Illness & Addiction: Social Aspects

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...