Health, illness and addiction: social aspects

The impact of the United Nations "e;Healthy Prisons"e; initiative has highlighted the importance of health and health promotion in incarcerated populations.

Why do Koreans search for shamans?

Meat and dairy production and consumption are in crisis.

Marvin Giehl zeigt den im erziehungswissenschaftlichen Diskurs bislang unterrepräsentierten Konnex zwischen den ethisch motivierten Ernährungs- und Lebensformen des Vegetarismus und des Veganismus sowie deren biographischer Genese und bildungstheoretischen Überlegungen auf.

Extinguishing a public health threat is difficult under any condition, let alone during a sweeping national revolution.

Recent epidemics have prompted large-scale international interventions, aimed at mitigating the spread of disease in a globalized world.

Liberalizing, Feminizing and Popularizing Health Communications in Asia provides insights into the manner in which biomedical discourses are communicated and portrayed in Asia in light of the rapidly evolving socio-cultural, technological and epidemiological undercurrents.

This book tells the story of the mass media's potential in the war against drug abuse.

On the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, feminists are at a critical juncture to re-envision and re-engage in a politics of human rights.

The study of human reproduction has focused on reproductive 'success' and on the struggle to achieve this, rather than on the much more common experience of 'failure', or reproductive loss.

This new and revised edition of Culture, Society and Sexuality brings together and makes accessible a broad and international selection of readings to provide insights into the social, cultural, political and economic dimensions of sexuality and relationships, and emerging discourses around sexual and reproductive rights.

Packed with information, advice and learning activities, this book tells you what you need to know about drugs, young people's drug use, and how you can help them stay safe.

The classic American struggle between the public interest and corporate interests is perhaps nowhere better illustrated than in the decades-long struggle between the tobacco industry and advocates for public health.

Disrupting, questioning and altering the taken-for-granted 'cosmos' of everyday life, the experiences of illness challenge the different ways in which social normalcy is remembered, maintained and expected.

In contemporary western societies, the fat body has become a focus of stigmatizing discourses and practices aimed at disciplining, regulating and containing it.

A dramatic short story from experienced foster carer Rosie Lewis.

The concept of food and nutrition security has evolved and risen to the top of the international policy agenda over the last decade.

Examines how and why the US government went from regulating illicit drug traffic and consumption to declaring war on both.

This is the first book that analyzes tobacco control policies in China from the perspectives of economics and health.

This book examines disability in post-war Sierra Leone.

This book critically interrogates emerging interconnections between religion and biomedicine in Africa in the era of antiretroviral treatment for AIDS.

Kids who have lived with the chaos of addiction are often relieved, but just as often confused, when a parent enters recovery.

For young gay men who came of age in the United States in the 1980s, the HIV/AIDS epidemic was a formative experience in fear, hardship, and loss.

In recent years, body studies has expanded rapidly, becoming an increasingly popular field of study within anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies.

Everyday Applications of Psychological Science explores several core areas of psychology, showing readers how to apply these principles to everyday situations in order to better their understanding of human behavior and improve their quality of life.

This book explores the intersection between healthcare delivery and national economic health, using Nigeria as case study and window into the world.

The Comprehensive Textbook of AIDS Psychiatry: A Paradigm for Integrated Care is the first book to provide insight into the interface between the psychiatric, medical, and social dimensions of HIV and AIDS and the need for a compassionate, integrated approach to the HIV pandemic with an emphasis on humanizing and destigmatizing HIV.

First published in 1988, Alcoholism Etiology and Treatment provides a stimulating discussion concerning an understanding of the etiology and treatment of alcoholism.

The coronavirus has rattled humanity, tested resolve and determination, and redefined normalcy.

This go-to resource on substance abuse supplies the broad background knowledge and historical information needed to understand this important sociological issue and provides readers with a range of additional sources for continuing their study of the topic.

Most discussions of health care center on medical advances, cost, and the roles of insurers and government agencies.

Millions of individuals diagnosed with severe mental illness also suffer from an equally powerful substance use disorder.

The toll of America's gun violence epidemic is usually measured in lives lost-more than 35,000 each year.

This book demonstrates that the COVID 19 pandemic asks for a a global approach to bioethics.

The National Disability Insurance Scheme (known commonly as the NDIS) was introduced as a radical new way of funding disability services in Australia.

An estimated forty million people carry the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and five million more become newly infected annually.

In the United States, the soaring cost of health care has become an economic drag and a political flashpoint.

This book focuses on the multifaceted reality of social and health constraints and health services access among migrants in China, by originally exploring the social strata, social networks, and the understanding of health and health services among migrants.

Bestseller-Autorin und Friedenspreis-Trägerin Carolin Emcke denkt in diesem persönlich-politischen Journal über das Ausnahme-Jahr 2020 nach.

With rapid economic progress and increasing life expectancy in East Asian societies, more attention is being paid by their governments, the media and the academy to mental illness and dementia.

Practices of cosmetic surgery have grown exponentially in recent years in both over-developed and developing worlds.

This international collection examines a wide range of psycho-social aspects of AIDS and HIV infection, including prevention, education, healthcare and policy in terms of gender challenges.

This first extensive study of the practice of blood transfusion in Africa traces the history of one of the most important therapies in modern medicine from the period of colonial rule to independence and the AIDS epidemic.

"e;David Jones has written a compelling book about the complex issues entailed in being family members of sufferers from mental illness.

In Reframing Bodies, Roger Hallas illuminates the capacities of film and video to bear witness to the cultural, political, and psychological imperatives of the AIDS crisis.

During the first decade of this millennium, many thousands of people in Uganda who otherwise would have died from AIDS got second chances at life.

The first comprehensive empirical account of how religion affects the interpretation, prevention, and mitigation of AIDS in Africa, the world's most religious continent.

This book answers readers' most pressing questions about exercise and physical activity and will serve as a valuable resource to anyone interested in starting and maintaining healthy habits in this important area of health.

A comprehensive guide to creating, implementing, and evaluating culturally competent HIV prevention programs.

The Consumer Rights Act is a vital and far-reaching piece of legislation containing provisions specific to contract and consumer law, criminal law, and competition law.