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Newman Springs Publishing, Inc. Morgellons Disease: The Silent Pandemic
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Lexington Books Understanding American COVID-19 Pandemic Beliefs,
Book SynopsisIn Understanding American Covid-19 Pandemic Beliefs, Behaviors, Politics, and Society, Herbert C. Covey presents an overview of how the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted American society. He proposes that the social and political contexts leading up to and during the pandemic fueled differing and sometimes opposing attitudes and behaviors. Some Americans saw Covid-19 as a dangerous threat while others dismissed it as overblown. Covey observes that these divergent views occurred in a vacuum but were influenced by various political, historical, cultural, psychological, and social factors. He argues that Americans’ social perceptions of the pandemic were affected by the unpredictability of the virus, erosion of trust in science and institutions, degradation of the news by biased news sources and social media, loss of critical thinking skills, denialism, truth decay, high emotions, racism, and unprecedented politicization of the pandemic. In addition, the susceptibility of some Americans to Covid-19 rumors, myths, misinformation, and conspiracies led them to make poor health decisions resulting in more severe cases of Covid-19 or, in some cases, death. The book includes data from numerous national surveys to document American beliefs and behaviors related to the pandemic. Finally, the author shows how these beliefs have led to protests, conspiracies, and social movements regarding pandemic responses.Table of ContentsContentsPrefaceChapter 1. Welcome to the Covid-19 PandemicChapter 2. Consequences of Covid-19Chapter 3. A Brief History of Pandemics and VaccinesChapter 4. The Pandemic and Collective BehaviorChapter 5. Covid-19 Social Behaviors and TrendsChapter 6. Political Tribalism and the Politicization of Covid-19Chapter 7. Covid-19 Rumors, Myths, and Conspiracy TheoriesChapter 8. Controversy and Covid-19 RestrictionsReferencesAbout the Author
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Lexington Books Contextuality of Healthcare Choices in Pakistan
Book SynopsisContextuality of Healthcare Choices in Pakistan analyzes the contextual factors shaping healthcare decision-making in Pakistan. Divided into three thematic areascontextuality of healthcare choices, power dynamics and the health of the marginalized, and emerging challenges and healthcare responsethe book explores the complex interplay of social, cultural, and institutional influences on health-seeking behaviors.The book examines the nuanced fabric of healthcare decision-making in Pakistan through a series of nine meticulously crafted chapters. From the influence of geography and social context on health-related choices to the power dynamics inherent in patient-doctor interactions, each chapter offers valuable insights into the myriad factors shaping individuals'' healthcare decisions. Moreover, the book sheds light on overlooked aspects of healthcare decision-making, including the experiences of marginalized communities such as the transgender population and individuals seeking mental healthcare.Drawing on diverse theoretical perspectives and empirical evidence, this book challenges simplistic notions of healthcare decision-making as solely individual and rational. Instead, it argues for a comprehensive understanding of how communal, social, and institutional factors intersect to shape health-seeking behaviors. By illuminating the contextual complexities inherent in healthcare decision-making, this book offers invaluable insights for researchers, policymakers, healthcare professionals, and the wider public interested in understanding and improving healthcare outcomes in Pakistan.
