Will to Live tells how Brazil, against all odds, became the first developing country to universalize access to life-saving AIDS therapies--a breakthrough made possible by an unexpected alliance of activists, government reformers, development agencies, and the pharmaceutical industry.
This book explores the profession of independent advocacy through a history of the practice, and provides an empirical study of its emergence in London.
In this book, Jeffrey Kottler and Jon Carlson turn their well-polished therapy microscopes onto the subjects of lying, falsehood, deceit, and the loss of trust in the counseling room.
Recent rapid advances in the biosciences have led to considerable debate about the social, ethical, and legal implications of research and its applications.
The last three decades have witnessed a proliferation of nongovernmental organizations engaging in new campaigns to end the practice of female genital cutting across Africa.
Despite apocalyptic predictions from a vocal alliance of health professionals, politicians and social commentators that rising obesity levels would lead to a global health crisis, the crisis has not materialised.
Psychoanalytic Approaches to Forgiveness and Mental Health considers the role of forgiveness in mental life, concerning both forgiving and being forgiven.
Shim and Baek examine the evolving existential meanings of gift-making by interviewing donors of convalescent blood plasma during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Based on over a decade of research, this book examines the social harms of Australian prescription and non-prescription medicine regulation and how these ultimately stem from neoliberalism and its reinforcement of state and corporate power.
In this book Klaus Fiedler offers a candid critique of religious faith healing claims - a critique that extents to the Voluntary Male Medical Circumcision Campaign (VMMCC).
The introduction of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in middle and low income countries is arguably one of the most meaningful outcomes recorded in the fight against HIV and AIDS.
This edited volume interrogates the intersection between viral pandemics, transnational migration and the politics of belonging in South Africa during COVID-19.
The condition named Hikikomori by the Japanese psychiatrist Saito Tamaki describes the suffering of young people who withdraw from society, abandon their studies, jobs and social life to lock themselves in a room, usually at their parents' house.
The condition named Hikikomori by the Japanese psychiatrist Saito Tamaki describes the suffering of young people who withdraw from society, abandon their studies, jobs and social life to lock themselves in a room, usually at their parents' house.
Es la unidad esencial entre la vida biológica íntima y la vida social colectiva la que esconde la ciencia reduccionista y es, en cambio, el principio fundamental que se perfila en investigaciones como esta.
Cuando los políticos con responsabilidades de gobierno hablan de narcotráfico, es común que propongan la prohibición total, la panacea de una sociedad libre de drogas ilegales.
¿Y si el consumo de marihuana no tuviera nada que ver con una predisposición psicológica individual, como algunos todavía creen, ni mucho menos con algún problema psíquico, y fuera simplemente el resultado de un aprendizaje grupal, social?
Este libro articula todos los aspectos teóricos y prácticos para la puesta en marcha de un sistema de salud mental interdisciplinario, con perspectiva de derechos y base en la comunidad.
No es frecuente encontrar trabajos que pongan el acento en la subjetividad de quien consume y la separen tan claramente de lo que atañe a otros campos (el policial, el penal y el de la seguridad), que no hacen más que estigmatizar al colectivo.
Para conocer la problemática y romper con la línea predominante, que indica que la única alternativa posible para la denominada clínica de las adicciones es la internación, esta obra parte del desarrollo histórico del consumo de sustancias, su clasificación y formas de abordaje, los aspectos bioéticos y la influencia del discurso jurídico como herramienta de control social.
Este libro despliega los múltiples abordajes con los que hoy trabaja el Dispositivo Pavlovsky, pero es mucho más que la descripción del mismo y su funcionamiento.
Con una perspectiva global, Drogas y prohibición constituye el segundo volumen de un proyecto iniciado con el estudio sobre el estado de la cuestión a nivel regional; esto es, en el mundo andino.
Full Title: Water - Pollution, Biotechnology - Transgenic Plant Vaccine, Energy, Black Sea Pollution, AIDS - Mother-Infant HIV Transmission, Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy, Limits of Development - Megacities, Missile Proliferation and Defense - Information Security, Cosmic Objects, Desertification, Carbon Sequestration and Sustainability, Climatic Changes, Global Monitoring of Planet, Mathematics and Democracy, Science and Journalism, Permanent Monitoring Panel Reports, Water for Megacities Workshop, Black Sea Workshop, Transgenic Plants Workshop, Research Resources Workshop, Mother-Infant HIV Transmission Workshop, Sequestration and Desertification Workshop, Focus Africa Workshop
With contributions from an international team of leading researchers, the book pulls together updated research results in the area of HIV/AIDS modeling to provide readers with the latest information in the field.
State of Health takes readers inside one of the most controversial regimes of the twenty-first centuryVenezuela under Hugo Chvezfor a revealing description of how people's lives changed for the better as the state began reorganizing society.
