is caused by a virus. The other, a brutal economic shutdown, is something we have brought on ourselves. Both the virus and the shutdown are deadly. But many more Americans will likely die from... -
Losing Sleep: Risk, Responsibility, and Infant Sleep Safety by Laura Harrison
RRP: £27.99£21.67New insights into the anxiety over infant sleep safety New parents are inundated with warnings about the fatal risks of "co-sleeping," or sharing a bed with a newborn, from medical brochures and website forums, to billboard advertisements and the... -
Disability and Postsocialism by Teodor Mladenov
RRP: £135.00£117.28In the decades following the collapse of state socialism at the end of 1980s, disabled people in Central and Eastern Europe endured economic marginalisation, cultural devaluation and political disempowerment. Some of the mechanisms producing these... -
Living with Epidemics in Colonial Bengal by Arabinda Samanta
RRP: £135.00£117.68Making epidemics in colonial Bengal as its entry point and drawing heavily on social, cultural and linguistic anthropology to understand the functions of health experiences, distribution of illness, prevention of sickness, social relations of therapeutic... -
The Aging-Disability Nexus by Katie Aubrecht
RRP: £31.00£24.14As the global population ages, disability demographics are shifting. Societal transformation and global health inequities have changed who is likely to reach old age, who is likely to live with disability, and the relationship between aging and... -
The Quality Cure: How Focusing on Health Care Quality Can Save Your Life and Lower Spending Too by David Cutler
RRP: £21.00£16.63In the United States, the soaring cost of health care has become an economic drag and a political flashpoint. Moreover, although the country's medical spending is higher than that of any other nation, health outcomes are no better than elsewhere, and in... -
Debating Biology by Simon Williams
RRP: £46.99£40.97Relations between the biological and social sciences have been hotly contested and debated over the years. The uses and abuses of biology, not least to legitimate or naturalize social inequalities and to limit freedoms, have rightly been condemned. All... -
Contemporary Theorists for Medical Sociology by Graham Scambler
RRP: £42.99£37.59Contemporary Theorists for Medical Sociology explores the work of key social theorists and the application of their ideas to issues around health and illness. Encouraging students and researchers to use mainstream sociological thought to inform and... -
in, against, beyond corona: What does living through the corona crisis in South Africa reveal to us? by Mark Butler
RRP: £11.99£8.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988832838Author Mark ButlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Daraja PressPublisher Daraja PressWeight(grams) 250g -
Behind the Rhetoric: Mental Health Recovery in Ontario by Jennifer Poole
RRP: £21.00£17.21Recovery has taken the mental health world by storm. In clinics, hospitals, community organizations and governments across North America and Europe, recovery rhetoric is everywhere. Its message of hope is catchy, its promise of wellness long overdue and... -
Life After Cancer in Adolescence and Young Adulthood: The Experience of Survivorship by Anne Grinyer
RRP: £36.99£32.53Adolescence 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... -
The End of Stigma?: Changes in the Social Experience of Long-Term Illness by Gill Green
RRP: £39.99£35.06This innovative book investigates the roots of contemporary experiences of stigma, throwing new light on the phenomenon by examining a variety of long-term conditions.Behaviour, lifestyle and identity are no longer the results of mass-production by... -
Contagion: Health, Fear, Sovereignty by Bruce Magnusson
RRP: £27.99£21.67Over many decades, "contagion" has been a metaphor of choice for everything from global terrorism, suicide bombings, poverty, immigration, global financial crises, human rights, fast food, obesity, divorce, and homosexuality. Essays examine the language... -
A Gut Reaction: A True Story about a Mother's Fight to Save Her Son's Life and His Amazing Recovery from Crohn's Disease by Sky Curtis
RRP: £14.95£13.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771330800Author Sky CurtisFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Inanna Publications and Education Inc.Publisher Inanna Publications and Education Inc... -
Medicine, Risk, Discourse and Power by John Martyn Chamberlain
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book critically explores from a comparative international perspective the role medicine plays in constructing and managing natural and social risks, including those belonging to modern medical technology and expertise. Drawing together chapters... -
About Canada: Health and Illness, 2nd Edition by Hon Dennis Raphael
RRP: £15.95£13.32Most Canadians believe that their experiences of health and illness are shaped by genetics, medical care and lifestyle choices. Governments, the media and disease associations reinforce this perception by pointing to medical research and a healthy... -
Oppression - A Social Determinant of Health by Elizabeth A. Mcgibbon
RRP: £31.00£24.88In this current environment, it is urgent to understand how oppression and health are closely connected. Oppression: A Social Determinant of Health offers a thorough and accessible overview of the root or structural causes of ill health, such as... -
Traditional Chinese Medicine: The Human Dimension by Big Leung
RRP: £82.99£72.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977574223Author Big LeungFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint eContent Management Pty LtdPublisher eContent Management Pty LtdWeight(grams) 317g -
Health, Risk and Vulnerability by Alan R. Petersen
RRP: £135.00£117.28The 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... -
The Medicalization of Cyberspace by Andy Miah
RRP: £135.00£117.28The entire infrastructure and culture of medicine is being transformed by digital technology, the Internet and mobile devices. Cyberspace is now regularly used to provide medical advice and medication, with great numbers of sufferers immersing themselves... -
Medical Technologies and the Life World: The social construction of normality by Sonia Olin Lauritzen
RRP: £27.99£24.28Although the use of new health technologies in healthcare and medicine is generally seen as beneficial, there has been little analysis of the impact of such technologies on people's lives and understandings of health and illness. This ground-breaking...