Health, illness or addiction: social aspects Books
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Soziale Ungleichheit, Gesundheit und Bildungserfolg: Die intergenerationale Transmission von Bildungschancen durch Gesundheit
Book SynopsisBildungschancen sind in allen westlichen Gesellschaften sozial ungleich verteilt, ebenso wie die Chancen auf ein gesundes Aufwachsen von Kindern. Ausgehend von der Annahme, dass Gesundheit eine bildungsrelevante Ressource ist, untersucht Julia Tuppat mit Hilfe einer theoriegeleiteten empirischen Studie Effekte früher gesundheitlicher Beeinträchtigungen auf Bildungsergebnisse. Hierbei zeigt sich, dass gesundheitliche Ungleichheit im Kindesalter einen zusätzlichen Wirkpfad der intergenerationalen Transmission von ungleichen Bildungschancen darstellt.Table of ContentsSoziale Ungleichheit in Bildung und Gesundheit bei Kindern.- Zusammenhang zwischen Gesundheit und Bildungsergebnissen bei Kindern.- Integration von Gesundheit in ein theoretisches Erklärungsmodell zur Genese von ungleichen Bildungschancen.- Effekte gesundheitlicher Beeinträchtigungen auf schulische Leistungen und Bildungsentscheidungen.
£49.49
Springer VS PeerUnterstützungsbeziehungen im Kontext
Book SynopsisEinleitung.- Peer-Unterstützung.- Analytische Perspektiven.- Methodik und Methodologie.- Darstellung der Ergebnisse.- Diskussion.- Fazit.
£63.74
Springer VS Bewegen mit mHealth
Book SynopsisEinleitung.- Health Tracking zur Unterstützung körperlicher Aktivität.- Theoretische Ansätze zur Erklärung langfristigen Health Trackings.- Determinanten der Weiternutzungsintention.- Health Tracking aus Sicht der Nutzenden: Eine qualitative Untersuchung.- Quantitative Untersuchungen zur Prüfung der Modellzusammenhänge.- Fazit und Diskussion.
£71.24
Taschen GmbH Die 12 Schritte. Symbole Mythen und Archetypen
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£27.00
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Suchtpravention in Der Sozialen Arbeit
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£999.99
Polyphem Verlag Alkohol
£13.95
Springer Chinas Health System
Book SynopsisChapter 1. Overview of China’s health system.- Chapter 2. China’s Health Work Guidelines and the Healthy China Initiative.- Chapter 3. China’s Medical Service System.- Chapter 4. China’s Public Health Management System and Public Health Service System.- Chapter 5. China’s Medical Security System.- Chapter 6. China’s Drug Supply Guarantee System.- Chapter 7. TCM Services and Management.- Chapter 8. China’s Health Resource Planning.- Chapter 9. Health Financing and Total Health Expenditure in China.- Chapter 10. Legal System and Supervision of Medicine and Health in China.- Chapter 11. China’s Medical and Health Information System.
£125.99
The University of Chicago Press Ancestors and Antiretrovirals
Book SynopsisAs Archbishop Desmond Tutu has noted, AIDS is South Africa's new apartheid. This title traces the historical shifts in health policy after apartheid and describes their effects, detailing, in particular, the changing relationship between biomedical and indigenous health care, both at the national and the local level.Trade Review"Claire Laurier Decoteau is at the forefront of the new global sociology. Her articulation of analysis with ethnographic detail is expert, yet reads effortlessly; her ability to view the political complexities of South Africa from a new theoretical angle is admirable; and her depth of understanding about what is at stake in the fight over AIDS is relevant to anyone who wonders how power works all over the globe. Ancestors and Antiretrovirals will be an iconic text for a new generation of global work, and marks the emergence of a bold new theoretical voice in sociology." (Isaac Ariail Reed, author of Interpretation and Social Knowledge)"
£31.00
The University of Chicago Press In the Open Diary of a Homeless Alcoholic Paper
Book SynopsisA personal account of one man's struggle with homelessness and alcoholism, this is a book which seeks to challenge perceptions about those on the margins of American contemporary life. It outlines the author's amazing optimism and endurance in the face of hunger, dead-end jobs and abusive drinking.
