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McGill-Queen's University Press Chronic Conditions
Book SynopsisChronic Conditions captures myriad ways in which the chronic conditions the sufferer. Karen Engle explores, through personal experience as well as research in medical history, literature, and art, how it feels to become attuned to the rhythms of ongoing physical pain.Trade Review“When Karen Engle writes her somatic experience of living in her chronically ailing body, or about her experience of medical treatment, she is writing a remarkably expressive and articulate memoir about a life with chronic illness.” G. Thomas Couser, Hofstra University and author of Signifying Bodies: Disability and Contemporary Life Writing“In Chronic Conditions, Karen Engle has attempted to explain, express, and normalize what it means to live with chronic pain and illness. This story takes you on a journey of discovery, one which will help you better understand and respect those around you who are living with chronic illness.” Miramichi Reader
£89.10
McGill-Queen's University Press Chronic Conditions
Book SynopsisChronic Conditions captures myriad ways in which the chronic conditions the sufferer. Karen Engle explores, through personal experience as well as research in medical history, literature, and art, how it feels to become attuned to the rhythms of ongoing physical pain.Trade Review“When Karen Engle writes her somatic experience of living in her chronically ailing body, or about her experience of medical treatment, she is writing a remarkably expressive and articulate memoir about a life with chronic illness.” G. Thomas Couser, Hofstra University and author of Signifying Bodies: Disability and Contemporary Life Writing“In Chronic Conditions, Karen Engle has attempted to explain, express, and normalize what it means to live with chronic pain and illness. This story takes you on a journey of discovery, one which will help you better understand and respect those around you who are living with chronic illness.” Miramichi Reader
£23.39
Columbia University Press Experiencing HIV
Book SynopsisThrough the voices of people living with HIV or AIDS, this text explores the ways in which HIV affects personal, family and work relationships. It draws on the experinces of black and white, heterosexual and gay, women and men with or without symtoms who show how they work through everyday life.
£90.00
Columbia University Press Womens Experiences with HIVAIDS
Book SynopsisContributors discuss the differences between women within and across cultures and how local attitudes and traditions can affect the prevention of, or vulnerability to, HIV / AIDS.Trade ReviewStartling and powerful accounts of the impact of HIV/AIDS on women's lives... highly recommended. -- Emily van der Meulen Archives of Sexual BehaviorTable of Contents, by Peter Lamptey Counting Women's Experiences, by Lynellyn D. Long Living With HIV/AIDS Negative in the Beginning, Positive in the End, by Christine Thomas (With Lynellyn D. Long) I Have a Life, I Will Live, by Anonymous Women Who Sleep With Women, by Joyce Hunter & Priscilla Alexander HIV/AIDS: A Personal Perspective, by Debbie Runions Economic and Sociocultural Perspectives Making a Living: Women Who Go Out, by Priscilla Alexander Bargaining for Life: Women and the AIDS Epidemic in Haiti, by Priscilla R. Ulin, Michel Cayemittes, and Robert Gringle The Socioeconomic Impact of AIDS on Women in Tanzania, by Anne Outwater I'm Not Afraid of Life or Death: Women in Brothels in Northern Thailand, by Katherine C. Bond, David D. Delentiano, and Chayan Vaddhanaphuti Women's Social Representation of Sex, Sexuality, and AIDS in Brazil, by Luiza Klein-Alonso The Impact of Structural Adjustment Programs on Women and AIDS, by Mubina Hassanali Kirmani and Dorothy Munyakho Issues and Concerns The Epidemiology of HIV and AIDS in Women, by Jeanine M. Buzy and Helens D. Gayle Sexually Transmitted Diseases as Catalysts of HIV/AIDS in Women, by Barbara Parker and David W. Patterson HIV and Breast-feeding: Informed Choice in the Face of Medical Ambiguity, by Chloe O'Gara and Anna C. Martin Women, Children, and HIV/AIDS, by Carrie Auer Care and Support Systems, by E. Maxine Ankrah, Martin Schwartz, and Jaclyn Miller Promising Directions Dilemmas for Women in the Second Decade, by Elizabeth A. Preble and Galia D. Siegel Women Educating Women for HIV/AIDS Prevention, by Kathleen Cash Talking About Sex: A Prerequisitie for AIDS Prevention, by Geeta Rao Gupta, Ellen Weiss, and Purnima Mane Challenges for the Development of Female-Controlled Vaginal Microbicides, by Christopher J. Elias and Lor L. Heise The Ethics of Social and Behavioral Research on Women and AIDS, by Carl Kendall What Next? A Policy Agenda, by E. Maxine Ankrah and Lynellyn D. Long
£25.20
Columbia University Press Adolescents in Public Housing
Book SynopsisIncorporates data from multiple public-housing sites in large U.S. cities to shine light on the symptoms and behaviors of African American youth living in non-HOPE VI public housing.Trade ReviewAdolescents in Public Housing is an important contribution to our understanding of neighborhood effects and, more specifically, the contextual issues for a large number of African American youth living in public housing. This is an important area of study for a vulnerable population of young people and families. -- Elizabeth Anthony, associate professor, School of Social Work, Arizona State University Most public-housing research is deficit based. It looks at ways to decrease crime by destroying dwellings, not by promoting community strength. In contrast, this book purposefully analyzes and incorporates community context to advance a strengths-based approach to intervention with troubled youth. The environmental systems on which it draws are extensive (family, community, and neighborhood), and their influence on both the positive and negative aspects of adolescent mental health are analyzed in depth. The book is original and will contribute to the literature in the field. -- Elizabeth Danto, professor of social work emeritus, Hunter CollegeTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Foreword Preface Part I: Theoretical Underpinnings and Methodology 1. Introduction: Context Matters 2. A Framework for Inquiry Into Neighborhood-Institutional Relationships Related to Public Housing and Adolescent Development, with Odis Johnson Jr. 3. An Integrated Model of Adolescent development in Public Housing Neighborhoods, With Kathy Sanders-Phillips and Lisa R. Rawlings Part II: Empirical Section 4. Methodology and Procedures, with Taqi M. Tirmazi and Tarek Zidan 5. Modeling Latent Profiles of Efficacious Beliefs and Attitudes Toward Deviance, with Ajita M. Robinson 6. The Social Ecology of Adolescent Alcohol and Drug Use, with Michael G. Vaughn, Margaret Lombe, and Stephen Tripodi 7. Explaining the Relationship Between Neighborhood Risk and Adolescent Health-Risk Behaviors: A Focus on Adolescent Depressive Symptoms, with Sharon F. Lambert and Crystal L. Barksdale 8. Risk and Protective factors of Depressive Symptoms, with Margaret Lombe and Von E. Nebbitt Part III: Implications and Applications 9. Implications to Practice and Service Use, with Theda Rose and Michael Lindsey 10. A New Direction for Public Housing: The Implications for Adolescent Well-Being, with Carol S. Collard 11. Summary and Conclusion: The Challenges of Public Housing Environments for Youth, with James Herbert Williams, Christopher A. Veeh, and David B. Miller Contributors References Index
£42.50
Columbia University Press Medical Storyworlds
Book SynopsisElena Fratto examines the relationship between literature and medicine at the turn of the twentieth century. She traces how writers including Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Bulgakov responded to medical and public health prescriptions, arguing that they provide alternative ways of thinking about the limits and possibilities of human agency and free will.Trade ReviewA significant contribution to the growing field of medical humanities and its applications to Russian literary and cultural studies, Fratto’s book makes striking connections between narratives written a century ago and the most pressing concerns in today’s medical ethics. Engaging, informative, and inspired. -- Julia Vaingurt, coeditor of The Human Reimagined: Posthumanism in RussiaMoving fluidly between modern medicine and Russian literature, Fratto explores a vital question: Who authors medical narratives? Focused on questions of plot and agency, her subtle analyses reveal how physicians develop their ideas about disease, entrepreneurs market meanings of health, and patients assert their voices to narrate their own medical storylines. -- David S. Jones, author of Broken Hearts: The Tangled History of Cardiac CareThis elegant book stages nothing less than a Slavic studies intervention in medical humanities—and vice versa. In the process, Fratto draws myriad revelatory connections between the writings of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Bulgakov, among others, and such present-day concerns as medical ethics, disability, posthumanism, and the Covid-19 pandemic. In short, Medical Storyworlds is a triumph. -- José Alaniz, author of Death, Disability, and the Superhero: The Silver Age and BeyondAn original and thought-provoking study . . . Fratto’s lively book provides compelling new interpretations of canonical works of Russian literature, and it manages to put the discipline of Slavic Studies into a productive dialogue with contemporary Medical Humanities. * Journal of Medical Humanities *[A] fascinating, very well-written, and timely book. * Modern Language Review *[A] nuanced and richly interdisciplinary study. * The Russian Review *Fratto’s expansive source base, including Russian, French, and Italian texts, along with her command of the theoretical literature, gives us a new platform from which the medical humanities can continue to develop. * Modern Language Quarterly *Fratto’s absorbing, timely study will be invaluable for scholars, the general reader, and anyone who is interested not only in Russian and European literatures, but also, in the nuanced ways medical narratives shape human lives, and vice versa. * Slavic Review *This book will be useful to anyone interested in medical discourse, as well as to students of the medical humanities, a field that reaffirms the need to pay attention to patient narratives, as well as to sickness-related fiction as a whole. * H-Sci-Med-Tech *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Grand Finale: Death as the Revelatory Ending2. End of Story: Temporality and the Prospect of the Ending in Ivan Ilych, Anna Karenina, and (Potential) Cancer Patients3. Medical Enlightenment in the Early 1920s: Rhetoric and Diffused Authorship in Jules Romains’s Knock and Soviet Public-Health Campaigns4. Time, Agency, and Bodily Glands: Metabolic Storytelling in Italo Svevo and Mikhail BulgakovAfterwordNotesBibliographyIndex