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Simon & Schuster Rethinking Medications
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Addicted2Life Ltd Sober On A Drunk Planet: Giving Up Alcohol: The Unexpected Shortcut To Finding Happiness, Health and Financial Freedom
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Sebastian Wocker T/A HAVIVO Publishing THE JOY OF ADDICTION: Confessions of a teenage wastrel
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Mud, Sweat and Beers: A Cultural History of Sport and Alcohol
Book SynopsisShort-listed for the North American Society for Sport History Book Award 2003 Alcohol is never far from sporting events. Although popular thinking on the effects of drinking has changed considerably over time, throughout history sport and alcohol have been intimately linked. The Victorians, for example, believed that beer helped to build stamina, whereas today any serious athlete must abstain from the demon drink. Yet despite current prohibitions and the widespread acceptance of alcohols deleterious effects, the uneasy alliance of sport with alcohol remains culturally entrenched. It is common for sporting celebrities to struggle with alcoholism, and teams are often encouraged to bond by drinking together. Indeed, many of today's major sporting sponsors are breweries and manufacturers of alcoholic drinks. From hooliganism to commerce, from advertising and sponsorship to health and fitness, if there is one thing that brings athletes, fans and financial backers together it must be beer. This cultural history of drinking and sport examines the roles masculinity, class and regional identity play in alcohol consumption at a broad range of matches, races, courses and competitions. Offering a fresh perspective on the culture and commerce of sporting events, this book will be essential reading for cultural historians, anthropologists and sociologists, and anyone interested in sport.Trade ReviewAn intriguing look at the problematic relationship sport has with alcohol. The Bookseller Packed with informative and entertaining detail [and] written with exemplary clarity. The Guardian Weekend This study is recommended for all students and scholars of the history and culture of sports. CHOICE Unputdownably fascinating [and] original, not to say intoxicating. The Guardian Sport Section Tony Collins and Wray Vamplew have left no stone unturned, nor glass undrained, in their researches ... A thoughtful and thought-provoking book. Programme Monthly and Football Collectable The chronological range of the book is impressive ... Equally laudable is the author's ability to use a vast array of archival sources, from sporting records, brewary accounts, government reports and social commentary, to contextualize the sport-alco hol relationship within awide range of political, social and economic histories ... In Mud Sweat and Beers, an approach is found that champions the study of a sporting theme, but which cannot be ignored by historians of any aspect of British life. Journal of Contemporary historyTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 This Sporting House: The Pub and Sport 2 A Thirsty Business: The Drinks Industry and Sport 3 Cheers! Alcohol and the Sporting Crowd 4 A Little of What Does You Good? Alcohol, the Athlete and Sporting Performance Conclusion: More than Beer and Skittles? Bibliography Index
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Sean Kingston Publishing Hearing and the Hospital: Sound, Listening, Knowledge and Experience
Book SynopsisAn original ethnography of sound and listening in one of our major institutions, Hearing and the Hospital reveals the hospital to be a space in which several modes of listening are simultaneously in play and in which different layers of auditory knowledge and experience coexist. Engaging with Sound Studies, the Anthropology of the Senses, Medical Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies in this volume, Tom Rice shows how sound and listening produce, articulate and mediate social relations inside the hospital; how listening acquires direction and focus within that environment; and how certain sounds become endowed with particular meanings and associations. He also exposes many of the sensory minutiae that both underpin and undermine the production of medical knowledge and skill. Hearing and the Hospital creates an acoustic interrogation of hospital life, and in doing so questions accepted ideas about the sense of hearing itself. There's a great deal to admire in Tom Rice's ethnography of the aural politics of the hospital. First because it represents a unique conjunction of the ethnography of sound and senses with medical anthropology and social studies of science. Next because it patiently details how sound as a way of knowing so deeply informs social practices of medical listening. And finally because it is so successful in revealing both how hospitals and bodies pulse as acoustic spaces, and how patients and doctors professionalize, personalize, and participate as situated listeners.(Steven Feld, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Music, University of New Mexico). Tom Rice is Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Exeter, and specializes in auditory culture. As well as writing and teaching on sound he has produced audio pieces including the BBC Radio 4 feature The Art of Water Music.