£21.00
The University of Chicago Press Moving Politics Emotion and ACT UPs Fight
Book SynopsisChronicles the rise and fall of ACT UP - the organization founded by lesbians and gay men - highlighting a key factor in its trajectory: emotion. This book offers an account of ACT UP's origin, development, and decline as well as a look at the role of emotion in contentious politics.Trade Review"Moving Politics is not just a rich and rigorous history of ACT UP. It is also that rarest of works: one that simultaneously breaks new empirical ground while challenging our more general conceptual understanding of the subject matter. Quite simply, it will be hard for social movement scholars following Gould to ignore the emotional dimensions and dynamics of struggle." - Doug McAdam, Stanford University"
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Moving Politics Emotion and ACT UPs Fight
Book SynopsisChronicles the rise and fall of ACT UP - the organization founded by lesbians and gay men - highlighting a key factor in its trajectory: emotion. This book offers an account of ACT UP's origin, development, and decline as well as a look at the role of emotion in contentious politics.Trade Review"Moving Politics is not just a rich and rigorous history of ACT UP. It is also that rarest of works: one that simultaneously breaks new empirical ground while challenging our more general conceptual understanding of the subject matter. Quite simply, it will be hard for social movement scholars following Gould to ignore the emotional dimensions and dynamics of struggle." - Doug McAdam, Stanford University"
£24.70
The University of Chicago Press Best Laid Plans Cultural Entropy and the
Book SynopsisWe see it all the time: organizations strive to persuade the public to change beliefs or behavior through expensive, expansive media campaigns. Designers painstakingly craft clear, resonant, and culturally sensitive messaging that will motivate people to buy a product, support a cause, vote for a candidate, or take active steps to improve their health. But once these campaigns leave the controlled environments of focus groups, advertising agencies, and stakeholder meetings to circulate, the public interprets and distorts the campaigns in ways their designers never intended or dreamed. In Best Laid Plans, Terence E. McDonnell explains why these attempts at mass persuasion often fail so badly. McDonnell argues that these well-designed campaigns are undergoing cultural entropy: the process through which the intended meanings and uses of cultural objects fracture into alternative meanings, new practices, failed interactions, and blatant disregard. Using AIDS media campaigns in Accra, Ghana
£31.00
The University of Chicago Press Crying for Our Elders African Orphanhood in the
Book SynopsisThe HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa has defined the childhoods of an entire generation. Over the past twenty years, international NGOs and charities have devoted immense attention to the millions of African children orphaned by the disease. But in Crying for Our Elders, anthropologist Kristen Cheney argues that these humanitarian groups have misread the crisis. Moreover, she explains how the global humanitarian focus on orphanhood often elides the social and political circumstances that present the greatest adversity to vulnerable children in effect, actually deepening the crisis and thereby affecting children's lives as irrevocably as the disease itself. Through ethnographic fieldwork and collaborative research with children in Uganda, Cheney traces how the 'best interest' principle that governs development work targeting children often does more harm than good, stigmatizing orphans and leaving children in the post-antiretroviral era even more vulnerable to exploitation. She details the d
£91.00
The University of Chicago Press Crying for Our Elders African Orphanhood in the
Book SynopsisThe HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa has defined the childhoods of an entire generation. Over the past twenty years, international NGOs and charities have devoted immense attention to the millions of African children orphaned by the disease. But in Crying for Our Elders, anthropologist Kristen Cheney argues that these humanitarian groups have misread the crisis. Moreover, she explains how the global humanitarian focus on orphanhood often elides the social and political circumstances that present the greatest adversity to vulnerable children in effect, actually deepening the crisis and thereby affecting children's lives as irrevocably as the disease itself. Through ethnographic fieldwork and collaborative research with children in Uganda, Cheney traces how the 'best interest' principle that governs development work targeting children often does more harm than good, stigmatizing orphans and leaving children in the post-antiretroviral era even more vulnerable to exploitation. She details the dramatic effects this has on traditional family support and child protection, and stresses child empowerment over pity. Crying for Our Elders advances current discussions on humanitarianism, children's studies, orphanhood, and kinship. By exploring the unique experience of AIDS orphanhood through the eyes of children, caregivers, and policymakers, Cheney shows that despite the extreme challenges of growing up in the era of HIV/AIDS, the post-ARV generation still holds out hope for the future.
