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Plaza y Valdes, S.L. La Mirada del Suicida El Enigma Y El Estigma
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Argonowta Digital Essential guide to the Psychedelic Renaissance:
Book SynopsisLearn all the basics of psychedelics and why all this research is great news for public health in this century.After a very long and strange journey, psychedelics may finally be back for good. Rick Doblin, PhD, Founder & Executive Director, MAPS. In the guide you will learn all the essentials about the history, neuroscience, legality, therapeutic applications and harm reduction of the most promising psychedelic drugs for science. After decades of international prohibition these molecules are returning to laboratories and clinics, hand in hand with the most rigorous science, to revolutionize the way we understand and treat mental health (depression, anxiety, PTSD and addictions). Discover the world of psilocybin, MDMA, DMT, ketamine and LSD, before society immerses in this revolution, which will forever change the perception we have of psychedelics. This guide will be of interest to both therapists and other mental health professionals interested in the clinical applications, parents and educators seeking to understand the impact and safety of psychedelics and other drugs, as well as any adult curious to learn about and explore this new world of the psychedelic renaissance.
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Argonowta Digital Psychedelics and mental health: Therapeutic
Book SynopsisIrene de Caso explains in an understandable and entertaining way the current neuroscientific advances related to psychedelic drugs, as well as their clinical and experiential applications. José Carlos Bouso, PhD, Scientific Director, ICEERS. Learn about the therapeutic uses of classical psychedelics and empathogens as revolutionary tools for neuroplasticity and mental health. Discover how they promote profoundly revealing mental states capable of restructuring our internal models of the world, reconsolidate traumatic memories and improve our social relationships. How do they affect the brain? What characteristics make these substances powerful catalysts for the psychotherapeutic process? Learn how they can help to improve severe symptoms: addictions, treatment-resistant depression, anxiety or post-traumatic stress. This illustrated guide describes the most important clinical studies and will be of great interest to all medical and mental health professionals seeking to understand the cutting edge clinical applications of these molecules, as well as to individuals interested in learning about the potential of psychedelic-assisted therapies.
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Argonowta Digital Your brain on psychedelics: How do psychedelics
Book SynopsisTo understand the pharmacology ofpsychedelics is to understand the essence of what makes us human. Genís Oña makes an informative, entertaining and understandable approach to the science of psychedelics. José Carlos Bouso, PhD, Scientific Director, ICEERS. Delve into the cutting edge of scientific research on the impact of psilocybin, MDMA, DMT, mescaline and LSD on the brain. With this guide you will learn the keys to the effects of psychedelics, capable of producing significant changes in the processes of perception, thought and consciousness. An illustrated guide to understanding the science behind new psychedelic-assisted therapies for treating mental health issues. This essential guide will be of interest to all psychonauts eager to immerse themselves in the pharmacology of the most popular psychedelic molecules, to all medical and mental health professionals, and to all people interested in learning the essentials of the neuroscience of psychedelic molecules and how they affect our brains.
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SEÑALADO POR LA MUERTE
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Bohn,Scheltema & Holkema,The Netherlands Interculturele Belastbaarheidsbepaling: Een Zoetwatervis Is Geen Zoutwatervis
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United Nations World AIDS Day Report 2023: Let Communities Lead
Book SynopsisThis report shows how community-led interventions are central to achieving the end of AIDS and to sustaining the gains into the future. People living with or affected by HIV have driven progress in the HIV response--reaching people who have not been reached; connecting people with the services they need; pioneering innovations; holding providers, governments, international organizations and donors to account; and spearheading inspirational movements for health, dignity and human rights for all. They are the trusted voices. Communities understand what is most needed, what works, and what needs to change. Communities have not waited to be handed their leadership roles -- they have taken the roles on themselves and held fast in their insistence on doing so. They have applied their skills and determination to help tackle other pandemics and health crises too, including COVID-19, Ebola and mpox. Letting communities lead builds healthier and stronger societies. This report shines a light on the underreported story of the everyday heroes of the HIV response. But it is much more than a celebration of the achievements of communities. It is an urgent call to action for governments and international partners to enable and support communities in their leadership roles.
