Disease & Health Issues

This book uniquely examines, across cultures, the health benefits and detriments of religious beliefs, with important implications for individual well-being and human survival.Belief, Behavior, and Health takes the reader through journeys of the author’s...

First published in 1988, Living with Chronic Illness presents a vivid account of the reality of life with chronic illness ­– from the perspective of patients and their families. The authors look at the expectations, priorities, and problems of those most...

Featuring contributions from leading scholars of health privacy law, this important volume offers insightful reflection on issues such as confidentiality, privacy, and data protection, as well as analysis in how a range of jurisdictions – including the...

Virus Research in Twentieth-Century Uganda presents the stories of scientists at the Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI), a biomedical center founded in 1936. The book analyzes the strategies and conditions that allowed the institute to endure and...

The late David K. Jones spent four years visiting the Mississippi Delta conducting primary research with residents and local leaders to explore the connections between race, place, and health. He weaves their insights with data analysis to show how...

This important book provides a critical examination of the sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) of young women and girls in Southern Africa, examining the ways in which current policies and programmes aimed at improving SRHR often fail to...

An assessment of contemporary global preparedness monitoring. This book presents an encompassing understanding of the practice of monitoring, measuring, and assessing how well countries have prepared for a pandemic. It explains the much-discussed failure...

This book shows the potential of posthuman thinking for rethinking health care, experiences, subjects and interventions. It explores a range of posthuman dilemmas across diverse health issues as contributors grapple with the ethical, ontological and...

Researchers, healthcare providers and policy makers working in the fields of HIV prevention. Professional/activist/academic organisations.Book InformationISBN 9781447372493Author Morten SkovdalFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Policy PressPublisher...

In By the Bedside of the Patient, Nortin Hadler places current efforts to reform medical education--from the undergraduate level through residency programs and on to continuing medical education--in historical context. In doing so, he traces the...

This book extends the ideas developed in Bonner’s previous volumes on the social determinants of health. It provides a critical review of the direct and indirect impact of war in Europe, a quintessential wicked issue. From a human development...

This book extends the ideas developed in Bonner’s previous volumes on the social determinants of health. It provides a critical review of the direct and indirect impact of war in Europe, a quintessential wicked issue. From a human development...

Featuring contributions from leading scholars of health privacy law, this important volume offers insightful reflection on issues such as confidentiality, privacy, and data protection, as well as analysis in how a range of jurisdictions – including the...

Available open access digitally under CC-BY licence. Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is a drug taken by HIV-negative people that reduces the risk of getting HIV. Comparing two case studies in Denmark and Zimbabwe, this book demonstrates six paradoxes...

The first study of the Fort Worth Narcotic Farm, an institution that played a critical role in fusing the War on Drugs, mass incarceration, and public health in the American West. In 1929, the United States government approved two ground-breaking and...

Using an evidence-based, critical, population health approach, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the key errors in containing the Covid-19 pandemic, and the most effective interventions. It also examines the root determinants of pandemic...