Health, illness or addiction: social aspects Books
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Cannabis Philosophy for Everyone
Book SynopsisThe debate on the status and legality of cannabis continues to gain momentum. Here, personal anecdotes combined with academic and scientific reports combine to sharpen some of the fascinating philosophical issues associated with cannabis use. A frank, professionally informed and playful discussion of cannabis usage in relation to philosophical inquiry Considers the meaning of a high', the morality of smoking marijuana for pleasure, the slippery slope to more dangerous drugs, and the human drive to alter our consciousness Not only incorporates contributions from philosophers, psychologists, sociologists or legal, pharmacological, and medical experts, but also non-academics associated with the cultivation, distribution, and sale of cannabis Brings together an international team of writers from the United States, Canada, UK, Finland, Switzerland, South Africa, and New Zealand Trade Review"Many interesting dimensions of cannabis research are reflected in this book, which is written in an intelligent and entertaining style." (About.com, 11 September 2011) "Cannabis: Philosophy for Everyone- What Were We Just Talking About? Provides a refreshing collection of essays- from both sides of the fence- on the many philosophical facets of pot ingestion...HIGH TIMES associate publisher Rick Cusick writes in the foreword: "While I personally believe that legalizing cannabis would encourage a more civilized society, I also recognize that reasonable people can disagree. That is why this book is so timely and important. There are overblown claims on both sides of the equation and we need to have the more disciplined discourse that philosophy provides." (HIGH TIMES, February 2011)"Their newest release Cannabis-Philosophy for Everyone aims to bridge the world of academia, as it relates to cannabis, with the interests and concerns of those on the outside. Contributors include international scholars in the fields of philosophy, psychology, sociology, law, pharmacology, psychotherapy, and medicine as well as non-academics associated with the cultivation, distribution, and sale of cannabis. For those looking for a thought-provoking, heady read, find out more about this book at www.wiley.com." (Nug Magazine, November 2010)"The book is both high- and low-brow and is sure to please undergrads searching for epiphanies while hanging out in hazy basements." (The Washington Post, November 2010) "It's a serious read that should be on your bookshelf. We are going to say, especially if you are a cannabis industry / business owner; this book will help you to understand your product and the people that love it so that you can apply what you've learned in "philosophy class" to the real world in a way that will boost your brand.." (Hempista, 24 October 2010)Table of ContentsForeword xiiRichard Cusick Preface xvDale Jacquette Introduction: What is Cannabis and How Can We Get Some? 1Dale Jacquette Part I Cannabis Phenomenology 19 1 A Cannabis Odyssey 21Lester Grinspoon 2 Seeing Snakes: On Delusion, Knowledge, and the Drug Experience 35G. T. Roche 3 The Cannabis Experience: An Analysis of “Flow” 50Andrew D. Hathaway and Justin Sharpley Part II Marijuana and Spiritual Enlightenment 63 4 Buzz, High, and Stoned: Metaphor, Meaning, and the Cannabis Experience 65Michael Montagne 5 The Great Escape 77Charles Taliaferro and Michel Le Gall 6 Cannabis and the Human Condition: “Something of the Kind is Indispensable” 90Brian R. Clack Part III Creatively High 101 7 Hallucinatory Terror: The World of the Hashish Eater 103Tommi Kakko 8 Marijuana and Creativity 114Ryan E. Holt and James C. Kaufman 9 Navigating Creative Inner Space on the Innocent Pleasures of Hashish 121Dale Jacquette Part IV Psycho-Sociological Dimensions of Cannabis Culture 137 10 Cannabis and the Culture of Alienation 139Mark Thorsby 11 Reefer Madness: Cannabis, the Individual, and Public Policy 149Tuomas E. Tahko 12 Soft vs. Hard: Why Drugs are Not Like Eggs 162Brian Penrose Part V Cannabis Ethics and Politics 173 13 “Smoking Pot Doesn’t Hurt Anyone But Me!” Why Adults Should be Allowed to Consume Cannabis 175Jack Green Musselman, Russ Frohardt, and D. G. Lynch 14 Pot Politics: Prohibition and Morality 192Mitch Earleywine 15 Cannabis and the Good Life: Needs, Capabilities, and Human Flourishing 214Theodore Schick, Jr. 16 Weakness of Will: The Cannabis Connection 226Michael Funke Notes on Contributors 236
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Johns Hopkins University Press Health Disparities in the United States
Book SynopsisThis book is a vital teaching tool and a comprehensive reference for social science and medical professionals.Trade ReviewThis book will be of interest to everyone with an interest in diversity issues and the effects of inequality on child development, and all those who value and treasure the NHS. -- Margaret Arthur Nursing Standard This very fundamental book about health disparities in the United States gives an up to date and comprehensive summary of the current knowledge about this important health topic. It offers potential policy--and physician--based solutions for reducing social inequalities in health in the long run. -- Uwe Helmert SocialnetTable of Contents1. Introduction to the Social Roots of Health Disparities2. What Is "Health"? How Should We Define It? How Should We Measure It?3. The Relationship between Socioeconomic Status and Health, or, "They Call It 'Poor Health' for a Reason"4. Understanding How Low Social Status Leads to Poor Health5. Race, Ethnicity, and Health6. Race/Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Status, and Health: Which Is More Important in Affecting Health Status?7. Children's Health Disparities8. All Things Being Equal, Does Race/Ethnicity Affect How Physicians Treat Patients?9. Why Does Race/Ethnicity Affect the Way Physicians Treat Patients?10. When, if Ever, Is It Appropriate to Use a Patient's Race/Ethnicity to Guide Medical Decisions?11. What Should We Do to Reduce Health Disparities?
