Health, illness and addiction: social aspects

At the turn of the twentieth century, tuberculosis was a leading cause of death across America, Europe, and the Russian Empire.

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

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

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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

This handbook explores those occasions when the police are faced with a public, national, or international crisis and are expected to continue to serve.

Midwives and other health care professionals need to have a deep understanding of the various lives childbearing women live in order to support them insightfully and practise in a nuanced manner.

This eye-opening look at the abortion process prior to the Supreme Court's landmark Roe v.

America's war on drugs.

In the early 1980s the new reproductive technologies available supposedly offered infertile women a chance to have children.

Entdecken Sie die faszinierende Welt des japanischen Reisweins in *"Sake: Die Kunst des japanischen Reisweins – Die Kultur des japanischen Nationalgetränks"*.

The Ebola Virus and West Africa: Medical and Sociocultural Aspects provides a compact summary of the Ebola virus, outlining its nature, history, epidemiology, and methods of treatment.

Im The Living ProofTHERE IS NO HIV, The Rainbow Warrior, Exposing The Truth About HIV Antibody Testing and the Metaphysics of Self-Healing Through Chakra and Kundalini Awareness is the authors personal story of healing and a journey toward spiritual awakening having transcended the HIV Debacle and Crisis.

From neo-classical economic theory which one should we choose?

As young girls in Cairo, Anna and Layla strike up an unlikely friendship that crosses class, cultural, and religious divides.

As young girls in Cairo, Anna and Layla strike up an unlikely friendship that crosses class, cultural, and religious divides.

In a single decade, AIDS has grown to pandemic proportions.

The announcement of a serious diagnosis is a solemn moment when directions shift, priorities change, and life appears in sharper focus.

The announcement of a serious diagnosis is a solemn moment when directions shift, priorities change, and life appears in sharper focus.

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

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

Risk assessment and risk management are top of every mental health organisation's agenda.

The go-to resource for assessing and predicting functional abilities in persons with brain injury or cognitive decline has now been revised and expanded to reflect significant advances in the field.

Public Health Research Methods is a comprehensive collection of research methods used in the field of public health.

Overall, the negative health impacts of global climate change are anticipated to significantly outweigh positive impacts.

As US healthcare delivery is in flux, an international surgeon dissects and scrutinizes the performance of socialized medicine in Britain vs the free market healthcare system in the US.

Part confessional memoir, part vital guide, No Lost Causes Club is a compassionate exploration of what navigating sobriety looks like in our modern world, from the author behind the popular Instagram account @brutalrecovery.

In Our Veterans, Suzanne Gordon, Steve Early, and Jasper Craven explore the physical, emotional, social, economic, and psychological impact of military service and the problems that veterans face when they return to civilian life.

We Are Having This Conversation Now offers a history, present, and future of AIDS through thirteen short conversations between Alexandra Juhasz and Theodore Kerr, scholars deeply embedded in HIV responses.

AIDS and the Distribution of Crises engages with the AIDS pandemic as a network of varied historical, overlapping, and ongoing crises born of global capitalism and colonial, racialized, gendered, and sexual violence.

While many doctors claim that Lyme disease-a tick-borne bacterial infection-is easily diagnosed and treated, other doctors and the patients they care for argue that it can persist beyond standard antibiotic treatment in the form of chronic Lyme disease.

After arriving from South Asia approximately a thousand years ago, cannabis quickly spread throughout the African continent.

The extensively updated and revised third edition of the bestselling Social Medicine Reader provides a survey of the challenging issues facing today's health care providers, patients, and caregivers by bringing together moving narratives of illness, commentaries by physicians, debates about complex medical cases, and conceptually and empirically based writings by scholars in medicine, the social sciences, and the humanities.

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.

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.

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.

This thought-provoking, accessible book critically examines the dominant food regime on its own terms, by seriously asking whether we can afford cheap food and by exploring what exactly cheap food affords us.

This assessment of Britain's influential 14 day rule governing embryo research explores how and why it became the de facto global standard for research into human fertilisation and embryology, arguing that its influence and stability offers valuable lessons for successful biological translation.

5 STAR READER REVIEWS: "e;Clare's book has supported me on most mornings through my first 20 days of sobriety and I could not be more grateful.

'Redel proves that female friendship is the quiet, steady engine that truly runs the world.

An extraordinarily brave memoir about faith, family, shame and addiction - an Observer, New Statesman and Sunday Times Book of the Year'Brilliant.

'Searingly honest and important' RACHEL CLARKEHonest, intelligent and unsentimental, Patient 1 is a startling self-portrait written with wit and vulnerability, and a unique testament to the power of hope in the face of illness.

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.

Did you know that excessive use of soap and skin-care products is harming our health and the environment?

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'The life-affirming expression of an artist engaged in living to the full' The Times Smiling in Slow Motion is Derek Jarman's last journal, stretching from May 1991 until a fortnight before his death in February 1994.

A fascinating journal written after the creation of Derek Jarman s The Last of England, covering the making of the film itself and the origins of its deeply autobiographical content.

Read this meditative and inspiring diary of Derek Jarman's famous garden at Dungeness, which is also a powerful account of his life as an HIV positive man in the 1980s.

EXTRAORDINARY MEMOIR OF A LIFE AND LOVE TORN APART BY DEMENTIAWhen her husband Tony was diagnosed with Alzheimer s in 2004, Steph Booth had to say goodbye to life as she knew it.