Health, illness and addiction: social aspects

We live in a world awash in manmade chemicals, from the pesticides on our front lawns to the diesel exhaust in the air we breathe.

Does living a stress-filled life lead to elevated blood pressure?

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.

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.

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.

This is a comprehensive clinical resource for addiction counselors who want to learn about the psychological components of the problem, for individual therapists-dynamic, cognitive, and behavioral-who want to understand systems approaches in order to draw on a broader repertoire of useful interventions, and for couple and family therapists who want to learn more about the intrapsychic, biological, and pharmacological aspects of addiction.

In its updated and expanded second edition, this helpful guide offers a wealth of information for people living with HIV and for people caring for HIV-positive loved ones.

Many historical chess books focus on individual 19th century masters and tournaments yet little is written covering the full scope of competitive chess through the era.

This work describes the crucial role celebrities played in the emergence of two competing narratives about Covid-19, one a pro-science narrative that advocated for preventive measures and the other a skeptical counter narrative that denied the disease's existence or downplayed its severity.

This book investigates how urban planning can promote inclusive, climate-resilient, and healthy communities.

This book makes a powerful case that neoliberalism, the dominant economic and social policy paradigm of the post-1980 world, is hazardous to our health.

For many residents of Western nations, COVID-19 was the first time they experienced the effects of an uncontrolled epidemic.

Breast cancer is one of the most commonly diagnosed cancers and a leading cause of death for women worldwide.

The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) is iconic in the landscape of Indian healthcare.

Radical changes in our understanding of health and healthcare are reshaping twenty-first-century personhood.

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Cervical cancer is the third leading cause of death among women in Venezuela, with poor and working-class women bearing the brunt of it.

A new strain of coronavirus emerged sometime in November 2019, and within weeks a cluster of patients began to be admitted to hospitals in Wuhan with severe pneumonia, most of them linked to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market.

Drinking to excess has been a striking problem for industrial and post-industrial societies - who is responsible when an individual opts for a slow suicide?

"e;Makes a significant contribution to China studies [and] provides important clues about the state of preparation for global health challenges.

In the mid-1990s, experts predicted that India would face the world's biggest AIDS epidemic by 2000.

We are all citizens of the Biomedical Empire, though few of us know it, and even fewer understand the extent of its power.

What do author James Frey and former president Bill Clinton have in common?

Severe, chronic pain affects at least 116 million Americans every year.

Society was not prepared in 1981 for the appearance of a new infectious disease, but we have since learned that emerging and reemerging diseases will continue to challenge humanity.

With the revised information and up-to-date research, Out of the Shadows is the premier work on sex addiction, written by a pioneer in its treatment.

Improve your health and quality of life with expert advice and strategies to outsmart diabetes.

An inspiring and empowering guide to managing the daily work and pressure of diabetes managementLiving with diabetes is non-stop, 24 hours a day.

When diagnosed with diabetes the first thing a person asks is what food they can eat.

The profound changes to the world economy since the late twentieth century have been characterised by a growth in the number and size of transnational corporations.

There is growing evidence of the wide-ranging impacts of corporations in selected industries on global patterns of health and disease.

Our understandings of addiction are rapidly changing.

This volume of the "e;International Perspectives on Education and Society"e; series examines the relationship between HIV/AIDS and education worldwide.

Sadness is now a design problem.

With 20 million dead and another 40 million infected, AIDS is the world's worst epidemic, but the catastrophe could have been prevented.

"e;Contrary to general belief, there is no federal law against growing P.

Named a 2011 Library Journal Core Nonfiction BookThe Diabetes Manifesto gives people with Diabetes a book that will help them feel in control of their lives, regardless of their changing symptoms or disease status.

Who says that you can't learn from the games of amateurs?

Back to the future!

An Economist Best Book of 2025"e;Fair Dosesis an unflinching insider account of how science, politics, and human nature collided in the battle to vaccinate the world.