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University of California Press Love Money and HIV
Book SynopsisDrawing on an array of interview, ethnographic, and survey data from her native country of Kenya, the author examines how young African women, who suffer disproportionate rates of HIV infection compared to young African men, navigate their relationships, employment, and finances in the context of economic inequality and a devastating HIV epidemic.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface 1. A Stubborn Disparity 2. Consuming Women, Modernity, and HIV Risk 3. Historical and Cultural Context 4. Love, Money, and HIV Prevention 5. School and the Production of Consuming Women 6. Gendered Economies and the Role of Ecology in HIV Risk 7. "To Stem HIV in Africa, Prevent Transmission to Young Women" Epilogue: The Magic Bullet Notes Appendix Bibliography Acknowledgments Index
£22.50
University of California Press State of Health
Book SynopsisState of Health takes readers inside one of the most controversial regimes of the twenty-first centuryVenezuela under Hugo Chávezfor a revealing description of how people's lives changed for the better as the state began reorganizing society. With lively and accessible storytelling, Amy Cooper chronicles the pleasure people experienced accessing government health care and improving their quality of life. From personalized doctor's visits to therapeutic dance classes, new health care programs provided more than medical services.State of Healthoffers a unique perspective on the significance of the Bolivarian Revolution for ordinary people, demonstrating how the transformed health system succeeded in exciting people and recognizing historically marginalized Venezuelans as bodies who mattered.Trade Review"Given the current polarized situation in Venezuela, medical anthropologist Amy Cooper provides important and compelling insights into how ordinary people experienced policy changes during Hugo Chávez's progressive government . . . In listening to people's stories, Cooper gained innovative insights into how government programs can provide a mechanism for social inclusion and empowerment, including how those institutions transform people's sense of themselves." * CHOICE *“State of Health is a compelling ethnography on the interconnections among health care systems, pleasure, and radical politics during Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution. . . . Using a well-developed conceptualization of pleasure that encompasses biophysical health, sensual and social pleasure, and sociopolitical empowerment, State of Health offers critical insights into how poor and working-class Venezuelans experienced the Chávez years. . . . State of Health will appeal to a broad readership interested in Latin America, health care, radical politics, and the anthropology of affect and would be an excellent choice for undergraduate and graduate courses.” * American Ethnologist *“State of Health is an accessible, eminently teachable book set in Venezuela at the height of the Bolivarian revolution. . . . In contrast to many Latin American medical ethnographies that document the distrust and suffering wrought by state-sponsored medicine, Cooper proposes that 'joy, excitement, and satisfaction were central to people’s experiences of Barrio Adentro.' The idea that medical care can be pleasurable is powerful in its simplicity.” * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *“State of Health is an engaging and insightful ethnography of health care provision in Venezuela under Chávez. By centering the role of pleasure, it invites us to rethink our frameworks for analyzing medical care. The book is written in a clear and accessible style, and, as such, it can be read at a variety of levels. . . . This book should be required reading for anyone hoping to learn more about social medicine in Latin America.” * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 • Introduction 2 • Moving Medicine Inside the Barrio 3 • Clinical Intimacies as Macropolitics 4 • Beyond Biomedicine 5 • Pleasures of Participation 6 • The Limits of Citizenship Conclusion Notes References Index
£64.00
University of California Press State of Health
Book SynopsisState of Health takes readers inside one of the most controversial regimes of the twenty-first centuryVenezuela under Hugo Chávezfor a revealing description of how people's lives changed for the better as the state began reorganizing society. With lively and accessible storytelling, Amy Cooper chronicles the pleasure people experienced accessing government health care and improving their quality of life. From personalized doctor's visits to therapeutic dance classes, new health care programs provided more than medical services.State of Healthoffers a unique perspective on the significance of the Bolivarian Revolution for ordinary people, demonstrating how the transformed health system succeeded in exciting people and recognizing historically marginalized Venezuelans as bodies who mattered.Trade Review"Given the current polarized situation in Venezuela, medical anthropologist Amy Cooper provides important and compelling insights into how ordinary people experienced policy changes during Hugo Chávez's progressive government . . . In listening to people's stories, Cooper gained innovative insights into how government programs can provide a mechanism for social inclusion and empowerment, including how those institutions transform people's sense of themselves." * CHOICE *“State of Health is a compelling ethnography on the interconnections among health care systems, pleasure, and radical politics during Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution. . . . Using a well-developed conceptualization of pleasure that encompasses biophysical health, sensual and social pleasure, and sociopolitical empowerment, State of Health offers critical insights into how poor and working-class Venezuelans experienced the Chávez years. . . . State of Health will appeal to a broad readership interested in Latin America, health care, radical politics, and the anthropology of affect and would be an excellent choice for undergraduate and graduate courses.” * American Ethnologist *“State of Health is an accessible, eminently teachable book set in Venezuela at the height of the Bolivarian revolution. . . . In contrast to many Latin American medical ethnographies that document the distrust and suffering wrought by state-sponsored medicine, Cooper proposes that 'joy, excitement, and satisfaction were central to people’s experiences of Barrio Adentro.' The idea that medical care can be pleasurable is powerful in its simplicity.” * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *“State of Health is an engaging and insightful ethnography of health care provision in Venezuela under Chávez. By centering the role of pleasure, it invites us to rethink our frameworks for analyzing medical care. The book is written in a clear and accessible style, and, as such, it can be read at a variety of levels. . . . This book should be required reading for anyone hoping to learn more about social medicine in Latin America.” * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 • Introduction 2 • Moving Medicine Inside the Barrio 3 • Clinical Intimacies as Macropolitics 4 • Beyond Biomedicine 5 • Pleasures of Participation 6 • The Limits of Citizenship Conclusion Notes References Index
£22.50
University of California Press Whiteout
Book SynopsisThe first critical analysis of how Whiteness drove the opioid crisis. In the past two decades, media images of the surprisingly white new face of the US opioid crisis abounded. But why was the crisis so white? Some argued that skyrocketing overdoses were deaths of despair signaling deeper socioeconomic anguish in white communities. Whiteout makes the counterintuitive case that the opioid crisis was the product of white racial privilege as well as despair. Anchored by interviews, data, and riveting firsthand narratives from three leading expertsan addiction psychiatrist, a policy advocate, and a drug historianWhiteout reveals how a century of structural racism in drug policy, and in profit-oriented medical industries led to mass white overdose deaths. The authors implicate racially segregated health care systems, the racial assumptions of addiction scientists, and relaxed regulation of pharmaceutical marketing to white consumers. Whiteout is an unflinching account of how racial capitalism is toxic for all Americans.Trade Review"Psychiatrist and anthropologist Hansen, policy advocate and sociologist Netherland, and historian Herzberg richly scrutinise drug use and race along multiple axes that include medicine, public policy, and history to emerge with a powerful portrait of precisely how the social construct of race and systemic racism have both created and blinded us to the unequal treatment of Black and white drug users. Through anthropology, personal histories, and nuanced data analysis this troika engages in textured, deeply researched, scholarship." * Lancet *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Time Line PART ONE. TECHNOLOGIES OF WHITENESS IN THE CLINIC, THE STATEHOUSE, AND THE ARCHIVE 1. Pharmakon of Racial Poisons and Cures (as told by Helena Hansen, psychiatrist-anthropologist) 2. How to See Whiteness (as told by all three authors) 3. Good Samaritans in the War on Drugs That Wasn’t (as told by Jules Netherland, policy analyst) 4. “Mother’s Little Helpers”: White Narcotics in the Medicine Cabinet (as told by David Herzberg, historian) PART TWO. THREE OPIODS: RACIAL BIOGRAPHIES 5. OxyContin’s Racial Precision 6. Buprenorphine’s Silent White Revolution 7. The Housewife’s Return to Heroin (and Forays into Fentanyl) 8. From Racial Capitalism to Biosocial Justice Glossary Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Stuck Moving
Book SynopsisThis one-of-a-kind literary and conceptual experiment does anthropology differentlyin all the wrong ways. No field trips. No other cultures. This is a personal journey within anthropology itself, and a kind of love story. A critical, candid, hilarious take on the culture of academia and, ultimately, contemporary society. Stuck Moving follows a professor affected by bipolar disorder, drug addiction, and a stalled career who searches for meaning and purpose within a sanctimonious discipline and a society in shambles. It takes aim at the ableist conceit that anthropologists are outside observers studying a messy world. The lens of analysis is reversed to expose the backstage of academic work and life, and the unbecoming self behind scholarship. Blending cultural studies, psychoanalysis, comedy, screenwriting, music lyrics, and poetry, Stuck Moving abandons anthropology's rigid genre conventions, suffocating solemnity, and enduring colonial model of extractive knowledge production. By satiTrade Review"Peter Benson takes his readers on a wild ride into the depths of his emotional turmoil and to the limits of his profession, propelled by writing that is genre-busting and beautiful." * American Anthropologist *Table of ContentsContents List of Figures Acknowledgments Author’s Note 1. Sixteen Candles 2. Lost in Translation 3. And Everything Is Going Fine 4. Murmur of the Heart 5. Do the Right Thing 6. Rushmore 7. Toy Story 8. Shame 9. Life Is Sweet 10. The Graduate 11. My Own Private Idaho 12. Boyhood 13. Broken Flowers 14. Stagecoach 15. The Red Balloon 16. Planet of the Apes Credits Bibliography Index