£85.00
Columbia University Press Medical Storyworlds Health Illness and Bodies in
Book SynopsisElena Fratto examines the relationship between literature and medicine at the turn of the twentieth century. She traces how writers including Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Bulgakov responded to medical and public health prescriptions, arguing that they provide alternative ways of thinking about the limits and possibilities of human agency and free will.Trade ReviewA significant contribution to the growing field of medical humanities and its applications to Russian literary and cultural studies, Fratto’s book makes striking connections between narratives written a century ago and the most pressing concerns in today’s medical ethics. Engaging, informative, and inspired. -- Julia Vaingurt, coeditor of The Human Reimagined: Posthumanism in RussiaMoving fluidly between modern medicine and Russian literature, Fratto explores a vital question: Who authors medical narratives? Focused on questions of plot and agency, her subtle analyses reveal how physicians develop their ideas about disease, entrepreneurs market meanings of health, and patients assert their voices to narrate their own medical storylines. -- David S. Jones, author of Broken Hearts: The Tangled History of Cardiac CareThis elegant book stages nothing less than a Slavic studies intervention in medical humanities—and vice versa. In the process, Fratto draws myriad revelatory connections between the writings of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Bulgakov, among others, and such present-day concerns as medical ethics, disability, posthumanism, and the Covid-19 pandemic. In short, Medical Storyworlds is a triumph. -- José Alaniz, author of Death, Disability, and the Superhero: The Silver Age and BeyondAn original and thought-provoking study . . . Fratto’s lively book provides compelling new interpretations of canonical works of Russian literature, and it manages to put the discipline of Slavic Studies into a productive dialogue with contemporary Medical Humanities. * Journal of Medical Humanities *[A] fascinating, very well-written, and timely book. * Modern Language Review *[A] nuanced and richly interdisciplinary study. * The Russian Review *Fratto’s expansive source base, including Russian, French, and Italian texts, along with her command of the theoretical literature, gives us a new platform from which the medical humanities can continue to develop. * Modern Language Quarterly *Fratto’s absorbing, timely study will be invaluable for scholars, the general reader, and anyone who is interested not only in Russian and European literatures, but also, in the nuanced ways medical narratives shape human lives, and vice versa. * Slavic Review *This book will be useful to anyone interested in medical discourse, as well as to students of the medical humanities, a field that reaffirms the need to pay attention to patient narratives, as well as to sickness-related fiction as a whole. * H-Sci-Med-Tech *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Grand Finale: Death as the Revelatory Ending2. End of Story: Temporality and the Prospect of the Ending in Ivan Ilych, Anna Karenina, and (Potential) Cancer Patients3. Medical Enlightenment in the Early 1920s: Rhetoric and Diffused Authorship in Jules Romains’s Knock and Soviet Public-Health Campaigns4. Time, Agency, and Bodily Glands: Metabolic Storytelling in Italo Svevo and Mikhail BulgakovAfterwordNotesBibliographyIndex
£23.75
Columbia University Press Conservatorship
Book SynopsisThis book is an incisive and compelling portrait of the functioning—and failings—of California’s conservatorship system, drawing on hundreds of interviews with professionals, policy makers, families, and conservatees.Trade ReviewA heartbreakingly insightful ethnographic deep dive into the failure of mental health care in the United States that everyone refuses to pay for—and for which no public authority takes responsibility. Barnard strategically takes us through each dysfunctional interstice of California’s iconically mismanaged mental health system that manages to maximize costs, minimizes benefits, and tortures everyone involved—especially people with psychosis spectrum disorders whose lives are cut short by the public/private bureaucratic quagmire that has been waging war on itself for the past half century. -- Philippe Bourgois, author of In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio and co-author of Righteous DopefiendVivid case studies and probing interviews humanize this journey through the fraught terrain of involuntary care. Barnard pulls few punches in describing the more offensive stretches of the roadmap but avoids veering into unalloyed condemnation or praise. His thoughtful exploration yields reasons for hope that our better angels might prevail. -- Roderick Shaner, MD, former medical director of the Los Angeles County Department of Mental HealthThe subject and title of Conservatorship is perhaps the most important yet least studied power of domestic governance. As Alex Barnard's meticulous study of California’s system for protecting those most disabled by mental illness shows, this power is left to a largely unaccountable and invisible system of local and market actors. At a time of much interest in new legal solutions to our severe crisis of unhoused, untreated, and mentally ill citizens, Barnard’s findings suggest the priority of addressing our even deeper crisis of authority. -- Jonathan Simon, author of Governing Through Crime: How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of FearIn California, the state has abdicated its authority over the conservatorship process by delegating state functions to a fragmented field of actors. Cutting through overly simplistic accounts of conservatorship, Barnard uses rich data and sharp theory to delve into the pitfalls of this abdication of authority. -- Josh Seim, author of Bandage, Sort, and Hustle: Ambulance Crews on the Front Lines of Urban SufferingConservatorship delivers the kind of critical analysis that...would require California politicians, more comfortable with increasing budgets than investigating outcomes, to expose themselves to more blame. * City Journal *I recommend this very comprehensive book to anyone who is interested and ultimately frustrated by how our state has failed so many it purports a desire to help. * Southern California Psychiatrist *Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: The Other Magna CartaPart I. The Conservatorship Continuum1. Outpatient2. Crisis3. Emergency Room4. Inpatient5. Public Guardian6. CourtPart II. Care and Coercion Under Conservatorship7. Locked In8. Stepped Down9. Neglect and Abuse10. Stabilization and RecoveryPart III. Reform11. Paving a New Pathway12. Asylum for the Dying13. Sharing Authority, Restoring AutonomyConclusion: Beyond MiraclesMethodological AppendixChronology of “Abdicated Authority”Glossary of Terms, Procedures, and FacilitiesAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
£105.30
Columbia University Press Conservatorship
Book SynopsisThis book is an incisive and compelling portrait of the functioning—and failings—of California’s conservatorship system, drawing on hundreds of interviews with professionals, policy makers, families, and conservatees.Trade ReviewA heartbreakingly insightful ethnographic deep dive into the failure of mental health care in the United States that everyone refuses to pay for—and for which no public authority takes responsibility. Barnard strategically takes us through each dysfunctional interstice of California’s iconically mismanaged mental health system that manages to maximize costs, minimizes benefits, and tortures everyone involved—especially people with psychosis spectrum disorders whose lives are cut short by the public/private bureaucratic quagmire that has been waging war on itself for the past half century. -- Philippe Bourgois, author of In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio and co-author of Righteous DopefiendVivid case studies and probing interviews humanize this journey through the fraught terrain of involuntary care. Barnard pulls few punches in describing the more offensive stretches of the roadmap but avoids veering into unalloyed condemnation or praise. His thoughtful exploration yields reasons for hope that our better angels might prevail. -- Roderick Shaner, MD, former medical director of the Los Angeles County Department of Mental HealthThe subject and title of Conservatorship is perhaps the most important yet least studied power of domestic governance. As Alex Barnard's meticulous study of California’s system for protecting those most disabled by mental illness shows, this power is left to a largely unaccountable and invisible system of local and market actors. At a time of much interest in new legal solutions to our severe crisis of unhoused, untreated, and mentally ill citizens, Barnard’s findings suggest the priority of addressing our even deeper crisis of authority. -- Jonathan Simon, author of Governing Through Crime: How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of FearIn California, the state has abdicated its authority over the conservatorship process by delegating state functions to a fragmented field of actors. Cutting through overly simplistic accounts of conservatorship, Barnard uses rich data and sharp theory to delve into the pitfalls of this abdication of authority. -- Josh Seim, author of Bandage, Sort, and Hustle: Ambulance Crews on the Front Lines of Urban SufferingConservatorship delivers the kind of critical analysis that...would require California politicians, more comfortable with increasing budgets than investigating outcomes, to expose themselves to more blame. * City Journal *I recommend this very comprehensive book to anyone who is interested and ultimately frustrated by how our state has failed so many it purports a desire to help. * Southern California Psychiatrist *Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: The Other Magna CartaPart I. The Conservatorship Continuum1. Outpatient2. Crisis3. Emergency Room4. Inpatient5. Public Guardian6. CourtPart II. Care and Coercion Under Conservatorship7. Locked In8. Stepped Down9. Neglect and Abuse10. Stabilization and RecoveryPart III. Reform11. Paving a New Pathway12. Asylum for the Dying13. Sharing Authority, Restoring AutonomyConclusion: Beyond MiraclesMethodological AppendixChronology of “Abdicated Authority”Glossary of Terms, Procedures, and FacilitiesAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
