Health, illness and addiction: social aspects

The latest three- and four dimensional images produced by modern ultrasound technology offer strikingly realistic representations of the foetus - representations that have further transformed experiences of pregnancy, the public understanding of foetal existence and the rhetoric of the abortion debate.

'Saidov has produced a detailed and highly readable text that considers in turn the methods of limiting damages, the determination of loss and the calculation of damages.

Preventing Prison Violence introduces the idea of 'prison ecologies' - a multi-layered perspective to understanding prison violence as a 'product' of human, environment (social and physical), systemic, and societal influences - and how an ecological approach is helpful to prevention efforts.

Explore the contentious and multifaceted issue of drug decriminalization and legalization from a variety of perspectives.

Since the late 1990s approaches to women's reproductive health has shifted from a service-based model to a human rights approach.

America is in the middle of an epidemic it has never seen before.

Teen drug use is a critical and timely health issue that deeply affects adolescent development in a number of important areas, including social, cognitive, and affective functioning, as well as long-term health and wellbeing.

This book highlights the potential of school farms to fight hunger and malnutrition by providing access to locally produced, fresh, and healthy food as well as providing young students with educational opportunities to learn, interact with nature, and develop their skills.

I turn to see a rocket-propelled grenade screaming toward me.

This collection of essays emphasizes society's increasingly responsible engagement with ethical challenges in emerging medical technology.

Since the late 1990s approaches to women's reproductive health has shifted from a service-based model to a human rights approach.

This book explores the impact of cancer on those with the disease and the people around them.

This book provides a timely study of community-based activism in contemporary South Africa.

This book explains how the U.

The prevention of harm from drug use, both legal and illegal, is a major concern to government departments and clinicians throughout the world.

It is estimated that 90% of those who are HIV positive are in employment.

Originally published in 1986 Urban Hospital Location examines the rising costs of health care and how the problem of providing a cost-effective and equitable pattern of health services is now a vital issue in many countries.

Mother-to-child transmission of HIV-1 afflicts hundreds of thousands of children every year, especially in parts of the world such as sub-Saharan Africa, where HIV infection is prevalent and resources are limited.

Compulsive Body Spaces presents a spatial understanding of compulsion.

This book examines how CCTV cameras expose the patient body inside the mental health ward, especially the relationship between staff and patients as surveillance subjects.

All of the requisite forms addiction treatment professionals need a crucial time-saver in today's healthcare system Treating addiction in today's healthcare environment means that mental health professionals must manage an imposing amount of paperwork.

In simple terms, this book shows how chemical dependency affects those around the addicted person, and teaches concerned people how to help and how to do it right.

The relationship between sport, medicine and health in our society is becoming increasingly complex.

The evidence surrounding the skills and approaches to support good birth has grown exponentially over the last two decades, but so too have the obstacles facing women and midwives who strive to achieve good birth.

Physiotherapy is arriving at a critical point in its history.

This title was first published in 2003: Although young people are generally very healthy, it has become clear that many of the health behaviours of young people can have serious consequences later in life.

This ground-breaking volume provides readers with both an overview of harm reduction therapy and a series of ten case studies, treated by different therapists, that vividly illustrate this treatment approach with a wide variety of clients.

This book investigates how mental health in South Africa is conceptualised and constructed in public policy.

The American public responded to the first cases of AIDS with fear and panic.

While well over one million small-time drug users languish in overcrowded prisons because of nonviolent drug offenses, tens of thousands of others get rich from legal and illegal drugs.

As modern society's routine sequestration of death and grief is increasingly replaced by late-modern society's growing concern with existential issues and emotionality, this book explores grief as a social emotion, bringing together contributions from scholars across the social sciences and humanities to examine its social and cultural aspects.

Euphoric will guide you on your journey to an alcohol-free lifestyle, putting the focus on happiness, well-being and self-love to create the life you want.

Health is a contested concept that has been defined in numerous ways.

Global Health continues to provide readers with a comprehensive, up-to-date and thought-provoking outline and understanding of the constantly evolving global health landscape.

The Handbook of International Psychology Ethics discusses the most central, guiding principles of practice for mental health professionals around the world.

This study deals with an underexplored area of the emerging technologies debate: robotics in the healthcare setting.

Young People, Alcohol, and Risk theorises the social, cultural and economic shifts that have underpinned significant declines in young people's drinking in high- income countries.

Despite increasingly nuanced understandings of the neurobiology of addiction and a greater appreciation of the social and economic conditions that allow drug dependency to persist, there remain many unknowns regarding the individual experience of substance abuse and its treatment.

A Scientific Framework for Compassion and Social Justice provides readers with an in-depth understanding of the behavior analytic principles that maintain social justice issues and highlights behavior analytic principles that promote self-awareness and compassion.

This is the third edition of the casebook providing an article-by-article analysis of the CISG Convention.

This book explores the various psychosocial, sociocultural, and contextual factors that affect the sexual health of Black students who attend Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), and how this environment can help develop strategies to improve sexual health outcomes for its students.

This book addresses how to estimate substance use and thereby evaluate policies intended to reduce the harms caused by drugs and other substances.

Brazil's leadership role in the fight against HIV has brought its public health system widespread praise.

This book explores the design, communication and implementation of social change programmes aimed at solving various social problems, from reducing health-risk behaviour to 'green' consumption or financial literacy.

First published in 1998, this book contributes to our understanding of emergent and resurgent infectious diseases and health ecology in developing areas through detailed spatial and temporal analysis of recent cholera and bacillary dysentery epidemics in Mozambique.

Is another future possible?

This introductory text provides nurses with the foundations of a sociological understanding of health issues which they should find of great help in thinking about their work and the role of their profession.