£63.90
University of California Press Stuck Moving
Book SynopsisThis one-of-a-kind literary and conceptual experiment does anthropology differentlyin all the wrong ways. No field trips. No other cultures. This is a personal journey within anthropology itself, and a kind of love story. A critical, candid, hilarious take on the culture of academia and, ultimately, contemporary society. Stuck Moving follows a professor affected by bipolar disorder, drug addiction, and a stalled career who searches for meaning and purpose within a sanctimonious discipline and a society in shambles. It takes aim at the ableist conceit that anthropologists are outside observers studying a messy world. The lens of analysis is reversed to expose the backstage of academic work and life, and the unbecoming self behind scholarship. Blending cultural studies, psychoanalysis, comedy, screenwriting, music lyrics, and poetry, Stuck Moving abandons anthropology's rigid genre conventions, suffocating solemnity, and enduring colonial model of extractive knowledge production. By satiTrade Review"Peter Benson takes his readers on a wild ride into the depths of his emotional turmoil and to the limits of his profession, propelled by writing that is genre-busting and beautiful." * American Anthropologist *Table of ContentsContents List of Figures Acknowledgments Author’s Note 1. Sixteen Candles 2. Lost in Translation 3. And Everything Is Going Fine 4. Murmur of the Heart 5. Do the Right Thing 6. Rushmore 7. Toy Story 8. Shame 9. Life Is Sweet 10. The Graduate 11. My Own Private Idaho 12. Boyhood 13. Broken Flowers 14. Stagecoach 15. The Red Balloon 16. Planet of the Apes Credits Bibliography Index
£22.50
University of California Press Weed Rules
Book SynopsisWith full legalization seeming inevitable, it's time to shift the conversationfrom whether recreational cannabis should be legalized to how. Weed Rules argues that it's time for states to abandon their grudging tolerance approach to legal weed and to embrace careful exuberance. In this thorough and witty book, law professor Jay Wexler invites policy makers to responsibly embrace the enormous benefits of cannabis, including the joy and euphoria it brings to those who use it. The grudging tolerance approach has led to restrictions that are too strict in some caseslimiting how and where cannabis can be used, cultivated, marketed, and soldand far too loose in others, allowing employers and police to discriminate against users. This book shows how focusing on joy and community can lead us to an equitable marijuana policy in which minority communities, most harmed by the war on drugs, play a leading role in the industry. Centering pleasure and fun as legitimate policy goals, Weed Rule
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Eating Disorders
Book SynopsisIn an extensively revised new edition of the successful Anorexia and Bulimia, Richard Gordon includes new information and discussion of the latest ideas in this rapidly growing research field. The past two decades have witnessed an enormous increase in the number of cases of eating disorders in industrial societies.Trade Review"He (Gordon) has successfully produced a very useful volume, which can be recommended as a primer which is readable, informative and well referenced...interesting and persuasive...coverage of the field is broad and most approaches are represented. A good read." Paul Robinson, European Eating Disorders Review, 2000, Vol 9, No 1.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements. Preface. 1. Culture and Psychopathology: The Notion of an Ethnic Disorder. 2. Eating Disorders: Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa. 3. Dimensions of an Epidemic: The Epidemiology of Eating Disorders. 4. A Conflicted Female Identity. 5. The Thin Body Ideal. 6. The War Against Fat: Obesity, Dieting, and Exercise. 7. The Templates of a Disease. 8. The Cultural Politics of Eating Disorders. Index.
£35.10
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Rethinking the Sociology of Mental Health
Book SynopsisRethinking the Sociology of Mental Health is a collection of original papers introducing new ways of thinking sociologically about the terrain of mental health. There are more general papers about mental health and mental health policy and papers about specific types of mental illness and particular policy issues such as dangerousness.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Rethinking the sociology of mental health: Joan Busfield. 2. Reason, emotion and embodiment: is 'mental' health a contradiction in terms?: Simon J. Williams. 3. Disability, impairment or illness? The relevance of the social model of disability to the study of mental disorder: Julie Mulvany. 4. 'It's a small world': mental health policy under welfare capitalism since 1945: Mick Carpenter. 5. Psychiatric diagnosis under conditions of uncertainty: personality disorder, science and professional legitimacy: Nick Manning. 6. A phenomenology of fear: Merleau-Ponty and agoraphobic life-worlds: Joyce Davidson. 7. Identifying delusional discourse: issues of rationality, reality and power: Derrol Palmer. 8. Civil commitment due to mental illness and dangerousness: the union of law and psychiatry within a treatment-control system: Bernadette Dallaire, Michael McCubbin, Paul Morin and David Cohen. 9. Rethinking professional prerogative: managed mental healthcare providers: Teresa L. Scheid.
£18.99
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Medical Work Medical Knowledge and Health Care
Book SynopsisIntroduces students of sociology and health care to the fields of medical knowledge and medical work. This book chronicles research in the field of medical knowledge, medical work and health care over the years. It summarises changes in how health care was delivered and how medical knowledge and practice were conceptualised in this period.Table of ContentsThe book is a collection of articles already published in the journal Sociology of Health & Illness, organised into 4 sections:. 1. Medical Knowledge, Diagnosis and Treatment. 2. Medical Power and the Patient. 3. The Division of Labour in Health Care Work. 4. Patient-Provider Interaction. These sections are prefaced by a substantial introductory chapter written by the editors entitled: 'Medical Work, Medical Knowledge and Health Care: Themes and Issues.'. Each section is preceded by an introductory discussion.
£22.79
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Relapse Prevention for Addictive Behaviours
Book SynopsisRelapse prevention applies cognitive-behavioural strategies and lifestyle procedures to treat people with addiction problems. Other available literature on relapse prevention tends to be theoretical in nature; this book fulfils the need for a practical manual showing how therapists should carry out this form of treatment. It is based on the actual experience of the authors in using relapse prevention methods and provides working details on the different topics to be covered in each group or individual session. ''Homework'' assignments are also provided and a chapter is devoted to ''trouble shooting'' - how to deal with the potential problems encountered in this type of therapy.Table of ContentsIntroductory overview;. Getting started;. Anxiety;. High-risk situations;. Thinking errors;. Psychological traps;. Assertion;. Decision making and problem solving;. Lifestyle balance;. Depression;. Putting it all together;. Troubleshooting
£41.75
Wiley Substance Use and Misuse
Book SynopsisSubstance Use and Misuse is a comprehensive and practical text that covers the core elements of substance use and misuse in both acute and community settings. The text reflects those areas in which health-care professionals are assuming greater responsibility for those people misusing psychoactive substances. It adopts a skills-orientated approach, providing a framework of good clinical practice and is written by a group of clinicians and academics. This book is an invaluable tool for undergraduate and postgraduate students, educators and clinical practitioners in all branches of nursing, midwifery and health visiting. It is also relevant to others in the healing professions as well as generic and specialist health-care professionals. * emphasis placed on prevention * an up-to-date, practical and comprehensive text for students and practitioners in health care * adopts a skills-orientated approach, supported by the latest research and case vignettes * writteTrade Review"This book will undoubtedly be useful to non-specialist nurses and all those new to the field of substance misuse It is in addition a useful reference guide to specialist nurses." Association of Nurses in Substance Abuse "This book is a well balanced, easy to read book and will be of interest to all Health Care Professionals, but may be especially informative to student nurses in helping them gain insight into the complex nature of substance misuse" Druglink “This book is an especially useful primer and resource for all nursing and healthcare specialties, but is an essential text for psychiatric nursing students and practitioners. Few books are available on this topic and none have represented the entire clinical issue as well.” Doody’s Rating 4-starTable of ContentsSection I - Understanding Substance Use and Misuse. Chapter 1. Introduction. Chapter 2. Concepts and Models. Chapter 3. Tobacco Smoking. Chapter 4. An Overview of Psychoactive Drugs. Chapter 5. Alcohol and Alcohol Related Problems. Chapter 6. It's Everybody's Business: the Responses of Health Care Professionals. Section II - Prevention, Recognition and Intervention. Chapter 7. Prevention and Health Education. Chapter 8. Screening and Generic Assessment. Chapter 9. An Overview of Intervention Strategies. Chapter 10. Service Provision for Substance Misusers. Section III - Generic Responses: Different Contexts and Settings. Chapter 11. Drug Use, Pregnancy and Care of the New-born. Chapter 12. Health Visiting and Substance Misuse. Chapter 13. Practice Nurse: Recognition and Early Interventions. Chapter 14. School Nursing and Substance Misuse. Chapter 15. Substance Misuse in the Accident and Emergency Department. Chapter 16. HIV, Hepatitis and Substance Misuse. Section IV - Addiction nursing: Specialist Responses. Chapter 17. Alcohol: Community Detoxification and Clinical Care. Chapter 18. Benzodiazepines: Clinical Care and Nursing Intervention. Chapter 19. Stimulants: Clinical Care and Nursing Interventions. Chapter 20. Opiate and Polydrug Use: Clinical Care and Nursing Intervention. Chapter 21. Nicotine Addiction: Health Care Interventions. Chapter 22. Working with Diverse Special Populations. Chapter 23. Working with Dual Diagnosis Clients. Chapter 24. Contemporary Issues in Addiction Nursing
£62.65
Harvard University Press Sensing the Self