£28.50
University of Illinois Press The Sanitation of Brazil
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book is an overdue and essential contribution to the literature in English on the history of health, state formation, and Brazilian political and social history." --The Americas"We are very fortunate to have this lucid translation of Gilberto Hochman's brilliant study of the expansion of public health in early twentieth century Brazil, a complex process that involved ideological and pragmatic calculations of regional autonomy, centralized authority, and the high human cost of disease across a vast and varied country. This history elucidates the foundations of Brazil's extensive modern health system and offers a model for political analysis of the state and health."--Alexandra Minna Stern, author of Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America"Finally, Gilberto Hochman's classic account of public health policy, citizenship, and state-building during Brazil's First Republic is available beyond the Portuguese-reading world. This prize-winning volume offers a crucial historical perspective on the complex politics of constructing collective health, all the more resonant today as Brazil's admired national health system is under assault."--Anne-Emanuelle Birn, co-editor of Comrades in Health: US Health Internationalists, Abroad and at Home"Highly recommended."--Choice"Gilberto Hochman's The Sanitation of Brazil is a pathbreaking contribution to our understanding of the relationship between public health and the process of state formation. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the histories of health and medicine in the Americas."--Jerry Dávila, author of Diploma of Whiteness: Race and Social Policy in Brazil, 1917–1945"The book proves to be integral to the discussion of early public health and sanitation reform in Latin America." --H-Environment"A welcome addition to libraries across the Anglophone world." --História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos
£77.35
University of Illinois Press Remaking the Urban Social Contract
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A provocative and enlightening vision of our rapidly changing societal expectations for energy, environment, and health, the foundations of the social contract we implicitly make with government, corporate, and entrepreneurial leaders."--George W. Crabtree, Director of the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research
£81.90
University of Illinois Press Health Equity in Brazil Intersections of Gender
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Groundbreaking in that it details specific health policies that have been advocated for and implemented in Brazil to ameliorate racial inequality in the health sector as well as society at large. Caldwell's intersectional approach and centering of black women's experiences and activism is unique."--Erica L. Williams, author of Sex Tourism in Bahia: Ambiguous Entanglements"Caldwell's work demonstrates both analytical and methodological rigor that contributes to academia, activism, and public policy. This book is vital for anyone interested in health policy, the relationship between national and international political institutions, grassroots organizing, and mobilizing intersectionality." --Medical Anthropology Quarterly"Caldwell’s richly detailed study offers unique insights into the racial, class, and gender dimensions of health activism and public policy in Brazil, paying particular attention to the intersections evident in HIV/AIDS and maternal mortality policies. The book shines new light on rarely examined facets of Afro-Brazilian women’s struggles. The first full-length monograph available in English to deploy an intersectional and transnational analytical lens, it draws on over two decades of engagement with key activists, issues, and texts crucial to Black, feminist, and Afro-descendant women’s efforts to promote health equity. The book will be most welcome by rights advocates and scholars seeking to enhance gendered racial justice in Brazil, the U.S., and beyond."—Sonia E. Alvarez, coeditor of Beyond Civil Society: Activism, Participation, and Protest in Latin America
£77.35
University of Illinois Press Remaking the Urban Social Contract
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A provocative and enlightening vision of our rapidly changing societal expectations for energy, environment, and health, the foundations of the social contract we implicitly make with government, corporate, and entrepreneurial leaders."--George W. Crabtree, Director of the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research
£15.19
University of Illinois Press Health Equity in Brazil
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Groundbreaking in that it details specific health policies that have been advocated for and implemented in Brazil to ameliorate racial inequality in the health sector as well as society at large. Caldwell's intersectional approach and centering of black women's experiences and activism is unique."--Erica L. Williams, author of Sex Tourism in Bahia: Ambiguous Entanglements"Caldwell's work demonstrates both analytical and methodological rigor that contributes to academia, activism, and public policy. This book is vital for anyone interested in health policy, the relationship between national and international political institutions, grassroots organizing, and mobilizing intersectionality." --Medical Anthropology Quarterly"Caldwell’s richly detailed study offers unique insights into the racial, class, and gender dimensions of health activism and public policy in Brazil, paying particular attention to the intersections evident in HIV/AIDS and maternal mortality policies. The book shines new light on rarely examined facets of Afro-Brazilian women’s struggles. The first full-length monograph available in English to deploy an intersectional and transnational analytical lens, it draws on over two decades of engagement with key activists, issues, and texts crucial to Black, feminist, and Afro-descendant women’s efforts to promote health equity. The book will be most welcome by rights advocates and scholars seeking to enhance gendered racial justice in Brazil, the U.S., and beyond."—Sonia E. Alvarez, coeditor of Beyond Civil Society: Activism, Participation, and Protest in Latin America
£19.79
University of Notre Dame Press The Practice of Human Development and Dignity
Book SynopsisAlthough deeply contested in many ways, the concept of human dignity has emerged as a key idea in fields such as bioethics and human rights. It has been largely absent, however, from literature on development studies. The essays contained in The Practice of Human Development and Dignity fill this gap by showing the implications of human dignity for international development theory, policy, and practice. Pushing against ideas of development that privilege the efficiency of systems that accelerate economic growth at the expense of human persons and their agency, the essays in this volume show how development work that lacks sensitivity to human dignity is blind. Instead, genuine development must advance human flourishing and not merely promote economic betterment. At the same time, the essays in this book also demonstrate that human dignity must be assessed in the context of real human experiences and practices. This volume therefore considers the meaning of human dignity inducTrade Review“The Practice of Human Development and Dignity is a very timely book and starts a fascinating conversation. Doing dignity is a question of presence and relationship. Any intervention then should begin by offering my presence, my hearth, and that deep form of listening that opens the source of our shared dignity.” —Mathias Nebel, co-editor of Searching for the Common Good
£45.00
University of Washington Press The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[A] valuable and very welcome addition to the literature. For anyone doubting the impact of settler society on Native worlds of the Northwest Coast, it should be required reading." * BC Studies *"[T]he most comprehensive, detailed monograph on the impact of imported diseases within a single region of North America. Boyd makes an important contribution in having so meticulously documented the medical, demographic, and cultural responses to catastrophic epidemic disease and high mortality…" * Ethnohistory *"A data-rich, well-written, authoritative work." * Choice *
£29.66
University of Washington Press The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence
Book SynopsisExamines the introduction of infectious diseases among the Indians of the Northwest Coast culture area (present-day Oregon and Washington west of the Cascade Mountains, British Columbia west of the Coast Range, and southeast Alaska) in the first century of contact and the effects of these diseases on Native American population size and structure.Trade Review"[A] valuable and very welcome addition to the literature. For anyone doubting the impact of settler society on Native worlds of the Northwest Coast, it should be required reading." * BC Studies *"[T]he most comprehensive, detailed monograph on the impact of imported diseases within a single region of North America. Boyd makes an important contribution in having so meticulously documented the medical, demographic, and cultural responses to catastrophic epidemic disease and high mortality…" * Ethnohistory *"A data-rich, well-written, authoritative work." * Choice *
£70.93
University of Washington Press HIV Interventions
Book SynopsisSeeks to understand the relationship between HIV, medical technologies, and ideas about the body. This book is suitable for those who are engaged in questions of the social and ethical dimensions of biomedicine, biotechnology, and genomics.Trade Review"This concise, provocative book explains its terms and makes it significant theoretical contributions lightly, such that despite the complex science and advanced theoretical debates involved, it would be useful for many university courses." -- Vicki Bell * Sociology of Health and Illness *"Sociologist Rosengarten takes on complex materials relating to HIV interventions, especially how HIV preventions and treatments are conceived, interpreted, and practiced." * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction: HIV, Information, and Flesh 2. Imagination, Diagnostics, and the Materialization of HIV 3. HIV: A Synergy of Biological Matter, Technological Matter, and Publics 4. The "Informed Matter" of HIV Prevention 5. The Human Host: Performative and Relational Difference 6. Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£33.98
