Health, illness and addiction: social aspects

This volume takes a deep dive into the lasting legacy of stigma from the COVID-19 Pandemic.

While responses to the Covid-19 pandemic varied based on the timing of the onset of cases and the severity of the disease, Perceptions of a Pandemic analyzes and compares the perceptions and attitudes of citizens in the US and Finland during the pandemic's early stages and relates these to health and wellbeing outcomes after the pandemic ended.

This book focuses on syndemics in the Global South and uses COVID 19 as a window to understand clusters of disparities and disease comorbidities.

Life expectancy is about more than just health - it's about the kind of society we live in.

For years, HIV activists and researchers have expressed deep concerns about the stigmatizing and sensational tone of news stories about HIV criminalization.

Durante la primera mitad del siglo XX, antes del uso extendido de la penicilina en Argentina, los padecimientos venéreos se constituyeron como un problema público, cuya existencia fue considerada inaceptable.

**Business Book Awards 2025 Finalist** 'This book is both life-enhancing and company-saving' - Sir Anthony Seldon, author, educator and cofounder of Action for Happiness How much is alcohol costing your company?

La ciencia perdida es un compendio de artículos que reúne a un grupo de especialistas, científicos, ensayistas y estudiosos del tema para contar, con todo detalle y datos duros, las omisiones y los errores cometidos en la administración lopezobradorista sobre el imprescindible impulso a la ciencia.

Youth Digital Health and Online Platforms focuses on young people's use of the digital platform Reddit for health.

People with variations of sex characteristics (VSC) are born with chromosomal, gonadal, and/or anatomical diversities that do not fit the typical definition of male or female.

Drawing on the perspectives of women and children displaced from Ukraine, as well as local authority policy makers and service providers, this book provides a unique view of the direct and indirect consequences of war in Europe.

"Dile No: Manual de Prevención de Adicciones", escrito por Alejandro Javier Otero, es una guía esencial que aborda con claridad y profundidad el complejo tema de las adicciones.

This book explores the ethics around everything connected with setting up and running a therapy private practice.

Based on two decades of research in Brazil and the UK, this book explores the ways in which intersections of gender, race and class affect the positioning of the subject as 'Other' in discourses of health, and how the positioning of the subject as 'Other' has implications for health research and mental health practice.

This book explores the historical perspective of food security, women's access to food, malnutrition and obesity among women, and household food security to present an analysis of women's nutrition in developing countries.

Starting his reign in 1927, Alexander Alekhine dominated the world of elite chess for more than a decade.

Starting his reign in 1927, Alexander Alekhine dominated the world of elite chess for more than a decade.

The need for paid care workers to provide professional, good quality care for those needing daily support continues to grow throughout the world.

This book integrates the concept of healthcare with larger social determinants such as caste, class, gender, religion, and ethnicity.

After 9/11, forensic epidemiology emerged as a leading investigative tool, partnering public health officers with law enforcement like never before.

How to Live Well with Dementia: Expert Help for People Living with Dementia and their Family, Friends, and Care Partners provides an array of essential guidance about the different aspects of dementia for all whose lives are touched by dementia, including people living with dementia and their support network.

Traveling with Sugar reframes the rising diabetes epidemic as part of a five-hundred-year-old global history of sweetness and power.

This book integrates research on the causes, responses and protective strategies for vicarious trauma that are recognised in a range of human services and argues their relevance to the legal profession.

Life expectancy is about more than just health - it's about the kind of society we live in.

This practical and accessibly written guide introduces what practitioners need to know about Mental Health Tribunals, covering the status of the tribunal, its processes, and the evidence that is required from witnesses.

Overall, the negative health impacts of global climate change are anticipated to significantly outweigh positive impacts.

Winner of the New England Book Award for FictionFrom Lily King, beloved author of Writers and Lovers, Father of the Rain is a mesmerising novel about the complexity and power of familial love.

People with variations of sex characteristics (VSC) are born with chromosomal, gonadal, and/or anatomical diversities that do not fit the typical definition of male or female.

This important book introduces the Health in All Policies (HiAP) approach to health promotion, not only detailing how policy-making at all levels can foster the right conditions for better public health but also examining the inherent challenges to such an overarching approach.

What happens when people are reduced to products?

This timely book presents a carefully curated selection of essays to celebrate the career of Nigel South, Emeritus Professor at the Department of Sociology and Criminology of the University of Essex, and one of the leading figures in his field.

What are hormones, and what significance do they have for the psyche and our behavior?

What are hormones, and what significance do they have for the psyche and our behavior?

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

This handbook critically examines spaces of mental health and wellbeing across multiple, often intersecting, domains from green and blue spaces to lived and embodied spaces, creative spaces, work and home spaces, and institutional and post-institutional spaces.

In this volume, the concept of "e;medical neutrality,"e; which states that medical services should not be interfered with during armed conflicts and other emergencies, is challenged based on the experience and expertise of the authors, who come from diverse military, humanitarian, and academic backgrounds.

In this volume, the concept of "e;medical neutrality,"e; which states that medical services should not be interfered with during armed conflicts and other emergencies, is challenged based on the experience and expertise of the authors, who come from diverse military, humanitarian, and academic backgrounds.

Originally published in 1984, when new reproductive technologies were just beginning to become part of the public discussion, this edition was published with a new preface in 1989.

Identity politics has widened representation for the marginalised groups in democracies, while neoliberalism has deepened inequality.

This edited collection of contributions explores non-normative genders, sexualities, and relationality among Autistic people.

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

As artificial reproductive technologies become available to populations that have previously not had access to them, this book asks how reproduction is being transformed by technologies and individuals whose sexual and reproductive lives may defy sociocultural norms, religious codes and national laws.

For years, HIV activists and researchers have expressed deep concerns about the stigmatizing and sensational tone of news stories about HIV criminalization.

This book explores the historical perspective of food security, women's access to food, malnutrition and obesity among women, and household food security to present an analysis of women's nutrition in developing countries.

This book provides a comprehensive insight into health disparities in both the United States and China.

This book integrates the concept of healthcare with larger social determinants such as caste, class, gender, religion, and ethnicity.