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Johns Hopkins University Press Poverty and the Myths of Health Care Reform
Book SynopsisThe first book to address the fundamental nexus that binds poverty and income inequality to soaring health care utilization and spending, Poverty and the Myths of Health Care Reform is a must-read for medical professionals, public health scholars, politicians, and anyone concerned with the heavy burden of inequality on the health of Americans.Trade ReviewThe book contains a comprehensive reference list. It also offers helpful information for every American interested in improving the country's health care system. Recommended. Choice ... passionately but meticulously argured... Penn MedicineTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Riding the A Train2. Milwaukee3. Los Angeles4. Boston versus New Haven5. Health Care Costs of Poverty6. A Nation of Nations7. Global Perspectives8. States9. The 30% Solution10. Solution #111. Solution #2ReferencesIndex
£27.45
Johns Hopkins University Press Global Perspectives on ADHD
Book SynopsisAttention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has been a common psychiatric diagnosis in both children and adults since the 1980s and 1990s in the United States. But the diagnosis was much less common-even unknown-in other parts of the world. By the end of the twentieth century, this was no longer the case, and ADHD diagnosis and treatment became an increasingly widespread global phenomenon. As the diagnosis was adopted around the world, the definition and treatment of ADHD often changed in the context of different psychiatric professions, medical systems, and cultures. Global Perspectives on ADHD is the first book to examine how this expanding public health concern is diagnosed and treated in 16 different countries. In some countries, readers learn, over 10% of school-aged children and adolescents are diagnosed with ADHD; in others, that figure is less than 1%. Some countries focus on medicating children with ADHD; others emphasize parent intervention or child therapy. Showing howTable of ContentsList of ContributorsPreface1. ADHD in Global Context, by Meredith R. Bergey and Angela M. Filipe2. The Rise and Transformation of ADHD in the United States, by Meredith R. Bergey and Peter Conrad3. In the Elephant's Shadow, by Claudia Malacrida and Tiffani Semach4. Historical, Cultural, and Sociopolitical Influences on Australia's Response to ADHD, by Brenton J. Prosser and Linda J. Graham5. The Medicalization of Fidgety Philip, by Fabian Karsch6. ADHD in the United Kingdom, by Ilina Singh7. The Emergence and Shaping of ADHD in Portugal, by Angela M. Filipe8. Transformations in the Irish ADHD Disorder Regime—, by Claire Edwards and Orla O’Donovan9. The Journey of ADHD in Argentina, by Silvia A. Faraone and Eugenia Bianchi10 . Academic and Professional Tensions and Debates around ADHD in Brazil, by Francisco Ortega, Rafaela Zorzanelli, and Valeria Goncalves11. ADHD in the Italian Context, by Alessandra Frigerio and Lorenzo Montali12. The French ADHD Landscape, by Madeleine Akrich and Vololona Rabeharisoa13. ADHD in Japan, by Mari Armstrong-Hough, Yasuo Murayama, Hiroyuki Ito, Junko Teruyama, and Masatsugu Tsujii14. Pharmaceuticalization through Government Funding Activities, by Manuel Vallee15. From Problematic Children to Problematic Diagnosis, by Sebastián Rojas Navarro, Patricio Rojas, and Mónica Peña16 . The Development of Child Psychiatry and the Biomedicalization of ADHD in Taiwan, by Fan-Tzu Tseng17. Exploring the ADHD Diagnosis in Ghana, by Christian Bröer, Rachel Spronk, and Victor Kraak18 . Reflections on ADHD in a Global Context, by Peter Conrad and Ilina SinghIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Poverty and the Myths of Health Care Reform
Book SynopsisProof that high health care spending is linked directly to poverty. In Poverty and the Myths of Health Care Reform, Dr. Richard (Buz) Cooper argues that US poverty and high health care spending are inextricably entwined. Our nation's health care system bears a financial burden that is greater than in any other developed country in large part because impoverished patients use more health care, driving up costs across the board. Drawing on decades of research, Dr. Cooper illuminates the geographic patterns of poverty, wealth, and health care utilization that exist across neighborhoods, regions, and statesand among countries. He chronicles the historical threads that have led to such differences, examines the approaches that have been taken to combat poverty throughout US history, and analyzes the impact that structural changes now envisioned for clinical practice are likely to have. His research reveals that ignoring the impact of low income on health care utilization while blaming rTrade ReviewThe capstone to an illustrious career in academic medicine. Cooper's book offers surprising insights.—Health AffairsOffers helpful information for every American interested in improving the country's health care system. Recommended.—ChoicePassionately but meticulously argued.—Penn MedicineTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Riding the A Train2. Milwaukee3. Los Angeles4. Boston versus New Haven5. Health Care Costs of Poverty6. A Nation of Nations7. Global Perspectives8. States9. The 30% Solution10. Solution #111. Solution #2ReferencesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press An Introduction to the US Health Care Industry
Book SynopsisWhy does US health care have such high costs and poor outcomes? Dr. David S. Guzick offers this critique of the American health care industry and argues that it could work more effectively by rebalancing care, cost, and access. For decades, the United States has been faced with a puzzling problem: Despite spending much more money per capita on health care than any other developed nation, its population suffers from notoriously poorer health. In comparison with 10 other high-income nations, in fact, the US has the lowest life expectancy at birth, the highest rates of infant and neonatal mortality, and the most inequitable access to physicians when adjusted for need. In An Introduction to the US Health Care Industry, Dr. David S. Guzick takes an in-depth look at this troubling issue. Bringing to bear his unique background as a physician, economist, former University of Rochester medical school dean, and former president of the University of Florida Health System, Dr. Guzick shows that Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Setting the Stage: Health and Health Care over the Past CenturyPart I. Economic UnderpinningsChapter 2. Perfect Competition and Its Applicability to Health Care Services Chapter 3. Imperfections in the Market for Health Care Services Chapter 4. Implications of an Imperfect Market I: Greater Utilization Due to Price Subsidies Chapter 5. Implications of an Imperfect Market II: The Role of Induced Demand Chapter 6. The Role of Price in Health Care Spending Growth Chapter 7. Inequality of Wealth, Health, and Access to Care Part II. Historical EvolutionChapter 8. Origins and Structural Underpinnings of the US Health Care Industry Chapter 9. The US Health Care Industry Takes Shape: The 1940s through 1965 Chapter 10. Medicare Chapter 11. Medicaid Chapter 12. The Affordable Care Act Part III. Contemporary EnvironmentChapter 13. Evidence-Based Practice Chapter 14. Cost-Benefit, Cost-Effectiveness, and Cost-Utility Analysis Chapter 15. Health Care Law Chapter 16. The Safety and Quality of Patient Care Chapter 17. The Cost Conundrum I: Utilization Chapter 18. The Cost Conundrum II: Price: Administration, Insurers, Physicians, and Hospitals Chapter 19. The Cost Conundrum III: Price: Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Chapter 20. Inequality of Access Part IV. Improving the Balance of Care, Cost, and AccessChapter 21. Improving the Balance I: Macro Considerations Chapter 22. Improving the Balance II: Enhancing Care, Reducing Cost, and Improving Access References Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press Killing Season
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWriting Killing Season required more than creativity and conscience; it took guts . . . Canning won't convince all of his colleagues that substance abusers are people first, but I think most of us who read this book will get better at our jobs and be happier doing them.—EMS WorldTable of ContentsIntroduction Prologue Chapter 1. Hartford, Connecticut, 1995Chapter 2. Park Street, 2016Chapter 3. AntipathyChapter 4. EmpathyChapter 5. AddictionChapter 6. StigmaChapter 7. Withdrawal and RelapseChapter 8. HeartacheChapter 9. Pain ControlChapter 10. Kelly and VeronicaChapter 11. Opioid ConferenceChapter 12. Harm ReductionChapter 13. FentanylChapter 14. Responder SafetyChapter 15. FamilyChapter 16. PartnersChapter 17. Mental HealthChapter 18. AgeChapter 19. The War on DrugsChapter 20. TemptationChapter 21. ChildrenChapter 22. Community NaloxoneChapter 23. Safe-Injection SiteChapter 24. CutChapter 25. Danger AheadChapter 26. The BakeryChapter 27. Call of DutyChapter 28. PlateauChapter 29. State CapitolEpilogueHeroin Bags of HartfordAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
£20.70
Johns Hopkins University Press Living Well with a Serious Illness
Book SynopsisA practical guide for understanding how palliative care can improve quality of life for patients and their caregivers. Robin Bennett Kanarek was a registered nurse working with patients suffering from chronic medical conditions when her ten-year-old son was diagnosed with leukemia. As her son endured grueling treatments, Robin realized how often medical professionals overlook critical psychological, emotional, and spiritual support for people with life-threatening illnesses. Living Well with a Serious Illness is the culmination of decades of Robin's work to advance the field of palliative care. Although palliative care is often associated with hospice and end-of-life planning, Kanarek argues for a more expanded definition that incorporates palliative care earlier in patients' journeys. Living Well with a Serious Illness helps patients and their caregivers understand what palliative care entails how to access the support they need when going through a serious illness what questions Table of ContentsForeword by Sunita Puri, MDIntroduction: David's Story1. What is Palliative Care?2. Barriers to Palliative Care: Taking Care of the Person Versus Fighting the Disease3. How We Want to Die: Palliative Care's Benefits for Patients and Their Loved Ones4. How to Get the Care You Want: Knowing What to Ask For, What to Expect, and What to Demand5. How to Cope When Illness Changes Everything: Quality-of-Life Care Includes the Family6. Putting it All Together: Creating an Action Plan for When the End is Near7. Spirituality and Well-Being: Care of the Spirit Matters Too8. Grief: Tapping into Restorative Sources After Goodbye9. Making Palliative Care Mainstream: What Legislators, Philanthropists, Educators, and You Can DoEpilogue: David's Legacy—The Kanarek Family FoundationResourcesAcknowledgmentsAbout the AuthorIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Collapse and Resiliency