Yale University Press Opium
Book SynopsisIs opium a vile curse on society, a blessed medicine from God, or possibly both? This fresh history offers surprising new insights.Trade Review“Opium: Reality’s Dark Dream by Thomas Dormandy, is that rare thing: both an extraordinary work of scholarship and a rip-roaring read.”—Rebecca Rose, Prospect -- Rebecca Rose * Prospect *“Thomas Dormandy is an elegant, dryly amusing writer who plainly has an unquenchable appetite for research.”—John Preston, Daily Mail -- John Preston * Daily Mail *“Rich and engaging . . . a rare triumph.”—Washington Post * Washington Post *“…[A] lively and fascinating chronicle of opium…The book is a remarkable synthesis of different fields of knowledge.”—Peter Swabb, Daily Telegraph -- Peter Swabb * Daily Telegraph *“…[A] scholarly yet wonderfully readable book.”—Teresa Levonian Cole, Country Life -- Teresa Levonian Cole * Country Life *"Rich in stories and an entertaining read, Dr Dormandy has traced the many lives of opium, from the Stone Age to the War of Terror." —Yangwen Zheng, BBC History Magazine -- Yangwen Zheng * BBC History Magazine *“A wide-ranging and highly engaging history of one of the world’s most prominent (and most addictive) narcotics."—Library Journal * Library Journal *
£30.88
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Challenging the Stigma of Mental Illness
Book Synopsis* Provides practical strategies to bring an end the stigma surrounding mental illness * Contains work sheets and interventions guides to help facilitate the implementation of specific anti-stigma approaches * The authors are highly experienced and respected experts in the field of stigma research .Trade Review“Overall this is a very inspiring book that demands a response to an important issue which is often overlooked or misunderstood.” (Journal of Mental Health, 1 May 2013) “In Challenging the Stigma of Mental Illness, Patrick Corrigan and colleagues seek to provide a practically focused text that is grounded in the experience and narratives of those who have struggled with the impact of stigma on their lives. A particular strength is that it does not shy away from some more difficult areas such as recognising that mental health professionals may be complicit in ‘othering’ people with mental health difficulties to much the same extent as the general population.” (Oxford Journals Clippings, 4 May 2012) "Overall, the authors provide thorough coverage of the major aspects of stigma and stigma reduction efforts in an easy-to-use format." (PsycCRITIQUES, 29 February 2012) "Overall, I think the intentions of the authors are honourable and the books includes good suggestions on how to tackle the widespread problems of stigma. These range from small tasks that people could carry out in daily life to large changes required at government level." (The Psychiatrist, 1 December 2011) "This is a book that would be ideal for an undergraduate health professional program, and could provide a valuable basis for coursework, such as developing an anti-stigma intervention, or simply a class discussion about the reality of stigma." (Metapsychology Online Reviews, 29 November 2011) "In this unique text aimed at therapists, those in helping professions, patients, and families in the US and Europe, Corrigan (psychology, Illinois Institute of Technology) et al. outline practical strategies for addressing the major forms of stigma of mental illness: public stigma, prejudice and discrimination endorsed by general society; self-stigma, the loss of self-esteem and efficacy that occurs when a person internalizes prejudice and discrimination; and structural stigmas, the social forces shaped by public stigma . . . some sections of the book were taken from Corrigan and Robert Lundin's Don't Call Me Nuts! Coping with the Stigma of Mental Illness (2001), and this volume updates many of its ideas with recent research." (Booknews, 1 June 2011) Table of ContentsAbout the Authors ix Foreword: Robert Lundin xi Preface xiii Acknowledgments xxi 1 Stigma is Personal 1 2 Understanding and Measuring Stigma 23 3 Challenging the Public Stigma of Mental Illness 55 4 Addressing Self-Stigma and Fostering Empowerment 115 5 Addressing Structural Stigma 169 6 Stigma as Social Injustice 189 References 199 Learn More About It: Resources and Chapter References by Jennifer D. Rafacz 207 Index 225
£75.56
Wiley Parents Who Misuse Drugs and Alcohol
Book SynopsisThis book presents original research outlining the key elements in responding to parental misuse of drugs and alcohol. Offers a definition of misuse and addiction and the factors that influence the nature of misuse or addiction Reviews extensively the nature and impact of parental substance misuse on children and families using the latest evidence Explores how research and theories might help inform professionals or non-professionals assessing families affected by parents who misuse drugs or alcohol Provides an in-depth discussion of Motivational Interviewing, including a critical discussion of the challenges and limitations involved in using it in child and family settings Considers the wider implications of the findings for practice and policy and argues that these responses can be used across the field of work with vulnerable children and their families Trade Review"There are some books that deserve a place in the small and well-thumbed libraries that accrue in practice settings, and this is one of them. I would regard it as essential reading for all those seeking to develop or improve practice with substance-misusing parents." (Oxford Journals Clippings, 1 January 2012)Table of ContentsAbout the Authors. Acknowledgements. Part 1. Introduction. 1 What is 'Substance Misuse'? 2 The Impact of Parental Substance Misuse on Child Welfare. Part 2. 3 Parental Substance Misuse and Children’s Services. 4 The Social Worker Assessments. 5 What Happened to the Children and Their Parents? Part 3. 6 Assessment. 7 What Works in Engaging Parents Who Misuse Drugs or Alcohol? 8 What Works? Substance Misuse Treatment and Evidence-Based Social Work. 9 Motivational Interviewing and Effective Work with Families in which Parents Misuse Drugs and/or Alcohol. 10 Family Interventions with Parental Substance Misuse. Conclusion. References. Index.
£80.96
John Wiley & Sons Inc Parents Who Misuse Drugs and Alcohol
Book SynopsisThis book presents original research outlining the key elements in responding to parental misuse of drugs and alcohol. Offers a definition of misuse and addiction and the factors that influence the nature of misuse or addiction Reviews extensively the nature and impact of parental substance misuse on children and families using the latest evidence Explores how research and theories might help inform professionals or non-professionals assessing families affected by parents who misuse drugs or alcohol Provides an in-depth discussion of Motivational Interviewing, including a critical discussion of the challenges and limitations involved in using it in child and family settings Considers the wider implications of the findings for practice and policy and argues that these responses can be used across the field of work with vulnerable children and their families Trade Review"There are some books that deserve a place in the small and well-thumbed libraries that accrue in practice settings, and this is one of them. I would regard it as essential reading for all those seeking to develop or improve practice with substance-misusing parents." (Oxford Journals Clippings, 1 January 2012) "The practice of social work in relation to children at risk and the problem of substance misuse are both high up the public policy agenda and never out of the media spotlight. Forrester and Harwin draw on their own important research and that of others to raise challenging questions, not only about how social workers find it difficult to deal effectively with parental alcohol and drug problems, but also about the need to bring fresh thinking to social work more generally. The issues they raise, in a thoroughly engaging and scholarly way, make this a key text for all those concerned about families and children at risk and about the future of the social work profession. —Jim Orford, Professor of Psychology, University of Birmingham, UKTable of ContentsAbout the Authors. Acknowledgements. Part 1. Introduction. 1 What is 'Substance Misuse'? 2 The Impact of Parental Substance Misuse on Child Welfare. Part 2. 3 Parental Substance Misuse and Children’s Services. 4 The Social Worker Assessments. 5 What Happened to the Children and Their Parents? Part 3. 6 Assessment. 7 What Works in Engaging Parents Who Misuse Drugs or Alcohol? 8 What Works? Substance Misuse Treatment and Evidence-Based Social Work. 9 Motivational Interviewing and Effective Work with Families in which Parents Misuse Drugs and/or Alcohol. 10 Family Interventions with Parental Substance Misuse. Conclusion. References. Index.
£37.00
John Wiley & Sons Inc Manual of Addictions
Book SynopsisThis text serves as a practical guide to the effective diagnosis and treatment of alcohol and drug addictive disorders. It offers clear, step-by-step recommendations on the selection and application of both pharmacological and psychosocial therapies.Table of ContentsPartial table of contents: ASSESSMENT AND DIAGNOSIS OF INTOXICATION AND WITHDRAWAL IN ADDICTIVE DISORDERS. Assessment and Diagnosis in Addictive Disorders (N. Miller, et al.). Intoxication and Withdrawal from Marijuana, LSD, and MDMA (M. Gold & N. Miller). Drug Testing (R. DuPont). PHARMACOLOGICAL TREATMENT OF INTOXICATION AND WITHDRAWAL. Treatment of Opiate Dependence (J. Piszczor & W. Weddington). TREATMENT IN SPECIFIC POPULATIONS. Treatment of Acute Emergencies (S. John). Treatment of Comorbid Surgical Disorders (R. Littrell & G. Hyde). Treatment of Addictive Disorders in Women (L. Miller). Treatment of Gambling, Eating, and Sex Addictions (J. Schneider & R. Irons). TREATMENT PRACTICES. Treatment Management for Acute and Continuing Care (D. Angres & M. Easton). Treatment Efficacy (N. Miller). SPECIAL TOPICS. Forensic and Ethical Issues (A. Daghestani). Index.
