Health, illness and addiction: social aspects

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High Price by Carl Hart is a groundbreaking work on neuroscience and addictionAs a youth, Carl Hart didn't see the value of school, studying just enough to keep him on the basketball team.

A true story of madness, addiction, and a sister's quest for her lost brotherWhen Molly McCloskey was a young girl, her brother Mike - fourteen years her senior - started showing signs of paranoid schizophrenia.

Be inspired by Allen Carr's life story of how he quit his 100-a-day habit, and his quest to cure the world of smoking.

Cocaine is big business and getting bigger.

What does he think if I sleep with him on the first date?

In l978 Sontag wrote Illness As Metaphor.

In 1993, Helen Epstein, a scientist working with a biotechnology company searching for an AIDS vaccine, moved to Uganda, where she witnessed first-hand the suffering caused by the HIV virus.

John Healy's The Grass Arena describes with unflinching honesty his experiences of addiction, his escape through learning to play chess in prison, and his ongoing search for peace of mind.

The untold story of how hereditary data in mental hospitals gave rise to the science of human heredityIn the early 1800s, a century before there was any concept of the gene, physicians in insane asylums began to record causes of madness in their admission books.

On April 26, 1986, Unit Four of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in then Soviet Ukraine.

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.

How genomics is revolutionizing the social sciencesFor a century, social scientists have avoided genetics like the plague.

Health care costs make up nearly a fifth of U.

This volume contains 82 chapters that provide detail and understanding to the fields of human and medical virology.

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Will change your life Chris Evans Completely fascinating Heston Blumenthal Important and devastating The TimesFrom a world-leading microbiome scientist and surgeon comes Dark Matter, a pioneering guide to hacking your microbiome for a healthier life.

In this sweeping cultural history of nursing from the Stone Age to the present, the critically acclaimed author of Early pays homage to the profession and makes an urgent call for change.

There is a need in small group teaching for a readable module that provides a balanced treatment of the four main areas of medical microbiology-bacteriology, mycology, virology and parasistology.

Are infectious diseases caused by novel entities, viruses that have rapidly evolved into more pathogenic forms, or viruses that have crossed species divides and become more virulent in their alternative host?

In 1998, approximately 30 million people worldwide were living with HIV/AIDS, about 5 million of whom became infected that year.

'If everyone read Edna Bonhomme's incredible, humane, insightful book-and I hope they do-we might stand a chance' Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of An Immense World'Fascinating and thought-provoking' Jonathan Kennedy, author of Pathogenesis: How Germs Made History'Tender as it tackles some of the most stigmatized subjects of our time' Morgan Jenkins, author of Wandering in Strange LandsA History of the World in Six Plagues unveils a powerful and unsettling truth: epidemic diseases enter the world by chance, but they become catastrophic by human design.

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Verbrochen, verjahrt und bisher nicht erzahlt Verbrochen, verjahrt und bisher nicht erzahlt $ick, bekannt fur sein von Drogen, Exzess und Kriminalitat gepragtes Leben, erzahlt eine bisher unveroffentlichte Episode seiner Geschichte: Seine Verbindung zu Hermann, einem Rauber, dem er vertraut, der ihn aber auch tief in die Beschaffungskriminalitat zieht.