Illness & Addiction: Social Aspects

Affekte, Emotionen und Gefühle sind allgegenwärtig. Sie bestimmen nicht nur unseren Alltag, sie sagen auch viel darüber aus, wer wir sind, beziehun...

This Report is one of the first comprehensive studies on young children in India. It focuses on children under 6 years of age and presents key aspe...

This book examines the socio-economic and demographic conditions of Scheduled Castes (SCs) with religious affiliation to Hinduism, Islam and Christ...

Over recent decades an increasing amount of attention has been paid to identifying and meeting the individual support needs of mental health servic...

Health status and the experience of working in health care roles are both strongly shaped by gender and, although there have been attempts to incor...

This volume provides a comparative European overview focusing upon the main areas of social construction as it relates to health and illness. This ...

Unsafe abortion remains one of the most neglected sexual and reproductive health problems according to the World Health Organisation. In recent yea...

First published in 1975, A Constant Burden was a truly ground-breaking text in the field of medical sociology and has since become an undisputed cl...

Pointing the way to the future of research and development in relation to cycling as a mode of transport, this book investigates some of the signif...

In the era of health democracy, where a patients right to be informed is not only widely advocated but also guaranteed by law, what is the real sit...

Departing from the scholarly treatment of addiction as a form of rhetoric or discursive formation, Wasted: Performing Addiction in America focuses ...

This title was first published in 2001. This work is a uniquely multi-disciplinary contribution to the existing bioethical literature on the topic ...

This title was first publihsed in 2000: Confronting Icarus, is the first book to bring together all of the original research that has been publishe...

Policy, performance and finance are the issues currently headlining the healthcare agenda and are likely to remain so for the foreseeable future. D...

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...

First published in 1997, this volume explores how we live in a society which is developing beyond human experience and comprehension fast. Advance...

This title was first published in 2001. An important book presenting the results of the European Union funded EURICON project in biomedical ethics....

This volume brings together academics, activists, social work practitioners, poets, and artists from different parts of the world during the Covid-...

Examining the changing nature of health care federalism within a competitive global context, Comparative Health Care Federalism provides a rich and...

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

The most comprehensive major academic textbook available on its topic, this classic text presents the most important research studies in the field....

Rethinking Drinking and Sport examines the complex nature of sport-related drinking. With close attention to the contradictory nature of sport-rela...

Death is at once a universal and everyday, but also an extraordinary experience in the lives of those affected. Death and bereavement are thereby i...

Transgender studies is a heterogeneous site of debate that is marked by tensions, border wars, and rifts both within the field and among feminist a...

In recent years the body has become one of the most popular areas of study in the arts, social sciences and humanities. Transgressive Bodies offer...

In nearly every medical-decision-making encounter, the physician is atthe center of the discussion, with the patient the recipient of the physician...

In public debates, communication campaigns and public policies, it is increasingly common to attribute to consumers and their agency an ability to ...

Drawing on insights from work in medical history and sociology, this book analyzes changing meanings of personalized medicine over time, from the r...

This volume takes a deep dive into the lasting legacy of stigma from the COVID-19 Pandemic.  Self isolation, quarantine, face masks, hand washing, ...

Explores how industry has manipulated our most deep-seated survival instincts.David Perlmutter, MD, Author, #1 New York Times bestseller, Grain Bra...

This book enquires from a sociological perspective into contemporary corporeal transformations brought about by exoskeletal devices.Challenging mat...

This book enquires from a sociological perspective into contemporary corporeal transformations brought about by exoskeletal devices.Challenging mat...

Focused on the United States, this book summarizes the secondary impacts of COVID-19 due to the increased use of technology. Establishing the globa...

This timely book presents a carefully curated selection of essays to celebrate the career of Nigel South, Emeritus Professor at the Department of S...

This book systematically explores the lives and varied experiences of older people in South Africa. Though a relatively youthful country, the share...

This book offers new empirical research and policy-relevant care practices from across the globe to understand the interrelation of care, emotion, ...

First published in 1998, this volume why and how genetic engineering has emerged as the technology most likely to change our lives, for better or w...

First published in 1998, this volume why and how genetic engineering has emerged as the technology most likely to change our lives, for better or w...

This edited volume offers the first overview and reflective discussion of how design can contribute to peoples wellbeing and mental health in the c...

This pathbreaking book investigates welfare state change in the area of health care- a field widely neglected by comparative welfare state research...

On Vulnerability maps out an array of perspectives for critically examining the nature of vulnerability, its unequal patterning across different so...

There are many different ways in which minority religions and counselling may interact. In some cases there can be antagonism between counselling s...

This book explores the human rights consequences of recent and ongoing revisions of mental health legislation in England and Ireland. Presenting a ...

Some fundamental aspects of the lived body only become evident when it breaks down through illness, weakness or pain. From a phenomenological point...

Culture, Bodies and the Sociology of Health explores the boundaries between bodies and society with special reference to uncovering the cultural co...

Authored by Amanda Glassman and Miriam Temin with the Millions Saved Team and Advisory Group, Millions Saved: News Cases of Proven Success in Globa...

Much scholarship of any region focuses on the perceived problems that hold back a population. Central Asia is no exception, as it is a region with ...