Disease & Health Issues

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062913302Author Vivek H MurthyFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 198mm *...

The Routledge Handbook of Visual Impairment examines current debates as well as cross-examining traditionally held beliefs around visual impairment. It provides a bridge between medical practice and social and cultural research drawing on authentic...

The Element examines ethical and conceptual issues about conscientious objection in medicine. Concepts analyzed include conscientious objection, conscientious provision, conscience, moral complicity, and moral integrity. Several ongoing ethical...

This 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...

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Around the world, more than a million people die by suicide each year. Yet many of us know very little about a tragedy that may strike our own loved ones-and much of what we think we know is wrong. This clear and powerful book dismantles myth after myth...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789381207Author Sara HoustonFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint IntellectPublisher Intellect

This edited collection of contributions explores non-normative genders, sexualities, and relationality among Autistic people.Written within an explicitly neuro-affirmative frame, the collection celebrates the diversity and richness of Autistic identity,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916225121Author Pippa StaceyFormat PaperbackPage Count 205Imprint Daisa & CoPublisher Daisa & Co

Informed by the author's work in dementia care and palliative care as a psychodynamic psychotherapist, Holding Time contributes to an increasing recognition of the importance and value of relationship-centred care in this field. Most of the book is...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635574357Author Sam QuinonesFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

A daily glass of wine prolongs life-yet alcohol can cause life-threatening cancer. Some say raising the minimum wage will decrease inequality while others say it increases unemployment. Scientists once confidently claimed that hormone replacement therapy...

'A virtuoso feat ... a book of panoramic breadth' New York Times Book Review'A devastating analysis ... Wright is a master of knitting together complex narratives' The ObserverJust as Lawrence Wright's The Looming Tower became the defining account of our...

Nick Charles MBE is a pioneer in treating alcohol dependency. As the founder of both the Chaucer Clinic and the Gainsborough Foundation, he was the first person to be honoured by the Queen 'for services to people with alcohol problems' and his work -...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830851799Author Kelly M. KapicFormat PaperbackPage Count 205Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 284gDimensions(mm)...

A revealing examination of how mental illness informs and connects the highly charged work of Edvard Munch and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner The Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863-1944) and the German artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938) are considered...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780520402980Author Jordan S RubinFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint University of California PressPublisher University of California PressWeight(grams)...

Drug use is a major challenge for public services, healthcare professionals and policy-makers all over the world. This book offers a complete overview of the issues associated with substance misuse from an interdisciplinary perspective. It begins by...

#1 National Bestseller From Hockey Night in Canada's Scott Oake, a raw and honest memoir about his son's struggle with opioid use and how he turned a father's worst nightmare into a second chance for others battling addiction.A father's love. A...

This book recounts the journey of English midwives over six centuries and their battle for survival as a discrete profession, caring safely for childbearing women.With a particular focus on sixteenth and twentieth century midwifery practice, it includes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524746728Author Anna LembkeFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint E P Dutton & Co IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Psychiatry and psychology have constructed a mental health system that does no justice to the problems it claims to understand and creates multiple problems for its users. Yet the myth of biologically-based mental illness defines our present. The book...

Taking as its focus a highly emotive area of study, The Dying Process draws on the experiences of daycare and hospice patients to provide a forceful new analysis of the period of decline prior to death.Placing the bodily realities of dying very firmly...

'A powerful and impassioned defence of psychiatry, urging the Left to confront the harsh realities of mental illness' - William Davis, author of The Happiness Industry A new edition of one of the most significant and credible critiques of the...

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. What does it mean to love a healthcare system? It is often claimed that the UK population is unusually attached to its National Health Service, and the last decade has seen increasingly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995593602Format PaperbackPage Count 422Imprint MxZero PublishingPublisher MxZero PublishingDimensions(mm) 215mm * 140mm * 24mm

When they were first released in the 1980s, Janet Woititz's groundbreaking works, Adult Children of Alcoholics, Struggle for Intimacy and The Self-Sabotage Syndrome, provided a new message of hope to adult children who had grown up in the shadow of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953943224Author Simon N WhitneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint Rivertowns BooksPublisher Rivertowns BooksWeight(grams) 467gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

This book examines narratives of dementia in contemporary literary texts, studying what is now a pressing issue with deep political, economic, and social implications for many ageing societies. As part of the increasing visibility of dementia in social...

This book is open access under a CC BY license and charts the rise and fall of various self-harming behaviours in twentieth-century Britain. It puts self-cutting and overdosing into historical perspective, linking them to the huge changes that occur in...

"Crack in America" is the definitive book on crack cocaine. In reinterpreting the crack story, it offers new understandings of both drug addiction and drug prohibition. It shows how crack use arose in the face of growing unemployment, poverty, racism,...

Medicine finally has discovered fatigue. Recent articles about various diseases conclude that fatigue has been underrecognized, underdiagnosed, and undertreated. Scholars in the social sciences and humanities have also ignored the phenomenon. As a...

Making Mental Health: A Critical History historicises mental health by examining the concept from the 'madness' of the late nineteenth century to the changing ideas about its contemporary concerns and status. It argues that a critical approach to the...

Trauma informed approaches have not generally been made available to staff working in services supporting people who have both a personality disorder and an intellectual disability. This distinctive training manual enables facilitators who already have...

"A radical methodological approach to psychology that is open to social change - in an anti-capitalist, anti-racist and feminist politics." Antonio Negri Psychology is meant to help people cope with the afflictions of modern society. But how useful...

Nursing is typically understood, and understands itself, as a care-giving occupation. It is through its relationships with patients - whether these are absent, present, good, bad or indifferent - that modern day nursing is defined. Yet nursing work...

What are drug courts? Do they work? Why are they so popular? Should countries be expanding them or rolling them back? These are some of the questions this volume attempts to answer. Simultaneously popular and problematic, loved and loathed, drug courts...

Surviving the war against yourself is the true story of a couple's journey through mental illness and its devastating impact on their life. In a brutally honest account of fear, pain, love and hope, Tom shares what it was like for him to suffer mental...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorJoseph Jebelli is a neuroscientist and a writer. He received a PhD in neuroscience from University College London for his work on the cell biology of...