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United Nations World AIDS day report 2021: unequal, unprepared,
Book SynopsisEvery year on the occasion of World AIDS Day, 1 December, the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) releases a report on pressing issues facing the global response to the AIDS pandemic. As the AIDS and COVID-19 pandemics collide, the 2021 World AIDS Day report warns that the colossal new challenges created by COVID-19 threaten the gains made against AIDS thus far. There have been substantial setbacks, particularly during the first six months of the crisis. People living with HIV are also at elevated risk of COVID-19-related morbidity and mortality. In many places, the upheaval caused by COVID-19 has summoned the inventiveness and resilience that have become hallmarks of the HIV response. HIV programmes that are well-resourced, willing to adapt, and anchored in strong community involvement have tended to cope the best. The Global AIDS Strategy 2021-2026 and the UN General Assembly's 2021 Political Declaration on Ending AIDS call on countries to address inequalities and close gaps. With no time to spare, those agreed actions are not being made at the required speed and scale. What is at stake is bigger than AIDS. During negotiations on a global framework for pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response, the hard-won successes and bitter failures from the response to AIDS have experiences to share. Those lessons must be quickly learned and applied to end AIDS within the next decade, to swiftly defeat COVID-19, and to proactively confront the pandemics of tomorrow
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United Nations Guide to Implementing Family Skills Training
Book SynopsisSometimes parents struggle with substance abuse problems, which affects their parenting skills. This guide has been complied on the basis of the review of family skills training programmes, a meeting and a literature review and focuses on providing basic information and guidance to those policymakers and programme managers interested in launching a family skills training programme at the universal or selective level. It includes an overview of the importance of family environment, basic principles for launching an effective family skills programme, challenges to implement them as well as ways to improve the recruitment and retention rates of parents.
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United Nations World drug report 2018
Book SynopsisThe 2018 World Drug Report will include an updated overview of recent trends on production, trafficking and consumption of key illicit drugs as well as highlighting a thematic area of concern. The Report contains a global overview of the baseline data and estimates on drug demand and supply and it provides the reference point of information on the drug situation worldwide. The thematic focus of the 2018 Report will present information and issues related to drugs and women, youth and older people.
£149.00
United Nations Competent National Authorities under the
Book SynopsisThis directory lists competent national authorities empowered to issue certificates and authorization for the import and export of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances; and competent national authorities empowered to regulate or enforce national controls over precursors and essential chemicals; International bodies that might assist national competent authorities in case no authority is listed for a given country or region, or in case contact cannot be established with the listed authorities. The directory also includes contact details of national competent authorities or international bodies and is issued annually. Introductory texts in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.
