Health, illness and addiction: social aspects

This book is about food and feeding in early childhood education and care, offering an exploration of the intersection of children's food, education, family intervention, and public health policies.

Cultivated Therapeutic Landscapes provides an in-depth and critical exploration of the impact of gardens and gardening on health and wellbeing.

Cultivated Therapeutic Landscapes provides an in-depth and critical exploration of the impact of gardens and gardening on health and wellbeing.

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.

The scope of this book focuses on how information technology may assist in achieving goals and in providing solutions to problems such as a pandemic.

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.

The book reviews and reports the recent progress and knowledge on the specific impact of current and projected urban overheating as well as of the urban mitigation technologies on mortality and morbidity and urban vulnerability.

This new edition of Viral Pandemics illuminates how the increasing emergence of novel viruses has combined with intensifying global interconnectedness to create an escalating spiral of viral disease.

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

This book provides an introduction to food policy in the United Kingdom, examining policy development, implementation, influences and current issues.

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

This book offers a critical examination of the ethical and moral challenges in conducting research about domestic abuse or sexual violence from the perspectives of studentpractitioners and novice researchers within various professional disciplines, offering rich insights based on the experiences of each author.

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

Identity politics has widened representation for the marginalised groups in democracies, while neoliberalism has deepened inequality.

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 Routledge Handbook of Childhood Studies and Global Development explores how global development agendas and economic development influence children's lives.

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.

'If everyone read Edna Bonhomme's incredible, humane, insightful book-and I hope they do-we might stand a chance' Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of An Immense World'Fascinating and thought-provoking' Jonathan Kennedy, author of Pathogenesis: How Germs Made History'Tender as it tackles some of the most stigmatized subjects of our time' Morgan Jenkins, author of Wandering in Strange LandsA 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 edited volume explores notions of care that are overlooked or neglected for one reason or another, featuring projects that examine the most common forms of care - mostly health and social care - in a new light.

Intersections of Feminist Technoscience and Phenomenology: Subjectivity, Embodiment, Agency brings together feminist phenomenology and feminist technoscience studies with the aim of gaining a more comprehensive understanding of subjectivity and subjectivities as embodied and situated in the world.

This edited volume explores notions of care that are overlooked or neglected for one reason or another, featuring projects that examine the most common forms of care - mostly health and social care - in a new light.

Health Anxiety and the Quest for Safety critically examines how psychological and sociocultural processes influence anxiety and safety-seeking behaviour concerning perceived health risks in globalised information societies.

Intersections of Feminist Technoscience and Phenomenology: Subjectivity, Embodiment, Agency brings together feminist phenomenology and feminist technoscience studies with the aim of gaining a more comprehensive understanding of subjectivity and subjectivities as embodied and situated in the world.

Health Anxiety and the Quest for Safety critically examines how psychological and sociocultural processes influence anxiety and safety-seeking behaviour concerning perceived health risks in globalised information societies.

The brain regions and neuronal processes that underlie addiction extensively overlap with those needed for cognitive functions, including learning, memory, and reasoning.

The brain regions and neuronal processes that underlie addiction extensively overlap with those needed for cognitive functions, including learning, memory, and reasoning.