Health, illness and addiction: social aspects

'Raw, unflinching, incredibly brave' - BBC Woman's Hour'Visceral and gripping' Amy Liptrot, author of The OutrunComing Clean is a searingly honest memoir of loving an alcoholic both through the heaviest drinking years and into recovery.

Examining the historical context of healthcare whilst focusing on building a more just, equitable world, this book proposes a radical imagination for nursing and presents possibilities for speculative futures embracing queer, feminist, posthuman, and abolitionist frames.

This volume provides a comparative European overview focusing upon the main areas of social construction as it relates to health and illness.

Suicide is one of the leading causes of death worldwide, with more than one million fatalities each year.

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

A comprehensive guide to creating, implementing, and evaluating culturally competent HIV prevention programs.

The exclusive, first-hand, behind-the-scenes story of how Pfizer raced to create the first Covid-19 vaccine, told by Pfizer's CEO Dr.

Focusing on juvenile transfer and disposition evaluations, this volume provides an up-to-date integration of current law, science, and practice with respect to juvenile risk assessment, treatment needs/amenability, and sophistication-maturity.

REVISED AND UPDATED * With a New Chapter on Trauma and Anxiety, a List of Resources, and More * 2023 Nautilus Book Award Winner * As Heard on Glennon Doyles We Can Do Hard Things PodcastThe cultural phenomenon that has helped heal millions of readers, this modern classic holds the key to understanding codependency and unlocking its hold on your life.

With both domestic and external financing expected to dry up in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, this book argues that there is a need for fresh ideas and new strategies for achieving sustainable development in Africa.

Much has rightly been written about the physiological and psychological symptoms, known as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), suffered by combat veterans, and their treatment.

A guide to designing a personal program to break your addictions safely, gently, and naturally *; Shares herbs, supplements, natural remedies, and alternative practices that can help liberate you from habitual substance use, ease the withdrawal period, cleanse the body of toxins, and combat depression, anxiety, fatigue, and stress *; Offers specific advice and remedies for individual addictive substances and behaviors, including sugar, caffeine, alcohol, opioids, tobacco, and tranquilizers *; Explores the potential of psychedelic therapy for overcoming addiction and addresses how cannabis can be of benefit for recovery, without being misused Addiction affects more people than any other disease.

This book provides a clear introduction to the Mental Capacity Act (MCA, 2005), offering an easy reference guide to the complex issues enshrined within the Act to inform the everyday practice of those who need to perform within its parameters as part of their day-to-day work.

In this stimulating book, William C.

This new edition of Sarah Franklin's classic monograph on the development of in vitro fertilisation (IVF) includes two entirely new chapters reflecting on the relevance of the book's findings in the context of the past two decades and providing a 'state-of-the-art' review of the field today.

The scope of this book focuses on how information technology may assist in achieving goals and in providing solutions to problems such as a pandemic.

Barbara Browning follows the trail of "e;infectious rhythm"e; from the ecstatic percussion of a Brazilian carnival group to the eerily silent video image of the LAPD beating a man like a drum.

This engaging book provides a novel examination of the nature of addiction, suggesting that by exploring akrasia-the tendency to act against one's better judgement-we can better understand our addictive behaviors.

Posthuman theory asks in various ways what it means to be human in a time when philosophy has become suspicious of claims about human subjectivity.

Rebuilding Communities: Challenges for Group Work is a collection of research and information presented at the 18th Annual Symposium of the Association for the Advancement of Social Work with Groups.

We are on the verge of a crisis in mental health.

Once a synonym for death, cancer is now a prognosis of multiple probabilities and produces a world of uncertainty for carers.

Each year it is estimated that approximately 40,000 people in the U.

The Handbook provides an essential resource at the interface of Genomics, Health and Society, and forms a crucial research tool for both new students and established scholars across biomedicine and social sciences.

First published in 1997, this work makes a substantial reexamination of the social processes behind the labelling of patients in hospital care.

Public health approaches to palliative care have been growing in policy importance and practice acceptance.

This book explores how discursive psychology (DP) research can be applied to disability and the everyday and institutional constructions of bodymind differences.

How can dress impact a journey through disabling illness and recovery from South Africa to London?

The recognition of positive rights and the growing impact of human rights principles has recently orchestrated a number of reforms in mental health law, bringing increasing entitlement to an array of health services.

First published in 1998, this volume why and how genetic engineering has emerged as the technology most likely to change our lives, for better or worse, in the opening century of the third millennium.

Elements of Moral Experience in Clinical Ethics Training and Practice: Sharing Stories with Strangers is a philosophical and professional memoir of the education, training, and professional development of becoming a clinical ethics consultant.

In Bodies at Risk, Elizabeth Wheatley provides a fascinating ethnography of heart disease.

This volume addresses the interface of two major national problems: the epidemic of HIV-AIDS and the widespread use of illegal injection drugs.

The recovered possess the key to overcoming anorexia.

New York Times Book Review Top 10 Books of the Year Captures with subtlety and empathy the honest reality of mental illness The TimesThere are stories that save us, and stories that trap us, and in the midst of an illness it can be very hard to know which is which Strangers to Ourselves shares the experiences of five people who have come up against the limits of psychiatric explanations for who they are.

This textbook takes a truly interdisciplinary approach to studying health psychology.

As the nation's drug crisis has deepened, public and private agencies have invested huge sums of money in prevention efforts.

Teenage pregnancy is seen as a problem by researchers and policymakers alike all over the world, but particularly so in the context of developing countries.

Psychiatric Expert Testimony: Emerging Applications is for practitioners who need to be at the cutting edge of admissibility in court.

This book is about older women's strength, freedom, tenacity, determination, resilience, independence, social and political involvement and, in particular, it is about re-imagining ageing.

Resistance and social movements in mental health have been important in shaping current practice in both mental health and psychiatry.

Over the past 15 years, geography has made many significant contributions to our understanding of disabled people's identities, lives, and place in society and space.

A mother traces her daughters years-long battle with addiction in this compelling memoir that opens a raw and honest dialogue about substance abuse.

Health service policy and health policy have changed considerably over the past fifteen years and there is a pressing need for an up-to-date sociological analysis of health policy.

In Hospital Land USA, Wendy Simonds analyzes the wide-reaching powers of medicalization: the dynamic processes by which medical authorities, institutions, and ideologies impact our everyday experiences, culture, and social life.

Can drugs be used intelligently and responsibly to expand human consciousness and heighten spirituality?