£131.35
LUP - University of Michigan Press War on Autism
Book SynopsisAutism is widely understood in contemporary times as nothing more than a biomedical disorder in need of treatment and/or cure. War on Autism disrupts this singularity by examining autism as a historically specific and power-laden cultural phenomenon that has much to teach about the social organization of a neoliberal western modernity.Trade ReviewA comprehensive treatise on the social, political, and discursive constitution of the conceptual object called ‘autism’ which considers a broad range of arguments, artifacts, and events and does so in a series of lively and provocative challenges to accepted understandings of this relatively recent phenomenon.” — Shelley Tremain, author of Foucault and the Government of Disability “In many respects, autism is the condition du jour, and cultural fascination has long prevented both lay publics and scholars from engaging with the host of characters—or figures—that govern its very construction. McGuire’s multi-pronged, critical analysis of modern-day autism advocacy will profoundly impact the field of Disability Studies and uproot (unfortunately) dearly-held clinical and educational paradigms that dominate contemporary discourse on autism.” — Melanie Yergeau, University of Michigan
£31.30
LUP - University of Michigan Press Dying Inside The HIVAIDS Ward at Limestone
Book SynopsisAt Limestone Prison, the Alabama State Department of Corrections reserves Dorm 16 exclusively for inmates infected with HIV. This book takes readers for a visit to the Limestone infirmary where patients lie chained to beds while insects and rodents run freely through filthy, drafty rooms.Trade ReviewThis fresh and original study of the abusive, degrading, and inadequate treatment of segregated prisoners with HIV/AIDS in Alabama's Limestone prison should prick all of our consciences about the horrific consequences of the massive carceral state the United States has built over the last three decades. - Marie Gottschalk, University of Pennsylvania and author of The Prison and the Gallows: The Politics of Mass Incarceration in America
£36.95
University of California Press HIV is Gods Blessing
Book SynopsisExamines the role of Russian Orthodox Church in the treatment of HIV/AIDS.Trade Review"A provocative and clearly argued work." Somatosphere "This is a fascinating book on an important topic." -- Erin Koch Slavic ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I: Backgrounds 1. HIV, Drug Use, and the Politics of Indifference 2. The Church's Rehabilitation Program 3. The Russian Orthodox Church, HIV, and Injecting Drug Use 4. Moral and Ethical Assemblages 5. Synergeia and Simfoniia: Orthodox Morality, Human Rights, and the State 6. Working on the Self Part II: Practices 7. Enchurchment 8. Cultivating a Normal Life 9. Normal Sociality: Obshchenie and Controlling Emotions 10. Disciplining Responsibility: Labor and Gender Some Closing Words Notes References Index
£27.00
University of California Press Toxic Injustice
Book SynopsisLinks health inequalities and worker struggles as it charts how people excluded from workplace and legal protections have found ways to challenge power structures and seek justice from states and transnational corporations alike.Trade Review"[Bohme] has skillfully brought together an extensive amount of detail from multiple sources... Recommended." -- Byron Anderson Electronic Green Journal "An invaluable book." The Journal of American HistoryTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Roots of Optimism and Anxiety 2. DBCP on the Farm 3. Unequal Exposures 4. An Inconvenient Forum? 5. Making a Movement 6. National Law, Transnational Justice? Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£64.00
University of California Press Toxic Injustice
Book SynopsisLinks health inequalities and worker struggles as it charts how people excluded from workplace and legal protections have found ways to challenge power structures and seek justice from states and transnational corporations alike.Trade Review"[Bohme] has skillfully brought together an extensive amount of detail from multiple sources... Recommended." -- Byron Anderson Electronic Green Journal "An invaluable book." The Journal of American HistoryTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Roots of Optimism and Anxiety 2. DBCP on the Farm 3. Unequal Exposures 4. An Inconvenient Forum? 5. Making a Movement 6. National Law, Transnational Justice? Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£22.50
University of California Press Love Money and HIV
Book SynopsisDrawing on an array of interview, ethnographic, and survey data from her native country of Kenya, the author examines how young African women, who suffer disproportionate rates of HIV infection compared to young African men, navigate their relationships, employment, and finances in the context of economic inequality and a devastating HIV epidemic.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface 1. A Stubborn Disparity 2. Consuming Women, Modernity, and HIV Risk 3. Historical and Cultural Context 4. Love, Money, and HIV Prevention 5. School and the Production of Consuming Women 6. Gendered Economies and the Role of Ecology in HIV Risk 7. "To Stem HIV in Africa, Prevent Transmission to Young Women" Epilogue: The Magic Bullet Notes Appendix Bibliography Acknowledgments Index
£22.50
University of California Press State of Health
Book SynopsisState of Health takes readers inside one of the most controversial regimes of the twenty-first centuryVenezuela under Hugo Chávezfor a revealing description of how people's lives changed for the better as the state began reorganizing society. With lively and accessible storytelling, Amy Cooper chronicles the pleasure people experienced accessing government health care and improving their quality of life. From personalized doctor's visits to therapeutic dance classes, new health care programs provided more than medical services.State of Healthoffers a unique perspective on the significance of the Bolivarian Revolution for ordinary people, demonstrating how the transformed health system succeeded in exciting people and recognizing historically marginalized Venezuelans as bodies who mattered.Trade Review"Given the current polarized situation in Venezuela, medical anthropologist Amy Cooper provides important and compelling insights into how ordinary people experienced policy changes during Hugo Chávez's progressive government . . . In listening to people's stories, Cooper gained innovative insights into how government programs can provide a mechanism for social inclusion and empowerment, including how those institutions transform people's sense of themselves." * CHOICE *“State of Health is a compelling ethnography on the interconnections among health care systems, pleasure, and radical politics during Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution. . . . Using a well-developed conceptualization of pleasure that encompasses biophysical health, sensual and social pleasure, and sociopolitical empowerment, State of Health offers critical insights into how poor and working-class Venezuelans experienced the Chávez years. . . . State of Health will appeal to a broad readership interested in Latin America, health care, radical politics, and the anthropology of affect and would be an excellent choice for undergraduate and graduate courses.” * American Ethnologist *“State of Health is an accessible, eminently teachable book set in Venezuela at the height of the Bolivarian revolution. . . . In contrast to many Latin American medical ethnographies that document the distrust and suffering wrought by state-sponsored medicine, Cooper proposes that 'joy, excitement, and satisfaction were central to people’s experiences of Barrio Adentro.' The idea that medical care can be pleasurable is powerful in its simplicity.” * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *“State of Health is an engaging and insightful ethnography of health care provision in Venezuela under Chávez. By centering the role of pleasure, it invites us to rethink our frameworks for analyzing medical care. The book is written in a clear and accessible style, and, as such, it can be read at a variety of levels. . . . This book should be required reading for anyone hoping to learn more about social medicine in Latin America.” * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 • Introduction 2 • Moving Medicine Inside the Barrio 3 • Clinical Intimacies as Macropolitics 4 • Beyond Biomedicine 5 • Pleasures of Participation 6 • The Limits of Citizenship Conclusion Notes References Index
£64.00
University of California Press State of Health
Book SynopsisState of Health takes readers inside one of the most controversial regimes of the twenty-first centuryVenezuela under Hugo Chávezfor a revealing description of how people's lives changed for the better as the state began reorganizing society. With lively and accessible storytelling, Amy Cooper chronicles the pleasure people experienced accessing government health care and improving their quality of life. From personalized doctor's visits to therapeutic dance classes, new health care programs provided more than medical services.State of Healthoffers a unique perspective on the significance of the Bolivarian Revolution for ordinary people, demonstrating how the transformed health system succeeded in exciting people and recognizing historically marginalized Venezuelans as bodies who mattered.Trade Review"Given the current polarized situation in Venezuela, medical anthropologist Amy Cooper provides important and compelling insights into how ordinary people experienced policy changes during Hugo Chávez's progressive government . . . In listening to people's stories, Cooper gained innovative insights into how government programs can provide a mechanism for social inclusion and empowerment, including how those institutions transform people's sense of themselves." * CHOICE *“State of Health is a compelling ethnography on the interconnections among health care systems, pleasure, and radical politics during Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution. . . . Using a well-developed conceptualization of pleasure that encompasses biophysical health, sensual and social pleasure, and sociopolitical empowerment, State of Health offers critical insights into how poor and working-class Venezuelans experienced the Chávez years. . . . State of Health will appeal to a broad readership interested in Latin America, health care, radical politics, and the anthropology of affect and would be an excellent choice for undergraduate and graduate courses.” * American Ethnologist *“State of Health is an accessible, eminently teachable book set in Venezuela at the height of the Bolivarian revolution. . . . In contrast to many Latin American medical ethnographies that document the distrust and suffering wrought by state-sponsored medicine, Cooper proposes that 'joy, excitement, and satisfaction were central to people’s experiences of Barrio Adentro.' The idea that medical care can be pleasurable is powerful in its simplicity.” * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *“State of Health is an engaging and insightful ethnography of health care provision in Venezuela under Chávez. By centering the role of pleasure, it invites us to rethink our frameworks for analyzing medical care. The book is written in a clear and accessible style, and, as such, it can be read at a variety of levels. . . . This book should be required reading for anyone hoping to learn more about social medicine in Latin America.” * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 • Introduction 2 • Moving Medicine Inside the Barrio 3 • Clinical Intimacies as Macropolitics 4 • Beyond Biomedicine 5 • Pleasures of Participation 6 • The Limits of Citizenship Conclusion Notes References Index