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APMI Publications Watchers of the 4 Kings
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Vintage Publishing A Puff of Smoke
Book SynopsisA moving, often very funny graphic memoir about what it is like to grow up with an illness that no one can diagnose. When the headaches started, Sarah Lippett would stand alone on a different side of the playground from the other children. When she started to drag one of her legs, her parents took her to hospital, and so began the visits to many different doctors, each one more bewildered by her illness than the last. Initially schooled at home, when Sarah went back to school she was placed with the struggling kids, and still so often ill, she felt even more alone. But although Sarah's parents often despaired of the stream of appointments and no cure, they never showed it and she grew up in the midst of a boisterous, loving family and found good friends at last, as well as venturing into bands, art, boys, books and records. Finally, when Sarah turned sixteen, she was admitted to Great Ormond Street Hospital where the doctors diagnosed her with the rare disease, Moyamoya. The book ends with Sarah waking up after brain surgery.Trade ReviewIf this doesn’t make you cry, you may be a robot rather than a human being… But there is joy here, too, and not only in [Lippett’s] wonderful illustrations. As those who loved her first book, Stan and Nan, will know, she is so deft when it comes to the details of time, place and family life… She can also be very droll… [A Puff of Smoke] is deeply affecting – and not a little chastening, too. -- Rachel Cooke * Observer, *Graphic Novel of the Month* *The panels grab you in an emotional, immediate way. There’s no polish, just pure feeling… it is a credit to Lippett’s creation that you want more of it. Intimate and deeply personal, with a healthy dose of humour thrown in, A Puff Of Smoke is a moving account of a childhood marked by love, pain and confusion. Vital reading for anyone who’s had their own tumultuous path towards getting an all-important diagnosis. -- Chloe Walker * CULTUREFLY *A Puff Of Smoke – all scratchy lines and splashy colour – is a journey from innocence to experience, and from hospital ward to hospital ward... One more thing. It's very funny. -- Teddy Jamieson * Herald Scotland *A heartbreaking journey. * It's Nice That *[A] movingly recounted saga * Strong Words *
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Talma Studios International Oms Menace Pour lHumanite
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Talma Studios International SCIENZA VS POTERE
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Omnia Veritas Ltd La guerre de la drogue contre l'Amérique
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Addicted2Life Ltd Nüchtern auf einem alkoholisierten Planeten: Ohne Alkohol leben. Die unerwartete Abkürzung zu Glück, Gesundheit und finanzieller Freiheit
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Addicted2Life Ltd Nüchtern auf einem alkoholisierten Planeten: 3 Nüchterne Schritte. Ein ungewöhnlicher Ratgeber gegen Alkoholsucht und für ein alkoholfreies Leben
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Fremantle Press Consuming Pleasures: Australia and the International Drug Business
Book SynopsisTracing the international and Australian history of both licit and illicit drug use, this investigation combines the topic of drug use with analyses of political power, the rise of the market, and social issues. It examines the way in which drug consumption is regulated in the era of global free trade by first looking at the start of the opium-growing industry and the racist origins of drug laws. Providing a social history of drug use through the lens of international politics, market forces, medicine, and race, this discussion also considers the paradox of contemporary, white Australian identity and an Australia as a nation of people whose per capita drug consumption often equals and surpasses that of most other nations.
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Kdp Agency Bipolar Head
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Kdp Agency Bipolar Head
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Daraja Press Una Movilizacion por la Justicia en Salud BW
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Daraja Press Mobilizing for Health Justice BW
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Max Milo Editions World Hunger
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Luc Pire La mort de la mort
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Palgrave Macmillan Experiences of Health Risks
Book Synopsis1. Introduction: Experiences of Health Risks.- 2. Knowledge, Uncertainty and Ignorance around Health Risks.- 3. Anxiety, Fear and Panic: The Role of Emotions in Prevention - 4. Social Practices and Health Risks.- 5. Moral Judgements around Experiences of Health Risks.- 6. Social Structures as Determinants of Health Risks.- 7. Conclusion: Health and Risk in Social Contexts.
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Springer International Publishing AG The Essential Revolution of Evolutionary Medicine
Book Synopsis1. Introduction.- 2. Diseases Deriving from Alterations of the Genotype.- 3. Diseases Deriving from Alterations of the Ecological Niche Part I: Not Regarding the Holobiont.- 4. Diseases Deriving from Alterations of the Ecological Niche - Part II: Regarding the Holobiont.- 5. Diseases Deriving from Relations with Other Living beings and from Conditions Beyond the Adaptation Range.- 6. Physiological Phenomena that Cause Troubles and Suffering or Even Death Part I: Non-Phenoptotic Phenomena.- 7. Physiological Phenomena that Cause Troubles and Suffering or Even Death Part II: Phenoptotic Phenomena Different from Slow Phenoptosis.- 8. Physiological Phenomena that Cause Troubles and Suffering or Even Death Part III: Slow Phenoptosis or Aging.- 9. Other Topics Studied by Evolutionary Medicine.- 10. Implementation of Evolutionary Medicine.