Book SynopsisWhile many books describe the emotional and physical damage of eating disorders, this book describes recovery. Psychologist Sheila Reindl has listened intently to women's accounts of recovering and argues that people with bulimia nervosa need to develop a sense of self--to attune to their physical, psychic, and social self-experience.Trade ReviewSensing the Self is an eloquent and important book, potentially a turning point in the study of eating disorders. Its most original insight is highlighted in the title: the importance of coming to experience a sense of self, with the stress on sense rather than self. No other book so successfully combines psychodynamic understanding and a practical, systematic "how-to" approach. Reindl describes the impairments in sensing self-experience that lead to bulimia, the six essential elements that enable individuals to sense when enough is enough, the aspects of oneself that need to be sensed, including the "beast," and how one learns to sense self-experience. Her understanding of the way elements of bulimia can persist throughout life, and yet not ruin life, is simultaneously realistic and hopeful. Sensing the Self will appeal to therapists and patients alike, and for that matter, to all women who have struggled with eating and deep self-doubts about their bodies. -- Susan Sands, Ph.D., University of California, BerkeleySensing the Self is unique in that it goes beyond what any other study has attempted in terms of the depth of the interviews conducted and the thorough and compelling nature of Reindl's analysis. Reindl brings us back to our clinical senses in recognizing recovery as much more complicated than just the elimination of symptoms. This is a book which reasserts the importance of attending to and deeply understanding the self-experience of women struggling with bulimia nervosa, if we are truly to develop effective and enduring treatments, and ultimately, prevention strategies. -- Laura Weisberg, Ph.D., Harvard Medical SchoolShame is the villain and persistence the heroine in this analysis of 13 women who recovered from bulimia...Bolstering the stories of her subjects with other research and writings as well as her own clinical experience, the author detects a pattern that resembles, but does not mimic, the patterns of other addictions. What she found was a sense of shame, of being 'inadequate and bad'...[Sensing the Self] is sensitive, informative, and likely to be helpful to both client and therapist. * Kirkus Reviews *Completed by an appendix on research on recovery and a thorough list of references, Reindl's book will sit well in collections strong on women's issues as well as eating disorders per se. -- Whitney Scott * Booklist *Using clinical interviews conducted with women recovering from bulimia nervosa...Sheila Reindl has constructed a thought-provoking study that manages to be both scholarly and highly readable...In her clear analysis of the factors that contribute to the development of, and recovery from, bulimia, Reindl offers insights that will be appreciated by anyone who has experienced the ravages of an eating disorder either firsthand or through the suffering of a loved one...Distinguished by the respect and attention that Reindl pays to the voices of her subjects Sensing the Self ultimately succeeds in providing both clinicians and laypersons with an unusually patient-centered picture of the journey out of bulimia. -- Rebecca Sherman * Radcliffe Quarterly *In a field that is overflowing with theories and therapies, this book offers a useful set of tools and insights about bulimia. Reindl interviewed and studied 13 women who met the clinical criteria for bulimia nervosa. She found that these women had difficulty sensing self-experience. In order to improve and recover from their debilitating and destructive behaviors, they needed to engage in a process of self-discovery that involves nine key components. In addition to certain standard approaches, such as learning to listen to one's body, the author includes factors unique to working with this population...[Sensing the Self] provides a very good examination of the complex components and issues involved in this life-threatening illness. -- R. Kabatznick * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Coming to Their Senses 2. Sensing When Enough Is Enough 3. Physical, Psychic, and Social Self-Experience 4. Beauty and the Beast 5. Learning to Sense Self-Experience 6. Sensing Self through Relationship 7. Sustaining Recovery 8. Implications Appendix: Research on Recovery References Acknowledgments Index
£29.66
Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies A Line Drawn in the Sand
Book SynopsisKanki captures the determination of some African nations—including Botswana, Nigeria, Senegal, and Tanzania—to provide lifesaving antiretroviral therapies to their citizens. By emphasizing the dramatic results investments in AIDS treatments in Africa can bring, the book provides lessons to nations about scaling up their own treatment responses.
£23.36
Harvard University Press The Natural History of Alcoholism Revisited
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Princeton University Press The Enculturated Gene
Book SynopsisIn the 1980s, a research team led by Parisian scientists identified several unique DNA sequences, or haplotypes, linked to sickle cell anemia in African populations. This title traces how this genetic discourse has blotted from view the roles that Senegalese patients and doctors have played in making sickle cell 'mild' in a social setting.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2014 Robert B. Textor and Family Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology, American Anthropological Association Winner of the 2011 Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthropology, Royal Anthropological Institute "Duana Fullwiley has produced an extraordinary work that incorporates the insights of anthropology as well as science and technology studies of genetics and race. It is also exceptional in its multi-sited focus on Senegal and France, since many similar studies of genetics have tended to focus on the US and Europe."--Elisha P. Renne, Anthropological Quarterly "The Enculturated Gene is the product of over ten years of research beginning in the late 1990s. The book is stunning in its scope and attention to a full range of issues, from discoveries in the lab to knowledge production in the clinic to global health responses... By elucidating ethnographically the contingencies that have produced the local and global health responses to sickle cell disease, Fullwiley shows us that health policy is as much a product of culture and subjectivity as affective responses to physical and existential pain."--Carolyn Rouse, Medical Anthropology QuarterlyTable of ContentsList of Illustrations viii Preface ix Acknowledgments xxv Chapter One: Introduction: The Powers of Association 1 Chapter Two: Healthy Sicklers with "Mild" Disease: Local Illness Aff ects and Population- Level Eff ects 45 Chapter Three: The Biosocial Politics of Plants and People 77 Chapter Four: Attitudes of Care 119 Chapter Five: Localized Biologies: Mapping Race and Sickle Cell Difference in French West Africa 158 Chapter Six: Ordering Illness: Heterozygous "Trait" Suff ering in the Land of the Mild Disease 197 Chapter Seven: The Work of Patient Advocacy 221 Conclusion: Economic and Health Futures amid Hope and Despair 250 Notes 275 References 307 Index 329
£37.80
Princeton University Press Boundaries of Contagion
Book SynopsisExplores the political challenges of responding to a stigmatized condition, and identifies ethnic boundaries - the formal and informal institutions that divide societies - as a central influence on politics and policymaking.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2010 Giovanni Sartori Book Award, Qualitative Methods Section of the American Political Science Association One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2010 "Lieberman's methodologically eclectic study constitutes the most thorough cross-national examination of the politics of AIDS to date. It should be essential reading for people interested in the politics of AIDS, public health, and public policy making more generally."--Choice "Lieberman's book has the great merit of casting peremptory conclusions about HIV/AIDS implementation in national contexts, and, as such, it constitutes a landmark in the political analysis of epidemic response. Though being a scholarly book, it appeals to wider audience interested in major international social and development policy ... since it proposes thoroughly argued explanations for specific policy behaviors."--Ricardo Pereira, CEU Political Science JournalTable of ContentsIllustrations ix Abbreviations xi Preface xiii Chapter One: Introduction 1 The Puzzle Of Explaining Government Policy 5 AIDS as a Laboratory for Comparison: Politics in Really Hard Times 10 Outline of the Book 18 Chapter Two: A Theory of Boundary Politics and Alternative Explanations 25 Ethnic Boundaries 28 The Effect of Boundaries on Policymaking 35 Implications for AIDS Policy 42 Additional and Alternative Explanations 50 Conclusion 59 Chapter Three: Globalization and Global Governance of AIDS: The Geneva Consensus 61 The Rise of Asymmetric Global Health Governance 65 The Emergence of the Global Response to AIDS 72 The Content of the Geneva Consensus 86 The Limits of Consensus 106 Conclusion 107 Chapter Four: Partial and Alternative Explanations of Policy Divergence 125 The Effect of Boundary Institutions 142 Conclusion 171 Chapter Five: A Model-Testing Case Study of Strong Ethnic Boundaries and AIDS Policy in India 173 India's AIDS Epidemic 177 The Government's Response: Weak and Delayed 181 Explanation: The Role of Boundary Politics 193 Explaining Policy Variation across Indian States 220 Conclusions and Alternative Explanations 234 Chapter Six: Ethnic Boundaries and AIDS Policies around the World 239 The Data 240 Analysis and Discussion: Estimates of the Effect of Boundaries on AIDS Policy 261 Conclusion 288 Chapter Seven: Conclusion: Ethnic Boundaries or Cosmopolitanism? 292 Implications 295 Future Research 303 References 307 Index 331
£31.50
Princeton University Press Depression in Japan
