Health, illness and addiction: social aspects

This title was first published in 2003: Although young people are generally very healthy, it has become clear that many of the health behaviours of young people can have serious consequences later in life.

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Technologies of Sexuality, Identity and Sexual Health highlights the complex ways in which sexuality is expressed and enacted through local ideologies, global identities and material cultures, and their influence on people's sexual health and well-being.

The legal aspects of child mental health have changed in recent years, yet many who deal professionally with disturbed children are ill informed about the rights and responsibilities of minors.

AIDS, Sex, and Culture is a revealing examination of the impact the AIDS epidemic in Africa has had on women, based on the author's own extensive ethnographic research.

Deliver effective services to this growing population!

The geographies of health and development is an emerging sub-discipline, tying in with many of the conceptual, theoretical and practical components of other disciplines working in health, health care, economics, and international development.

This stimulating book has become a go-to text for understanding the role that social factors play in the experience of health and many diseases.

What is the value of medical research?

First published in 1998, this book covers a variety of health issues in the contemporary Middle east.

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).

Focusing on the world of Norwegian Opioid Substitution Treatment (OST) in the aftermath of significant reforms, this book casts a critical light on the intersections between medicine and law, and the ideologies infusing the notions of "e;individual choice"e; and "e;patient involvement"e; in the field of addiction globally.

Powerful, rich with details, moving, humane, and full of important lessons for an age when weapons of mass destruction are loose among us.

This book provides a clear and concise description of the multifaceted notion of psychotherapeutic competencies, building on years of research and training and informed by a systemic approach.

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Both timely and topical, this book examines the most important aspects of the relationship between alcohol consumption and health.

From basic science to clinical care, to epidemiological disease patters, The Neurology of AIDS is the only complete textbook available on AIDS neurology and the only one comprehensive enough to stand alone in each segment of study in brain disorders affected by the human immunodeficiency virus.

This book describes clearly how legislation can be used to advance the rights and entitlements of people with mental health problems.

This ebook is now available from Bloomsbury Academic.

A paradigm shift in the ways in which mental health services are delivered is happening-both for service users and for professional mental healthcare workers.

Giving Blood represents a new agenda for blood donation research.

Where madness meets the law, history leaves no easy verdict.

Comparing and Contrasting the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the European Union challenges the use of uncontextualised comparisons of COVID-19 cases and deaths in member states during the period when Europe was the epicentre of the pandemic.

Palliative Care Within Mental Health: Ethical Practice explores the comprehensive concerns and dilemmas that occur surrounding people experiencing mental health problems and disorders.

This book reviews the political significance of COVID-19 in the context of earlier pandemic encounters and scares to understand the ways in which it challenges the existing individual health, domestic order, international health governance actors, and, more fundamentally, the circulation-based modus operandi of the present world order.

This book showcases developments in theory, research and practice regarding sexuality and ageing, considering the differences as well as similarities between and among ageing heterosexual and LGBT older people.

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

What difference does culture make?

This book answers readers' most pressing questions about exercise and physical activity and will serve as a valuable resource to anyone interested in starting and maintaining healthy habits in this important area of health.

Elements of Moral Experience in Clinical Ethics Training and Practice: Sharing Stories with Strangers is a philosophical and professional memoir of the education, training, and professional development of becoming a clinical ethics consultant.

This book critiques the use of psychiatric labelling and psychiatric narratives in everyday areas of institutional and social life across the globe.

Exploring sexuality in the twenty-first century, this unique book collects together more than fifty timely and accessible contributions to create a wide-ranging and compelling picture of contemporary American sexuality.

Covid-19 and Governance focuses on the relationship between governance institutions and approaches to Covid-19 and health outcomes.

Compulsive Body Spaces presents a spatial understanding of compulsion.

Only the very rare among us are completely unscathed by the effects of addiction - our own, that of a family member, friend, or coworker.

The prevalence of substance abuse in the severely mentally ill ishigher than that in the general population, making this a seriousissue for clinicians.

The authors of the chapters included in this volume provide preliminary answers to questions such as: How extensive were COVID-19 outbreaks in prisons, jails, and community corrections systems globally?

This book explores the changing landscapes of the commercialisation of medical care in China.

Holistic overview of what we have learnt about HIV/AIDS, and identifies why so many HIV prevention schemes have failed.

To date, intersex studies has not received the scholarly attention it deserves as research in this area has been centred around certain key questions, scholars and geographical regions.

Disabled people are routinely assumed to lack the capabilities and capacities to embody and experience sexuality and desire, as well as the agency to love and be loved by others, and build their own families, if they so choose.

This book discusses the significance of late twentieth century and early twenty first century American fiction written in response to the AIDS crisis and interrogates how sexual identity is depicted and constructed textually.

Analysing emotions and emotion-management in the academic organization, Passion and Paranoia shows how focusing on emotions in organizations can offer insights into important aspects and the dynamics of organizational processes.

During periods of close collaboration, championed by figures like John Ruskin and William Morris, architecture and craft were referred to as "e;the allied arts.

Self-tracking is a rapidly growing area of study and will play an important role in the future of how we understand health change and responsibility.

Weaving together political, sociological, psychological, and epidemiological analyses, Social and Political Representations of the COVID-19 Crisis provides revealing insights into the transformations wrought by the pandemic and the social divisions it has exposed.

Combining biomedical, psychological, and anthropological approaches to intergenerational incestuous violence experienced by rural indigenous [and] peasant women in the Andean region, this book raises new questions surrounding humanness and the normalisation of sexual violence.