Health, illness and addiction: social aspects

Has the antidepressant industry manufactured not only an illness but an idea of humanity that denies our full potential?

'She's experienced wealth, cultural alienation, homelessness, brushes with fame, prison, rehab, record deals, a million blown second chances, a dozen broken hearts and one bloody-knuckled ultimate spiritual redemption.

A thrilling account from the front-line in the war against international drug smugglers, from a former Customs and Excise investigatorKilo 17 gives the inside story of a close-knit Customs team during a major drugs investigation.

The complex relationships between altruists, beneficiaries, and brokers in the global effort to fight AIDS in AfricaIn the wake of the AIDS pandemic, legions of organizations and compassionate individuals descended on Africa from faraway places to offer their help and save lives.

Combat the effects of ageing and live a fuller, healthier life.

The problem of Aids has been kept largely under control in Europe, but in the Third World it is a different story.

John Griffith London (1876 - 1916), commonly known as Jack London, was an American journalist, social activist, and novelist.

Discover the profound and moving portrait of one doctor's life and work in the NHS'Wonderful - insightful and compassionate' Dr Richard Shepherd, bestselling author of Unnatural Causes________They can't teach you how to be a doctor at medical school .

The must-read memoir about the dazzling days and dark nights of a Chelsea childhood .

Although the current economic crisis creates a sense of urgency, we have always had and will always have a large number of people who are unemployed.

It aims to provide the practitioner with a description of depression, an explanation of factors that contribute to mood disorders and guidance on their assessment and treatment in adolescence.

"e;David Jones has written a compelling book about the complex issues entailed in being family members of sufferers from mental illness.

Each year in India more than two million people fall sick with tuberculosis (TB), an infectious, airborne, and potentially deadly lung disease.

How genomics is revolutionizing the social sciencesFor a century, social scientists have avoided genetics like the plague.

A beautifully illustrated history of the human encounter with unreasonThe loss of reason, a sense of alienation from the commonsense world we all like to imagine we inhabit, the shattering emotional turmoil that seizes hold and won't let go-these are some of the traits we associate with madness.

In the 1980s, a research team led by Parisian scientists identified several unique DNA sequences, or haplotypes, linked to sickle cell anemia in African populations.

Edited and with contributions by Lois Badey'I have a secret.

Thousands of people from more than eighty countries have traveled to China since 2001 to undergo fetal cell transplantation.

From the Middle-Ages onwards, London's notorious Bedlam lunatic hospital saw the city's 'mad' locked away in dank cells, neglected and abused and without any real cure and little comfort.

A history of London's mental health care system from medieval times to the 20th century.

As the world is gripped by the coronavirus pandemic, all eyes in the UK have been on our NHS heroes.

As the world is gripped by the coronavirus pandemic, all eyes in the UK have been on our NHS heroes.

Racial Profiling: Using Propensity Score Matching to Examine Focal Concerns Theory combines theory and propensity score matching to offer readers a better understanding of racial profiling through traffic stop data concerning the race and gender of the driver.

Racial Profiling: Using Propensity Score Matching to Examine Focal Concerns Theory combines theory and propensity score matching to offer readers a better understanding of racial profiling through traffic stop data concerning the race and gender of the driver.

Drawing together international research from the fields of geography, alcohol studies, sociology, psychology and childhood studies, Jayne and Valentine explore children's understandings and experiences of alcohol consumption and the role of alcohol in family life.

Drawing together international research from the fields of geography, alcohol studies, sociology, psychology and childhood studies, Jayne and Valentine explore children's understandings and experiences of alcohol consumption and the role of alcohol in family life.

Do criminal cultures generate drug use?

Do criminal cultures generate drug use?

This key work exposes international studies from leading social sciences researchers who use various theoretical perspectives and methodological orientations to depict deviant drug and crime-related pathways.

This key work exposes international studies from leading social sciences researchers who use various theoretical perspectives and methodological orientations to depict deviant drug and crime-related pathways.

At its most basic, food is vital to our survival there can be no form of life without it.

At its most basic, food is vital to our survival there can be no form of life without it.

All work is gendered and all work is embodied.

All work is gendered and all work is embodied.

Now in its seventh edition, Living with Drugs continues to be a well-respected and indispensable reference tool.

Now in its seventh edition, Living with Drugs continues to be a well-respected and indispensable reference tool.

Those involved in family and sexual relationships today face a bewildering variety of medico-legal dilemmas.

Those involved in family and sexual relationships today face a bewildering variety of medico-legal dilemmas.

Drawing on ethnography of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities across Australia, Mortality, Mourning and Mortuary Practices in Indigenous Australia focuses on the current ways in which indigenous people confront and manage various aspects of death.

Drawing on ethnography of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities across Australia, Mortality, Mourning and Mortuary Practices in Indigenous Australia focuses on the current ways in which indigenous people confront and manage various aspects of death.

Drawing on the emerging field of narrative theory in sociology and psychology, this book argues that an individual's response to job loss is a product of the shape of the story a person tells about their experience.

Drawing on the emerging field of narrative theory in sociology and psychology, this book argues that an individual's response to job loss is a product of the shape of the story a person tells about their experience.

Organ transplantation has been one of the miracles of modern-day medicine but, in addition to presenting enormous technical and clinical challenges, it throws up major ethical and legal issues principally from the perspective of the donor.

Organ transplantation has been one of the miracles of modern-day medicine but, in addition to presenting enormous technical and clinical challenges, it throws up major ethical and legal issues principally from the perspective of the donor.

Bangladesh has low levels of urbanization but a high urban population in absolute terms, being one of the most densely populated countries in the world.

Bangladesh has low levels of urbanization but a high urban population in absolute terms, being one of the most densely populated countries in the world.

This multi-disciplinary book lies in the general areas of forensic psychiatry/psychology, sociology, jurisprudence, criminal law and criminology.

This multi-disciplinary book lies in the general areas of forensic psychiatry/psychology, sociology, jurisprudence, criminal law and criminology.

A significant body of theoretical and empirical studies describes 'sense of place' as an outcome of interconnected psychological, social and environmental processes in relation to physical place(s).