Book SynopsisAn insider account of how an African public health leader responded to an unprecedented Ebola outbreak. Tolbert Nyenswah, LLB, MPH, DrPH, was the assistant minister of health and deputy chief medical officer in Liberia when the 2014 Ebola epidemic struck. Nyenswah, the incident manager who led the response, became known as the Ebola Czar for his pivotal role in combating the epidemic despite his government's lack of resources. His story underscores the public health strategies that succeeded and those that failed, highlighting important lessons in managing current and future outbreaks. In Collapse and Resiliency, Nyenswah presents an insider's view of Liberia's response to the deadly Ebola epidemic. Nyenswah describes the fascinating journey from his childhood in a rural Liberian village to leading his country's response to the deadly outbreak, providing a deeply personal account of how the epidemic was finally controlled despite a depleted health care system. Prior to the Ebola epidTable of ContentsForewordEllen Johnson Sirleaf, Former President, Republic of LiberiaPrefaceIntroductionChapter 1. Ebola Hits LiberiaChapter 2. Born for Such a TimeChapter 3. Unsafe Rituals, Burial Practices, and International SpreadChapter 4. A Refugee in Côte d'IvoireChapter 5. Total Collapse of Public Health Care ServicesChapter 6. Security Challenge: Community Distrust and Resistance—West PointChapter 7. Interventions: What We Did and How We Did ItChapter 8. The International ResponseChapter 9. Recovery, Rebuilding, and ResiliencyChapter 10. ReflectionsAcronyms and AbbreviationsReferencesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Rich Flee and the Poor Take the Bus
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American Psychological Association Designing Interventions to Promote Community
Book SynopsisThis bookarticulates a clear four-phase process for planning, creating, implementing, and evaluating multilevel community health promotion interventions using a framework focusing on determinants from the individual, physical, and social environments. It breaks down each phaseinto detailed yet easy-to-follow steps that review important procedures, like identifying a behaviorally based problem within a community, choosing the underlying behavioral determinants to be targeted by the intervention, selecting intervention components and strategies, and evaluating outcomes to improve and further disseminate the intervention. Guidelines for engaging community members in the entire process, building teams, developing a manual of procedures, conducting pilot studies, and the importance of formative and process evaluation are reviewed as well. Also presented are instructions for adapting interventions for new communities. Feature boxes highlight key Trade ReviewDr. Lytle’s extensive experience in designing, developing, and evaluating multilevel behavioral interventions is the foundation for this important and timely book for researchers and practitioners. She has been the lead on many successful interventions involving youth and adults, concerning multiple health problems and associated behaviors, and this has resulted in a framework based on science and achievement. Her clarity reflects this wealth of knowledge, and she gifts us with clear and cogent steps to making our communities healthier places. -- Cheryl L. Perry, PhD, Professor Emerita, Department of Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston; School of Public Health, Austin Campus, Austin, TX, United StatesLeslie Lytle has written a practical guide for how to plan theoretically sound, creative, and effective policies and interventions to promote healthy behaviors. Concrete examples take the reader through the various steps of the process. The book is systematic and engaging—highly recommended! -- Knut-Inge Klepp, PhD, Executive Director, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, NorwayThis is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and practitioners. The step-wise process for creating, implementing, and evaluating multilevel interventions is clearly described and easy to follow. Dr. Lytle’s decades long experience with designing and evaluating multilevel interventions is made evident through her practical guidance and applied intervention examples. -- Jess Haines, PhD, MHSc, RD, Department of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, CanadaTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction to Designing Interventions to Promote Community Health: A Multilevel and Stepwise ApproachChapter 1. A Multilevel Framework for Intervention Design: Overview of the Phases and StepsChapter 2. A Practical Guide to Using Health Behavior Theories to Design Multilevel InterventionsChapter 3. The Plan PhaseChapter 4. The Create PhaseChapter 5. The Implement PhaseChapter 6. The Evaluate PhaseChapter 7. Using the Intervention Design Process to Guide the Adaptation of an InterventionReferencesIndexAbout the Author
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Temple University Press,U.S. In the Weeds
Book SynopsisMore and more states are legalizing marijuana in some form. Moreover, a majority of the U.S. population is in favor of the drug for recreational use. In the Weeds looks at how our society has become more permissive in the past 150 yearseven though marijuana is still considered a Schedule I drug by the American government.Sociologists Clayton Mosher and Scott Akins take a deep dive into marijuana policy reform, looking at the incremental developments and the historical, legal, social, and political implications of these changes. They investigate the effects, medicinal applications, and possible harms of marijuana. In the Weeds also considers arguments that youth will be heavy users of legalized cannabis, and shows how weed is demonized by exaggerations of the drug's risks and claims of its lack of medicinal value. Mosher and Akins end their timely and insightful book by tracing the distinct paths to the legalization of recreational marijuana in the United States and other countries as w
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Temple University Press,U.S. Final Negotiations
Book SynopsisA poignant autoethnography that reflects back forty years later on loving someone chronically ill.
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Temple University Press,U.S. Final Negotiations
Book SynopsisA poignant autoethnography that reflects back forty years later on loving someone chronically ill.
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University of Toronto Press Killer Weed
Book SynopsisGoing beyond the newspapers, Killer Weed examines how legal, political, and civil initiatives that have emerged from the media narrative have troubling consequences for a shrinking Canadian civil society.Trade Review'A first-rate book about marijuana, grow operations, and the media in Canada... The book is both rigorous and sound, and will be of use to academics and graduate students doing work in drug policy, media studies, and sociology... Highly recommended.' -- R.Koop Choice vol 52:03:2014Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements Introduction: Marijuana Grow Ops: Setting the Scene Chapter One: A Brief Socio-History of Drug Scares, Racialization, Nation Building, and Policy Chapter Two: Problematizing Marijuana Grow Ops: Mayerthorpe and Beyond Chapter Three: Marijuana Grow Ops and Organized Crime Chapter Four: Racialization of Marijuana Grow Ops Chapter Five: Civil Responses to Marijuana Grow Ops Chapter Six: Using Children to Promote Increased Regulation: The Representation and Regulation of Children and Parents Found at Grow Ops Chapter Seven: Alternative Perspectives Appendix Newspaper References References Notes
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Bristol University Press Unequal Health
Book SynopsisThis book shows conclusively that inequalities in health are the scandal of our times in the most unequal of rich nations and calls for immediate action to reduce these inequalities in the near future.Trade Review"The catchy titles, informal tone and non-technical language render the book accessible, readable and easy to understand. This volume provides a compelling plea that we should all do our utmost to overcome the growing inequalities in health." Public Health Today"A useful and valuable resource...a strongly argued called for politicians, activists, and citizens to embrace the ideas of the left." People, place and policy"...highlights of the robust collection include how New Labour's policies targeted but did not achieve reductions in health inequalities". Health Affairs"Professor Dorling is a meticulous scholar who talks personally and directly to the reader rather than to other academics, and with a powerful message: willful ignorance of the social causes of illness and death is taking us back to Victorian levels of inequality." Sebastian Kraemer, Tavistock Clinic London and Whittington Hospital London"Forensic, persuasive, original, impassioned, readable and occasionally even optimistic, Danny Dorling frames inequality in such a way as to demand action. His data and analysis are invaluable ammunition." Zoe Williams, The Guardian"The text provides a wide overview, from a range of different perespectvies about regional, national, and international health inequalities." Dr Patricia Owen, University of Keele.“The breadth and depth of scholarship displayed in this book is staggering - but what impresses just as much is how engagingly Danny Dorling communicates the important truths about the scandal of our times.” Kate Pickett, Professor of Epidemiology, University of York and co-author of The Spirit Level"Useful for student nurses and understanding inequalities in health globally, as with individuals who migrate to different countries." Veronica Grant, University of Wolverhampton.Table of ContentsForeword by S.V. Subramanian; The long view; The liberal record; Medicine and politics; Despair and joy; Global inequality; Thinking, drawing and counting; Changing demographics and ageing populations; Index
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Bristol University Press The Politics of Ailment
Book SynopsisChallenging the ethics of care as a tradeable commodity, this book introduces the concept of ailment as a framework for understanding social care. Providing examples from Britain and Finland, it demonstrates how ailment shapes all societies, and by addressing the marketisation of care, the authors bring to light increasing inequalities in care.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Humans as ailing beings 2. Tracing ailment in social and care policies 3. Profit making and ailment: the marketisation and financialisation of care 4. Ailment in caring encounters and divisions of care labour 5. The politics of ailment
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Bristol University Press Health in a PostCOVID World
Book SynopsisWhat part do the values of growth and prosperity, freedom and justice, security and democracy play in social policy and human welfare? How can we judge the validity of these the founding principles of Western liberalism and the policies they shape, as the recipe for progress?At a time of global permacrisis', Sebastian Taylor applies his extensive frontline experience working with health systems and healthcare in the Global North and South to assess the concrete impact of contemporary liberal values on our welfare, development and environmental survival. Drawing on research from around the world, he uses health as an objective metric to assess how effective these policies are for individuals and society as a whole.Table of ContentsPrologue: Health and civilisation Crisis: A Timeline Part 1: Growth 1. Growth, Wealth and Health 2. Health and Trade 3. 'They Go on Because They Have Begun' Part 2: Freedom 4. The Nature of Freedom 5. The Vaccine Society 6. The Freedom to Fail 7. The Dead Hand of Care Part 3: Justice 8. The Poverty of Justice 9. Just Health, Just Care 10. A Kingdom of Ends Part 4: Security 11. War and Peace 12. The Risk Society Part 5: Democracy 13. One for All Part 6: Truth 14. Who Counts? 15. Conclusion Postscript: Crisis in the UK 2022
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BUP - Policy Press Trans and Gender Diverse Ageing in Care Contexts
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BUP - Policy Press Social Murder
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£72.00
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina The Wild and the Toxic American Environmentalism
Book SynopsisHealth figures centrally in late twentieth-century environmental activism. In this book, Jennifer Thomson untangles the complex web of political, social, and intellectual developments that gave rise to the multiplicity of claims and concerns about environmental health.