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Springer-Verlag GmbH Viral Diseases and One Health in Africa
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tredition Suchtfrei durch Hypnose
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tredition Suchtfrei durch Hypnose
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Saage Books Consumo de Tabaco y Cultura
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Springer VS Die Nachhaltigkeitsziele der UN im Spiegel der Wissenschaft
Book SynopsisForschung und Lehre.- Nachhaltige Wissenschaftskommunikation und Wissenschaftskommunikation der Nachhaltigkeit Beispiele aus der Praxis.- Nachhaltige Forschung.- Politische Bildung und Politikdidaktik im Spiegel der Nachhaltigkeit.- Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung am Beispiel BABS.- Nachhaltigkeit des Theorie-Praxis-Transfers von sozial- und rechtswissenschaftlichen Studieninhalten.- Kultur für alle? Probleme der Kultur- und Musikervermittlung im sozialen Kontext.- Gesundheit und Wohlergehen.- Gesundheit und Wohlergehen nach einem Schlaganfall nachhaltige Rehabilitation durch Digitalisierung? Eine qualitative Erhebung in einer neuen außerklinischen Weaning-Einheit im Landkreis Regensburg.- Rehabilitation von chronischen Schmerzpatienten.- Kompressionstherapie in der Prävention des postthrombotischen Syndroms (PTS).- Die Zukunft der Physiotherapie und Nachhaltigkeit. Trägt die Physiotherapie als Profession nachhaltig zur Gesundheit der Menschen bei?.- Tablet-gestützte Biographiearbeit in Senioreneinrichtungen.- Alternde Gesellschaft Lebenslagen und Lebensalltag alter Menschen in der stationären Langzeitversorgung.- Entwicklungsorientierte Arbeit mit psychisch erkrankten Eltern und ihren Kindern - Versorgungsstrukturen in der Region Oberpfalz.- Tiergestützte Interventionen in der Sozialen Arbeit ein Nachhaltiges Konzept in Pädagogik und Gesundheit.- TGI zur Stressprävention bei Studierenden an der OTH.- Mit Kunst die Welt verändern?.- Soziales.- Antifeminismus in der Politik - am Beispiel der Bundestagswahlkämpfe.- Klimapolitik als neuer Grund für verschärfte globale Ungleichheiten?.- Nachhaltiges Wohnen: Soziale Aspekte der energetischen Gebäudesanierung.- Barrierefreies Bauen.- Arbeit.- Nachhaltige Integration von langzeitarbeitslosen Personen.
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Springer VS Versorgung von Menschen ohne Krankenversicherung
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Springer VS Evidenzbasierung in der Arzneimittelversorgung
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Springer VS Das Qualifikationsprofil der Community Health Nurse
Book SynopsisEinleitung.- Theoretischer Hintergrund.- Methodik des Forschungsvorhabens.- Analyse der Resultate.- Schlussfolgerungen und Diskussion.
