Social groups, communities and identities

This innovative collection of essays employs historical and sociological approaches to provide important case studies of asylums, psychiatry and mental illness in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland.

This book offers a novel account of the normative foundations of abortion rights informed by political theory and feminist theory.

There has never been a more crucial time for an intimate and thorough examination of the ways in which sexuality informs people's lives.

This volume focuses on the role of gender in young peoples’ digital sexual cultures in South Africa.

This second volume of a two-part project on the Mishnah displays a broad selection of approaches to the study of the Mishnah in the contemporary academy.

The idea that the mind and the body work together to create human well-being is no longer at the fringes of academia.

In Moral Pressure for Responsible Globalization, Sherrie M.

This book explores recent advances in heavy metal contamination research in a global context, and focusses on the role of recent technologies like recombinant bioremediation, phytoremediation, DNA technology and nanotechnology to provide sustainable managing strategies to mitigate adverse environmental and health impacts.