£73.80
The University of North Carolina Press Sick and Tired
Book SynopsisOffers the first history of fatigue, one that is scrupulously researched but also informed by Emily Abel's own experiences as a cancer survivor. With her engaging and informative style, Abel gives us a synthetic history of fatigue and outlines how it has been ignored or misunderstood by medical professionals and American society as a whole.
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Culture in the Clinic Miami the Making of
Book SynopsisShows how immigrants reshaped American medicine while the clinic became a crucial site for navigating questions of wellness, citizenship, and culture.
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Bioethics Reenvisioned A Path toward Health
Book SynopsisShows why the field of bioethics must embrace a broader and more meaningful view of justice, principally by incorporating the tools and insights of the social sciences, epidemiology, and public health. The authors make the case for a more social understanding of justice, and a deeper humility in assessing expertise in bioethics consulting.
£73.50
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Bioethics Reenvisioned A Path toward Health
Book SynopsisShows why the field of bioethics must embrace a broader and more meaningful view of justice, principally by incorporating the tools and insights of the social sciences, epidemiology, and public health. The authors make the case for a more social understanding of justice, and a deeper humility in assessing expertise in bioethics consulting.
£19.51
The University of North Carolina Press Radical Prescription
Book SynopsisExtinguishing a public health threat is difficult under any condition, let alone during a national revolution. In this first comprehensive study of tuberculosis in Cuba, Kelly Urban analyses the medical, social, and governmental responses to the highly contagious disease as the island was heading into and emerging from the Revolution of 1959.Trade ReviewWell-researched . . . This focus on Cuban public health policy and the interaction between the governments and citizens, and not just on tuberculosis, makes Radical Prescription of interest both to historians of medicine and generalists interested in Latin American history."—H-Sci-Med-Tech
£26.06
The University of North Carolina Press A City without Care
Book SynopsisNew Orleans is a city that is rich in culture, music, and history. It has also long been a site of some of the most intense racially based medical inequities in the United States. Kevin McQueeney traces that inequity from the city's founding in the early eighteenth century through three centuries to the present.
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The University of North Carolina Press A City without Care
Book SynopsisNew Orleans is a city that is rich in culture, music, and history. It has also long been a site of some of the most intense racially based medical inequities in the United States. Kevin McQueeney traces that inequity from the city's founding in the early eighteenth century through three centuries to the present.
£23.70
The University of North Carolina Press Landscapes of Care
Book SynopsisAn insightful work on rural health in the United States that examines the ways immigrants, mainly from Latin America and the Caribbean, navigate the health care system in the United States.
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The University of North Carolina Press Landscapes of Care
Book SynopsisAn insightful work on rural health in the United States that examines the ways immigrants, mainly from Latin America and the Caribbean, navigate the health care system in the United States.
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Duke University Press The Social Medicine Reader Volume I Third Edition
Book SynopsisThe extensively updated and revised third edition of the bestselling Social Medicine Reader provides a survey of the challenging issues facing today's health care providers, patients, and caregivers with writings by scholars in medicine, the social sciences, and the humanities.Trade Review"A must-read for health care professionals, these readings are provocative and invite critical social and moral analysis among health care professionals. Essential. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty." -- B. A. D'Anna * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface to the Third Edition ix Introduction 1 Part I. Experiences of Illness and Clinician-Patient Relationships Silver Water / Amy Bloom 7 "Is She Experiencing any Pain?": Disability and the Physician-Patient Relationship / S. K. Toombs 15 The Cost of Appearances / Arthur Frank 20 The Ship Pounding / Donald Hall 25 God at the Bedside / Jerome Groopman 27 The Use of Force / William Carlos Williams 32 Sunday Dialogue: Conversations between Doctor and Patient / Rebecca Dresser 36 What the Doctor Said / Raymond Carver 42 Part II. Professionalism and the Culture of Medicine The Learning Curve / Atul Gawande 45 The Perfect Code / Terrence Holt 63 Coeur d'Alene / Richard B. Weinberg 78 The "Worthy" Patient: Rethinking the "Hidden Curriculum" in Medical Education / Robin T. Higashi, Allison Tillack, Michael A. Steinman, C. Bree Johnston, and G. Michael Harper 82 How Doctors Think: Clinical Judgement and the Practice of Medicine / Kathryn Montgomery 95 Healing Skills for Medical Practice / Larry R. Churchill and David Schenck 101 The Hair Stylist, the Corn Merchant, and the Doctor: Ambiguously Altruistic / Lois Shepherd 111 Necessary Accessories / Nusheen Ameenuddin 127 The Critical Vocation of the Essay / Barry F. Saunders 132 The Art of Medicine: Asthma and the Value of Contradictions/ Ian Whitmarsh 140 Script / Mara Buchbinder and Dragana Lassiter 145 Ordinary Medicine: The Power and Confusion of Evidence / Sharon R. Kaufman 149 "Ethics and Clinical Research": The 50th Anniversary of Beecher's Bombshell / David S. Jones, Christine Grady, and Susan E. Lederer 154 Part III. Health Care Ethics and the Clinician's Role Glossary of Basic Ethical Concepts in Health Care and Research / Nancy M. P. King 167 Ethics in Medicine: An Introduction to Moral Tools and Traditions / Larry R. Churchill, Nancy M. P. King, David Schenck, and Rebecca L. Walker 175 Historical and Contemporary Codes of Ethics: The Hippocratic Oath, the Prayer of Maimonides, the Declaration of Geneva, and the AMA Principles of Medical Ethics 191 Enduring and Emerging Challenges of Informed Consent / Christine Grady 197 Teaching the Tyranny of the Form: Informed Consent in Person and on Paper / Katie Watson 212 A Terrifying Truth / Rebecca Dresser 218 The Lie / Lawrence D. Grouse 222 Discharge Decisions and the Dignity of Risk / Debjani Mukherjee 224 No One Needs to Know / Neil S. Calman 229 Part IV. Death, Dying, and Lives at the Margins Forty Years of Work on End-of-Life Care: From Patients' Rights to Systemic Reform / Susan M. Wolf, Nancy Berlinger, and Bruce Jennings 239 Try to Remember Some Details / Yehuda Amichai 249 Failing to Thrive? / Kim Sue 251 The Dead Donor Rule and Organ Transplantation / Robert D. Truog and Franklin G. Miller 259 The Darkening Veil of "Do Everything" / Chris Feudtner and Wynne Morrison 263 Death and Dignity: A Case of Individualized Decision Making / Timothy E. Quill 267 Active and Passive Euthanasia / James A. Rachels 273 Clinician-Patient Interactions about Requests for Physician-Assisted Suicide: A Patient and Family View / Anthony L. Back, Helene Starks, Clarissa Hsu, Judith R. Gordon, Ashok Bharucha, and Robert A. Pearlman 280 My Father's Death / Susan M. Wolf 301 Part V. Allocation and Justice Glossary: Justice and the Allocation of Health Resources / Rebecca L. Walker and Larry R. Churchill 311 Dead Man Walking / Michael Stillman and Monalisa Tailor 316 Full Disclosure: Out-of-Pocket Costs as Side Effects / Peter A. Ubel, Amy P. Abernethy, and S. Yousuf Zafar 320 Seven Sins of Humanitarian Medicine / David R. Welling, James M. Ryan, David G. Burris, and Norman M. Rich 325 Who Should Receive Life Support during a Public Health Emergency? Using Ethical Principles to Improve Allocation Design / Douglas B. White, Mitchell H. Katz, John M. Luce, and Bernard Lo 335 About the Editors 353 Index 355
£75.65
Duke University Press The Social Medicine Reader Volume I Third Edition
