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The NHS at 75: The State of UK Health Policy Mark Exworthy (University of Birmingham) 9781447368601
RRP: €33.31€25.67In its 75th anniversary year, this book examines the history, evolution and future of the NHS. With contributions from leading researchers and experts across a range of fields, such as finance, health policy, primary and secondary care, quality and... -
Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD by Martin A. Lee 9780802130624
RRP: €15.46€14.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802130624Author Martin A. LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 12Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly... -
In Ordinary Time: Fragments of a Family History by Carmel Mc Mahon 9780715655184
RRP: €11.89€8.03In 1993, aged twenty, Carmel Mc Mahon left Ireland for New York, carrying two suitcases and a ton of unseen baggage. It took years, and a bitter struggle with alcohol addiction, to unpick the intricate traumas of her past and present. Candid yet... -
Stories of Addiction Recovery: The G-CHIME Model by Lisa Ogilvie 9781804555514
RRP: €53.55€44.78Stories of Addiction Recovery explores first-hand structured accounts of addiction recovery through the G-CHIME model. G-CHIME is an adaptation to the CHIME model of mental health recovery, specifically targeted at addiction recovery. Identifying... -
Medical Writings from Early Medieval England: Volume I by John D. Niles
RRP: €35.64€28.16The first comprehensive edition and translation of Old English writings on health and healing in more than 150 years.Unlike elsewhere in Europe, vernacular writings on health and healing had a major place in early medieval England. These texts-unique... -
Quicksand Henning Mankell 9781784701567
RRP: €11.89€8.46In January 2014 Henning Mankell was informed that he had cancer. However, Quicksand is not a book about death, but about what it means to be human. Mankell writes about love and jealousy, courage and fear, about what it is like to live with a fatal... -
All Secure: A Special Operations Soldier's Fight to Survive on the Battlefield and the Homefront by Steve Jackson
RRP: €29.75€21.66As a senior non-commissioned officer of Delta Force, the most elite and secretive special operations unit in the U.S. military, Command Sergeant Major Tom Satterly fought some of this country's most fearsome enemies. Over the course of twenty years and... -
Viruses: A Natural History by Dr. Marilyn J. Roossinck 9780691237596
RRP: €35.70€24.24A comprehensive and richly illustrated introduction to the world of virusesAs parasites that are often hundreds of times smaller than bacteria, viruses exist in and on everything, everywhere. Rapidly evolving, they are highly opportunistic and... -
Living with Frailty: From Assets and Deficits to Resilience Shibley Rahman 9781138301214
RRP: €47.59€41.72Increasingly, we question 'what makes us healthy?', as well as 'what makes us ill?'. What does this shift mean for frailty? Almost wholly defined in negative terms, the term 'frail' tends to refer to a group of older people who are at highest risk of... -
The Fix by Damian Thompson 9780007436101
RRP: €13.08€9.87Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction by Maia Szalavitz
RRP: €16.65€15.23More people than ever before see themselves as addicted to, or recovering from, addiction, whether it be alcohol or drugs, prescription meds, sex, gambling, porn, or the internet. But despite the unprecedented attention, our understanding of addiction is... -
Make, Think, Imagine by John Browne
RRP: €13.08€9.25LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2019 __________________ 'A much-needed antidote to pervasive pessimism' Financial Times 'An ode to the ways in which engineering has improved human civilisation' John... -
The Virus in the Age of Madness by Bernard-Henri Levy
RRP: €14.27€12.08A trenchant look at how the coronavirus reveals the dangerous fault lines of contemporary society As seen on CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS: "A stirring alarm addressed to an unsettled world." (Kirkus Reviews) Forget the world that came before. The author of... -
Plandemic: Indoctornation by Mikki Willis 9781510765542
RRP: €32.12€18.91The incredible true story of the most banned documentary in history.Researching the controversy arising after the release of the viral phenomenon known as Plandemic, the most seen and censored documentary in history, an investigative journalist sets out... -
Sad by Design: On Platform Nihilism Geert Lovink 9780745339344
RRP: €29.74€19.49Sadness is now a design problem. The highs and lows of melancholy are coded into social media platforms. After all the clicking, browsing, swiping and liking, all we are left with is the flat and empty aftermath of time lost to the app. Sad by Design... -
The Accidental Soberista: Discover the unexpected bliss of an alcohol-free life by Kate Gunn
RRP: €19.03€13.82Kate Gunn was a social drinker, usually having a few drinks about three nights a week. But she had an inkling that alcohol was holding her back from getting on top of her life, and the hangovers were getting worse. So, when Kate's partner had to take... -
Pharma: Greed, Lies, and the Poisoning of America by Gerald Posner 9781501151897
RRP: €29.75€26.58Award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Gerald Posner traces the heroes and villains of the trillion-dollar-a-year pharmaceutical industry and uncovers how those once entrusted with improving life have often betrayed that ideal to... -
COVID-19: Surviving a Pandemic by J. Michael Ryan
RRP: €42.83€37.71COVID-19: Surviving a Pandemic provides critical insights into survival strategies employed by communities and individuals around the world during the pandemic.A central question since this pandemic began has been how to survive it. That question has... -
Explaining Mental Illness: Sociological Perspectives Baptiste Brossard (University of York) 9781529215052
RRP: €29.74€23.07How can sociology explain the emergence of mental disorders in societies or individuals? This authoritative book makes a case for the renewal of the sociology of mental illness, proposing a reorganisation of this field around four areas: social... -
The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last by Azra Raza
RRP: €17.84€13.88In The First Cell, Azra Raza offers a searing account of how both medicine and our society (mis)treats cancer, how we can do better, and why we must. A lyrical journey from hope to despair and back again, The First Cell explores cancer from every angle:... -