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World Health Organization The health and social effects of non-medical
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World Health Organization International Classification of Functioning,
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World Health Organization How to Integrate Water Sanitation and Hygiene
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World Health Organization Alcohol, Gender and Drinking Problems:
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World Health Organization Subsanar Las Desigualdades En Una Generación:
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IARC Effectiveness of Tax and Price Policies for
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WHO Regional Office for South East Asia Operational guidelines for the management of
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WHO Regional Office for South East Asia HIV/AIDS Among Men Who Have Sex with Men and
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WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific Tobacco-Free Initiative: Regional Action Plan:
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WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific Integrating Poverty and Gender into Health
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WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific HIV and sexually transmitted infections in the
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WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific Joint review of the Cambodian national health
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Manohar Publishers and Distributors Ill Health Among Tribal Communities in India
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Safari Books Ltd The War Against Counterfeit Medicne. My Story
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Book Builders Editions Africa Science Interrogating Belief. Bridging the Old and New Traditions of Medicine in Africa
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Health Studies: An Introduction
Book SynopsisThis new edition of Health Studies provides an authoritative and contemporary introduction to the study of health. With chapters including epidemiology, psychology, human and environmental geography, and anthropology, it is the only book to explore in one volume all of the core disciplines that contribute to understanding health. It illustrates how the complexity of health problems such as obesity should be viewed with an interdisciplinary perspective. Each chapter explains the disciplinary approach and then its theoretical and research approaches with examples. A highlight of this 4th edition is a new chapter on sports and exercise science providing another scientific chapter on physiology which is applied and will be of interest to all those thinking of employment in sports or leisure industry.The book is accessible and learner-centered and each chapter features: a connections feature that links the chapters together; learning tasks; questions for reflection and debate; examples to illustrate concepts, methodologies and to explore contemporary issues; a case study on obesity, food and diet.Comprehensive, accessible and written by leading experts in the different fields, this is the introductory text for all students of health studies.Table of Contents1. Why Study Health?2. Human Biology and Health3. Epidemiology and Health4. Sport and Exercise Science and Health5. Geography and Health6. Health Psychology7. Sociology and Health8. Social Policy and Health9. Health Economics10. Politics and Health11. Organization and Management of Health and Healthcare12. History and Health13. Cultural Studies and Social Anthropology14. Ethics and Law
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Communication and Health: Media, Marketing and
Book SynopsisThis book explores the unique contribution that critical communication studies can bring to our understanding of health. It covers several broad themes: representing and mediating health; marketing and promoting health, co-producing health; and managing health crises and risks. Chapters speak to moral and social regulation through health communication, technologies of health, healthism and governmentality. They engage with historical and contemporary issues, offering readers theoretically grounded perspectives. At base, the book explores what a critical communication approach to health might look like, revealing in important—and sometimes surprising—ways how communication sits at the centre of understanding how health is constructed, contested, and made meaningful.Trade Review“Communication and Health: Media, Marketing and Risk is a compilation of much-needed critical insights on the important intersection between communication and health. … this book will be a seminal reference not only for scholars of communication studies, but also for those working in public health, medical humanities, business and management, and other allied disciplines.” (Antony Hoyte-West, Komunikacija i kultura online, Vol. 14 (14), 2023)Table of ContentsCommunication and Health: An Introduction.- Part I: Representing Health.- Beyond Representation: Media Frames and Communicating Health.- No Way to Live: Fat Bodies on Reality Television.- “Who Wants to Live Forever? You Want to Live Well”: The Appeal to Health in Coverage of Anti-Ageing Science and Medicine.- Feeling by Looking: Public Health Handwashing Posters as Emplaced Vital Media.