Book SynopsisThe extensively updated and revised third edition of the bestselling Social Medicine Reader provides a survey of the challenging issues facing today's health care providers, patients, and caregivers with writings by scholars in medicine, the social sciences, and the humanities.Trade Review"A must-read for health care professionals, these readings are provocative and invite critical social and moral analysis among health care professionals. Essential. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty." -- B. A. D'Anna * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface to the Third Edition ix Introduction 1 Part I. Experiences of Illness and Clinician-Patient Relationships Silver Water / Amy Bloom 7 "Is She Experiencing any Pain?": Disability and the Physician-Patient Relationship / S. K. Toombs 15 The Cost of Appearances / Arthur Frank 20 The Ship Pounding / Donald Hall 25 God at the Bedside / Jerome Groopman 27 The Use of Force / William Carlos Williams 32 Sunday Dialogue: Conversations between Doctor and Patient / Rebecca Dresser 36 What the Doctor Said / Raymond Carver 42 Part II. Professionalism and the Culture of Medicine The Learning Curve / Atul Gawande 45 The Perfect Code / Terrence Holt 63 Coeur d'Alene / Richard B. Weinberg 78 The "Worthy" Patient: Rethinking the "Hidden Curriculum" in Medical Education / Robin T. Higashi, Allison Tillack, Michael A. Steinman, C. Bree Johnston, and G. Michael Harper 82 How Doctors Think: Clinical Judgement and the Practice of Medicine / Kathryn Montgomery 95 Healing Skills for Medical Practice / Larry R. Churchill and David Schenck 101 The Hair Stylist, the Corn Merchant, and the Doctor: Ambiguously Altruistic / Lois Shepherd 111 Necessary Accessories / Nusheen Ameenuddin 127 The Critical Vocation of the Essay / Barry F. Saunders 132 The Art of Medicine: Asthma and the Value of Contradictions/ Ian Whitmarsh 140 Script / Mara Buchbinder and Dragana Lassiter 145 Ordinary Medicine: The Power and Confusion of Evidence / Sharon R. Kaufman 149 "Ethics and Clinical Research": The 50th Anniversary of Beecher's Bombshell / David S. Jones, Christine Grady, and Susan E. Lederer 154 Part III. Health Care Ethics and the Clinician's Role Glossary of Basic Ethical Concepts in Health Care and Research / Nancy M. P. King 167 Ethics in Medicine: An Introduction to Moral Tools and Traditions / Larry R. Churchill, Nancy M. P. King, David Schenck, and Rebecca L. Walker 175 Historical and Contemporary Codes of Ethics: The Hippocratic Oath, the Prayer of Maimonides, the Declaration of Geneva, and the AMA Principles of Medical Ethics 191 Enduring and Emerging Challenges of Informed Consent / Christine Grady 197 Teaching the Tyranny of the Form: Informed Consent in Person and on Paper / Katie Watson 212 A Terrifying Truth / Rebecca Dresser 218 The Lie / Lawrence D. Grouse 222 Discharge Decisions and the Dignity of Risk / Debjani Mukherjee 224 No One Needs to Know / Neil S. Calman 229 Part IV. Death, Dying, and Lives at the Margins Forty Years of Work on End-of-Life Care: From Patients' Rights to Systemic Reform / Susan M. Wolf, Nancy Berlinger, and Bruce Jennings 239 Try to Remember Some Details / Yehuda Amichai 249 Failing to Thrive? / Kim Sue 251 The Dead Donor Rule and Organ Transplantation / Robert D. Truog and Franklin G. Miller 259 The Darkening Veil of "Do Everything" / Chris Feudtner and Wynne Morrison 263 Death and Dignity: A Case of Individualized Decision Making / Timothy E. Quill 267 Active and Passive Euthanasia / James A. Rachels 273 Clinician-Patient Interactions about Requests for Physician-Assisted Suicide: A Patient and Family View / Anthony L. Back, Helene Starks, Clarissa Hsu, Judith R. Gordon, Ashok Bharucha, and Robert A. Pearlman 280 My Father's Death / Susan M. Wolf 301 Part V. Allocation and Justice Glossary: Justice and the Allocation of Health Resources / Rebecca L. Walker and Larry R. Churchill 311 Dead Man Walking / Michael Stillman and Monalisa Tailor 316 Full Disclosure: Out-of-Pocket Costs as Side Effects / Peter A. Ubel, Amy P. Abernethy, and S. Yousuf Zafar 320 Seven Sins of Humanitarian Medicine / David R. Welling, James M. Ryan, David G. Burris, and Norman M. Rich 325 Who Should Receive Life Support during a Public Health Emergency? Using Ethical Principles to Improve Allocation Design / Douglas B. White, Mitchell H. Katz, John M. Luce, and Bernard Lo 335 About the Editors 353 Index 355
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Duke University Press The African Roots of Marijuana
Book SynopsisIn this authoritative history of cannabis in Africa, Chris S. Duvall challenges what readers thought they knew about cannabis by correcting widespread myths, outlining its relationship to slavery and colonialism, and highlighting Africa's centrality to knowledge about and the consumption of one of the world's most ubiquitous plants.Trade Review"Offers a great example of why geographers, historians, and other professionally trained humanists need to keep writing about cannabis: these are the only people who can explain and contextualize the racist and colonialist assumptions baked into much of the most widely read literature on the plant. . . . The academic literature on cannabis may never be the same after The African Roots of Marijuana." -- Nick Johnson * Points: The Blog of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society *"This book will be a worthwhile addition to any university library and is especially useful for law schools and for programs in criminology, criminal justice, sociology, and history. . . . Highly recommended. All readership levels." -- D. R. Kavish * Choice *"Essential reading for anyone with interests in African ethnobotany or cannabis history, and more broadly, will be of value to those interested in the history of nineteenth-century Africa or of slavery." -- Wendy L. Applequist * Economic Botany *"The book is richly detailed and reflects years of sustained effort. . . . All in all, this is an excellent piece of scholarship. It should interest anyone with a curiosity about the history of cannabis, Africa, or the geography of drugs." -- Barney Warf * Journal of Historical Geography *"Rumors that become published facts in high-end publications and prestigious medical journals are the mainstay of histories of marijuana. Chris S. Duvall, in a magnificently researched and clearly written book, sets right this historiography. . . . Duvall does a brilliant job in consulting available archaeological evidence, carefully studying the spread of words, and, most of all, drawing on sometimes little-studied European observers, especially Portuguese expeditions into the Central African interior. His judicious combination of all of these sources, combined with critical judgement, is convincing and a pleasure to read." -- David M. Gordon * International Journal of African Historical Studies *"The African Roots of Marijuana is a path-breaking work of scholarship. . . . This work represents a singular scholarly achievement, both in the history of cannabis globally and in its history on the African continent." -- Charles Ambler * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *“As African history remains on the fringe of some studies, Chris Duvall’s The African Roots of Marijuana provides a solid foundation for the agency of African people and the central function that the continent plays in the expansion of global transactions.” -- Paul Hoelscher * World History Connected *Table of ContentsPart I. Introduction: Pay Attention to African Cannabis 1. Cannabis and Africa 3 2. Race and Plant Evolution 33 Part II. Evidence: How Cannabis Came to Africa, What Happened to it There, and How It Crossed the Atlantic 3. Roots of African Cannabis Cultures 53 4. Cannabis Colonizes the Continent 72 5. A Convenient Crop 95 6. Society Overturned: The Bena Riamba 112 7. Cannabis Crosses the Atlantic 125 Part III. Discussion and Conclusions: What Carried Cannabis? 8. Working under the Influence 159 9. Buying and Banning 184 10. Rethinking Marijuana 216 Acknowledgments 231 Notes 233 Index 341
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Duke University Press Divided Bodies
