Health, illness and addiction: social aspects

This timely collection brings together original explorations of the COVID-19 pandemic and its wide-ranging, global effects on human rights.

An engaging exploration of the scientific theories and medical conditions relating to stress and an examination of case studies that suggest ways to manage, reduce, and prevent stress in everyday life.

This book examines the relationship between social class and mental illness in Northern Europe during the 20th century.

The supply of reliable and safe water is a key challenge for developing countries, particularly India.

The nature of health in later life has conventionally been studied from two perspectives.

In a single decade, AIDS has grown to pandemic proportions.

This compelling Dual Disorders Recovery Book, written for those with an addiction and a psychiatric illness, provides a source of information and support throughout recovery.

Biomedical patents have been the subject of heated debate.

The issue of 'recovery' has been increasingly prioritised by policymakers in recent years, but the meaning of the concept remains ambiguous.

This book examines how class shapes interactions between professionals, parents, and young people in the youth justice system, utilising a mix of contemporary social theory and a wealth of empirical material.

The problem of Aids has been kept largely under control in Europe, but in the Third World it is a different story.

The Behavioral Science of Firearms focuses on applying behavioral science principles and knowledge to inform and improve firearm-related policy, practice, and research.

This book examines the development of medical sciences in postcolonial Kenya, through the adventures and stories of the controversial Kalenjin scientist Davy Kiprotich Koech.

This book investigates amaXhosa circumcision and the psychological processes involved.

The first integrated analysis of the causes and effects of diverging views of drug use within the international community.

Delve into the uncharted territory of the "e;hidden"e; drug addict--users who are not in treatment, not incarcerated, and not officially accessible for research purposes through traditional means.

The essential work in HIV for providers and pharmacists, updated for 2021.

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Health Communication and Mass Media is a much-needed resource for those with a professional or academic interest in the field of health communication.

The Routledge International Handbook of Race, Class, and Gender chronicles the development, growth, history, impact, and future direction of race, gender, and class studies from a multidisciplinary perspective.

How can research on the social determinants of health be translated into real life public health practice?

This book examines the relationship between social class and mental illness in Northern Europe during the 20th century.

This book considers the change in rhetoric surrounding the treatment of AIDS from one of crisis to that of 'ending AIDS'.

Conflict and dispute pervade political and policy discussions.

This comprehensive volume explores various forms of violence in health care settings.

Activism and Marginalization in the AIDS Crisis shows readers how the advent of HIV-disease has brought into question the utility of certain forms of "e;activism"e; as they relate to understanding and fighting the social impacts of disease.

For gay men who are HIV-negative in a community devastated by AIDS, survival may be a matter of grief, guilt, anxiety, and isolation.

The Genome Incorporated examines the proliferation of human genomics across contemporary media cultures.

Even as the autism rate soars and the cost to our nation climbs well into the billions, a dangerous new idea is taking hold: There simply is no autism epidemic.

The multifaceted nature of harmful substance use and gambling requires interdisciplinary analysis to assess the underlying causes.

Some fundamental aspects of the lived body only become evident when it breaks down through illness, weakness or pain.

Given the increasing shift of care from state residential services to community-based support, this book examines the complex geographies of family caregiving for young adults with intellectual disabilities.

2020 marked the 40th anniversary of the CISG which now has over 90 Contracting States, with Hong Kong formally adopted the Convention in 2022, and further States are currently considering their accession to the Convention.

Increasingly, we question 'what makes us healthy?

Examining the fundamental relationship between housing and health, this perceptive volume illuminates how the health of those living with housing instability is affected by the day-to-day issues they face.

Emerging Adults and Substance Use Disorder Treatment addresses how a societal shift in the timing of developmental tasks affects treatment outcomes for substance use disorders, which are among the most highly prevalent and costly mental health problems in the United States.

This book offers a comprehensive understanding of the current scientific knowledge concerning risks associated with food preparation, processing and consumption, with particular attention to the gap between scientific research and public perception.

The provision and use of traditional, complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has been growing globally over the last 40 years.

Psychoanalytic Geographies is a unique, path-breaking volume and a core text for anyone seeking to grasp how psychoanalysis helps us understand fundamental geographical questions, and how geographical understandings can offer new ways of thinking psychoanalytically.

This is the first text to address all the instruments that will govern choice-of-court agreements in Europe and to engage in a practical discussion of their mutual relationship.

Despite the growing importance of 'consumer welfare' in EU competition law debates, there remains a significant disconnect between rhetoric and reality, as consumers and their interests still play only an ancillary role in this area of law.

This reader offers some of the most important writing to date from the science of COVID-19 and what science says about its spread and social implications.

Originally published in 1985, at a time when the previous 2 decades had witnessed dramatic changes in the US mental health system.

Medical Sociology is now an established subdiscipline in both medicine and sociology.

This book explores the relationship between policing and mental health.

Widely used by practitioners, researchers, and students--and now thoroughly revised with 70% new material--this is the most authoritative, comprehensive book on malingering and other response styles.

Concussion has become one of the most significant issues in contemporary sport.

This volume provides a literary-cum-historiographical analysis of epidemics and pandemics.