Book SynopsisSince the 1990s, suicide in recession-plagued Japan has soared, and rates of depression have both increased and received greater public attention. This title explores how depression has become a national disease and entered the Japanese lexicon, and how psychiatry has overcome the longstanding resistance to its intrusion in Japanese life.Trade ReviewCo-Winner of the 2013 Frances Hsu Prize, Society for East Asian Anthropology "Medical anthropology, with its propensity to theoretise and problemise issues and refer endlessly to other work and concepts with which the reader will not be familiar, is for many outsiders almost as impenetrable as Japanese psychiatry. Putting the two together should be a recipe for disaster, but in Junko Kitanaka's hands, this book is instead a triumph, perhaps even a classic."--David Healy, Times Higher Education "Depression in Japan sets a high methodological and analytic standard for pursuing answers to vital questions."--Kalman Applbaum, Anthropological Quarterly "[C]ompelling and challenging work... [T]his is a thought-provoking book that should be of interest to historians, anthropologists, and clinicians."--Susan L. Burns, Journal of Japanese StudiesTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Chapter One: Introduction: Local Forces of Medicalization 1 Part One: Depression in History 19 Chapter Two: Reading Emotions in the Body: The Premodern Language of Depression 23 Chapter Three: The Expansion of Psychiatry into Everyday Life 40 Chapter Four: Pathology of Overwork or Personality Weakness?: The Rise of Neurasthenia in Early-Twentieth-Century Japan 54 Chapter Five: Socializing the "Biological" in Depression: Japanese Psychiatric Debates about Typus Melancholicus 67 Part Two: Depression in Clinical Practice 83 Chapter Six: Containing Reflexivity: The Interdiction against Psychotherapy for Depression 89 Chapter Seven: Diagnosing Suicides of Resolve 107 Chapter Eight: The Gendering of Depression and the Selective Recognition of Pain 129 Part Three: Depression in Society 151 Chapter Nine: Advancing a Social Cause through Psychiatry: The Case of Overwork Suicide 155 Chapter Ten: The Emergent Psychiatric Science of Work: Rethinking the Biological and the Social 174 Chapter Eleven: The Future of Depression: Beyond Psychopharmaceuticals 193 References 201 Index 231
£28.80
Princeton University Press Selling Our Souls
Book SynopsisHealth care costs make up nearly a fifth of US gross domestic product, but health care is a peculiar thing to buy and sell. This book looks at the contradictions inherent in one particular health care market - hospital care.Trade ReviewOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015 "This book is an important resource for academic audiences and professionals in the health disciplines as well as those in the social sciences."--Choice "Kudos to Adam Reich for this well-researched book! Students of medical sociology, as well as health management and policy, will find Selling Our Souls useful."--Okori Uneke, Ph.D., International Social Science Review "Reich has written an excellent book."--Hengameh Hosseini, Political Science QuarterlyTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 PART ONE PubliCare Rebuffs the Market 19 Chapter 1 Health Care for All 26 Chapter 2 Privileged Servants 48 Chapter 3 Feels Like Home 59 PART TWO HolyCare Moralizes the Market 71 Chapter 4 Sacred Encounters 78 Chapter 5 Good Business 95 Chapter 6 The Martyred Heart 109 PART THREE GroupCare Tames the Market 123 Chapter 7 Flourishing 127 Chapter 8 Disciplined Doctors 147 Chapter 9 PARTnership 171 Conclusion 189 Acknowledgments 199 A Note on Methods 201 Notes 205 Bibliography 213 Index 221
£36.00
Princeton University Press Biomedical Odysseys
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the 2018 Francis L.K. Hsu Book Prize, Society for East Asian Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association"Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi 1 Introduction 1 I Online Mediations 21 Interlude: Planet Paralyzed 23 2 Mobilizing the Paralyzed Online 25 3 Cyberanatomies of Hope 49 4 Where the Virtual Becomes Visceral 73 II Chinese Experiments 99 Interlude: Ode to Olfactory Ensheathing Cells 101 5 Medical Entrepreneurs 105 6 Borderline Tactics 132 III Heterogeneous Evidence 155 Interlude: Clinical Outcomes 157 7 Seeking Truth from Facts 158 8 i-Witnessing 181 Epilogue: On the Cutting Edge 197 Glossary of Chinese Terms 207 Notes 211 Bibliography 241 Index 287
£25.20
Princeton University Press The Genome Factor What the Social Genomics
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Co-Winner of the 2018 Best Book Award, Evolution, Biology, and Society Section, American Sociological Association""Winner of the 2018 Otis Dudley Duncan Award, Section on Population of the American Sociological Association"
£18.00
MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Indian Gaming and Tribal Sovereignty
Book SynopsisProviding a clear account of the laws and politics of Indian gaming, this book explains how it has become one of the most politically charged phenomena: at stake are a host of competing legal rights and political interests for tribal, state, and federal governments. This book uses examples that reflect a wide range of tribal experience.Trade Review“Light and Rand have studied the history, legalities, economics, politics, and social issues surrounding Indian casinos to produce this readable and highly informative volume. Their work, the most significant and comprehensive book on the subject to date, remarkably examines and documents from both Indian and non-Indian perspectives the wide array of concerns, public policy shifts, and sovereignty issues that have surfaced in the wake of the ever-increasing visibility of Native American casinos. Highly recommended.”—Choice“The best book on Indian gaming to date. . . . Belongs in every serious American Indian studies collection.”—Wicazo Sa Review: A Journal of Native American Studies
£19.90
McGill-Queen's University Press A Sadly Troubled History
Book SynopsisMore people die by suicide each year than by homicide, wars, and terrorist attacks combined. Witnesses and survivors are left perplexed and troubled. Doctors, clinical psychologists, and social workers try to deal with it through their professional routines; sociologists and psychiatrists attempt to provide theoretical explanations of it. In a study of nearly 7000 suicides from 1900 to 1950 in New Zealand and Queensland, Australia, John Weaver documents the challenges that ordinary people experienced during turbulent times and, using witnesses'' testimony, death bed statements, and suicide notes, reconstructs individuals'' thoughts as they decide whether to endure their suffering. Bridging social and medical history, Weaver presents an intellectual and political history of suicide studies, a revealing construction and deconstruction of suicide rates, a discussion of gender, life stages, and socio-economic circumstances in relation to suicide patterns, reflections on reasoning processes
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McGill-Queen's University Press Working Bodies
Book SynopsisAn informative look at the experience of navigating the Canadian workplace while living with chronic illness.Trade Review"Working Bodies is a major contribution to research in the field of chronic illness and injury, especially in addressing work-related issues for those impacted. The notion that lived experience for those with chronic illness, especially at work is 'capricious' and 'laced with uncertainty' is so true and is captured very well in this important and immensely readable collection." Margaret H. Vickers, School of Business, University of Western Sydney
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University of British Columbia Press Intoxicating Manchuria
Book SynopsisIn China, both opium and alcohol were used for centuries in the pursuit of health and leisure while simultaneously linked to personal and social decline. The impact of these substances is undeniable, and the role they have played in Chinese social, cultural, and economic history is extremely complex.In Intoxicating Manchuria, Norman Smith reveals how warlord rule, Japanese occupation, and political conflict affected local intoxicant industries. These industries flourished throughout the early twentieth century, even as a vigorous anti-intoxicant movement raged. Through the lens of popular Chinese media depictions of alcohol and opium, Smith analyzes how intoxicants and addiction were understood in this society, the role the Japanese occupation of Manchuria played in their portrayal, and the efforts made to reduce opium and alcohol consumption. This is the first English-language book-length study to focus on alcohol use in modern China and the first dealing with intoxTable of ContentsIntroduction1 Alcohol and Opium in China2 Manchurian Context3 Evaluating Alcohol4 Selling Alcohol, Selling Modernity5 Writing Intoxicant Consumption6 The Hostess Scare7 Reasoning Addiction, Taking the Cures8 The Opium Monopoly’s “Interesting Discussion”ConclusionGlossaryNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of British Columbia Press Thinking Differently about HIVAIDS
Book SynopsisAlmost four decades after the discovery of HIV/AIDS, Thinking Differently about HIV/AIDS: Contributions from Critical Social Science demonstrates the essential role of critical social science in helping us understand the complexity of the epidemic and develop appropriate solutions.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Knowing and Responding to HIV/AIDS Differently / Eric Mykhalovskiy and Viviane NamastePart 1: Critical Dispositions1 On the Possibility of Being Governed Otherwise: Exploring Foucault’s Legacy for Critical Social Science Studies in the Field of HIV/AIDS / Adrian Guta and Stuart J. Murray2 Tracking Treatment Adherence: Should Critical Social Scientific Accounts of HIV Theorize Non-Human Actants? / Martin French3 Institutional Ethnography as a Critical Research Strategy: Access, Engagement, and Implications for HIV/AIDS Research / Daniel Grace4 Conversation Analysis and Critical Social Science: The Interactional Organization of HIV-Positive Disclosures / Jeffrey P. Aguinaldo5 Indigenous Knowing in HIV Research in Canada: A Reflexive Dialogue / Randy JacksonPart 2: Empirical Case Studies6 Thinking Critically about HIV Prevention for Gay and Bisexual Men / Barry D. Adam7 Undetectable Optimism: The Science of Gay Male Sexual Risk-Taking and Serosorting in the Context of Uncertain Knowledge of Viral Load / Mark Gaspar8 A Critical Case-Study Analysis of the Logic and Practices of Prescribing HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) to At-Risk Adolescents / Chris Sanders, Jill Owczarzak and Andrew Petroll9 The Social Relations of Disclosure: Critical Reflections on the Community-Based Response to HIV Criminalization / Colin Hastings10 Epidemiology, the Media, and Vancouver’s Public Health Emergency: A Critical Ethnography / Denielle ElliottConclusion / Viviane Namaste and Eric MykhalovskiyList of Contributors; Index
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University of British Columbia Press Thinking Differently about HIVAIDS