- Part II: Marketing and Promoting Health.- “Great Taste! Fun for Kids!”: Marketing Vitamins for Children.- Imperial Tobacco Canada and Health Reassurance Cigarette Marketing during the 1970s.- Influencing Diet: Social Media, Micro-Celebrity, Food and Health.- Marketing Mental Health: Critical Reflections on Literacy, Branding and Anti-Stigma Campaigns.- Part III: Co-Producing Health.- Co-Authoring the ‘Person’ in Person-Centred Care: A Critical Narrative Analysis of Patient Stories on Healthcare Organization Websites.- The Branding of Movember and the Co-Production of Men’s Health.- The Social Construction of ‘Good Health’.- Part IV: Managing Health: Troubling Surveillance and Communicating Risk.- “You Don’t Own a FitBit, the FitBit Owns You”: A Taxonomy of Privacy Attitudes in the Context of Self-Quantification.- Cases and Traces, Platforms and Publics: Big Data and Health Surveillance.- Challenges in Vaccine Communication.- Critical Communication Studies and COVID-19: Mediation, Discourse, and Masks.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore The Unfit Brain and the Limits of Moral
Book SynopsisIn light of the potential novel applications of neurotechnologies in psychiatry and the current debate on moral bioenhancement, this book outlines the reasons why more conceptual work is needed to inform the scientific and medical community, and society at large, about the implications of moral bioenhancement before a possible, highly hypothetical at this point, broad acceptance, and potential implementation in areas such as psychiatry (e.g., treatment of psychopathy), or as a measure to prevent crime in society. The author does not negate the possibility of altering or manipulating moral behavior through technological means. Rather he argues that the scope of interventions is limited because the various options available to “enhance morality” improve, or simply manipulate, some elements of moral behavior and not the moral agent per se in the various elements constitutive of moral agency. The concept of Identity Integrity is suggested as a potential framework for a responsible use of neurotechnologies in psychiatry to avoid human beings becoming orderers and orderables of technological manipulations.Table of Contents1 Introduction.1.1 Biology Is Not Destiny.1.2 Overview of the Book.2 The Scope and Limits of Moral Bioenhancement.2.1 Conceptual Issues and Scientific Realities.2.2 Becoming Fit for the Future.3 Moral Bioenhancement and the Clinical Ideal.3.1 The Challenge of Defining Enhancement.3.2 The Clinical Ideal and Enhancement.3.3 Clinical Ideal and Psychiatric Disorders with Moral Pathologies.4 Neurobiology, Morality, and Agency.4.1 The Neurobiology of Morality.4.2 Moral Judgments and the Moral Self.4.3 Phronesis and the Virtues.4.4 The Autonomous Modern Self.4.5 The Pathologizing of Human Behavior.5 Techno-Science, Politics, and the Common Good.5.1 Post-academic Science.5.2 The Implications of Postmodernity for Science and Technology.5.3 Beyond the Postmodern Cacophony: Deliberative Democracy.5.4 Applying the Deliberative Democracy Paradigm.6 Neurotechnologies and Psychopathy.6.1 Psychiatry and Moral Bioenhancement.6.2 Psychopathy.6.3 The Diagnosis of Psychopathy.6.4 Treatment of Psychopathy.6.5 Feasibility, Usefulness, and Limitations of Neurotechnologies.7 Punishment, Responsibility, and Brain Interventions.7.1 Retribution Versus Rehabilitation.7.2 Dangerousness and Prevention.7.3 Capacity and Responsibility.7.4 Moral and Legal Responsibility.8 Identity Integrity in Psychiatry.8.1 Technology and the Current Anthropological Identity Crisis.8.2 Homo Sapiens Interacting with Machines.8.3 Identity Integrity.9 Epilogue: Final Thoughts for the Path to Future Philosophical Explorations.
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Springer Designing Healthy Cities
Book SynopsisHealthy and Sustainable Living through Climate-Resilience Urbanism: Moving forward in Designing Healthy Cities and Communities.- Heat-Health Vulnerability in Developing Metropolitan Areas: A Spatial Analysis in Tehran, Iran.- Humanizing Al-Madinah Al-Munawarah Streets: From a Car-centric City to a Healthy, Culturally Vibrant, and Climate-resilient City.- The Potential of Biophilic Urban Planning for Climate Resilience Cities in Africa: The Case of Dakar Metropolitan Region.- Integrating Blue Zone Principles into Healthy City Design.- Vernacular Heat-Resilient Cities in Hot-humid Climates: Exploring Solutions and Strategies for Bushehr, Iran.- Adaptive Pathways to Flood Resilient Infrastructure in African Coastal Cities: Lessons and Experiences from Nigeria and South Africa.- Healthy Building and Resilient City in Dezful: A Study of Passive Climatic Solutions.- Leveraging Metro Data to Analyze Population Mobility and Reduce Epidemic Risk in Megacities: A Novel Approach for Healthier City Development in Shenzhen, China.- Strengthening Health-Resilience Nexus through Sustainable Urban Design in Brisbane, Australia.
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Langaa RPCID South African-Based African Migrants' Responses
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Sub-Saharan Publishers Curing our Ills: The psychology of chronic
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Regalo Press The Rehab Playbook
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Nova Science Publishers, Inc. Tipping the Boundaries Health and WellBeing of Sustainable Development
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