Health, illness and addiction: social aspects

This book considers how rurality interacts with the mental health and wellbeing of individuals and communities in different regional settings.

Delve into the uncharted territory of the "e;hidden"e; drug addict--users who are not in treatment, not incarcerated, and not officially accessible for research purposes through traditional means.

In the life sciences and beyond, new developments in science and technology and the creation of new social orders go hand in hand.

Health and Other Unassailable Values sets out to examine health as a core cultural value.

This volume addresses the interface of two major national problems: the epidemic of HIV-AIDS and the widespread use of illegal injection drugs.

The toll of America's gun violence epidemic is usually measured in lives lost-more than 35,000 each year.

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

Originally published in 1987, this book examines the priorities of health policy in the late 20th Century and the varied approaches or strategies to foster the prevention or control of disease.

In the mid-1990s, experts predicted that India would face the world's biggest AIDS epidemic by 2000.

In recent years, the lifecourse perspective has become a popular theoretical orientation toward crime.

Adolescent rites of passage are ubiquitous sociocultural processes that feature across all manner of social activity.

Police Custody in Ireland brings together experts from policing studies, law, criminology, and psychology, to critically examine contemporary police custody in Ireland, what we know about it, how it operates, how it is experienced, and how it might be improved.

This book examines sex, sexuality, gender and health in the Pacific with a focus on three key sets of issues: young people, culture and education; sexual and reproductive health and well-being; and belonging, connectedness and justice.

An understudied aspect of the HIV/AIDS epidemic is the creation of hundreds of thousands of grandparent-headed households that have become home to children bereft of one or both of their parents.

This book is about gym culture, the pursuit of fit, muscular bodies and the use of drugs as a means to get there.

The field of global health is expanding rapidly.

The story of an innovative program of treatment for AIDS in Africa that succeeded in the face of international development agencies' "e;afro pessimism"e;Until this century, Western governments and foundations framing policies for AIDS relief in Africa maintained that prevention alone was a preferable alternative to prevention-plus-treatment, which would be costly and impractical in Africa, or would benefit only the prosperous and well-connected.

The Drug Effect offers new perspectives on critical debates in the field of alcohol and other drug use.

Originally published in 1980, this book presents a detailed empirical analysis of the key dimensions of inequality and poverty in Wales, discussing such aspects as the distribution of income and wealth, the housing situation, the functioning of the NHS and urban deprivation.

Findings from the field of evolutionary biology are yielding dramatic insights for health scientists, especially those involved in the fight against infectious diseases.

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

Global Indigenous Communities is a wide-ranging examination of global Indigenous communities that continue to suffer from colonization and assimilation issues, including intergenerational trauma.

This book provides a unique assessment of the Nigerian healthcare system's different professions.

The anxiety over death persists in everyday life- though often denied or repressed- lingering as an unconscious worry or intuition that typically seems to compromise one's feelings of well-being and experience in a range of areas; coming out often as malaise, depression, and anger in much conduct.

Of the more than 40 million people around the world currently living with HIV/AIDS, two million live in Latin America and the Caribbean.

The study of LGBT aging is in its infancy.

The United States has experienced a dramatic shift in attitudes towards cannabis use from the 1970s, when only 12% of Americans said that they thought that cannabis should be legal, to today.

This book examines the relationship between social class and mental illness in Northern Europe during the 20th century.

This book is intended to tackle a number of urgent issues, such as social stability, public health, climate change, technology, peace and security and the growing needs for energy, food, and shelter.

First published in 1998, this volume why and how genetic engineering has emerged as the technology most likely to change our lives, for better or worse, in the opening century of the third millennium.

First published in 1999, this volume examines the history of psychiatry and pathogenic parenting models over the past two centuries and contains the results of a study carried out by the author on the experiences of the parents of patients with Schizophrenia drawn from a sample of parents of patients in a forensic and a community setting.

The Routledge Handbook on Deviance brings together original contributions on deviance, with a focus on new, emerging, and hidden forms of deviant behavior.

Shim and Baek examine the evolving existential meanings of gift-making by interviewing donors of convalescent blood plasma during the Covid-19 pandemic.

This book is the first comprehensive study of rare disorders from a historical, political, and social perspective.

In this new volume, Michael A.

This volume focuses on the ways in which HIV/AIDS can affect older adults.

Clinical trials have become key technologies for decision making in the contemporary world.

This book delves into the intricate landscape of respiratory diseases among older people, shedding light on their biosocial encounters while grappling with chronic breathlessness.

"e;This thought-provoking work examines how the relationships of organs, tissues, and cells transferred from one body to another through donation, sale, or gift are mediated by the state, market, and family.

The field of global health is expanding rapidly.

In this collection of 48 reprinted and completely original articles, Tammy Anderson gives her fellow instructors of undergraduate deviance a refreshing way to energize and revitalize their courses.

An indispensable resource for readers interested in eating disorders, this book summarizes their history in human civilization, assesses the current status of eating disorders in American society, and describes efforts for establishing effective prevention and treatment programs.

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

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

Develop a positive working relationship between researchers and community groups focusing on HIV/AIDS prevention, and discover how to evaluate HIV/AIDS programs!

One day, when Mary Rose Callaghan was 13, her mother jumped into the freezing Irish Sea.

Over the past two decades, population mobility has intensified and become more diverse, raising important questions concerning the health and well-being of people who are mobile as well as communities of origin and destination.

Beginning with a focus on the ethical foundations of caregiving in health and expanding towards problems of ethics and justice implicated in a range of issues, this book develops and expands the notion of care itself and its connection to practice.