Illness & Addiction: Social Aspects

Body, Capital and Screens: Visual Media and the Healthy Self in the 20th Century brings together new research from leading scholars from Europe and...

Doubt is our product, a cigarette executive once observed, since it is the best means of competing with the 'body of fact' that exists in the minds...

Problems with alcohol and drugs differ for women and men in development, risk factors, negative consequences, metabolism, relapse triggers, and rel...

Women with Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) and other Substance Use Disorders (SUDs) have different etiology, mortality, relapse antecedents, clinical pr...

Winner of the 2021 Excellence in Research and Scholarly Activity Award from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Finalist for the 2021 American Bo...

Winner of the 2021 Excellence in Research and Scholarly Activity Award from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Finalist for the 2021 American Bo...

Drawing from an activist research project spanning Loja, Santo Domingo, New York, New Jersey, and Barcelona, this book offers a feminist intersecti...

Women from Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia, who migrate to Guam, a U.S. territory, suffer disproportionately poor reproductive health outcome...

The phenomenon of transnational adoption is changing in the age of globalization and biotechnology. In Legitimating Life, Sonja van Wichelen boldly...

RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'I couldn't put it down. . . an important book, raw and simple enough that you can't help but ...

This book provides a quantitative and qualitative overview of the overall impact that the COVID-19 pandemic had on the capacity of Brazil, Russia, ...

THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, NOW WITH AN EXTRA CHAPTER! Essential reading Guardian ...

In the United States, the right to choose an abortion is the law of the land. But what if a woman continues her pregnancy because she didnt really ...

Viral Frictions takes the reader along a trail of intersecting narratives to uncover how and why it is that HIV-related stigma persists in the age ...

Finalist for the 2022 Cheiron Book PrizeAn Organ of Murder explores the origins of both popular and elite theories of criminality in the nineteenth...

The relationship between undocumented immigrants and law enforcement officials continues to be a politically contentious topic in the United States...

The Devil's Fruit describes the facets of the strawberry industry as a harm industry, and explores author Dvera Saxtons activist ethnographic work ...

The Cancer Within examines cervical cancer in Romania as a point of entry into an anthropological reflection on contemporary health care. Cervical ...

The Cancer Within examines cervical cancer in Romania as a point of entry into an anthropological reflection on contemporary health care. Cervical ...

When Misfortune Becomes Injustice surveys the progress and challenges in deploying human rights to advance health and social equality over recent d...

When Misfortune Becomes Injustice surveys the progress and challenges in deploying human rights to advance health and social equality over recent d...