The Clean Body: A Modern History by Peter Ward 9780773559387
RRP: €41.65€36.58How often did our ancestors bathe? How often did they wash their clothes and change them? What did they understand cleanliness to be? Why have our hygienic habits changed so dramatically over time? In short, how have we come to be so clean? The Clean... -
Legal Highs: Inside Secrets of the World's Newest and Deadliest Drugs Wensley Clarkson 9781848667167
RRP: €10.70€7.38Legal Highs are without doubt the biggest drug scourge to blight the world since recreational drugs first hit the streets more than 100 years ago. Their growing menace opens up a new front in the drug war, shifting the battle line from the Colombian... -
Systems Leadership in Health and Social Care by John Edmonstone 9781138596832 [USED COPY]
RRP: €44.02€24.47Most leadership development activity in health and social care has been intra-organisational or confined to a particular sector. However, there is increasing recognition of the need to move beyond simple collaboration and partnership and work towards... -
Systems Leadership in Health and Social Care John Edmonstone 9781138596832
RRP: €44.02€38.71Most leadership development activity in health and social care has been intra-organisational or confined to a particular sector. However, there is increasing recognition of the need to move beyond simple collaboration and partnership and work towards... -
Understanding Trans Health: Discourse, Power and Possibility by Ruth Pearce 9781447342359
RRP: €34.50€26.53What does it mean for someone to be 'trans'? What are the implications of this for healthcare provision? Drawing on the findings of an extensive research project, this book addresses urgent challenges and debates in trans health. It interweaves patient... -
Mentored by a Madman: The William Burroughs Experiment by Andrew Lees
RRP: €17.84€16.23Lees draws on Burroughs' search for an addiction cure to discover a ground-breaking treatment for shaking palsy, and learns how to use the deductive reasoning of Sherlock Holmes to diagnose patients. Lees follows Burroughs into the rainforest and under... -
The Routledge Handbook of Social Work Theory by Malcolm Payne
€54.00The Routledge Handbook of Social Work Theory provides an interdisciplinary and international introduction to social work theory. It presents an analytical review of the wide array of theoretical ideas that influence social work on a global scale. It sets... -
Addictions Counseling: A Practical and Comprehensive Guide for Counseling People with Addictions by Dianne Doyle Pita 9780824522629
€20.85This wholly revised and updated edition of Addictions Counseling is widely read by professional counselors as well as ministers, teachers, and nurses. Topics include the counselor's role in recovery, treatment approaches, and sample treatment plans.Book... -
Birthing Liberation: How Reproductive Justice Can Set Us Free by Sabia Wade
RRP: €30.88€24.51Black maternal mortality statistics have not shifted in the past thirty years. The maternal mortality rate for Black patients is four to five times higher than it is for White patients. This is just one example of racism as a health and national crisis,... -
Applied Theatre: Performing Health and Wellbeing by Veronica Baxter 9781472584571
RRP: €32.12€27.89Applied Theatre: Performing Health and Wellbeing is the first volume in the field to address the role that theatre, drama and performance have in relation to promoting, developing and sustaining health and wellbeing in diverse communities. Challenging... -
The Anthropology of Drugs by Neil Carrier 9780367625269
RRP: €42.83€37.71An ideal book for those coming to the anthropology of drugs for the first time, filling a surprisingly big gap in the literature Includes many case studies, such as drug tourism, the opioid crisis and 'county lines' in the UK as well as global examples... -
The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth by Sam Quinones
RRP: €21.42€13.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639730476Author Sam QuinonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 437g -
Let Me Not Be Mad: A Story of Unravelling Minds by A K Benjamin
RRP: €11.89€8.46Let Me Not Be Mad is an immersive, virtuosic and provocative investigation of madness, love and self-destruction that defies categorisation. 'Exhilarating ... dazzling ... a miraculous feat' Guardian'I have rarely read a more haunting and enthralling... -
Animals and Psychedelics: The Natural World and its Instinct to Alter Consciousness by Giorgio Samorini 9780892819867
RRP: €14.27€7.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892819867Author Giorgio SamoriniFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Inner Traditions Bear and CompanyPublisher Inner Traditions Bear and... -
Righteous Dopefiend by Philippe Bourgois 9780520254985
€38.21This powerful study immerses the reader in the world of homelessness and drug addiction in the contemporary United States. For over a decade Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg followed a social network of two dozen heroin injectors and crack smokers on... -
Life Exposed: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl by Adriana Petryna
RRP: €33.32€25.94On April 26, 1986, Unit Four of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in then Soviet Ukraine. More than 3.5 million people in Ukraine alone, not to mention many citizens of surrounding countries, are still suffering the effects. Life Exposed is the... -
The Truth About Fat: Why Obesity is Not that Simple by Anthony Warner
RRP: €11.89€8.46Most people try out diets just to see if they work. One friend cuts out sugar, a second cuts out fat. Another mumbles something about gut microbes. Even scientists still seem to be arguing about what causes obesity, so what hope is there for the rest of... -
7 Tools To Beat Addiction by Stanton Peele
RRP: €16.65€13.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400048731Author Stanton PeeleFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Three Rivers PressWeight(grams) 252g -
Networks in Healthcare: Managing Complex Relationships by Becky Malby 9781786352842
RRP: €47.59€39.96The growing number of networks delivering healthcare, and professionals learning together to improve care, has created a need for new kinds of management and leadership. This timely book highlights key lessons for network leaders in a world where care... -
The Medicalization of Cyberspace Andy Miah 9780415393645
RRP: €44.02€38.71The 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...