Health, illness and addiction: social aspects

Focusing on juvenile transfer and disposition evaluations, this volume provides an up-to-date integration of current law, science, and practice with respect to juvenile risk assessment, treatment needs/amenability, and sophistication-maturity.

Ethical and Legal Issues in Counseling Children and Adolescents provides counselors and other professionals with clinical cases and accurate, up-to-date information on both ethical standards and case law.

This book critically explores from a comparative international perspective the role medicine plays in constructing and managing natural and social risks, including those belonging to modern medical technology and expertise.

This book critically explores from a comparative international perspective the role medicine plays in constructing and managing natural and social risks, including those belonging to modern medical technology and expertise.

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

The past decades have witnessed a surge of sociological interest in the body.

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

Risk analysis is not a narrowly defined set of applications.

Risk analysis is not a narrowly defined set of applications.

Focusing on under-researched aspects of social, economic and political change, this volume offers fresh insights into aging, older people and their families.

Focusing on under-researched aspects of social, economic and political change, this volume offers fresh insights into aging, older people and their families.

Risks, including health and technological, attract a lot of attention in modern societies, from individuals as well as policy-makers.

Risks, including health and technological, attract a lot of attention in modern societies, from individuals as well as policy-makers.

As the baby boom generation ages, there are few ethnographies that capture the dynamics of aging.

The Crisis Management Cycle is the first holistic, multidisciplinary introduction to the dynamic field of crisis management theory and practice.

Today, healthy ageing and active, meaningful lives are core values and aims for international and national health policies.

Today, healthy ageing and active, meaningful lives are core values and aims for international and national health policies.

What does it mean to grow older as a lesbian, gay, bisexual or trans (LGBT) person?

What does it mean to grow older as a lesbian, gay, bisexual or trans (LGBT) person?

EU Health Systems and Distributive Justice uses theories of distributive justice to examine tensions created by the application of the Internal Market rules to the provision of health care services within the European Union.

EU Health Systems and Distributive Justice uses theories of distributive justice to examine tensions created by the application of the Internal Market rules to the provision of health care services within the European Union.

Handbook of Forensic Mental Health Services focuses on assessment, treatment, and policy issues regarding juveniles and adults in the criminal and civil systems.

Handbook of Forensic Mental Health Services focuses on assessment, treatment, and policy issues regarding juveniles and adults in the criminal and civil systems.

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Current estimates indicate that approximately 2.

Gewirth's theory of human rights has made a major contribution to philosophy.

Gewirth's theory of human rights has made a major contribution to philosophy.

Especially since the 2003 SARS crisis, China's healthcare system has become a growing source of concern, both for citizens and the Chinese government.

Alongside globalization, the sense of vulnerability among people and populations has increased.

Alongside globalization, the sense of vulnerability among people and populations has increased.

This book addresses the history of harm reduction.

This book addresses the history of harm reduction.

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.

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.

The most thorough major academic textbook available, this classic text presents the most important research studies in the field.

The most thorough major academic textbook available, this classic text presents the most important research studies in the field.

This book examines narratives of dementia in contemporary literary texts, studying what is now a pressing issue with deep political, economic, and social implications for many ageing societies.

This book examines narratives of dementia in contemporary literary texts, studying what is now a pressing issue with deep political, economic, and social implications for many ageing societies.

Meat and dairy production and consumption are in crisis.

Meat and dairy production and consumption are in crisis.

Physiotherapy is arriving at a critical point in its history.

Physiotherapy is arriving at a critical point in its history.

The past decade has witnessed a significant increase in the construction of health as a security issue by national governments and multilateral organizations.

The past decade has witnessed a significant increase in the construction of health as a security issue by national governments and multilateral organizations.

This comprehensive volume explores various forms of violence in health care settings.

This comprehensive volume explores various forms of violence in health care settings.

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

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

Within a variety of practice environments, health professionals often experience feelings of disgust and repulsion towards the presence of an abject object.

Within a variety of practice environments, health professionals often experience feelings of disgust and repulsion towards the presence of an abject object.