Personal & Public Health

This book examines the impact of climate change on eye disease and eye health.Filling a lacuna in the existing literature, Scott Fraser takes a dee...

This book examines the relationship between media and medicine. Drawing on insights from anthropology, linguistics, and media studies, it considers...

By analysing research into links between low psychological wellbeing and sexual risk-taking behaviours that occur in men who have sex with men (MSM...

Bad Souls is an ethnographic study of responsibility among psychiatric patients and their caregivers in Thrace, the northeastern borderland of Gree...

This handbook critically examines spaces of mental health and wellbeing across multiple, often intersecting, domains from green and blue spaces to ...

Suited for use by classrooms, groups, and individuals, Charting Your Course: A Life-Long Guide to Health and Compassion is a positive answer to the...

Disability impacts everyone in some way. Approximately 10-20% of the worlds population live with disability, and the associated issues affect not j...

A History of Rhetoric, Sound, and Health and Healing argues for medico-sonic knowledge systematically interpreted bodily sounds with medical knowl...

Do video games cause violent, aggressive behavior? Can online games help us learn? When it comes to video games, these are often the types of quest...

Loss and consequent grief permeates nearly every life changing event, from death to health concerns to dislocation to relationship breakdown to bet...

Dealing with the social experience of grief, loss and bereavement are challenging areas for everyone, including health and social care practitioner...

A citizen's guide to America's most debated policy-in-waiting There are few issues as consequential in the lives of Americans as healthcare--and f...

This book addresses the analysis of self-containment of employment (SCE), which measures journey-to-work trips among the percentage of workers who ...

Originally published in 1987, reissued here with a new preface, this book presented a history of the Queens Nursing Institute on the occasion of th...

This book presents an integrated international exploration of social well-being from a comparative standpoint: how it is framed, how it is perceive...

This book presents an integrated international exploration of social well-being from a comparative standpoint: how it is framed, how it is perceive...

Whilst death, dying and bereavement are universal life events, the social conditions under which death takes place are fundamental in shaping how i...

This book focuses on injustices that have taken place to deaf people and the sign language community in Finland from 1900.For decades, memories and...

This book is to elucidate personal and social bases for personal resilience, thus addressing the issue concerning the predominance of social factor...

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Dance and movement are everywhere and for everyone with a body,...

This important book provides a much-needed exploration and examination of honor abuse, violence, and killings from a psychological perspective. Wri...