Book SynopsisAlmost four decades after the discovery of HIV/AIDS, Thinking Differently about HIV/AIDS: Contributions from Critical Social Science demonstrates the essential role of critical social science in helping us understand the complexity of the epidemic and develop appropriate solutions.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Knowing and Responding to HIV/AIDS Differently / Eric Mykhalovskiy and Viviane NamastePart 1: Critical Dispositions1 On the Possibility of Being Governed Otherwise: Exploring Foucault’s Legacy for Critical Social Science Studies in the Field of HIV/AIDS / Adrian Guta and Stuart J. Murray2 Tracking Treatment Adherence: Should Critical Social Scientific Accounts of HIV Theorize Non-Human Actants? / Martin French3 Institutional Ethnography as a Critical Research Strategy: Access, Engagement, and Implications for HIV/AIDS Research / Daniel Grace4 Conversation Analysis and Critical Social Science: The Interactional Organization of HIV-Positive Disclosures / Jeffrey P. Aguinaldo5 Indigenous Knowing in HIV Research in Canada: A Reflexive Dialogue / Randy JacksonPart 2: Empirical Case Studies6 Thinking Critically about HIV Prevention for Gay and Bisexual Men / Barry D. Adam7 Undetectable Optimism: The Science of Gay Male Sexual Risk-Taking and Serosorting in the Context of Uncertain Knowledge of Viral Load / Mark Gaspar8 A Critical Case-Study Analysis of the Logic and Practices of Prescribing HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) to At-Risk Adolescents / Chris Sanders, Jill Owczarzak and Andrew Petroll9 The Social Relations of Disclosure: Critical Reflections on the Community-Based Response to HIV Criminalization / Colin Hastings10 Epidemiology, the Media, and Vancouver’s Public Health Emergency: A Critical Ethnography / Denielle ElliottConclusion / Viviane Namaste and Eric MykhalovskiyList of Contributors; Index
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University of British Columbia Press Screening Out HIV Testing and the Canadian
Book SynopsisA critical, compassionate, and highly readable narrative-driven analysis, this is the first-ever inquiry into how the Canadian immigration medical program works in practice to screen out people with HIV.Trade ReviewLaura Bisaillon’s Screening Out is a brilliant and much needed study of one barely known aspect of the Canadian immigration system: the medical screening of immigration applicants and the mandatory testing for HIV. -- Valentina Capurri, Toronto Metropolitan University * Canadian Journal of Disability Studies *Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1 “Good Chickens” and “Bad Chickens”: The Immigration Application2 “It would be great to have you move to Canada”: The Medical Examination3 “It was just a form. I did not get a copy”: The Immigration DoctorConclusionNotes; Index
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University of British Columbia Press Screening Out
Book SynopsisA critical, compassionate, and highly readable narrative-driven analysis, this is the first-ever inquiry into how the Canadian immigration medical program works in practice to screen out people with HIV.Trade ReviewLaura Bisaillon’s Screening Out is a brilliant and much needed study of one barely known aspect of the Canadian immigration system: the medical screening of immigration applicants and the mandatory testing for HIV. -- Valentina Capurri, Toronto Metropolitan University * Canadian Journal of Disability Studies *Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1 “Good Chickens” and “Bad Chickens”: The Immigration Application2 “It would be great to have you move to Canada”: The Medical Examination3 “It was just a form. I did not get a copy”: The Immigration DoctorConclusionNotes; Index
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University of British Columbia Press Global Health Security in China Japan and India
Book SynopsisGlobal Health Security in China, Japan, and India uses the targets set by the UN Sustainable Development Goals to conduct an impressively thorough assessment of coordinated health care in three major Asian countries.Table of ContentsForeword / Pitman B. PotterIntroduction: Framing Global Health Security in China, Japan and India Using the Sustainable Development Goals / Lesley A. Jacobs, Yoshitaka Wada, and Ilan VertinskyPart 1: Strengthening Access to Health Services1 Providing Access to Affordable Medicines and Health Care for All in China / Wenqin Liang and Ilan Vertinsky2 Mixed Billing and New Medicine in Japan: Will Lifting the Ban on Mixed Billing Improve Access to Health Care or Crash the System? / Yoshitaka Wada3 Health for All: Can India Meet Its International Human Rights Obligations? / Tiffany Chua, Marc McCrum, and Ilan VertinskyPart 2: Protecting and Promoting Public Health4 Linking Public Health Targets of the Sustainable Development Goals to Human Rights Performance in China / Lesley A. Jacobs5 Moving Japan Towards the Global Standard for Vaccines / Toshimi Nakanashi6 Global Health Standards and Food Security: Exploring the Double Science Standard of Review Under the SPS Agreement after India – Agricultural Products / Mariela de AmstaldenPart 3: Engaging and Integrating Global Markets in Primary Health Care and Public Health7 Does China National Tobacco Corporation Threaten Global Public Health? / Jennifer Fang, Kelley Lee, and Nidhi Sejpal Pouranik8 Exit and Voice Strategies by Patients in Dealing with Incentive Structures in the Chinese Healthcare System / Neil Munro and Ziying He9 Global Markets in Medicine: Japan’s Health Care Service Exports to Singapore and India / Hiroyuki KojinReferences; Contributors; Index
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University of British Columbia Press AntiAsian Racism and the COVID19 Pandemic in Canada
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John Wiley & Sons Inc The UCSF AIDS Health Project Guide to Counseling
Book SynopsisThis text comprises specific counselling approaches to help HIV positive people live with their illness. Also discussed is familiarity with specific techniques to treat AIDS clients experiencing substance abuse problems, personality disorders, and other dual diagnoses.Trade Review"This practical and state-of-the-art compAndium is a rich resourcethat should be a ?must read' for every health professional workingin the field of HIV.... The book is bound to instantaneously becomethe standard against which other books in the field will bejudged." (Michael Shernoff, editor of The Second Decade of AIDS: AMental Health Practice Handbook and Counseling Chemically DependentPeople with HIV Illness) "This is a startling book which eloquently presents insight andguidance on all levels of counseling around HIV issues....Thorough, articulate, practical, and shows a depth of understandingwhich can only emerge at the confluence of excellent academia andextensive experience." (Lorraine Sherr, Churchill Fellow, RoyalFree Hospital School of Medicine, University College London MedicalSchool) "This volume is authored and compiled by some of the mostexperienced and thoughtful authorities in the field. In itsdetailed consideration of the behavioral aspects of thetransmission and the mental health consequences of HIV infection,this volume provides an invaluable and welcome resource." (RichardW. Price, chief, neurology service, San Francisco General Hospitaland professor of neurology, University of California San Francisco)Table of ContentsPart I: Risk and Behavior: Helping Clients Remain Uninfected. 1. Harm Reduction and Client-Centered Counseling. 2. Counseling and Testing: Behavior Change and Mental Health. 3. Behavior Change Theory and HIV Prevention. 4. Moral and Psychological Development. 5. Prevention and Culture: Working Downhill to Change HIV RiskBehavior. 6. Substance Use Case Management and Harm Reduction Guide. Part II: Transformation and Psychotherapy: Helping Clients Livewith HIV. 7. Disease as an Agent of Transformation: A Survey of PsychologicalApproaches. 8. The Role of Psychotherapy in Coping the HIV Disease. 9. HIV Disease over the Long Haul: Hope, Uncertainty, andSurvival. 10. Beyond Stereotypes: Stigmas and the Counseling Process. Part III: Distress and Disorder: Helping Clients with PsychiatricConditions. 11. Anxiety and Depression: Mood and HIV Disease. 12. The Clinical Management of AIDS Bereavement. 13. Personality Disorders and HIV Disease: The Case of theBorderline Client. 14. The Wild Care of Triple Diagnosis: HIV, Mental Illness, andSubstance Abuse. 15. The Diagnosis and Management of HIV-Related Organic MentalDisorders. Part IV: Therapeutic Practice and Countertransference: PersonalChallenges for Therapists. 16. Present in the Balance of Time: The Therapist'sChallenge. 17. Making Difficult Decisions: Suicide and AIDS. 18. Multiple Loss and the Grief of Working in the Epidemic.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc The Meaning of Addiction
Book SynopsisA controversial and persuasive analysis of addiction A tour de force, a spectacular effort of research andunderstanding. This book gives us the courage to bypass diseasenotions to deal with intrapsychic, family system, and social andcultural dynamics in addiction. ?David Cook, Counseling and Psychological Services, University ofWisconsin This compelling and controversial book challenges the widelyaccepted belief that alcohol and drug addiction have a genetic orbiological basis. The so-called disease theory suggests that a substance or activity can cause the addict to losecontrol of his behavior. Stanton Peele demonstrates how this notionfails to make sense of scientific observations. Analyzing studies of drug and cigarette addiction, alcoholism,obesity, and other potential compulsions such as running and sex,Peele reveals the surprising frequency of self-cure as part of theevidence. The author finds that compulsive habits and depAndencyare a way of coTrade Review"A tour de force, a spectacular effort of research andunderstanding. This book gives us the courage to bypass diseasenotions to deal with intrapsychic, family system, and social andcultural dynamics in addiction." (David Cook, Counseling andPsychological Services, University of Wisconsin) "The Meaning of Addiction presented a new paradigm of addiction.The field has since become more open to the kind of complex,contextual view of addiction and compulsive behavior that itpresents. Nonetheless, it remains the classic source for expressingthis point of view." (Archie Brodsky, Department of Psychiatry,Harvard Medical School) "Peele's theory of 'addiction as an experience' in The Meaning ofAddiction remains a pathbreaking one that offers readers anaccessible and empowering understanding of their own experiences,desires, and addictions. For understanding addictions, Peele is inmy view (and for my courses on this subject) still the source ofall sources." (Richard J. DeGrandpre, Department of Psychology, St.Michael's College, Burlington, Vermon) "Stanton Peele's books have been instrumental in helping meunderstand my own underlying causes of addiction and how, howeverwell-intentioned the 12-step model is, it led me to focus on thewrong aspects of addiction." (Marianne Gilliam, author, HowAlcoholics Anonymous Failed Me) "Offers a thought-provoking, insightful, and controversialperspective on the etiology of addictive behaviors. Peelechallenges the biological model and provides an importantalternative view on addictive behaviors. The Meaning of Addictionshould be required reading for students and professionals alike."