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Springer Impromusiktheater im Pflegeheim
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Bod Third Party Titles Apothicaire Holistique
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Bod Third Party Titles Ayurveda
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Bod Third Party Titles À la découverte des 7 chakras
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Bod Third Party Titles Le pouvoir de vos 9 chakras
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BoD - Books on Demand Kiffen aber richtig
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Marge Books Adicción a sustancias
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Brill Voices of Illness: Negotiating Meaning and Identity
Book SynopsisThis book is a scholarly collection of interdisciplinary perspectives and practices that examine the positive potential of attending to the voices and stories of those who live and work with illness in real world settings. Its international contributors offer case studies and research projects illustrating how illness can disrupt, highlight and transform themes in personal narratives, forcing the creation of new biographies. As exercises in narrative development and autonomy, the evolving content and expression of illness stories are crucial to our understanding of the lived experience of those confronting life changes. The international contributors to this volume demonstrate the importance of hearing, understanding and effectively liberating voices impacted by illness and change. Contributors include Tineke Abma, Peter Bray, Verusca Calabria, Agnes Elling, Deborah Freedman, Alexandra Fidyk, Justyna Jajszczok, Naomi Krüger, Annie McGregor, Pam Morrison, Miranda Quinney, Yomna Saber, Elena Sharratt, Victorria Simpson-Gervin, Hans T. Sternudd, Mirjam Stuij, Anja Tramper, Alison Ward and Jane Youell.Table of ContentsList of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction: Voices of Illness Peter Bray Part 1: The Story, Identity and the Voice 1 Narrative Medicine and Storytelling: An Alternative Method for Healing Victorria Simpson-Gervin Part 2: Group Voices and Group Identity 2 AIDS Awakens Ancient Stories Deborah Freedman 3 Life Story Sharing: A Therapeutic Intervention in Palliative Care Miranda Quinney, Alison Ward and Jane Youell 4 The Collective Production of a Shared Narrative Surrounding Sexual Violence Trauma Elena Sharratt Part 3: Irreconcilable Voices: Liminal, Empowered, and Authentic 5 Stories of Journeys Home: Reuniting Ancestors, Images, and the Underworld Alexandra Fidyk 6 Making and Sharing Meaning out of Terminal Illness Pam Morrison and Annie McGregor 7 Toni Cade Bambara’s The Salt Eaters: Hearing the Silent Voice of Pain Yomna Saber 8 Voices of Depression: An Analysis of a Collective Narrative Hans T. Sternudd Part 4: Ethical Stories: Voices in Research 9 A Shared Story of Professional Practice: Therapists Make Meaning of Spirituality Peter Bray 10 Dementia Fiction: Giving Voice to an Experience beyond Language Naomi Krüger 11 Developing a Relational Narrative about Diabetes: Towards a Polyphonic Story Mirjam Stuij, Agnes Elling, Anja Tramper and Tineke Abma Part 5: Challenges to the Institutional Illness Discourse 12 Self-Reflexivity in Oral History Research: The Role of Positionality and Emotions Verusca Calabria 13 The Voiceless and the Vocal: Infection Literature and The Sign of the Four Justyna Jajszczok Name Index Subject Index
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Bohn,Scheltema & Holkema,The Netherlands Interculturele Belastbaarheidsbepaling: Een Zoetwatervis Is Geen Zoutwatervis
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Brill Thinking about Addiction: Hyperbolic Discounting and Responsible Agency
Book SynopsisWhat is addiction? Why do some people become addicted while others do not? Is the addict rational? In this book, Craig Hanson attempts to answer these questions and more. Using insights from the beginnings of philosophy to contemporary behavioral economics, Hanson attempts to assess the variety of ways in which we can and cannot, understand addiction. Special consideration is given to a challenging (and controversial) proposal dubbed “hyperbolic discounting.” Hanson proposes some modifications to the hyperbolic discounting view that permit it to explain not only addiction, but also a variety of psychological maladies, such as self-deception.Table of ContentsAndrew Fitz-Gibbon: Editorial Foreword Lawrence Ashley: Guest Foreword: Philosophy and Addiction Acknowledgments Philosophical Perspectives on Theories of Addiction Addiction from the Behavioral Economist’s Point of View Ainsliean Selves Self-Deception Toward the Rationality of Bundling Responsibility George Ainslie: Responsibility in a Reductionist Model Works Cited About the Authors Index
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Wageningen Academic Publishers The combat for gender equality in education: Rural livelihood pathways in the context of HIV/AIDS
Book SynopsisThis book, which was originally written as a dissertation, broadens the approach to gender equality in primary education by exploring the magnitude of complex interactions between schools and rural livelihood household processes in the context of HIV/AIDS. The arguments are based on recent ethnographic research using dimensions of rural pupils', parents', and teachers' responses to the socio-economic impact of HIV/AIDS on their livelihoods. It gives insight into some of the current debates that have been generated in the field of education, HIV/AIDS and rural livelihoods.
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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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