£22.50
University of California Press Whiteout
Book SynopsisThe first critical analysis of how Whiteness drove the opioid crisis. In the past two decades, media images of the surprisingly white new face of the US opioid crisis abounded. But why was the crisis so white? Some argued that skyrocketing overdoses were deaths of despair signaling deeper socioeconomic anguish in white communities. Whiteout makes the counterintuitive case that the opioid crisis was the product of white racial privilege as well as despair. Anchored by interviews, data, and riveting firsthand narratives from three leading expertsan addiction psychiatrist, a policy advocate, and a drug historianWhiteout reveals how a century of structural racism in drug policy, and in profit-oriented medical industries led to mass white overdose deaths. The authors implicate racially segregated health care systems, the racial assumptions of addiction scientists, and relaxed regulation of pharmaceutical marketing to white consumers. Whiteout is an unflinching account of how racial capitalism is toxic for all Americans.Trade Review"Psychiatrist and anthropologist Hansen, policy advocate and sociologist Netherland, and historian Herzberg richly scrutinise drug use and race along multiple axes that include medicine, public policy, and history to emerge with a powerful portrait of precisely how the social construct of race and systemic racism have both created and blinded us to the unequal treatment of Black and white drug users. Through anthropology, personal histories, and nuanced data analysis this troika engages in textured, deeply researched, scholarship." * Lancet *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Time Line PART ONE. TECHNOLOGIES OF WHITENESS IN THE CLINIC, THE STATEHOUSE, AND THE ARCHIVE 1. Pharmakon of Racial Poisons and Cures (as told by Helena Hansen, psychiatrist-anthropologist) 2. How to See Whiteness (as told by all three authors) 3. Good Samaritans in the War on Drugs That Wasn’t (as told by Jules Netherland, policy analyst) 4. “Mother’s Little Helpers”: White Narcotics in the Medicine Cabinet (as told by David Herzberg, historian) PART TWO. THREE OPIODS: RACIAL BIOGRAPHIES 5. OxyContin’s Racial Precision 6. Buprenorphine’s Silent White Revolution 7. The Housewife’s Return to Heroin (and Forays into Fentanyl) 8. From Racial Capitalism to Biosocial Justice Glossary Notes Bibliography Index
£22.50
University of California Press Stuck Moving
Book SynopsisThis one-of-a-kind literary and conceptual experiment does anthropology differentlyin all the wrong ways. No field trips. No other cultures. This is a personal journey within anthropology itself, and a kind of love story. A critical, candid, hilarious take on the culture of academia and, ultimately, contemporary society. Stuck Moving follows a professor affected by bipolar disorder, drug addiction, and a stalled career who searches for meaning and purpose within a sanctimonious discipline and a society in shambles. It takes aim at the ableist conceit that anthropologists are outside observers studying a messy world. The lens of analysis is reversed to expose the backstage of academic work and life, and the unbecoming self behind scholarship. Blending cultural studies, psychoanalysis, comedy, screenwriting, music lyrics, and poetry, Stuck Moving abandons anthropology's rigid genre conventions, suffocating solemnity, and enduring colonial model of extractive knowledge production. By satiTrade Review"Peter Benson takes his readers on a wild ride into the depths of his emotional turmoil and to the limits of his profession, propelled by writing that is genre-busting and beautiful." * American Anthropologist *Table of ContentsContents List of Figures Acknowledgments Author’s Note 1. Sixteen Candles 2. Lost in Translation 3. And Everything Is Going Fine 4. Murmur of the Heart 5. Do the Right Thing 6. Rushmore 7. Toy Story 8. Shame 9. Life Is Sweet 10. The Graduate 11. My Own Private Idaho 12. Boyhood 13. Broken Flowers 14. Stagecoach 15. The Red Balloon 16. Planet of the Apes Credits Bibliography Index
£63.90
University of California Press Stuck Moving
Book SynopsisThis one-of-a-kind literary and conceptual experiment does anthropology differentlyin all the wrong ways. No field trips. No other cultures. This is a personal journey within anthropology itself, and a kind of love story. A critical, candid, hilarious take on the culture of academia and, ultimately, contemporary society. Stuck Moving follows a professor affected by bipolar disorder, drug addiction, and a stalled career who searches for meaning and purpose within a sanctimonious discipline and a society in shambles. It takes aim at the ableist conceit that anthropologists are outside observers studying a messy world. The lens of analysis is reversed to expose the backstage of academic work and life, and the unbecoming self behind scholarship. Blending cultural studies, psychoanalysis, comedy, screenwriting, music lyrics, and poetry, Stuck Moving abandons anthropology's rigid genre conventions, suffocating solemnity, and enduring colonial model of extractive knowledge production. By satiTrade Review"Peter Benson takes his readers on a wild ride into the depths of his emotional turmoil and to the limits of his profession, propelled by writing that is genre-busting and beautiful." * American Anthropologist *Table of ContentsContents List of Figures Acknowledgments Author’s Note 1. Sixteen Candles 2. Lost in Translation 3. And Everything Is Going Fine 4. Murmur of the Heart 5. Do the Right Thing 6. Rushmore 7. Toy Story 8. Shame 9. Life Is Sweet 10. The Graduate 11. My Own Private Idaho 12. Boyhood 13. Broken Flowers 14. Stagecoach 15. The Red Balloon 16. Planet of the Apes Credits Bibliography Index
£22.50
University of California Press Weed Rules
Book SynopsisWith full legalization seeming inevitable, it's time to shift the conversationfrom whether recreational cannabis should be legalized to how. Weed Rules argues that it's time for states to abandon their grudging tolerance approach to legal weed and to embrace careful exuberance. In this thorough and witty book, law professor Jay Wexler invites policy makers to responsibly embrace the enormous benefits of cannabis, including the joy and euphoria it brings to those who use it. The grudging tolerance approach has led to restrictions that are too strict in some caseslimiting how and where cannabis can be used, cultivated, marketed, and soldand far too loose in others, allowing employers and police to discriminate against users. This book shows how focusing on joy and community can lead us to an equitable marijuana policy in which minority communities, most harmed by the war on drugs, play a leading role in the industry. Centering pleasure and fun as legitimate policy goals, Weed Rule
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Eating Disorders
Book SynopsisIn an extensively revised new edition of the successful Anorexia and Bulimia, Richard Gordon includes new information and discussion of the latest ideas in this rapidly growing research field. The past two decades have witnessed an enormous increase in the number of cases of eating disorders in industrial societies.Trade Review"He (Gordon) has successfully produced a very useful volume, which can be recommended as a primer which is readable, informative and well referenced...interesting and persuasive...coverage of the field is broad and most approaches are represented. A good read." Paul Robinson, European Eating Disorders Review, 2000, Vol 9, No 1.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements. Preface. 1. Culture and Psychopathology: The Notion of an Ethnic Disorder. 2. Eating Disorders: Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa. 3. Dimensions of an Epidemic: The Epidemiology of Eating Disorders. 4. A Conflicted Female Identity. 5. The Thin Body Ideal. 6. The War Against Fat: Obesity, Dieting, and Exercise. 7. The Templates of a Disease. 8. The Cultural Politics of Eating Disorders. Index.
£35.10
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Rethinking the Sociology of Mental Health
Book SynopsisRethinking the Sociology of Mental Health is a collection of original papers introducing new ways of thinking sociologically about the terrain of mental health. There are more general papers about mental health and mental health policy and papers about specific types of mental illness and particular policy issues such as dangerousness.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Rethinking the sociology of mental health: Joan Busfield. 2. Reason, emotion and embodiment: is 'mental' health a contradiction in terms?: Simon J. Williams. 3. Disability, impairment or illness? The relevance of the social model of disability to the study of mental disorder: Julie Mulvany. 4. 'It's a small world': mental health policy under welfare capitalism since 1945: Mick Carpenter. 5. Psychiatric diagnosis under conditions of uncertainty: personality disorder, science and professional legitimacy: Nick Manning. 6. A phenomenology of fear: Merleau-Ponty and agoraphobic life-worlds: Joyce Davidson. 7. Identifying delusional discourse: issues of rationality, reality and power: Derrol Palmer. 8. Civil commitment due to mental illness and dangerousness: the union of law and psychiatry within a treatment-control system: Bernadette Dallaire, Michael McCubbin, Paul Morin and David Cohen. 9. Rethinking professional prerogative: managed mental healthcare providers: Teresa L. Scheid.
