Health, illness and addiction: social aspects

Health care costs make up nearly a fifth of U.

This volume contains 82 chapters that provide detail and understanding to the fields of human and medical virology.

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This book brings together studies from various locations to examine the growing social problems that have been brought to the fore by the COVID-19 outbreak.

Will change your life Chris Evans Completely fascinating Heston Blumenthal Important and devastating The TimesFrom a world-leading microbiome scientist and surgeon comes Dark Matter, a pioneering guide to hacking your microbiome for a healthier life.

A fully updated third edition of this award-winning book providing a comprehensive overview of the psychiatry and neuroscience of cannabis.

In this sweeping cultural history of nursing from the Stone Age to the present, the critically acclaimed author of Early pays homage to the profession and makes an urgent call for change.

COVID Societies presents a compelling and accessible overview of key sociocultural theories that can help us make sense of the diverse, dynamic and complex elements of the COVID crisis.

Praise for the Series:"e;Full of interest not only for the molecular biologist - for whom the numerous references will be invaluable - but will also appeal to a much wider circle of biologists, and in fact to all those who are concerned with the living cell.

Although it is one of the most-widely studied viruses, many mysteries still remain about HIV.

This volume covers the latest advances in the mechanisms of pathogenesis of the HIV-1 virus on target cells.

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

There is a need in small group teaching for a readable module that provides a balanced treatment of the four main areas of medical microbiology-bacteriology, mycology, virology and parasistology.

Are infectious diseases caused by novel entities, viruses that have rapidly evolved into more pathogenic forms, or viruses that have crossed species divides and become more virulent in their alternative host?

This edited collection of contributions explores non-normative genders, sexualities, and relationality among Autistic people.

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

This new 2-volume set explores new research and perspectives in genetic engineering, which enables the precise control of the genetic composition and gene expression of organism.

This new 2-volume set explores new research and perspectives in genetic engineering, which enables the precise control of the genetic composition and gene expression of organism.

AIDS has grown in just two decades from a rare disease to one that has already killed millions of men, women, and children worldwide.

The great majority of Americans-more than 80%-say they approve of gambling, even if they themselves don't gamble.

This book provides a fully-fledged exploration of science and technology studies (STS) perspective applied to algorithms developed to support care processes.

An examination of how novice psychiatrists come to understand the workings of the mind-and the nature of medical expertise-as they are trained in psychotherapy.

This book argues that the catastrophe of COVID-19 provided a momentous time for groups, institutions, and states to reassess their worldviews and relationship to the entire world.

This book presents recent sociological research investigating the intersection of technology, human sexuality, and health.

In 1998, approximately 30 million people worldwide were living with HIV/AIDS, about 5 million of whom became infected that year.

This book highlights lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic and explains how these can be used to build sustainable health systems, especially in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMIC).

This book examines the politics of cancer, explains how our government is intrinsically tied to cancer research efforts, and documents how major political actors make cancer policy and are influenced in their decision making by political, social, scientific, and economic variables.

This provocative, deeply personal book explores how women experience mental health care differently than menand lays out how the system must change for women to flourish.

This book adopts an innovative approach in exploring the evolution of fitness practices among a community of gym goers amid a global pandemic, considering its impact on the interplay of the words, habits, and relationships gym goers use in realizing their aspirations of wellness and well-being.

How can dress impact a journey through disabling illness and recovery from South Africa to London?

Society has developed so that it accommodates the needs of intertwined people, but a question arises as to which people have been accommodated.

Many deny that racism remains pervasive in America today.

This volume captures the social, political, psychological, administrative, and policy dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Indian context.

Although adopting global norms often improves domestic systems of governance, domestic obstacles to norm diffusion are frequent.

This book situates sociological research as a vital tool for understanding, and responding to, the multispecies entanglements that cause, inform and arise from states of crisis involving the environment, climate and zoonotic disease transmission.

This book makes a powerful case that neoliberalism, the dominant economic and social policy paradigm of the post-1980 world, is hazardous to our health.

A History of the World in Six Plagues unveils a powerful and unsettling truth: epidemic diseases enter the world by chance, but they become catastrophic by human design.

This book provides a timely study of community-based activism in contemporary South Africa.

This book provides a timely study of community-based activism in contemporary South Africa.

This book explores the hidden impact of disasters on pregnant women and their unborn children, revealing how events like floods, bushfires, and earthquakes can trigger maternal stress responses that shape fetal development and extend across generations.

This book explores the hidden impact of disasters on pregnant women and their unborn children, revealing how events like floods, bushfires, and earthquakes can trigger maternal stress responses that shape fetal development and extend across generations.

In the early weeks of 2020, a small group of scientists recognized the growing danger of an emerging microbial threat.

In the early weeks of 2020, a small group of scientists recognized the growing danger of an emerging microbial threat.

This book examines the idea of punishment and some alternative humane methods of treating crime such as the public health=quarantine approach.

Given the increasing number of international older migrants in Europe and the UK, Ageing Migrants' Sense of Home addresses a critical gap in understanding the conditions that facilitate or impede positive ageing in the context of migration, enhancing scholarly knowledge on how processes of identification and sense of belonging to places are experienced by people ageing away from their home countries.

Given the increasing number of international older migrants in Europe and the UK, Ageing Migrants' Sense of Home addresses a critical gap in understanding the conditions that facilitate or impede positive ageing in the context of migration, enhancing scholarly knowledge on how processes of identification and sense of belonging to places are experienced by people ageing away from their home countries.

This book examines the idea of punishment and some alternative humane methods of treating crime such as the public health=quarantine approach.

Safety is a combination of human judgment, ethical priorities and the pursuit of knowledge and so often much more than rules and regulations.

Safety is a combination of human judgment, ethical priorities and the pursuit of knowledge and so often much more than rules and regulations.

This book examines life imprisonment in Poland, exploring how the 1989 democratic transition led to its reintroduction across Central and Eastern Europe in 1995 and major reform in 2023.