(Kim Fromme, Department of Psychology, University of Texas) "Given the extraordinary, but largely unsubstantiated, confidencethat many in both the public an professional ranks have insimplistic conceptualizations of addictive behavior, it isreassuring that sophisticated and provocative alternatives such asthose proposed by Stanton Peele in The Meaning of Addiction surfacefrom time to time. It offers hope for constructive change byputting reason an choice back into the addiction formula." (Alan R.Lang, Department of Psychology, Florida State University) "This is a book to be read slowly, to be taken seriously, and to bedebated hotly by every professional in the field. This wholesubject is one of the major medical political and society problemsof our civilization, and we seem unable to find any workablesolution." (John A. Owen, Jr., M.D., Professor of InternalMedicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine)Table of ContentsThe Concept of Addiction: Opiate Addiction in the United States andthe Western World Divergent Evidence about Narcotic AddictionNonbiological Factors in Addiction The Nature of Addiction. The American Image of Alcohol: Does Liquor Have the Power toCorrupt and Control?: The Disease of Alcoholism Historical, Social,Ethnic, and Economic Factors in Alcoholism in the United States TheSocial Science Challenge to Disease Theory Controlled-DrinkingTherapy for Alcoholism. Theories of Addiction: Stanton Peele and Bruce K. Alexander GeneticTheories Exposure Theories: Biological Models Exposure Theories:Conditioning Models Adaptation Theories The Requirements of aSuccessful Theory of Addiction. Adult, Infant, and Animal Addiction: Bruce K. Alexander, StantonPeele, Patricia F. Hadaway, Stanley J. Morse, Archie Brodsky, andBarry L. Beyerstein. Addiction to an Experience: Elements of the Addictive ExperienceSusceptibility to Addiction and the Choice of Addictive Object:Social and Cultural Factors Susceptibility to and Choice ofAddiction: Situational Factors Susceptibiltity to and Choice ofAddiction: Individual Factors Susceptibility to and Choice ofAddiction: Developmental Factors The Nature of Addiction: TheAddiction Cycle. The Impaired Society: The Narcotic Connection--Supply and DemandThe Negative Effects of the Belief in Chemical Dependence Can WeTreat Away the Drug Problem? The Alcoholism and Chemical DependenceIndustry Spreading Diseases The Cure for Addiction.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc The First Session with Substance Abusers
Book SynopsisIt is during the critical first session with substance abusers that clinicians have the first, and all too often the last, opportunity to break through the wall of denial and create an atmosphere of trust that is so crucial to changing behavior. Written by a father-daughter team of clinical psychologists, The First Session with Substance Abusers outlines a proven plan for conducting an initial session that can uncover substance abuse problems with clients no matter how resistant or manipulative they may be. Applying the methods outlined in this book, psychologists and health professionals can use the first session to assess and evaluate the depth and duration of the substance abuse problem and motivate the client to begin the most appropriate form of treatment.Trade Review"Therapists may have failed to detect underlying addictions because they had no compelling model for assessment and treatment. Cummings and Cummings illuminate this previously murky area and provide an easy-to-follow beacon for clinicians of all persuasions. My highest recommAndation." (Jeffrey K. Zeig, director, The Milton H. Erickson Foundation) "Full of insights and pearls of clinical wisdom. The Cummings' experience spans over five decades-they have seen trAnds come and go, and as a result they have rather solid information as to what truly works. Also, since a substantial number of clients seen in psychotherapy settings have substance abuse problems unknown to the therapist, the effective and modern clinician cannot afford not to have this book nearby." (J. Lawrence Thomas, neuropsychologist, New York University Medical Center, and author of Do You Have Attention Deficit Disorder?) "The First Session with Substance Abusers is a book built on the authors' combined 50 years of rich clinical experience. The father-daughter team of Drs. Nick and Janet Cummings have written a book full of practical suggestions, anecdotes, stories, and sage perceptions. For all of those working in the field of substance abuse treatment, this book provides a clear point of view and specific ideas about ways to carry out the challenging task of treating substance abuse." (Simon H. Budman, president, Innovative Training Systems, Inc., and assistant professor, Harvard Medical School and staff, Children's Hospital, Boston) "Drs. Cummings skillfully describe the biopsychosocial ramifications of substance abuse. Anyone who treats substance abusers but is not fully familiar with the facts that this book so eloquently documents is bound to bypass significant assessment-treatment processes-to the detriment of their patients and themselves." (Arnold A. Lazarus, distinguished professor emeritus of psychology, Rutgers University) "This book is a worthwhile addition to the book shelves of addiction counsellors and health professionals in general." (Addiction Today, September 2001)Table of ContentsForeword, Jeanne Albronda Heaton. Introduction. Who Is the Substance Abuser? Presenting Problems: Different Tugs from Different Drugs. Identifying the Problem in the First Session. Modalities of Treatment. Diagnostic and Treatment Considerations. Establishing the Therapeutic Alliance. Further Interviewing Strategies: The Games. The First Interview with the Enabler. Countertransference: Denial Is a Two-Way Street. Appendix. Suggested Readings. The Authors.
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Cornell University Press The Socioeconomic Dimensions of HIVAIDS in Africa
Book SynopsisSince the 1980s HIV/AIDS has occupied a singular position because of the rapidly emergent threat and devastation the disease has caused, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. New infections continue to create a formidable challenge to households, communities, and health systems: last year alone, 2.7 million new infections occurred globally. Sub-Saharan Africa remains the epicenter of the suffering, with around two-thirds of infected individuals worldwide found there, and a disproportionate number of deaths and new infections.For years there have been widespread and concerted efforts to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS, identify a cure, and understand and mitigate the deleterious social and economic ramifications of the disease. Despite these efforts, and some apparent successes, there is still a long way to go in terms of altering behaviors in order to realize the objective of dramatic reductions in the spread of HIV/AIDS in Africa. The authors in this volume examine the HIV/AIDSTable of ContentsIntroduction by David E. SahnChapter 1. HIV/AIDS, Economic Growth, Inequality By Markus HaackerChapter 2. Governing a World with HIV and AIDS: An Unfinished Success Story by Alex de WaalChapter 3. Microeconomic Perspectives on the Impacts of HIV/AIDS by Kathleen Beegle, Markus Goldstein, and Harsha ThirumurthyChapter 4. The AIDS Epidemic, Nutrition, Food Security, and Livelihoods: Review of Evidence in Africa by Suneetha Kadiyala and Antony ChapotoChapter 5. The Relationship between HIV Infection and Education: An Analysis of Six Sub-Saharan African Countries by Damien de Walque and Rachel KlineChapter 6. Back to Basics: Gender, Social Norms, and the AIDS Epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa by Susan Cotts WatkinsChapter 7. The Fight against AIDS in the Larger Context: The End of "AIDS Exceptionalism" by Roger EnglandChapter 8. Prevention Failure: The Ballooning Entitlement Burden of U.S. Global AIDS Treatment Spending and What to Do About It by Mead OverChapter 9. HIV Prevention in Africa: What Has Been Learned? by Peter GlickChapter 10. Treating Ourselves to Trouble? The Impact of HIV Treatment in Africa: Lessons from the Industrial World by Elizabeth Pisani
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MB - Cornell University Press The Viral Network
Book SynopsisIn The Viral Network, Theresa MacPhail examines our collective fascination with and fear of viruses through the lens of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. In April 2009, a novel strain of H1N1 influenza virus resulting from a combination of bird, swine, and human flu viruses emerged in Veracruz, Mexico. The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) announced an official end to the pandemic in August 2010. Experts agree that the global death toll reached 284,500. The public health response to the pandemic was complicated by the simultaneous economic crisis and by the public scrutiny of official response in an atmosphere of widespread connectivity. MacPhail follows the H1N1 influenza virus''s trajectory through time and space in order to construct a three-dimensional picture of what happens when global public health comes down with a case of the flu.The Viral Network affords a rare look inside the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, as well as Hong Kong's virology labs Trade ReviewThe author brings to light some very important issues associated with disease outbreaks that are worthy of dicsussion, and she offers a unique perspective on pandemic responses. Those with a particular interest in medical anthropology would likely enjoy this perspective. -- Sarah Bevins * BioScience *Table of ContentsPrologue to a Pathography1. Seeing the Past or Telling the Future?: On the Origins of Pandemics and the Phylogeny of Viral Expertise2. The Invisible Chapter (Work in the Lab)3. Quarantine, Epidemiological Knowledge, and Infectious Disease Research in Hong Kong4. The Siren's Song of Avian Influenza: A Brief History of Future Pandemics5. The Predictable Unpredictability of Viruses and the Concept of "Strategic Uncertainty"6. The Anthropology of Good Information: Data Deluge, Knowledge, and Context in Global Public Health7. The Heretics of Microbiology: Charisma, Expertise, Disbelief, and the Production of KnowledgeEpilogue Notes References
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University of Toronto Press Cannabis
Book SynopsisWith innovative scientific investigation and bold recommendations, this report, prefaced by Senator Nolin, is an indispensable tool in the national and international debate surrounding cannabis.
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University of Toronto Press Chasing Dragons
Book SynopsisChasing Dragons discusses avenues for resisting the insecurity produced by liberal states in the post-9/11 world. This critical approach reveals the pervasiveness of power in contemporary Canadian society, how this power is hidden, and the consequences for progressive social politics.
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MY - University of Toronto Press Jailed for Possession
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John Wiley & Sons In League Against King Alcohol Native American
Book SynopsisDrawing on the WCTU’s national records as well as state and regional organizational newspaper accounts and official state histories, historian Thomas John Lappas unearths the story of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union in Indian country. His work reveals how Native American women embraced a type of social, economic, and political progress.
