Health, illness and addiction: social aspects

This book uses previously unknown archive materials to explore the meaning of the term 'incapable of work' over a hundred years (1911-present).

Applied 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.

Autism is now considered to be one of the most common developmental disorders today, yet 100 years ago the term did not exist.

This pioneering volume represents the culmination of state-of-the-art research whose purpose was to investigate the relationship between health care and immigration in the USA - two broken systems in need of reform.

Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Decides?

This ground-breaking book challenges us to re-think ourselves as techno-sapiens-a new species we are creating as we continually co-evolve ourselves with our technologies.

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This single-volume resource provides sound, up-to-date information and authoritative resources for research on the controversial topics of the use of marijuana for medical and recreational purposes and the effects of marijuana use on society.

Therapy: The Basics is an introductory book to psychotherapy and its different theoretical approaches.

Enemy in the Blood: Malaria, Environment, and Development in Argentina examines the dramatic yet mostly forgotten history of malaria control in northwest Argentina.

A practical, accessible and informative guide to overcoming and managing a wide spread affliction!

Clinical trials used to be conducted overwhelmingly in the US and Europe but for a range of economic, technical and ethical reasons, the number of multicentre studies recruiting subjects in different regions of the World has grown exponentially.

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

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.

Beyond Clinical Dehumanisation Toward the Other in Community Mental Health Care offers a rare and intimate portrayal of the moral process of a mental health clinician that interrogates the intractable problem of systemic dehumanisation in community mental health care and looks to the notion of "e;wonder"e; and the visionary relational ethics of Emmanuel Levinas for a possible cure.

This book is a collective journal of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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

Whilst the body has recently assumed greater sociological significance, there has been less engagement in social work and social care on the bodily experience of health, illness and disease.

Key to understanding drug misuse is an awareness of the full range of models that seek to define, explain and treat the problem.

"e;Doubt is our product,"e; a cigarette executive once observed, "e;since it is the best means of competing with the 'body of fact' that exists in the minds of the general public.

Eating less, exercising more and losing weight seem the obvious solution for the oncoming 'obesity epidemic'.

This college-level handbook offers a comprehensive and accessible overview of sociological and cultural perspectives on the human body.

This book explores the complicated dynamics of the global diaspora and its central role in times of crisis.

The American Disease is a classic study of the development of drug laws in the United States.

The editors of Stress, Trauma, and Substance Use have gathered a collection of innovative chapters written by cutting edge researchers that depict both the breadth of the relationships between stress, trauma, and substance use, as well as how closely these phenomena are all too often linked.

What do we mean by 'gender' and how does this relate to health?

This book proposes a way to radically renew medicine by extending to medicine the concepts of evolutionary biology.

This ground-breaking book challenges us to re-think ourselves as techno-sapiens-a new species we are creating as we continually co-evolve ourselves with our technologies.

Public Policy Lessons from the AIDS Response in Africa examines how the interplay between national state dynamics in Africa and the global political arena has shaped the global AIDS response, and in this context develops a framework for analysing public policy action more broadly in contemporary Africa.

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a major cause of disability affecting about 1% of the population.

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.

This book marks the retirement of Professor Sheila McLean, whose contribution to the discipline of medical law has been truly ground breaking.

Healing Veteran Moral Injury highlights the importance of story and metaphor in the change process and in trauma-related work.

The Netherlands' response to AIDS is widely regarded as well organized and effective.

This handbook provides a comprehensive examination of the past and present roles of drugs in society with a focus on theory, research, policy, and practice.

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This book explores the human rights consequences of recent and ongoing revisions of mental health legislation in England and Ireland.

This volume examines the biocultural dimensions of obesity from an anthropological perspective in an effort to broaden understanding of a growing public health concern.

Stay up-to-date on the ethical and legal issues that affect your clinical and professional decisions!

In November 2019, a new strain of coronavirus appeared in Wuhan, China, and quickly spread across the world.

The last decade has seen a huge amount of change in the area of sexually transmitted infection control and prevention, including the development of high-profile vaccines for preventing the spread of cervical cancer-causing human papillomavirus (HPV), novel control methods for HIV and AIDS, and even the discussion of more widespread use of controversial abstinence-only sex education programs.

Sex in Cyberspace offers a bold and provocative, yet sensitively written, account of an under-investigated area of sociological enquiry.

In the post-Cold War, post financial crisis era, health care is an issue of critical political, personal and economic concern.

This volume focuses on the ways in which HIV/AIDS can affect older adults.

This book discusses critical issues concerning autism and education, and what constitutes effective pedagogy for this group of learners.

CNBC anchor Trish Regan takes you behind the scenes of America's thriving pot industry, to show readers things only drug dealers know about this secret world.

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.

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.