Book SynopsisAbigail A. Dumes offers an ethnographic exploration of the Lyme disease controversy to shed light on the relationship between contested illness and evidence-based medicine in the United States.Trade Review“This exceptional book takes readers into the heart of an important medical controversy about the very nature of Lyme disease. Sensitively portraying the struggles of Lyme sufferers, as well as the divided opinions of the clinicians who care for them, this book demonstrates how evidence-based medicine may not reflect the social complexities of a deeply contested illness. A must-read for scholars of American health and medicine and for anyone interested in the growing Lyme disease epidemic.” -- Marcia C. Inhorn, Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs, Yale University“The controversy over the existence and meaning of chronic Lyme disease is one of the most fascinating stories in contemporary medicine. In Divided Bodies, Abigail A. Dumes explores with penetration and subtlety this epistemic border on which patients and physicians wage an intense battle to impose their truth.” -- Didier Fassin, Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study and Chair of Public Health at the Collège de France"This book is valuable for its illustration of how some medical paradigms become mainstream, while others disappear. Chronic Lyme, whatever it is, holds up a mirror to evidence-based medicine. Dumes's ethnographic approach provides voluminous details, new insights, and a refreshing alternative to much of the existing literature on the Lyme controversy. Highly recommended. All readers." -- M. Gochfeld * Choice *“Divided Bodies will be of interest to medical anthropologists and sociologists, and health professionals curious about how illnesses come to be contested.... It is an impressive example of how ethnography can shed light on the relationship between illness, disease and evidence-based medicine.” -- Caragh Brosnan * Sociology of Health & Illness *“Divided Bodies is a thorough, anthropological study of the controversies present in Lyme disease and inherent in EBM.... Interested physicians are encouraged to check it out.” -- William Murdoch * Family Medicine *“Being the first of its kind, Abigail A. Dumes’ ethnographic study of Lyme disease in the United States introduces its readers to a world largely unknown.... Thanks to her continuous, careful attention, readers get a thorough idea of what is at stake.” -- Josephine Rudbech * Ethnos *"I come away from this book with a clearer understanding of how evidence-based medicine makes multiple kinds of truth claims accessible, and how the idea of evidence becomes an agent in all approaches to chronic Lyme/post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome. This degree of balance, reflected down to Dumes’s word choice, is masterful. . . . Pre-COVID, most abled people’s lives were cordoned off from those who suffer chronically. Dumes’s text offers insight into what it might mean to distinguish, in our research and writing practices as much as in the subjects of our research, what we mean by evidence, what we mean by knowledge, and how we hold multiple competing worldviews in the same frame, as we pay attention to the suffering of others." -- Charis Boke * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *“Throughout [Divided Bodies], Dumes achieves a balancing act as an ethnographer of an onto-epistemological debate, wherein questions about what Lyme is frequently crowd out the social-scientific questions of what Lyme means and how it is actedupon.” -- Emma Broder * H-Sci-Med-Tech, H-Net Reviews *“Divided Bodies is an excellent example of the scholarship possible for those who take seriously the prospect of contested truths in contemporary medicine. It is well worth a read for those interested in the hegemony of evidence-based medicine and the persistence of the medically unexplained, as well as others invested in the specificities of Lyme disease as it is experienced and treated.” -- Paula Martin * Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry *"Abigail Dumes effectively presents a transdisciplinary approach for articulating the rhizomatic representations of illness that yields the phenomenon of Lyme Disease. It was a joy to read." -- Frans Jackop Lourens Robberts * Sociology of Health & Illness *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Lyme Disease Outside In 1 1. Mapping the Lyme Disease Controversy 27 2. Preventing Lyme 65 3. Living Lyme 99 4. Diagnosing and Treating Lyme 158 5. Lyme Disease, Evidence-Based Medicine, and the Biopolitics of Truthmaking 187 Conclusion: Through Lyme's Looking Glass 222 Notes 235 Glossary 271 References 273 Index 327
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Duke University Press The Politics of the Opioid Epidemic
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Duke University Press We Are Having This Conversation Now
Book SynopsisAlexandra Juhasz and Theodore Kerrtwo scholars deeply embedded in the HIV responsepresent the history, present, and future of AIDS through thirteen short conversations.Trade Review“[Juhasz’s and Kerr’s] conversational model—by definition friendly, curious, and inviting, with an interest in accessibility and transparency—distinguishes [We Are Having This Conversation Now] from traditional academic writing and media criticism. Here, history-teaching and -learning is rooted in an oral history framework: that we learn what happened to communities from the people who constitute them.” -- Svetlana Kitto * Bomb *“We Are Having This Conversation Now carves a terrain of multimedia and citations. . . . [Juhasz and Kerr’s] push to talk about AIDS across temporalities is an effort to drag conversations around AIDS and AIDS cultural production into a public present and keep them there." -- Mackenzie Lukenbill * The Baffler *"We Are Having This Conversation Now is suffused with an awareness that the dominant narratives of AIDS in the United States have traditionally centered the lives of gay white men." -- Alex Valenti * The Body *Table of ContentsAbbreviations vii Acknowledgments ix The Time of AIDS. Timeline 1 xiii Introduction. We Are Starting This Conversation, Again 1 Section One. Trigger Trigger 1. What We See 19 Trigger 2. Seeing Tape in Time 30 Trigger 3. Being Triggered Together 49 Trigger 4. Being Triggered in Times 59 Trigger 5. Being Triggered by Absence 73 Trigger 6. How to Have an AIDS Memorial in an Epidemic 83 An AIDS Conversation Script to be Read Aloud. Timeline 2 95 Section Two. Silence 7. Silence + Object 101 8. Silence + Art 121 9. Silence + Video 139 10. Silence + Undetectability 159 11. Silence + Conversation 169 12. Silence + Interaction 183 13. Silence + Transformation 197 Conclusion. We Are Beginning This Conversation, Again 217 Sources and Influences. Timeline 3 227 Notes 251 Index 257
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Duke University Press We Are Having This Conversation Now
Book SynopsisAlexandra Juhasz and Theodore Kerrtwo scholars deeply embedded in the HIV responsepresent the history, present, and future of AIDS through thirteen short conversations.Trade Review“[Juhasz’s and Kerr’s] conversational model—by definition friendly, curious, and inviting, with an interest in accessibility and transparency—distinguishes [We Are Having This Conversation Now] from traditional academic writing and media criticism. Here, history-teaching and -learning is rooted in an oral history framework: that we learn what happened to communities from the people who constitute them.” -- Svetlana Kitto * Bomb *“We Are Having This Conversation Now carves a terrain of multimedia and citations. . . . [Juhasz and Kerr’s] push to talk about AIDS across temporalities is an effort to drag conversations around AIDS and AIDS cultural production into a public present and keep them there." -- Mackenzie Lukenbill * The Baffler *"We Are Having This Conversation Now is suffused with an awareness that the dominant narratives of AIDS in the United States have traditionally centered the lives of gay white men." -- Alex Valenti * The Body *Table of ContentsAbbreviations vii Acknowledgments ix The Time of AIDS. Timeline 1 xiii Introduction. We Are Starting This Conversation, Again 1 Section One. Trigger Trigger 1. What We See 19 Trigger 2. Seeing Tape in Time 30 Trigger 3. Being Triggered Together 49 Trigger 4. Being Triggered in Times 59 Trigger 5. Being Triggered by Absence 73 Trigger 6. How to Have an AIDS Memorial in an Epidemic 83 An AIDS Conversation Script to be Read Aloud. Timeline 2 95 Section Two. Silence 7. Silence + Object 101 8. Silence + Art 121 9. Silence + Video 139 10. Silence + Undetectability 159 11. Silence + Conversation 169 12. Silence + Interaction 183 13. Silence + Transformation 197 Conclusion. We Are Beginning This Conversation, Again 217 Sources and Influences. Timeline 3 227 Notes 251 Index 257
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Duke University Press Our Veterans