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University of Pennsylvania Press Addiction and Devotion in Early Modern England
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Addiction and Devotion performs valuable scholarly work by recovering a lost history of addiction, and illuminating a wide range of cultural attitudes both towards specific addictive practices and towards different forms of addiction as determined by the relationship of the addict to their object." * Renaissance and Reformation *"Addiction and Devotion in Early Modern England simultaneously dismantles the modern, medical definition of addiction as pathology and expertly reconstructs an image of early modern addiction as a confluence between material and immaterial phenomena…[This book] will certainly appeal to scholars of Shakespearean drama looking for nuanced rebuttals of individual sovereignty in canonical plays. More broadly, it will speak to early modernists in search of the period’s potential for disrupting and recomposing historical teleologies. In this regard, Lemon’s book heartily deserves a glass raised in its honor." * Comitatus *"[Addiction and Devotion in Early Modern England] succeeds in unfolding changing understandings of addiction, drawing attention to its forgotten links to devotion. Lemon amply demonstrates that addiction involved abandonment to something beyond oneself: God; the beloved; a community or cause; a substance… In prompting scholars to pay closer attention to the word’s implications, the work performs valuable service. Readers are unlikely to take the term or concept for granted in future." * Parergon *"Rebecca Lemon presents a compelling, richly substantiated treatment of early modern cultures of addiction that offers genuinely new perspectives. Charting the development of the modern sense of addiction while at the same time attending to its early modern senses as something laudable, even heroic, Addiction and Devotion in Early Modern England is an important intervention." * Adam Smyth, University of Oxford *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction. Addiction in (Early) Modernity Chapter 1. Scholarly Addiction in Doctor Faustus Chapter 2. Addicted Love in Twelfth Night Chapter 3. Addicted Fellowship in Henry IV Chapter 4. Addiction and Possession in Othello Chapter 5. Addictive Pledging from Shakespeare and Jonson to Cavalier Verse Epilogue. Why Addiction? Notes Works Cited Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press Before AIDS
Book SynopsisThe AIDS crisis of the 1980s looms large in recent histories of sexuality, medicine, and politics, and justly so—an unknown virus without a cure ravages an already persecuted minority, medical professionals are unprepared and sometimes unwilling to care for the sick, and a national health bureaucracy is slow to invest resources in finding a cure. Yet this widely accepted narrative, while accurate, creates the impression that the gay community lacked any capacity to address AIDS. In fact, as Katie Batza demonstrates in this path-breaking book, there was already a well-developed network of gay-health clinics in American cities when the epidemic struck, and these clinics served as the first responders to the disease. Before AIDS explores this heretofore unrecognized story, chronicling the development of a national gay health network by highlighting the origins of longstanding gay health institutions in Boston, Chicago, and Los Angeles, placing them in a larger political coTrade Review"[A] highly compelling, important book . . . Katie Batza's Before AIDS dramatically expands our portrait of the gay 1970s and of the relationships between gay liberation, the US state, and the politics of health. Through three case studies and a tightly argued, absorbingly written analysis, Batza shows that health activism was central to gay politics well before the beginning of the AIDS epidemic." * Journal of the History of Sexuality *"Before AIDS is the first book to chart the development of a national gay health network in the 1970s. Katie Batza's insightful and compelling analysis makes valuable contributions to the history of sexuality, LGBTQ studies, the history of medicine, and American political history." * Tamar Carroll, Rochester Institute of Technology *"Well-conceived, deftly argued, and based on an impressive range of primary materials, oral interviews, and a good command of the secondary literature, Before AIDS brings fresh light and perspective to the wider field of the history of sexuality in the United States." * Jonathan Bell, University College London *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Preface Introduction. Fighting Epidemics and Ignorance Chapter 1. Reimagining Gay Liberation Chapter 2. Beyond Gay Liberation Chapter 3. Gay Health Harnesses the State Chapter 4. Redefining Gay Health Chapter 5. The Gay Health Network Meets AIDS Epilogue. AIDS and the State Enmeshed Notes Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press The Age of Intoxication
Book SynopsisEating the flesh of an Egyptian mummy prevents the plague. Distilled poppies reduce melancholy. A Turkish drink called coffee increases alertness. Tobacco cures cancer. Such beliefs circulated in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, an era when the term drug encompassed everything from herbs and spices—like nutmeg, cinnamon, and chamomile—to such deadly poisons as lead, mercury, and arsenic. In The Age of Intoxication, Benjamin Breen offers a window into a time when drugs were not yet separated into categories—illicit and licit, recreational and medicinal, modern and traditional—and there was no barrier between the drug dealer and the pharmacist.Focusing on the Portuguese colonies in Brazil and Angola and on the imperial capital of Lisbon, Breen examines the process by which novel drugs were located, commodified, and consumed. He then turns his attention to the British Empire, arguing that it owed much of its success in this period to its usTrade Review"Everybody must get stoned: That's the great lesson of history, driven home by this elucidating survey . . . Breen makes a fine case for his title, which he suggests is more appropriate than the Age of Reason-and for reasons good and true . . . A provocative examination of the history of exploration as a quest for new and improved ways to change our minds." * Kirkus Reviews *"Analyzing psychoactive and medicinal substances together enables this elegantly and evocatively written book to challenge historical assumptions about drugs and more recent legal divisions between illicit and licit, recreational and medicinal . . . Breen's approach allows The Age of Intoxication to make significant contributions to the histories of science and empire, as well as cultural histories of difference making more broadly." * The William and Mary Quarterly *"The Age of Intoxication is extensively researched, full of fascinating details, and told in accessible, entertaining prose. With chapters drawing from Mesoamerica, Africa, Europe, and South Asia, it elucidates the far reaches of the Portuguese drug trade and the centrality of non-European actors...[T]he book tells a convincing story about the cultural construction of mind-altering substances across the early modern globe. It is a thoroughly enjoyable read and an important addition to the scholarship on early modern pharmaceuticals." * Isis *"This book effectively challenges the historical concept of 'The Age of Reason' to describe the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as instead 'The Age of Intoxication.' [A] provocative volume...Breen ultimately reconstructs the rise of drugs, both licit and illicit, and their entanglement with the rise of global capitalism and empire [and] illustrates how modern societies hold fears of certain drugs and not others. " * Journal of Modern History *"Nature gives us opium poppies and Cannabis sativa; culture turns them into overprescribed opioids and overcriminalized dime bags. In his important new book, Benjamin Breen argues that all decisions about intoxicants are judgments about cultural difference, with roots in the early modern imperialism that spun many drugs into global circulation in the first place. The Age of Intoxication is a lively, edifying, wholly convincing book." * Joyce Chaplin, author of Round About the Earth: Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit *"The Age of Intoxication is a fascinating, important, and evocative look at early modern 'drugs'-widely redefined-and their roles in European expansion, medicine, pharmacy, and culture. Benjamin Breen has a striking historical range, tying together histories of the Portuguese and British empires, of the Americas, of Africa, and of South Asia. Combining archival and conceptual depth, the book reveals a connected world of unsung, often subaltern actors. Breen strongly suggests that contemporary distinctions between 'illicit' and 'licit' drug cultures are rooted in this crucial era of global encounters." * Paul Gootenberg, author of Andean Cocaine: The Making of a Global Drug *"Innovative, smart, accessible, and a pleasure to read, The Age of Intoxication is the first history of drugs as cultural products. In Benjamin Breen's hands, this history contains as many lessons about society as it does about modern science." * James Sweet, University of Wisconsin, Madison *"The Age of Intoxication is an incisive, vividly recounted analysis of two vast yet interwoven imperial histories, using individual life stories, plant itineraries, medical recipes, and mercantile networks to tell the stories of 'failed' drugs we do not normally include alongside more 'successful' commodities such as chocolate, coffee, and tobacco. In engaging prose and humorous asides, from Portuguese Angola to the wilds of Brazil, Java, and beyond, Benjamin Breen takes us on a colorful historical trip through the mind-altering passageways of the early modern world, leaving no stone (or hallucinogenic mushroom) unturned." * Neil Safier, The John Carter Brown Library *"The Age of Intoxication shows how greater attention to the ambiguities of drugs and their history significantly enriches our understanding of many key features of modernity including colonialism, globalization science, medicine, commerce, and consumption. Benjamin Breen makes a strong and impassioned case for why early modern history is relevant to current discussions and public debates regarding drugs in society and the global drug trade." * Matthew Crawford, Kent State University *Table of ContentsIntroduction. At the Statue of Adamastor Part I. Inventions of Drugs Chapter 1. Searching for Drugs: Inventing Quina in Seventeenth-Century Amazonia Chapter 2. Selling Drugs: Early Modern Apothecaries and the Limits of Commodification Chapter 3. Fetishizing Drugs: Feitiçaria, Healing, and Intoxication in West Central Africa Part II. Altered States Chapter 4. Occult Qualities: British Natural Philosophers and Portuguese Drugs Chapter 5. Uses of Intoxication in the Enlightenment Chapter 6. Three Ways of Looking at Opium Conclusion. Drug Pasts and Futures Notes Glossary Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press Sustaining Life
Book SynopsisAn ethnographic account of the South African AIDS movement and activistsFrom the historical roots of AIDS activism in the struggle for African liberation to the everyday work of community education in Khayelitsha, Sustaining Life tells the story of how the rights-based South African AIDS movement successfully transformed public health institutions, enabled access to HIV/AIDS treatment, and sustained the lives of people living with the disease. Typical accounts of the South African epidemic have focused on the political conflict surrounding it, Theodore Powers observes, but have yet to examine the process by which the national HIV/AIDS treatment program achieved near-universal access.In Sustaining Life, Powers demonstrates the ways in which non-state actors, from caregivers to activists, worked within the state to transform policy and state-based institutions in order to improve health-based outcomes. He shows how advocates in the South African AIDS mTrade Review"Sustaining Life provides an excellent introduction to anyone interested in knowing more about how South African AIDS activists—primarily those working as part of the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC)—developed its political campaign for demanding access to life-saving HIV treatment for all South Africans…a very clearly and engagingly written book." * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"Sustaining Life provides an ethnographic and historically grounded rendering of HIV/AIDS activism in South Africa that successfully led to near universal access to HIV/AIDS treatment. It is a tremendous contribution to the literature on the HIV/ AIDS crisis in Africa and it is a story that needs to be told." * James Pfeiffer, University of Washington *Table of ContentsPreface List of Abbreviations Introduction. People, Pathogens, and Power: Situating the South African HIV/AIDS Epidemic Chapter 1. Contact, Colonization, and Apartheid: South African Social Formations in Historical Perspective Chapter 2. The Political History of South African HIV/AIDS Activism Chapter 3. Occupying the State: HIV/AIDS Activism and the South African National AIDS Council Chapter 4. A Policy Redirected: Transnational Donor Capital and Treatment Access in the Western Cape Province Chapter 5. Community Health Activism, AIDS Dissidence, and Local HIV/AIDS Politics in Khayelitsha Chapter 6. People in the State: Activism, Access, and Transformation Afterword. After Treatment Access: An Epidemic Unresolved Notes References Index