£18.99
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Medical Work Medical Knowledge and Health Care
Book SynopsisIntroduces students of sociology and health care to the fields of medical knowledge and medical work. This book chronicles research in the field of medical knowledge, medical work and health care over the years. It summarises changes in how health care was delivered and how medical knowledge and practice were conceptualised in this period.Table of ContentsThe book is a collection of articles already published in the journal Sociology of Health & Illness, organised into 4 sections:. 1. Medical Knowledge, Diagnosis and Treatment. 2. Medical Power and the Patient. 3. The Division of Labour in Health Care Work. 4. Patient-Provider Interaction. These sections are prefaced by a substantial introductory chapter written by the editors entitled: 'Medical Work, Medical Knowledge and Health Care: Themes and Issues.'. Each section is preceded by an introductory discussion.
£22.79
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Relapse Prevention for Addictive Behaviours
Book SynopsisRelapse prevention applies cognitive-behavioural strategies and lifestyle procedures to treat people with addiction problems. Other available literature on relapse prevention tends to be theoretical in nature; this book fulfils the need for a practical manual showing how therapists should carry out this form of treatment. It is based on the actual experience of the authors in using relapse prevention methods and provides working details on the different topics to be covered in each group or individual session. ''Homework'' assignments are also provided and a chapter is devoted to ''trouble shooting'' - how to deal with the potential problems encountered in this type of therapy.Table of ContentsIntroductory overview;. Getting started;. Anxiety;. High-risk situations;. Thinking errors;. Psychological traps;. Assertion;. Decision making and problem solving;. Lifestyle balance;. Depression;. Putting it all together;. Troubleshooting
£41.75
Wiley Substance Use and Misuse
Book SynopsisSubstance Use and Misuse is a comprehensive and practical text that covers the core elements of substance use and misuse in both acute and community settings. The text reflects those areas in which health-care professionals are assuming greater responsibility for those people misusing psychoactive substances. It adopts a skills-orientated approach, providing a framework of good clinical practice and is written by a group of clinicians and academics. This book is an invaluable tool for undergraduate and postgraduate students, educators and clinical practitioners in all branches of nursing, midwifery and health visiting. It is also relevant to others in the healing professions as well as generic and specialist health-care professionals. * emphasis placed on prevention * an up-to-date, practical and comprehensive text for students and practitioners in health care * adopts a skills-orientated approach, supported by the latest research and case vignettes * writteTrade Review"This book will undoubtedly be useful to non-specialist nurses and all those new to the field of substance misuse It is in addition a useful reference guide to specialist nurses." Association of Nurses in Substance Abuse "This book is a well balanced, easy to read book and will be of interest to all Health Care Professionals, but may be especially informative to student nurses in helping them gain insight into the complex nature of substance misuse" Druglink “This book is an especially useful primer and resource for all nursing and healthcare specialties, but is an essential text for psychiatric nursing students and practitioners. Few books are available on this topic and none have represented the entire clinical issue as well.” Doody’s Rating 4-starTable of ContentsSection I - Understanding Substance Use and Misuse. Chapter 1. Introduction. Chapter 2. Concepts and Models. Chapter 3. Tobacco Smoking. Chapter 4. An Overview of Psychoactive Drugs. Chapter 5. Alcohol and Alcohol Related Problems. Chapter 6. It's Everybody's Business: the Responses of Health Care Professionals. Section II - Prevention, Recognition and Intervention. Chapter 7. Prevention and Health Education. Chapter 8. Screening and Generic Assessment. Chapter 9. An Overview of Intervention Strategies. Chapter 10. Service Provision for Substance Misusers. Section III - Generic Responses: Different Contexts and Settings. Chapter 11. Drug Use, Pregnancy and Care of the New-born. Chapter 12. Health Visiting and Substance Misuse. Chapter 13. Practice Nurse: Recognition and Early Interventions. Chapter 14. School Nursing and Substance Misuse. Chapter 15. Substance Misuse in the Accident and Emergency Department. Chapter 16. HIV, Hepatitis and Substance Misuse. Section IV - Addiction nursing: Specialist Responses. Chapter 17. Alcohol: Community Detoxification and Clinical Care. Chapter 18. Benzodiazepines: Clinical Care and Nursing Intervention. Chapter 19. Stimulants: Clinical Care and Nursing Interventions. Chapter 20. Opiate and Polydrug Use: Clinical Care and Nursing Intervention. Chapter 21. Nicotine Addiction: Health Care Interventions. Chapter 22. Working with Diverse Special Populations. Chapter 23. Working with Dual Diagnosis Clients. Chapter 24. Contemporary Issues in Addiction Nursing
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Harvard University Press Sensing the Self
Book SynopsisWhile many books describe the emotional and physical damage of eating disorders, this book describes recovery. Psychologist Sheila Reindl has listened intently to women's accounts of recovering and argues that people with bulimia nervosa need to develop a sense of self--to attune to their physical, psychic, and social self-experience.Trade ReviewSensing the Self is an eloquent and important book, potentially a turning point in the study of eating disorders. Its most original insight is highlighted in the title: the importance of coming to experience a sense of self, with the stress on sense rather than self. No other book so successfully combines psychodynamic understanding and a practical, systematic "how-to" approach. Reindl describes the impairments in sensing self-experience that lead to bulimia, the six essential elements that enable individuals to sense when enough is enough, the aspects of oneself that need to be sensed, including the "beast," and how one learns to sense self-experience. Her understanding of the way elements of bulimia can persist throughout life, and yet not ruin life, is simultaneously realistic and hopeful. Sensing the Self will appeal to therapists and patients alike, and for that matter, to all women who have struggled with eating and deep self-doubts about their bodies. -- Susan Sands, Ph.D., University of California, BerkeleySensing the Self is unique in that it goes beyond what any other study has attempted in terms of the depth of the interviews conducted and the thorough and compelling nature of Reindl's analysis. Reindl brings us back to our clinical senses in recognizing recovery as much more complicated than just the elimination of symptoms. This is a book which reasserts the importance of attending to and deeply understanding the self-experience of women struggling with bulimia nervosa, if we are truly to develop effective and enduring treatments, and ultimately, prevention strategies. -- Laura Weisberg, Ph.D., Harvard Medical SchoolShame is the villain and persistence the heroine in this analysis of 13 women who recovered from bulimia...Bolstering the stories of her subjects with other research and writings as well as her own clinical experience, the author detects a pattern that resembles, but does not mimic, the patterns of other addictions. What she found was a sense of shame, of being 'inadequate and bad'...[Sensing the Self] is sensitive, informative, and likely to be helpful to both client and therapist. * Kirkus Reviews *Completed by an appendix on research on recovery and a thorough list of references, Reindl's book will sit well in collections strong on women's issues as well as eating disorders per se. -- Whitney Scott * Booklist *Using clinical interviews conducted with women recovering from bulimia nervosa...Sheila Reindl has constructed a thought-provoking study that manages to be both scholarly and highly readable...In her clear analysis of the factors that contribute to the development of, and recovery from, bulimia, Reindl offers insights that will be appreciated by anyone who has experienced the ravages of an eating disorder either firsthand or through the suffering of a loved one...Distinguished by the respect and attention that Reindl pays to the voices of her subjects Sensing the Self ultimately succeeds in providing both clinicians and laypersons with an unusually patient-centered picture of the journey out of bulimia. -- Rebecca Sherman * Radcliffe Quarterly *In a field that is overflowing with theories and therapies, this book offers a useful set of tools and insights about bulimia. Reindl interviewed and studied 13 women who met the clinical criteria for bulimia nervosa. She found that these women had difficulty sensing self-experience. In order to improve and recover from their debilitating and destructive behaviors, they needed to engage in a process of self-discovery that involves nine key components. In addition to certain standard approaches, such as learning to listen to one's body, the author includes factors unique to working with this population...[Sensing the Self] provides a very good examination of the complex components and issues involved in this life-threatening illness. -- R. Kabatznick * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Coming to Their Senses 2. Sensing When Enough Is Enough 3. Physical, Psychic, and Social Self-Experience 4. Beauty and the Beast 5. Learning to Sense Self-Experience 6. Sensing Self through Relationship 7. Sustaining Recovery 8. Implications Appendix: Research on Recovery References Acknowledgments Index
£29.66
Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies A Line Drawn in the Sand
Book SynopsisKanki captures the determination of some African nations—including Botswana, Nigeria, Senegal, and Tanzania—to provide lifesaving antiretroviral therapies to their citizens. By emphasizing the dramatic results investments in AIDS treatments in Africa can bring, the book provides lessons to nations about scaling up their own treatment responses.
