Health, illness and addiction: social aspects

An easy-to-use resource for teens wanting to learn more about why nicotine and tobacco are bad for your health and how to quit using them.

A comprehensive overview of opioid use throughout human history, current problems surrounding opioid abuse, and suggested approaches to solving these problems.

Beyond their impact on public health, epidemics shape and are shaped by political, economic, and social forces.

STDs in the United States: A Reference Handbook provides information about sexually transmitted diseases and infections and their impact on both an individual and a societal level.

Rising to the Challenge of Life After Cancer: Expert Advice for Finding Wellness is an easy-to-read self-help guide for people facing cancer diagnosis and treatment.

Encyclopedic in scope, Reversibility of Chronic Degenerative Disease and Hypersensitivity, Volume 2: The Effects of Environmental Pollutants on the Organ System draws deeply from clinical histories of thousands of patients.

A New York Times Notable Book of 2007The Invisible Cure is an account of Africa's AIDS epidemic from the inside--a revelatory dispatch from the intersection of village life, government intervention, and international aid.

This text provides readers with an in-depth understanding of the essential aspects of youth substance abuse-an important contemporary personal, social, and public health issue.

After 9/11, forensic epidemiology emerged as a leading investigative tool, partnering public health officers with law enforcement like never before.

This important book draws together new research and theories about bereavement, on the one hand, and men and masculinities on the other, to increase our understanding of men's experience of loss and contribute towards improving support services for men following bereavement.

India is home to almost three million HIV cases.

Travel a road rich in possibilities and fraught with danger .

The only daughter of alcoholic parents, novelist Pip Granger spent much of her childhood outside looking in.

*Number #1 Bestseller**BEFORE TRAINSPOTTING CAME SKAGBOYS Mark Renton has it all: he's good-looking, young, with a pretty girlfriend and a bright future.

_______________A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICKTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKSELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TIMESSELECTED AS A SUMMER READ BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, THE TIMES AND THE MAIL ON SUNDAY_______________'Anyone who knows a person living with dementia should read this book' - The Times'Revelatory' - Guardian'A miracle' - Telegraph'Remarkable' - Daily Mail'A landmark book' - Financial Times_______________How do you build a life when all that you know is changing?

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERTHE INSPIRATION FOR THE FEATURE FILM THE UNITED STATES VS.

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.

The utterly inspiring and true story of an Ethiopian woman and the AIDS orphanage she built'More than a vivid, readable account of individual courage in the face of apparently overwhelming odds, this is an important book' The Times'Unforgettable .

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 .

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.

Across the Board is the definitive work on chessboard problems.

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.

An inspirational and beautifully illustrated book that tells the stories of 80 plants from around the globe.

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.

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.

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

Psychosis Under Discussion: How We Talk About Madness examines the ways in which psychosis is discussed by considering the relationship between language and the perception of mental disorder.

Psychosis Under Discussion: How We Talk About Madness examines the ways in which psychosis is discussed by considering the relationship between language and the perception of mental disorder.

Are children playing less than they used to?

Are children playing less than they used to?

Abortion remains one of the most complex and controversial issues in contemporary law and bioethics.

Abortion remains one of the most complex and controversial issues in contemporary law and bioethics.

Abortion politics are contentious and divisive in many parts of the world, but nowhere more so than in Ireland.

Abortion politics are contentious and divisive in many parts of the world, but nowhere more so than in Ireland.

Recent years have revealed the different experiences of abortion in the UK and the USA.

Recent years have revealed the different experiences of abortion in the UK and the USA.