£49.30
Rutgers University Press In Sickness and in Play Children Coping with
Book SynopsisFor children who live with a chronic illness, each day is filled with endless treatments, painful symptoms, confusion, and embarrassment. How can an eight-year old girl understand diabetes let alone explain to her schoolmates why she has to leave class to have her blood tested? How can the father of a child with asthma ever sleep soundly through the night with the fear that his son may suffocate in the next room.In In Sickness and in Play, Cindy Dell Clark tells the stories of children who suffer from two common illnesses that are often underestimated by those not directly touched by them—asthma and diabetes. She describes how play, humor, and other expressive methods, invented by the kids themselves, allow families to cope with the pain. Clark’s work is one of the few studies to focus on maladies that kids must learn to live with rather than die from. Her interviews with forty-six families give readers an understanding of how children comprehendTable of ContentsJuvenile diabetes Enduring childhood asthma Imaginal coping Children, culture and coping Appendix A: Freeing children's voices Appendix B: A primer for adults
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Rutgers University Press Community Organizing and Community Building for
Book SynopsisThis third edition offers new and more established ways to approach community building and organising, from collaborating with communities on assessment and issue selection to using the power of social media to enhance the effectiveness of such work. Numerous case studies ranging from childhood obesity to immigrant worker rights to health care reform are provided.Trade Review"Minkler has created a volume useful to practitioners and academics interested in working together to produce positive community change. This is a must-read for anyone interested in making a difference in their communities in socially just and equitable ways." -- Marc Zimmerman * professor at University of Michigan School of Public Health *“This is an important resource of great value for those studying public health, health education, social work, and theory-based program planning. Minkler's new text offers insightful overviews, case examples, and a rich appendix of tools.” -- Dr. Rima Rudd * Harvard School of Public Health *“Minkler has authority in her field and is known for sound scholarship. This is an obvious text for courses in health education and social work both at the graduate and undergraduate levels.” -- Dona Schneider * Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University *"The third edition of this comprehensive, excellent book is a welcome resource for public health professionals and social workers interested in the 'art and science' of organizing and building communities. A must read for health education students interested in community-related work. Highly recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations AcknowledgmentsPART ONEIntroduction 1. Introduction to Community Organizing and Community Building 2. Why Organize? Problems and Promise in the Inner CityPART TWOContextual Frameworks and Approaches 3. Improving Health through Community Organization and Community Building 4. Contrasting Organizing Approaches 5. Community Building PracticePART THREEBuilding Effective Partnerships and Anticipating and Addressing Ethical Challenges 6. Community, Community Development, and the Forming of Authentic Partnerships 7. Ethical Issues in Community Organizing and Capacity Building 8. Building Partnerships between Local Health Departments and CommunitiesPART FOURCommunity Assessment and Issue Selection 9. Community Health Assessment or Healthy Community Assessment 10. Mapping Community Capacity 11. Selecting and “Cutting” the IssuePART FIVECommunity Organizing and Community Building within and across Diverse Groups and Cultures 12. Education, Participation, and Capacity Building in Community Organizing with Women of Color 13. African American Barbershops and Beauty Salons 14. Popular Education, Participatory Research, and Community Organizing with Immigrant Restaurant Workers in San Francisco’s ChinatownPART SIXUsing the Arts and the Internet as Tools for Community Organizing and Community Building 15. Creating an Online Strategy to Enhance Effective Community Building and Organizing 16. Using the Arts and New Media in Community Organizing and Community BuildingPART SEVENBuilding, Maintaining, and Evaluating Effective Coalitions and Community Organizing Efforts 17. A Coalition Model for Community Action 18. Community Organizing for Obesity Prevention in Humboldt Park, Chicago 19. Participatory Approaches to Evaluating Community Organizing and Coalition BuildingPART EIGHTInfluencing Policy through Community Organizing and Media Advocacy 20. Using Community Organizing and Community Building to Influence Public Policy 21. Organizing for Health Care Reform 22. Media AdvocacyAppendixes 1. Principles of Community Building 2. Action-Oriented Community Diagnosis Procedure 3. Challenging Ourselves 4. A Ladder of Community Participation in Public Health 5. Coalition Member Assessment 6. Community Mapping and Digital Technology 7. Using Force Field and “SWOT” Analysis as Strategic Tools in Community Organizing 8. A Checklist for Action 9. Criteria for Creating Triggers or Codes for Freirian Organizing 10. Scale for Measuring Perceptions of Control at the Individual, Organizational, Neighborhood, and beyond-the-Neighborhood Levels 11. Policy Bingo About the Contributors Index
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John Wiley & Sons From Residency to Retirement Physicians Careers
Book SynopsisTells the stories of twenty American doctors over the last half century, which saw a period of continuous, turbulent and transformative changes to the US health care system. The cohort's experiences are reflective of the generation of physicians who came of age as Presidents Carter and Reagan began to focus on costs and benefits of health services.Trade Review"This is a wonderful, unique book because it spans almost forty years in the careers of a group of physicians. It deals with important questions about aspects of career satisfaction from interpersonal relationships to health care reform. As a physician still in clinical practice, whose career evolved during the same period covered by these interviews, the book evoked some deep reflection on my own career." -- Oliver Fein * Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University *"Drawing on in-depth interviews of physicians that span their 35-year careers, Terry Mizrahi provides a unique, insightful account of early, mid-, and late-stage achievements, frustrations, and challenges from the 1980s through the second decade of the 21st century. Well organized and clearly written, this book will interest families, professionals, sociologists, and educators." -- Donald W. Light * Author of Becoming Psychiatrists: the Professional Transformation of Self *"Mizrahi's compelling portrait of physicians' career trajectories speaks to the failure of American health policy. Buffeted by waves of policy changes that failed to address key problems, many practitioners ended their careers profoundly dissatisfied, lamenting encroachments on their autonomy and feeling less valued by society." -- Martin Shapiro * Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University *"From Residency to Retirement is a unique, engaging, and very personal study of a group of over twenty physicians. Mizrahi’s work, notable for its longitudinal depth, personal information, and relation to the enormity of changes in the medical profession over the period, includes the cohort's struggles, professional and personal, all in the context of patient care and practices during the study period. It is unique, well-written, important, and timely. I highly recommend it." -- Ira Mehlman * Medical Corps physician *“From the War on Poverty to Obamacare, health activist and scholar Terry Mizrahi explores the careers of a cohort of physicians trained together in internal medicine, as they navigated our continuously changing health system. Her powerful new insights shed important light on the very human dimensions of the practice of medicine during its dramatic transformation over the last forty years.” -- Hal Strelnick * professor of Family & Social Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine *"In this incredible followup to her now classic work, Getting Rid of Patients, Mizrahi has provided us an incredible gift: a 'follow-up' on this cohort as they navigated their own lives, and the vast changes in medical practice that have overtaken them. It should give every young student aspiring to be a physician pause, as they think about entering medicine as a profession. They may—or may not—know what they are getting into." -- David K. Rosner * author of Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America's Children *"Mizrahi’s latest book can be read alone or as a wonderfully informative sequel to Getting Rid of Patients, her earlier exploration of the career journeys of White male physicians. From Residency to Retirement begins with many of these same men 40+ years later sharing their stories. Through these narratives we learn how, over these years, these doctors and the medical profession have endured and adapted to an ever-changing often tumultuous environment." -- Darlyne Bailey, Ph.D., LISW * Professor, Dean Emeritus, and Director, Social Justice Initiative; Graduate School of Social Work an *Table of Contents1 Introduction 2 Meet the Doctors: Career Choices in Their Own Voices 3 Satisfaction and Strains: The Ups and Downs of Being a Doctor, Part I (Early to Mid-Career) 4 Satisfaction and Strains: The Ups and Downs of Being a Doctor, Part II (Mid-Career to Retirement) 5 “Speaking of Their Own”: Relationships with Peers, Partners, and Protégés 6 Mistakes and Malpractice: The Bane of Physicians 7 The Physicians on Health Regulations, Reimbursement, and Reform 8 Vulnerability from Within: Hidden Revelations about Disillusionment, Cynicism, Fear of Failure, and Self-Doubt 9 The Personal and the Professional: The Interaction between Private Lives and Public Postures 10 Physicians’ Happiest and Unhappiest Times, and Their Wishes and Misses throughout Their Careers 11 Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes References Index
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Rutgers University Press Nursing the Nation Building the Nurse Labor Force
Book SynopsisNursing the Nation explores how nurses became employees of hospital and care agencies rather than independent, individual contractors. It also demonstrates how nurses missed opportunities to control their own destinies in practice, but gained the ability to establish themselves as the most critical part of health care today.Trade Review"We have needed this superb historical analysis for a very long time. Jean Whelan, analyzing perennial nursing shortages, explains why the American health care system seems to always be in crisis. Whelan's elegantly written book intertwines the experiences of individual nurses with the institutions that supported, transformed, and undermined their work, and the sexism and racism that thwarted their efforts. With its focus on nurses as workers not just professionals, Nursing the Nation should be read and taught widely to explain the origins of contemporary dilemmas in American health care." -- Susan M. Reverby * author of Ordered to Care: the Dilemma of American Nursing *"This timely and important book fills a much needed gap in our understanding of how the modern nursing profession has developed. Whelan draws on extensive sources to demonstrate the ways that both race and gender have impacted the workforce and patient care. A must read." -- Kylie Smith * Talking Therapy: Knowledge and Power in American Psychiatric Nursing *"Filled with 'aha! moments,' Nursing the Nation provides an interesting lens through which to explore and illuminate the early days of the nursing profession. In an illuminating discussion, Whelan traces historical roots explaining our relationships to each other as nurses, our students, our physician colleagues and the hospitals in which many of us work." -- Dr. Robert Atkins * Director of New Jersey Health Initiatives *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Have Cap Will Travel: How and Why Nurses Became Professionals Chapter 2: Starting Out: Organizing the Work and the Profession Chapter 3: Supplying Nurses: The Central Registry Business Chapter 4: Surpluses, Shortages and Segregation Chapter 5: Private Duty’s Golden Age Chapter 6: The Great Depression: Collapse, Resurrection, and Success Chapter 7: More and More (and Better) Nurses Chapter 8: Conclusion Bibliography
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