Illness & Addiction: Social Aspects

This book brings together established and emerging scholars (including graduate students) from multiple disciplines (primarily law and social scien...

This volume bridges contemporary philosophical conceptions of risk and responsibility and offers an extensive examination of the topic. It shows th...

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

This book brings together contributions from twenty-three world-leading scholars and commentators that address a range of contemporary and pressing...

Through case studies, this book investigates the pictorial imaging of epidemics globally, especially from the late eighteenth century through the 1...

Bu and her contributors illustrate the complexity of tensions and negotiations in the development of different types of public health systems in As...

This book tackles complex global issues like vaccination, climate change, environmental ethics, embryo adoption, and surrogate motherhood viewed fr...

This book explores the unparalleled adversities and strain that the COVID-19 pandemic caused on the social and economic lives of people. The book a...

This book explores what anthropology can contribute to an understanding of how people live through pandemics. It reflects on how pandemics are expe...

Women and COVID-19: A Clinical and Applied Sociological Focus on Family, Work and Community focuses on womens lived experiences amid the pandemic, ...

This book examines the state of child health and well-being in India. It traces the roots of child health inequalities in India; draws on the lates...

Geographic Information System (GIS) is one of the most important tools to help us understand public health and many aspects of our lives. Because o...

The growing number of networks delivering healthcare, and professionals learning together to improve care, has created a need for new kinds of mana...