Health, illness and addiction: social aspects

This volume explores in depth femicide and feminicide, bringing together our current knowledge on this phenomenon and its prevention.

This volume explores in depth femicide and feminicide, bringing together our current knowledge on this phenomenon and its prevention.

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.

From the acclaimed author of Washing the Dead and Bertrand Court comes a satirical and chilling, yet deeply-sensitive, tale that captures the ethos and ruin of childrens competitive swimming, where parents must face the haunting spirits of their own tumultuous upbringings or risk losing their way andin turnthemselves.

An easy-to-use resource for teens wanting to learn more about why nicotine and tobacco are bad for your health and how to quit using them.

STDs in the United States: A Reference Handbook provides information about sexually transmitted diseases and infections and their impact on both an individual and a societal level.

Beyond their impact on public health, epidemics shape and are shaped by political, economic, and social forces.

A comprehensive overview of opioid use throughout human history, current problems surrounding opioid abuse, and suggested approaches to solving these problems.

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.

Based on several years of ethnographic fieldwork, the book explores life in and around a Luo-speaking village in western Kenya during a time of death.

The HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa has been addressed and perceived predominantly through the broad perspectives of social and economic theories as well as public health and development discourses.

Increasingly, therapy practitioners and researchers position themselves within a pluralistic perspective that draws on the value of multiple sources of knowledge.

In The Language of the Heart, Trysh Travis explores the rich cultural history of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and its offshoots and the larger "recovery movement" that has grown out of them.

Finalist for the 2017 Lambda Literary "e;Lammy"e; Award in LGBTQ StudiesThe first book to examine the correlation between mixed-race identity and HIV/AIDS among Native American gay men and transgendered people, Indian Blood provides an analysis of the emerging and often contested LGBTQ "e;two-spirit"e; identification as it relates to public health and mixed-race identity.

While in the ICU with a near-fatal case of pneumonia, Brett Walker was asked, Do you have a family history of illness?

At the turn of the twentieth century, tuberculosis was a leading cause of death across America, Europe, and the Russian Empire.

Whether you're an American Mah Jongg newbie or an intermediate player looking to gain an edge over your opponents, American Mah Jongg for Everyone is the perfect book to help you start practicing your game!

Each year, billions of dollars are spent on global humanitarian health initiatives.

Birth in the Age of AIDS is a vivid and poignant portrayal of the experiences of HIV-positive women in India during pregnancy, birth, and motherhood at the beginning of the 21st century.

Explores homespun remedies and medicinal herbsSouthern Folk Medicine, 1750-1820 explores methods of cure during a time when the South relied more heavily on homespun remedies than on professionally prescribed treatments.

Professional grandmasters study the latest wrinkles of their favorite openings.

Chessplayers wishing to improve their performance typically seek to deepen their middlegame understanding or to increase their endgame knowledge.

They did it!

Grandmaster Alexander Panchenko (1953-2009) was one of the most successful chess trainers in the Soviet Union, and later in Russia.

The Irish health system is confronted by a range of challenges, both emerging and recurring.

Don't have the time to study opening theory, or to figure out where you're going wrong with your games?

The Basman-Sale Variation is a relatively unexplored weapon for Black in the Sicilian Defence.

Learn how to attack in the sharpest lines of the most widely played chess opening!

Marine environment is the largest habitat covering approximately 70% of the total earth surface.

This book explores the career experiences of Generation A, the half-million individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) who will reach adulthood in the next decade.

Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of death throughout the world.

This book chiefly focuses on environmental flow, water pollution and water quality.

Female Olympian and Paralympian Events is a groundbreaking book that examines women's sports in the Olympic and Paralympic Games, which have long been underappreciated and under-analyzed.

Medicinal flora plays an important role in health care systems across the world.

This edited collection explores the representations of identity in comedy and interrogates the ways in which "e;humorous"e; constructions of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, religion, class and disability raise serious issues about privilege, agency and oppression in popular culture.

Leading researchers on economic resilience from economic geography, economic history and organizational studies discuss recent approaches to better understand the impact of structures, processes, agency, governance and multilevel settings on economic resilience.

This book provides information on proper underground mine ventilation in order to detail its importance in maintaining safe, productive, healthy and effective underground environments at all times for employees.

This book provides a concise, interdisciplinary perspective on the emotion and practice of 'hope'.

This book presents the outcomes of a field action project at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS).

This book traces how the American freak show has re-emerged in new visual forms in the 21st century.

This edited volume examines inclusive education and disability in the global South.

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.

This book explores the inter-relationship of disability and trauma in the Mad Max films (1979-2015).

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The prospect that the psychiatric profession has hurt rather than helped many of its patients is incredibly disheartening; however, wrong diagnoses and improper treatment are all too common errors within the field.

Despite society's current preoccupation with interrelated issues such as obesity, increasingly sedentary lifestyles and children's health, there has until now been little published research that directly addresses the place and meaning of physical activity in young people's lives.

All human behaviour is, ultimately, a moral undertaking, in which each situation must be considered on its own merits.