Health, illness and addiction: social aspects

Through case studies, this book investigates the pictorial imaging of epidemics globally, especially from the late eighteenth century through the 1920s when, amidst expanding Western industrialism, colonialism, and scientific research, the world endured a succession of pandemics in tandem with the rise of popular visual culture and new media.

Through case studies, this book investigates the pictorial imaging of epidemics globally, especially from the late eighteenth century through the 1920s when, amidst expanding Western industrialism, colonialism, and scientific research, the world endured a succession of pandemics in tandem with the rise of popular visual culture and new media.

This comprehensive book brings together reflections, lessons and insights relating to the post Covid-19 era in Zimbabwe.

El placer de estar conmigo es un viaje esencial para todas aquellas mujeres que desean conocer un espectro más completo de su sexualidad.

Higiene, salud y ambiente en perspectiva histórica: Cali a comienzos del siglo XX, estudia las características relativas al panorama higiénico y sanitario de la realidad nacional y regional del Valle del Cauca, a partir de un ejercicio historiográfico que abarca diferentes momentos históricos, para luego situarse, con especial énfasis, en el análisis del contexto urbano caleño en el período comprendido entre fines del siglo XIX y comienzos del siglo XX, hasta aproximadamente la década de 1940.

This book examines the impacts that the COVID-19 lockdown has had on environmental and ecological health, with a focus on coastal ecosystems in the Lower Gangetic Delta.

When Misfortune Becomes Injustice surveys the progress and challenges in deploying human rights to advance health and social equality over recent decades.

Adolescent rites of passage are ubiquitous sociocultural processes that feature across all manner of social activity.

Among the array of diseases which brought death to Tudor England, the sweating sickness stood out, for the speed with which it struck, its dreadful effects on its victims and the death rates which it produced, that together generated a fear verging on panic when it was identified.

Among the array of diseases which brought death to Tudor England, the sweating sickness stood out, for the speed with which it struck, its dreadful effects on its victims and the death rates which it produced, that together generated a fear verging on panic when it was identified.

The toll of America's gun violence epidemic is usually measured in lives lost-more than 35,000 each year.

Psychology of Behavioural Interventions and Pandemic Control is a unique text that examines the COVID-19 pandemic in relation to population risk factors and the efficacy of non-pharmaceutical interventions deployed by many governments around the world to bring the pandemic under control.

The toll of America's gun violence epidemic is usually measured in lives lost-more than 35,000 each year.

Integral Psychedelic Therapy is a groundbreaking, evidence-based collection that explores how psychedelic medicine can be incorporated into contemporary psychotherapy.

Integral Psychedelic Therapy is a groundbreaking, evidence-based collection that explores how psychedelic medicine can be incorporated into contemporary psychotherapy.

Therapy: The Basics is an introductory book to psychotherapy and its different theoretical approaches.

Der Sammelband beleuchtet Medikalisierungsprozesse speziell mit Blick auf deren Relevanz für die Soziale Arbeit.

Der Sammelband beleuchtet Medikalisierungsprozesse speziell mit Blick auf deren Relevanz für die Soziale Arbeit.

Now more than ever, questions of citizenship, migration, and political action dominate public debate.

Chess, the ancient strategy game, meets the latest, cutting-edge philosophy in this unique book.

The Economics of Excess discusses both standard and behavioral economics as they apply to addiction, indulgence, and social policy.

'Darkly funny as well as deeply shocking, [Be Patient] is an antidote to This is Going to Hurt.

This book develops a theoretical framework for examining and assessing the regulatory arrangements for medical products.

This volume covers the latest advances in the mechanisms of pathogenesis of the HIV-1 virus on target cells.

In the years since the end of apartheid, South Africans have enjoyed a progressive constitution, considerable access to social services for the poor and sick, and a booming economy that has made their nation into one of the wealthiest on the continent.

How evangelical businessmen in the 1930s and 1940s joined their religious and business lives.

Winner of the Sociology of Health and Illness Book PrizeHIV has changed in the presence of recent biomedical technologies.

Immunopathology, Diagnosis and Treatment of HPV induced Malignancies focuses on the human papilloma virus infection and associated cancers.

In the first in-depth study of how gender determined perceptions and experiences of illness in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England, Olivia Weisser invites readers into the lives and imaginations of ordinary men and women.

A sweeping and highly readable work on the evolution of America's domestic and global drug war How can the United States chart a path forward in the war on drugs?

Based on interviews with women who are HIV positive, this sobering pandemic brings to light the deeply rooted and complex problems of living with HIV.

HIV/AIDS: Oxidative Stress and Dietary Antioxidants provides comprehensive coverage of oxidative stress in HIV/AIDS, focusing on both the pathological process around molecular and cellular metabolism and the complications that can arise due to nutritional imbalance.

In the early 1980s the new reproductive technologies available supposedly offered infertile women a chance to have children.

Early in the morning of September 5, 2002, camouflaged and heavily armed Drug Enforcement Administration agents descended on a terraced marijuana garden.

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

In the United States, the soaring cost of health care has become an economic drag and a political flashpoint.

The pesticide dibromochloropropane, known as DBCP, was developed by the chemical companies Dow and Shell in the 1950s to target wormlike, soil-dwelling creatures called nematodes.

This provocative study examines the role of today's Russian Orthodox Church in the treatment of HIV/AIDS.

Disabled children's lives have often been discussed through medical concepts of disability rather than concepts of childhood.

This book explores the academic processes of nursing education in times of uncertainty around healthcare policy and healthcare provision.

Community development, planning and partnerships have become important terms in health promotion but, up until now, debate around these concepts have been discussed more in planning science than in public health literature.

This edited collection of contributions from media scholars, film practitioners and film historians connects the vibrant fields of documentary and disability studies.

This handbook provides a critical assessment of contemporary issues that define the contours of the Paralympic Movement generally and the Paralympic Games more specifically.

Workable Sisterhood is an empirical look at sixteen HIV-positive women who have a history of drug use, conflict with the law, or a history of working in the sex trade.

'The third in a series explicating the criminal mind, this volume summarizes observations, interpretations, and conclusions derived from a study of 121 criminal men who used drugs and/or alcohol to excess.

Examining three interconnected case studies, Tamar Carroll powerfully demonstrates the ability of grassroots community activism to bridge racial and cultural differences and effect social change.