£23.36
Harvard University Press The Natural History of Alcoholism Revisited
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£31.46
Princeton University Press The Enculturated Gene
Book SynopsisIn the 1980s, a research team led by Parisian scientists identified several unique DNA sequences, or haplotypes, linked to sickle cell anemia in African populations. This title traces how this genetic discourse has blotted from view the roles that Senegalese patients and doctors have played in making sickle cell 'mild' in a social setting.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2014 Robert B. Textor and Family Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology, American Anthropological Association Winner of the 2011 Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthropology, Royal Anthropological Institute "Duana Fullwiley has produced an extraordinary work that incorporates the insights of anthropology as well as science and technology studies of genetics and race. It is also exceptional in its multi-sited focus on Senegal and France, since many similar studies of genetics have tended to focus on the US and Europe."--Elisha P. Renne, Anthropological Quarterly "The Enculturated Gene is the product of over ten years of research beginning in the late 1990s. The book is stunning in its scope and attention to a full range of issues, from discoveries in the lab to knowledge production in the clinic to global health responses... By elucidating ethnographically the contingencies that have produced the local and global health responses to sickle cell disease, Fullwiley shows us that health policy is as much a product of culture and subjectivity as affective responses to physical and existential pain."--Carolyn Rouse, Medical Anthropology QuarterlyTable of ContentsList of Illustrations viii Preface ix Acknowledgments xxv Chapter One: Introduction: The Powers of Association 1 Chapter Two: Healthy Sicklers with "Mild" Disease: Local Illness Aff ects and Population- Level Eff ects 45 Chapter Three: The Biosocial Politics of Plants and People 77 Chapter Four: Attitudes of Care 119 Chapter Five: Localized Biologies: Mapping Race and Sickle Cell Difference in French West Africa 158 Chapter Six: Ordering Illness: Heterozygous "Trait" Suff ering in the Land of the Mild Disease 197 Chapter Seven: The Work of Patient Advocacy 221 Conclusion: Economic and Health Futures amid Hope and Despair 250 Notes 275 References 307 Index 329
£37.80
Princeton University Press Boundaries of Contagion
Book SynopsisExplores the political challenges of responding to a stigmatized condition, and identifies ethnic boundaries - the formal and informal institutions that divide societies - as a central influence on politics and policymaking.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2010 Giovanni Sartori Book Award, Qualitative Methods Section of the American Political Science Association One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2010 "Lieberman's methodologically eclectic study constitutes the most thorough cross-national examination of the politics of AIDS to date. It should be essential reading for people interested in the politics of AIDS, public health, and public policy making more generally."--Choice "Lieberman's book has the great merit of casting peremptory conclusions about HIV/AIDS implementation in national contexts, and, as such, it constitutes a landmark in the political analysis of epidemic response. Though being a scholarly book, it appeals to wider audience interested in major international social and development policy ... since it proposes thoroughly argued explanations for specific policy behaviors."--Ricardo Pereira, CEU Political Science JournalTable of ContentsIllustrations ix Abbreviations xi Preface xiii Chapter One: Introduction 1 The Puzzle Of Explaining Government Policy 5 AIDS as a Laboratory for Comparison: Politics in Really Hard Times 10 Outline of the Book 18 Chapter Two: A Theory of Boundary Politics and Alternative Explanations 25 Ethnic Boundaries 28 The Effect of Boundaries on Policymaking 35 Implications for AIDS Policy 42 Additional and Alternative Explanations 50 Conclusion 59 Chapter Three: Globalization and Global Governance of AIDS: The Geneva Consensus 61 The Rise of Asymmetric Global Health Governance 65 The Emergence of the Global Response to AIDS 72 The Content of the Geneva Consensus 86 The Limits of Consensus 106 Conclusion 107 Chapter Four: Partial and Alternative Explanations of Policy Divergence 125 The Effect of Boundary Institutions 142 Conclusion 171 Chapter Five: A Model-Testing Case Study of Strong Ethnic Boundaries and AIDS Policy in India 173 India's AIDS Epidemic 177 The Government's Response: Weak and Delayed 181 Explanation: The Role of Boundary Politics 193 Explaining Policy Variation across Indian States 220 Conclusions and Alternative Explanations 234 Chapter Six: Ethnic Boundaries and AIDS Policies around the World 239 The Data 240 Analysis and Discussion: Estimates of the Effect of Boundaries on AIDS Policy 261 Conclusion 288 Chapter Seven: Conclusion: Ethnic Boundaries or Cosmopolitanism? 292 Implications 295 Future Research 303 References 307 Index 331
£31.50
Princeton University Press Depression in Japan
Book SynopsisSince the 1990s, suicide in recession-plagued Japan has soared, and rates of depression have both increased and received greater public attention. This title explores how depression has become a national disease and entered the Japanese lexicon, and how psychiatry has overcome the longstanding resistance to its intrusion in Japanese life.Trade ReviewCo-Winner of the 2013 Frances Hsu Prize, Society for East Asian Anthropology "Medical anthropology, with its propensity to theoretise and problemise issues and refer endlessly to other work and concepts with which the reader will not be familiar, is for many outsiders almost as impenetrable as Japanese psychiatry. Putting the two together should be a recipe for disaster, but in Junko Kitanaka's hands, this book is instead a triumph, perhaps even a classic."--David Healy, Times Higher Education "Depression in Japan sets a high methodological and analytic standard for pursuing answers to vital questions."--Kalman Applbaum, Anthropological Quarterly "[C]ompelling and challenging work... [T]his is a thought-provoking book that should be of interest to historians, anthropologists, and clinicians."--Susan L. Burns, Journal of Japanese StudiesTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Chapter One: Introduction: Local Forces of Medicalization 1 Part One: Depression in History 19 Chapter Two: Reading Emotions in the Body: The Premodern Language of Depression 23 Chapter Three: The Expansion of Psychiatry into Everyday Life 40 Chapter Four: Pathology of Overwork or Personality Weakness?: The Rise of Neurasthenia in Early-Twentieth-Century Japan 54 Chapter Five: Socializing the "Biological" in Depression: Japanese Psychiatric Debates about Typus Melancholicus 67 Part Two: Depression in Clinical Practice 83 Chapter Six: Containing Reflexivity: The Interdiction against Psychotherapy for Depression 89 Chapter Seven: Diagnosing Suicides of Resolve 107 Chapter Eight: The Gendering of Depression and the Selective Recognition of Pain 129 Part Three: Depression in Society 151 Chapter Nine: Advancing a Social Cause through Psychiatry: The Case of Overwork Suicide 155 Chapter Ten: The Emergent Psychiatric Science of Work: Rethinking the Biological and the Social 174 Chapter Eleven: The Future of Depression: Beyond Psychopharmaceuticals 193 References 201 Index 231
£28.80
Princeton University Press Selling Our Souls
Book SynopsisHealth care costs make up nearly a fifth of US gross domestic product, but health care is a peculiar thing to buy and sell. This book looks at the contradictions inherent in one particular health care market - hospital care.Trade ReviewOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015 "This book is an important resource for academic audiences and professionals in the health disciplines as well as those in the social sciences."--Choice "Kudos to Adam Reich for this well-researched book! Students of medical sociology, as well as health management and policy, will find Selling Our Souls useful."--Okori Uneke, Ph.D., International Social Science Review "Reich has written an excellent book."--Hengameh Hosseini, Political Science QuarterlyTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 PART ONE PubliCare Rebuffs the Market 19 Chapter 1 Health Care for All 26 Chapter 2 Privileged Servants 48 Chapter 3 Feels Like Home 59 PART TWO HolyCare Moralizes the Market 71 Chapter 4 Sacred Encounters 78 Chapter 5 Good Business 95 Chapter 6 The Martyred Heart 109 PART THREE GroupCare Tames the Market 123 Chapter 7 Flourishing 127 Chapter 8 Disciplined Doctors 147 Chapter 9 PARTnership 171 Conclusion 189 Acknowledgments 199 A Note on Methods 201 Notes 205 Bibliography 213 Index 221
£36.00
Princeton University Press Biomedical Odysseys
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the 2018 Francis L.K. Hsu Book Prize, Society for East Asian Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association"Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi 1 Introduction 1 I Online Mediations 21 Interlude: Planet Paralyzed 23 2 Mobilizing the Paralyzed Online 25 3 Cyberanatomies of Hope 49 4 Where the Virtual Becomes Visceral 73 II Chinese Experiments 99 Interlude: Ode to Olfactory Ensheathing Cells 101 5 Medical Entrepreneurs 105 6 Borderline Tactics 132 III Heterogeneous Evidence 155 Interlude: Clinical Outcomes 157 7 Seeking Truth from Facts 158 8 i-Witnessing 181 Epilogue: On the Cutting Edge 197 Glossary of Chinese Terms 207 Notes 211 Bibliography 241 Index 287
£25.20
