Health, illness and addiction: social aspects

In this exciting symposium, the editor brings to print important new information on AIDS and how HIV affects the brain.

At the age of twenty-nine, Sizwe Magadla is among the most handsome, well-educated, and richest of the men in his poverty-stricken village.

Complementary and Alternative Medicine is a sociological investigation of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in contemporary society, and an exploration of the forces throughout the globe, across different institutions, and within different therapeutic spaces, that constrain or foster alternative medicine.

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

Providing one of the first comprehensive, cross-cultural examinations of the dynamic market for sexual services, this book presents an evidence-based look at the multiple factors related to purchasing patterns and demand among clients who have used the internet.

In this startling new collection of case studies entitled HIV/AIDS and the Drug Culture: Shattered Lives, you'll take an eye-opening and informative look at the lifestyle and culture of the HIV/AIDS intravenous drug users (IVDUs).

A Casebook of Mental Capacity in US Legislation: Assessment and Legal Commentary employs an applied and accessible approach to the assessment of mental capacity.

Drawing on a broad range of approaches in the fields of sociology, anthropology, political science, history, philosophy, medicine and nursing, Power and the Psychiatric Apparatus exposes psychiatric practices that are mobilized along the continuum of repression, transformation and assistance.

This proposed book draws on the expertise of 35 experts in the field of Addiction Medicine to provide the reader with a current and comprehensive view of addiction as related to women, pregnancy, newborns, infants and children.

What is the value of medical research?

This book is about the ways digital technology can contribute to the welfare of older people.

This book, based on extensive original research, considers the transformation of public health systems in major East, South and Southeast Asian countries in the period following the Second World War.

Interest in environmental health research conducted with community participation has increased dramatically in recent years.

"e;Such a comprehensive resource for survivors has been long overdue.

This book provides an account of the ethics of chronic illness.

All over the world, families and communities are key providers of care and support.

How do you become an 'amputee', 'war-wounded', 'victim' or 'disabled' person?

As the scholarly and interdisciplinary study of human/animal relations becomes crucial to the urgent questions of our time, notably in relation to environmental crisis, this collection explores the inner tensions within the relatively new and broad field of animal studies.

Domestic animals are an integral component of human leisure experience and can enhance the physical, social, and mental wellbeing of humans.

COVID Societies presents a compelling and accessible overview of key sociocultural theories that can help us make sense of the diverse, dynamic and complex elements of the COVID crisis.

This thought-provoking book explores the connections between health, ethics, and soul.

Social care and health professionals encounter people with drug and alcohol problems on a daily basis, but many feel ill-equipped to respond.

Through an ethnohistorical chronicling of the emotionally-laden treatment of selected suicide media-events, this book offers a neo-Durkheimean account of suicide, addressing its social-moral threat and the ensuing need to gloss over its unsettling incomprehensibility.

Internationally acclaimed, this thoroughly revised new edition is the most authoritative source book available for the treatment of alcohol problems.

First published in 1997, this volume explores how we live in a society which is developing beyond human experience and comprehension - fast.

Contractual remedies aimed at performance create a well-known rift between common law and civil law traditions, in the one existing in the shadow of damages, whilst in the other regarded as a generally enforceable right following from the contract.

Post Normal Accident revisits Perrow's classic Normal Accident published in 1984 and provides additional insights to our sociological view of safety-critical organisations.

In the Psychological Insights for Understanding COVID-19 series, international experts introduce important themes in psychological science that engage with people's unprecedented experience of the pandemic, drawing together chapters as they originally appeared before COVID-19 descended on the world.

Self-regulation constitutes an important aspect of the regulatory and oversight process governing professionals.

Fraudulent, harmful, or at best useless pharmaceutical and therapeutic approachesdeveloped outside science-based medicine have boomed in recent years, especially due tothe commercialisation of cyberspace.

The research literature on the impact of alcohol on the brain has seen a rapid expansion in recent years.

This volume presents the ethical implications of risk information as related to genetics and other health data for policy decisions at clinical, research and societal levels.

Eating less, exercising more and losing weight seem the obvious solution for the oncoming 'obesity epidemic'.

Offering rhetorically informed strategic interventions, this innovative collection moves beyond critiques of mental health issues, problems, and care.

This interdisciplinary collection presents valuable discourse and reflection on the nature of a good death.

The first book to apply a biographical approach to the life of the heroin user from birth until death.

The interface of public health and federalism are increasingly gaining scholarly attention in the fields of comparative federalism and welfare state studies.

Youth Culture and Identity in Northern Thailand examines how young people in urban Chiang Mai construct an identity at the intersection of global capitalism, state ideologies, and local culture.

Medical therapy, research and technology enable us to make our bodies, or parts of them, available to others in an increasing number of ways.

Anorexia tends to be studied within health disciplines, such as medicine, psychoanalysis or psychology.

A clear, concise introduction to substance abuse treatment for non-specialist physicians.

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.

First published in 1998, this volume recognises that the face is important in human relationships and a facially impaired person is therefore disadvantaged.

Substance use and substance use disorders (SUDs) have been documented in a number of cultures since the beginnings of recorded time and represent major societal concerns in the present day.

This timely interdisciplinary book brings together a wide spectrum of theoretical concepts and their empirical applications in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic, informing our understanding of the social and psychological bases of a global crisis.

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

According to the World Health Organisation during their lifetime more than one quarter of all individuals will develop one or more mental or behavioural disorders.

This concise updated collection of essential EU primary and secondary law effectively guides students to the material they need during exams.

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

Health, Food and Social Inequality investigates how vast amounts of consumer data are used by the food industry to enable the social ranking of products, food outlets and consumers themselves, and how this influences food consumption patterns.