£31.00
The University of Chicago Press Caribbean Pleasure Industry
Book SynopsisAnalyzes men who have sex with male tourists, yet identify themselves as "normal" hetero-sexual men and struggle to maintain this status within their relationships with wives and girlfriends. This book is suitable for those concerned with health and sexuality in the Caribbean or beyond.Trade Review"A first-rate analysis.... This wonderfully nuanced study challenges readers to think simultaneously about the cultural and structural aspects of cross-cultural sexual interactions across international borders, and how those interactions impact local and global constructions of sexuality." - Hector Carrillo, San Francisco State University"
£27.00
The University of Chicago Press A Plague of Paradoxes
Book SynopsisPresents an extended case study of the 20th-century AIDS epidemic and the cultural circumstances from which it emerged. The book brings together anthropology, demography and epidemiology to explain how the Chagga people of Tanzania in Africa experience AIDS.
£27.00
The University of Chicago Press The Smoking Book
Book SynopsisThe Smoking Book is built on the foundation of two questions: how does it feel to smoke, and what does smoking mean? Lesley Stern muses on these questions through intersecting stories and essays.
£23.00
The University of Chicago Press Addiction Becomes Normal
Book SynopsisAddiction is now seen as an ordinary feature of human nature, an idea that introduces new doubts about the meaning of our desires. Over the last forty years, a variety of developments in American science, politics, and culture have reimagined addiction in their own ways, but they share an important understanding: increasingly, addiction is described as normal, the natural result of a body that has been exposed to potent stimuli. This shift in thinking suggests that addiction is a condition latent in all of us, a common response to a society rich in thrills. In Addiction Becomes Normal, Jaeyoon Park provides a history and critical analysis of the normalization of addiction in late-modern American society. By exploring addiction science, diagnostic manuals, judicial reform, and public health policy, he shows how seeing addiction as normal has flourished in recent decades and is supported throughout cultural life in the United States by the language of wellness, psychotherapy, and
£76.00
John Wiley & Sons Cigarette Nation
Book SynopsisHighlighting the prolific marketing and advertising practices that helped make smoking a staple of everyday life, Cigarette Nation explores socio-cultural aspects of cigarette use from the 1930s to the 1950s and recounts the views and actions of tobacco executives, government officials, and Canadian smokers as they responded to mounting evidence that cigarette use was harmful.Trade Review“Robinson’s Cigarette Nation is an excellent example of seeing the unspoken but ever-present aspects of material culture.” CBHA/ACHA Reviews
£31.50
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 The Stickup Kids
Book SynopsisThe author came of age in the South Bronx during the 1980s, a time when the community was devastated by cuts in social services, a rise in arson and abandonment, and the rise of crack-cocaine. This title provides an insider's look at the workings of a group of Dominican drug robbers.Trade Review"An important book. . . . Not your typical ethnography. . . . [This is] a story told from the inside out." -- Michael B. Greene * PsycCRITIQUES *"Hard-hitting, gravitating, and reflexive . . . Dr. Contreras shines in providing readers a greater level of coomplexity and nuance to understand these experiences." -- Robert J. Duran * Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice and Criminology *"At once a sensational, detailed, stomach-churning account of extreme violence and a sober, solid piece of social science research that makes a number of important contributions to our understanding of how violence is situated in structural, cultural, historical, and, especially, situational context. . . . finely wrought, first class social science . . . profound." -- Mercer L. Sullivan * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *"The Stickup Kids provides a unique insight for researchers, criminal justice representatives, advocates, and policy-makers who want to improve the overall well-being marginalized and segregated racial and ethnic minority communities. . . . A valuable addition." * Journal of Criminal Justice Education *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Becoming Stickup Kids 1. The Rise of the South Bronx and Crack 2. Crack Days: Getting Paid 3. Rikers Island: Normalizing Violence 4. The New York Boys: Tail Enders of the Crack Era 5. Crack is Dead Part II: Doing the Stickup 6. The Girl 7. Getting the Shit 8. Drug Robbery Torture 9. Splitting the Profits 10. Living the Dream: Life after a Drug Robbery Part III: Todo Tiene Su Final 11. Fallen Stars Conclusion Notes Index
£999.99
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
