Health, illness and addiction: social aspects

The anxiety over death persists in everyday life- though often denied or repressed- lingering as an unconscious worry or intuition that typically seems to compromise one's feelings of well-being and experience in a range of areas; coming out often as malaise, depression, and anger in much conduct.

Originally published in 1979, this book presents a coherent body of information on the inter-relation between nutrition, health and disease in its social context.

Facing a Pandemic traces the history and spread of the HIV/AIDS virus in Africa and its impact on African society and public policy before considering new priorities needed to combat the pandemic.

This book offers an international perspective of philosophical, conceptual and praxis-oriented issues that impinge on achieving education for all students.

Some 12 years into the epidemic, with an effective preventive vaccine or therapy against HIV disease still to be found, this book reflects on the contributions of social and behavioural research to the development of interventions for prevention.

The Provisions of War examines how soldiers, civilians, communities, and institutions have used food and its absence as both a destructive weapon and a unifying force in establishing governmental control and cultural cohesion during times of conflict.

Addressing drug use and abuse as a global phenomenon, this text draws on contemporary and international research findings to examine the causes of drug use in different countries and to explore different policy responses to its prevention and treatment.

Sadness is now a design problem.

No one remembers what they say when they’re high.

This book provides an engaging, jargon-free introduction to the threat of global pandemics, offering an overview of the many origins and triggers of pandemic events.

Permit But Discourage: Regulating Excessive Consumption, by W.

Concepts of Addictive Substances and Behaviours across Time and Place presents fascinating new historical and social scientific research examining the temporal and spatial variations in the ways that addiction problems are understood and addressed in European societies.

First published in 1999, this volume is based upon a detailed empirical study of 40 cases of commercially-related deaths - the first such English study.

Ethics in Rural Psychology provides readers with theoretical underpinnings, practical applications, and empirically based knowledge of the practice of psychology in rural communities.

Civic engagement in this book is understood to include attendance at booked National Health Service appointments; compulsory attendance at school; the take-up of a variety of State benefits in cash and kind, such as Pension Credit and free school meals; and attendance at work.

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

Doctors and patients, inter-professional rivalries, how sociologists might tackle the study of vital topics in health - all these are enduring themes in sociology and medicine.

New Organs Within Us is a richly detailed and conceptually innovative ethnographic analysis of organ transplantation in Turkey.

From the very beginning of the epidemic, AIDS was linked to punishment.

The only daughter of alcoholic parents, novelist Pip Granger spent much of her childhood outside looking in.

This new edition brings this study of inner-city life up to date.

Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is a fascinating and fast-changing area of medicine.

In recent years, body studies has expanded rapidly, becoming an increasingly popular field of study within anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies.

First published in 1998, this volume why and how genetic engineering has emerged as the technology most likely to change our lives, for better or worse, in the opening century of the third millennium.

Gender, Health and Welfare deals primarily with the century before the creation of the classic welfare state in Britain.

The challenges faced by individuals and families at the end of life are still incredibly diverse, and many behavioural interventions and clinical approaches have been developed to address this great diversity of experiences in the face of dying and death, helping providers to care for their clients.

Most clinicians seek guidelines and indicators as to the effectiveness of their interventions with clients.

Prescription, illicit, and recreational drugs touch all of our lives yet a basic understanding of these chemicals is largely absent among Americans.

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.

This book presents recent sociological research investigating the intersection of technology, human sexuality, and health.

This important book provides a critical examination of the sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) of young women and girls in Southern Africa, examining the ways in which current policies and programmes aimed at improving SRHR often fail to reach the most marginalised populations.

As world populations continue to age, the incidence of very common, ultimately fatal neurodegenerative diseases (some of medicine's most puzzling illnesses) will increase exponentially.

All neuropsychologists need to know how to produce evidence-based reports.

A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2014!

DNA Barcoding has been promoted since 2003 as a new, fast, digital genomics-based means of identifying natural species based on the idea that a small standard fragment of any organism's genome (a so-called 'micro-genome') can faithfully identify and help to classify every species on the planet.

The fourth edition of this established and highly-regarded work is the most systematic study available of the law of sale of goods with reference to UK and Commonwealth authorities and relevant UK and EU legislation.

The problem of addiction is one of the major challenges and controversies confronting medicine and society.

The first book to apply a biographical approach to the life of the heroin user from birth until death.

The problem of addiction is one of the major challenges and controversies confronting medicine and society.

The COVID-19 pandemic and the global response to it have disrupted the daily lives of children in innumerable ways.

One of the founders of the posthumanities, Donna J.

AIDS is the second-leading cause of death among African American women between the ages of 18 and 44.

This book focuses on two areas of substantial and growing importance to the human development and capability approach: health and disability.

This book presents a collection of research-based, effective, and culturally responsive practices that are used in schools and communities to support and empower families of students with disabilities to be equal partners for schools.

Some studies estimate that each year, around a quarter of the population of Western countries will suffer from at least one mental disorder.

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