Health, illness and addiction: social aspects

Esta obra aborda las definiciones y conceptos fundamentales de la salud y la enfermedad desde una perspectiva filosófica y médica contemporánea basada en las teorías de Georges Canguilhem, Christopher Boorse y Lennart Nordenfelt.

¿Cómo enfrentar una de las problemáticas más urgentes de nuestro tiempo?

Como intervenir cuando la vida pierde su horizonte?

Der Sammelband gibt einen Überblick über theoretische Ansätze in der Gesundheits- und Medizinsoziologie und stellt ihre Anwendungsfelder vor.

Der Sammelband gibt einen Überblick über theoretische Ansätze in der Gesundheits- und Medizinsoziologie und stellt ihre Anwendungsfelder vor.

This book provides a new and hopeful view of ageing—showing how it can drive innovation, not just create challenges.

Nunca Galicia comercializou un produto con tanto éxito.

Es posible que notemos a nuestros hijos más irritables, más desobedientes o, incluso, más apagados o distantes.

Al igual que en EE.

In the decades since it was identified in 1981, HIV/AIDS has devastated African American communities.

We will all be patients sooner or later.

Medicine finally has discovered fatigue.

In this age of shortened office visits, doctors take care of their patients immediate needs and often elide their own personal histories.

Como colectivo, hemos pasado por un mal momento.

A healthcare worker recounts her eye-opening experience caring for her mother with Alzheimer's-and the innovative communication method she discovered.

We will all be patients sooner or later.

Medicine finally has discovered fatigue.

In this age of shortened office visits, doctors take care of their patients immediate needs and often elide their own personal histories.

In the decades since it was identified in 1981, HIV/AIDS has devastated African American communities.

A healthcare worker recounts her eye-opening experience caring for her mother with Alzheimer's-and the innovative communication method she discovered.

This book critically analyses the ongoing, often silent, expansion of genomics throughout society.

This book critically analyses the ongoing, often silent, expansion of genomics throughout society.

Social care and health professionals encounter people with drug and alcohol problems on a daily basis, but many feel ill-equipped to respond.

This history of the African AIDS epidemic is a much-needed, accessibly written historical account of the most serious epidemiological catastrophe of modern times.

Ectogestation and the Future of Reproductive Rights explores the profound ethical, legal, and social implications of artificial womb technology.

The business risk that workaholism presents is an underestimated risk in companies and human resources management, which can develop into an existential threat to a business.

The business risk that workaholism presents is an underestimated risk in companies and human resources management, which can develop into an existential threat to a business.

Social care and health professionals encounter people with drug and alcohol problems on a daily basis, but many feel ill-equipped to respond.

This history of the African AIDS epidemic is a much-needed, accessibly written historical account of the most serious epidemiological catastrophe of modern times.

Health figures centrally in late twentieth-century environmental activism.

Bioethics needs an expanded moral vision.

After the 1959 Cuban Revolution, hundreds of thousands of Cuban refugees came to Miami.

Bioethics needs an expanded moral vision.

After the 1959 Cuban Revolution, hundreds of thousands of Cuban refugees came to Miami.

Health figures centrally in late twentieth-century environmental activism.

An authoritative, illuminating, and deeply humane history of addiction - a phenomenon that remains baffling and deeply misunderstood despite having touched countless lives - by an addiction psychiatrist striving to understand his own family and himself.

Ectogestation and the Future of Reproductive Rights explores the profound ethical, legal, and social implications of artificial womb technology.

Der vorliegende Band bietet empirische Analysen kirchlicher Kommunikationspraxis während und nach der Corona-Pandemie, die im Rahmen der im Sommer 2022 durchgeführten CONTOC2-Studie gewonnen wurden und beleuchtet diese aus unterschiedlichen fachlichen Perspektiven.

Der vorliegende Band bietet empirische Analysen kirchlicher Kommunikationspraxis während und nach der Corona-Pandemie, die im Rahmen der im Sommer 2022 durchgeführten CONTOC2-Studie gewonnen wurden und beleuchtet diese aus unterschiedlichen fachlichen Perspektiven.

A psychedelic guru, a magical toad and the dark side of the modern quest for transcendence.

Get the Summary of Adam Marr and Andrew Marr's Tales from the Blast Factory in 20 minutes.

The first authorised biography of eternal legend Elizabeth Taylor.

Over the last twenty years, type 2 diabetes skyrocketed to the forefront of global public health concern.

Melissa Fuster thinks expansively about the multiple meanings of comida, food, from something as simple as a meal to something as complex as ones identity.

Health figures centrally in late twentieth-century environmental activism.

Medicine finally has discovered fatigue.

In this age of shortened office visits, doctors take care of their patients immediate needs and often elide their own personal histories.

This book examines the implementation of immigration policy in Mexico through an ethnographic and relational lens, focusing on the subjectivities of state officials.

Throughout Latin America, social medicine has been widely recognized for its critical perspectives on mainstream understandings of health and for its progressive policy achievements.

Crime is a gendered phenomenon.