Health, illness and addiction: social aspects

This Routledge Handbook of Childhood Studies and Global Development explores how global development agendas and economic development influence children's lives.

Originally published in 1985, at a time when the previous 2 decades had witnessed dramatic changes in the US mental health system.

Even among mental health clinicians, the communications of individuals experiencing psychosis have historically been considered mysterious, bizarre, and invalid.

Two leading oncologists, along with experts spanning several medical disciplines, shed light on the global pandemic of cancer, particularly the difference in diagnosis, treatment, and care between global communities.

The second edition of Global Sales and Contract Law continues to provide comparative analysis of domestic laws of sale and contract in over sixty countries, delivering a global view of national and international sales law.

Primary schoolchildren are frequently shielded from education on sexuality and sexually transmitted diseases in an effort to protect their innocence.

In l978 Sontag wrote Illness As Metaphor.

Recent rapid advances in the biosciences have led to considerable debate about the social, ethical, and legal implications of research and its applications.

First published in 1999, this volume examines the history of psychiatry and pathogenic parenting models over the past two centuries and contains the results of a study carried out by the author on the experiences of the parents of patients with Schizophrenia drawn from a sample of parents of patients in a forensic and a community setting.

Geno-technology is a technology unlike any other, with significant implications for life in the 21st century.

Africa has a long experience with reducing poverty and vulnerability.

Problem-solving courts provide judicially supervised treatment for behavioral health needs commonly found among criminal offenders, including substance abuse and mental health disorders, and they treat a variety of offender populations.

Practising Social Inclusion presents what we know about what works, and why, in promoting social inclusion and practising in a socially inclusive way.

The first book-length rhetorical history and analysis of the insanity defense The insanity defense is considered one of the most controversial, most misunderstood, and least straightforward subjects in the American legal system.

What does it mean to think of HIV/AIDS policy in a critical manner?

In this book, Lori Brown examines the relationship between space, defined physically, legally and legislatively, and how these factors directly impact the spaces of abortion.

First published in 1999, this volume examines the 'meanings' specific child protection cases involving the familial sexual abuse of adolescent girls hold for social workers.

In 2003, Congress passed the United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act, which established a 5-year, $15 billion initiative to help countries around the world respond to their AIDS epidemics.

There exists today a fast growing availability of personal genetic information.

Covers a wide range of treatment options for drug misuse and dependence in a practically orientated and academic manner.

The book takes as its starting point the crisis of healthcare in the UK: impossible health targets managed through command and control management and a stomach-churning rise in racism, whistleblowing and victimisation in the NHS.

More people die by suicide each year than by homicide, wars, and terrorist attacks combined.

Issues relating to alcohol 'misuse' can only properly be understood within their social and environmental contexts.

Advances in molecular genetics have led to the increasing availability of genetic testing for a variety of inherited disorders.

Does a program work?

This is the first study to examine the representation of illness, disability, and cultural pathologies in modern and contemporary Iberian and Latin American literature.

Originally published in 1977, this book presents a selection of work by historians and sociologists on medicine and society in the 19th century.

Uses the success of the AIDS treatment advocacy movement to show how social movements can successfully transform global markets.

Praise for Handbook of HIV and Social Work "e;Cynthia Cannon Poindexter has given us a remarkable edited volume that contains much information on HIV that every professional social worker needs to know in order to practice competently in today's complex world.

Originally published in 1984, this book attempted to fill a gap by providing a broad-ranging structural analysis of the health care sector and the political and economic forces which influence its shape and contents, both in the western world and developing countries.

Substance abuse and its social consequences are a major public concern for communities throughout the world.

Gewirth's theory of human rights has made a major contribution to philosophy.

Drug use is widely understood in terms of its subjects, substances and settings.

This classic book, first published in 1992 and again in 2003, has inspired three generations of childbearing people, birth activists and researchers, and birth practitioners-midwives, doulas, nurses, and obstetricians-to take a fresh look at the "e;standard procedures"e; that are routinely used to "e;manage"e; American childbirth.

Counselling Ideologies draws our attention to the dilemmas inherent within the therapeutic ideologies commonly subscribed to by psychotherapists and counsellors working with those who challenge heteronormative models and approaches.

There is a strong case today for a specific focus on mental public health and its relation to social and physical environments.

This book explains the treatment of endocrine disorders using natural therapies.

Expertly mixing theory with practice, this text makes a unique and important contribution to the area of health management.

This book assists new and experienced scholars in planning and conducting high quality, contemporary studies for knowledge building about substance use.

The United States has spent two productivedecades implementing a variety of prevention programs.

Population ageing - a growth in the proportion of a population that is in older age - is now occurring in every region and nearly every country of the world.

This book analyses leisure choice as a complex concept, made more complicatedin later life than at any other time.

By tracing the shadow of the epidemic over the last 30 years in Uganda and more broadly in the region, HIV and East Africa investigates the impact of the epidemic on people's lives and livelihoods, placing the epidemic within the context of the social, political and economic changes that have occurred over the last three decades.

Regulating the End of Life: Death Rights is a collection of cutting-edge chapters on assisted dying and euthanasia, written by leading authors in the field.

CHRONIC PAIN AND HIV: a practical approach Patients suffering from HIV/AIDS often experience chronic pain due to the many diseases and infections they pick up as a result of a weakened immune system.

European consumer law has become a vital part of both legal education and practice.

Culture, Bodies and the Sociology of Health explores the boundaries between bodies and society with special reference to uncovering the cultural components of health and the ways in which bodies are categorized according to a form of culturally embedded 'health orthodoxy'.

There is now a vast literature on HIV and AIDS but much of it is based on traditional biomedical or epidemiological approaches.

This practical textbook will enable students training to become Registered Behavior Technicians (RBTs(TM)) to fully understand and follow the new RBT(R) Ethics Code administered by the Behavior Analyst Certification Board (BACB(R)).