Book SynopsisIn Our Veterans, Suzanne Gordon, Steve Early, and Jasper Craven explore the physical, emotional, social, economic, and psychological impact of military service and the problems that veterans face when they return to civilian life.Trade Review"This chilling account explores the physical, economic and psychological consequences of military service on veteran health and takes a critical look at the many players involved in shaping veteran life in the United States." * New York Times *"This little book is jam-packed with information that is not only fascinating, it promises to be incredibly helpful to any vet who will take the time to read it. . . Every veteran involved with the VA will find that Our Veterans is a reference book they can access as an unprecedented toolbox full of information that will come in handy in every confrontation with the Department of Veterans Affairs." -- John Ketwig * The Veteran *"The civilian community is largely unaware of the harm to all caused by the specialized problems facing our current veterans, and the growing drive to privatize the VA. Nor is it aware of the rising movement against this trend. Anyone having concerns about these issues will find Our Veterans to be an essential source of information. It provides a thorough, well-written analysis of the situation, and the direction we need to take in response." -- Ronald Citkowski * Against the Current *"The strength of this book is its honesty about the whole field of military service and its effects on those who survive it; as well as, those who don’t. The authors demonstrate through this, and previous activities, their concerns for the well-being of those who have served. Their writing is straight-forward, clear, and honest." -- Kim Scipes * Stansbury Forum *"As Suzanne Gordon, Steve Early and Jasper Craven make clear in their new book, Our Veterans, thinking about veterans as a monolithic group with the same experiences, same outlook and same needs is wrong. The extensively researched and sourced Our Veterans sets out to explain why." -- Janis Hashe * East Bay Express *"The authors of Our Veterans have taken a deep dive into a large and little understood corner of the social safety net. Their detailed depiction of how the forces of neoliberalization interact with the unique history, culture, and politics of this sector is an important contribution to our understanding of how working people are affected by these forces in all aspects of their lives." -- Mark Dudzic * New Labor Forum *"The authors bring extensive research, a strong progressive analysis, and powerful advocacy to this expansive review of veterans’ issues. . . . Our Veterans illustrates the dangerous impact of the U.S.’s massive military on many service members. It also shines a light on the many ways in which corporate greed and privatization are encroaching on our public resources, including the resources to robustly support our veterans when they come home." * New Politics *"An important addition to the literature about American veterans in the forever-war era. ... I recommend it to anyone who wants to understand the complicated and interconnected world of veteran policies, politics, and processes, then work to make them better." -- Jim Craig * Journal of Military History *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations ix Preface xiii Authors' Note and Acknowledgments xvii Introduction: Friendly Fire 1 1. A Toxic Workplace 27 2. Life and Work after the Military 57 3. Stolen Valor 85 4. Last Stand of the Legion Post? 108 5. The New VSOs 134 6. A VA Healthcare Struggle 155 7. Playing the Veteran Card 176 8. Veterans and the 2020 Election 199 Conclusion: Rethinking Veterans Affairs 222 Notes 253 Selected Bibliography 311 Index 317
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New York University Press Losing Sleep
Book SynopsisNew insights into the anxiety over infant sleep safetyNew parents are inundated with warnings about the fatal risks of co-sleeping, or sharing a bed with a newborn, from medical brochures and website forums, to billboard advertisements and the evening news. In Losing Sleep, Laura Harrison uncovers the origins of the infant sleep safety debate, providing a window into the unprecedented anxieties of modern parenthood. Exploring widespread rhetoric from doctors, public health experts, and the media, Harrison explains why our panic has reached an all-time high. She traces the way safe sleep standards in the United States have changed, and shows how parents, rather than broader systems of inequality that impact issues of housing and precarity, are increasingly being held responsible for infant health outcomes. Harrison shows that infant mortality rates differ widely by race and are linked to socioeconomic status. Yet, while racial disparities in infant mortality point to systemic and structTrade ReviewLosing Sleep is a superb contribution to the literature on infant risk, maternal responsibility, and reproductive justice. Framing infant safe sleep as a social construct, Harrison analyzes the ways safe sleep campaigns reproduce inequalities and fail to account for structural causes of infant death. The book is insightful, engaging, and timely. * Monica J. Casper, author of Babylost: Racism, Survival, and the Quiet Politics of Infant Mortality, from A to Z *Losing Sleep has an impressive scope and dynamic analysis....Harrison artfully draws on scholarship across sociology, feminist theory, feminist science studies, and reproductive justice to showcase how medical, political, legal, and public policy approaches work together to reward some parents (primarily mothers) and punish others....Harrison invites readers to reflect on taken-for-granted parenting advice about infant sleep to demonstrate the social and political dimensions of it, an absorbing read. * Laury Oaks, author of Giving Up Baby: Safe Haven Laws, Motherhood, and Reproductive Justice *
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New York University Press Losing Sleep
Book SynopsisNew insights into the anxiety over infant sleep safetyNew parents are inundated with warnings about the fatal risks of co-sleeping, or sharing a bed with a newborn, from medical brochures and website forums, to billboard advertisements and the evening news. In Losing Sleep, Laura Harrison uncovers the origins of the infant sleep safety debate, providing a window into the unprecedented anxieties of modern parenthood. Exploring widespread rhetoric from doctors, public health experts, and the media, Harrison explains why our panic has reached an all-time high. She traces the way safe sleep standards in the United States have changed, and shows how parents, rather than broader systems of inequality that impact issues of housing and precarity, are increasingly being held responsible for infant health outcomes. Harrison shows that infant mortality rates differ widely by race and are linked to socioeconomic status. Yet, while racial disparities in infant mortality point to systemic and structTrade Review"Losing Sleep is a superb contribution to the literature on infant risk, maternal responsibility, and reproductive justice. Framing infant safe sleep as a social construct, Harrison analyzes the ways safe sleep campaigns reproduce inequalities and fail to account for structural causes of infant death. The book is insightful, engaging, and timely." * Monica J. Casper, author of Babylost: Racism, Survival, and the Quiet Politics of Infant Mortality, from A to Z *"Losing Sleep has an impressive scope and dynamic analysis....Harrison artfully draws on scholarship across sociology, feminist theory, feminist science studies, and reproductive justice to showcase how medical, political, legal, and public policy approaches work together to reward some parents (primarily mothers) and punish others....Harrison invites readers to reflect on taken-for-granted parenting advice about infant sleep to demonstrate the social and political dimensions of it, an absorbing read." * Laury Oaks, author of Giving Up Baby: Safe Haven Laws, Motherhood, and Reproductive Justice *
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New York University Press Keywords for Health Humanities
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewKeywords for the Health Humanities transcends its title. This rich volume contains essays that not only map the essential concepts in the health humanities, but also expand the possibilities of the field going forward. With an impressive roster of contributors whose essays address such wide-ranging topics as disability, disaster, human rights and indigeneity, as well as neurodiversity, stress, and trauma, this is a Health Humanities reader for our current era. Highly recommended not only for courses but also for any reader hoping to broaden their vision of what constitutes health. -- Susan Squier, The Pennsylvania State UniversityMany, many aperçus here that diverge, converge, challenge, illumine, and occasionally surprise yet almost always take the reader in the plural directions that make up this exciting field. An excellent place to start to figure out what the humanities bring and do to health and medicine. Entertaining but, better still, serious and useful! * Arthur Kleinman, author of The Soul of Care *
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New York University Press Contesting Intersex
Book SynopsisWinner, 2017 Sex and Gender Distinguished Book Award, presented by the American Sociological AssociationWinner, 2016 Donald Light Award for the Applied or Public Practice of Medical Sociology, presented by the American Sociological AssociationA personal, compelling perspective on how medical diagnoses can profoundly hurt, or help, the lived experiences of entire communitiesWhen sociologist Georgiann Davis was a teenager, her doctors discovered that she possessed XY chromosomes, marking her as intersex. Rather than share this information with her, they withheld the diagnosis in order to protect the development of her gender identity; it was years before Davis would see her own medical records as an adult and learn the truth. Davis' experience is not unusual. Many intersex people feel isolated from one another and violated by medical practices that support conventional notions of the male/female sex binary which have historically led to secrecy anTrade ReviewDavis presents a compelling and beautifully-crafted text about the complex issues of gender and sexual identity. How medicine and diagnosis can either come in aid of, or brutally disrupt the experience of intersexuality is an important paradox, worthy of reflection and debate. With this book, Davis gets the ball rolling and demands our attention. It is well-worth the read. -- Annemarie Jutel,author of Putting a Name to It: Diagnosis in Contemporary SocietyThrough piercing interviews and astute analysis, and in a readable style, Contesting Intersex gets at the heart of recent controversies about the medical management of intersex and perceptively tracks the political engagement of intersex activists. -- Elizabeth Reis,author of Bodies in Doubt: An American History of IntersexWith refreshingly honest prose and an insider's insight, Georgiann Davis illuminates the ongoing, heated, and often painful debate about how best to respond to the naturally occurring diversity of sex development in human beings. This is groundbreaking work that is sure to become required reading for scholars of gender and the social history of medicine. -- Sharon Preves,author of Intersex and Identity: The Contested SelfThe histories of medicine, social movements, and gender productivity collide in sociologist Daviss compelling account of how activists, parents, assorted medical specialists and institutions, and people with intersex traits respond to the diversity of human reproductive development...[T]his book will inspire and inform the wide readership it deserves. * Choice *Davis provides her readers with a concise overview of her research as well as lists calls to action. Daviss strengths lie in the seamless blending of research, ethnography, interviews, and personal activism. * American Book Review *Contesting Intersexis an essential update to studies of the intersex and a must-read for those interested in social movements, gender, medicalization, diagnosis, and the relationship between science and culture. * American Journal of Sociology *Contesting Intersex is an unapologetic coalescence of Davis first-hand experiences of an intersex diagnosis and her academic inquiry into the topic. Whilst this, as she acknowledges, & may make the book read like an autoethnography at certain points, theory, politics and practice have never been discrete in intersex studies. Daviss own history and current participation in the intersex community help her to provide a circumspect consideration of the tensions at play. * Sociology of Health & Illness *Table of Contentsvii Contents Acknowledgments ix 1. Introduction: "You're in the Monkey Cage with Me" 1 2. The Transformation of Intersex Advocacy 26 3. Medical Jurisdiction and the Intersex Body 55 4. The Power in a Name 87 5. A Different Kind of Information 116 6. Conclusion: The Dubious Diagnosis 145 Appendix A: Table of Research Participants 171 Appendix B: Conference Agenda 173 Notes 179 References 191 Index 209 About the Author 221
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MI - New York University The Third Net
Book SynopsisReveals the presence of an informal system of valuable support and care for marginalized migrantsThe United States' health care system not only consists of a formal safety net, but also an informal and disjointed network of organizations that offer basic care to millions of migrants. This Third Net provides free or low-cost health care for the undocumented, low-income, and uninsured migrants who are excluded from the formal system. This groundbreaking study sheds light on the existence of the Third Net and its implications for the overall inequalities in the US health care system. The Third Net is made up of diverse providers with varying levels of service, organizational culture, and mission. These providers operate in unconventional settings, such as mobile clinics on wheels; pop-up clinics in repurposed spaces; and unlicensed, makeshift clinics run by health activists. Despite their unassuming appearances, these clinics are vital resources for marginalized populations that often g
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MI - New York University Just Health
Book SynopsisChoice Outstanding Academic Title 2023The author of the bestselling Just Medicine reveals how racial inequality undermines public health and how we can change itWith the rise of the Movement for Black Lives and the feverish calls for Medicare for All, the public spotlight on racial inequality and access to healthcare has never been brighter. The rise of COVID-19 and its disproportionate effects on people of color has especially made clear how the color of one's skin is directly related to the quality of care (or lack thereof) a person receives, and the disastrous health outcomes Americans suffer as a result of racism and an unjust healthcare system. Timely and accessible, Just Health examines how deep structural racism embedded in the fabric of American society leads to worse health outcomes and lower life expectancy for people of color. By presenting evidence of discrimination in housing, education, employment, and the criminal justice system, Dayna Bowen Matthew shows how racial in
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New York University Press Save My Kid
Book SynopsisA frank analysis of the medical and emotional inequalities that pervade the healthcare process for critically ill children Families who have a child with a life-threatening illness face a daunting road ahead of them, one that not only upends their everyday lives, but also strikes at the very heart of parenthood. In Save My Kid, Amanda M. Gengler traces the emotional difficulties these families navigate as they confront a fundamentally unequal healthcare system in the United States. Gengler reveals the unrecognized, everyday inequalities tangled up in the process of seeking medical care, showing how different families manage their children's critical illnesses. She also uncovers the role that emotional goalsdeeply rooted in the culture of illness and medicineplay in medical decision-making, healthcare interactions, and the end of children's lives. A deeply compassionate read, Save My Kid is an inside look at inequality in healthcare among those with the most at stake.Trade ReviewGengler's measured yet empathetic tone sets an example for all sociologists writing on emotionally charged topics. As intense as her account oftentimes is, it never devolves into empty sensationalism. The result is an eloquent and memorable illustration of how social inequalities play out in hospitals—a solid contribution to medical sociology, the sociology of emotions, and scholarship on culture and inequality. * American Journal of Sociology *Amanda Gengler movingly captures the high-stakes world of families coping with severe childhood illness and their struggle to maintain hope as they navigate the contemporary health landscape where inequality abound. A vivid demonstration of health as an arena that intensifies inequalities between families. -- Amy Best, author of Fast Food Kids: Lunch Lines, French Fries and Social TiesWith deep empathy and drawing from personal experience, this mesmerizing ethnography explores the opportunities and pitfalls of hope when parents face the challenge of their child’s life threatening disease. Rather than pinning all our hopes on hope, Gengler calls for a broader and more flexible emotional spectrum in times of life-or-death health crises. -- Stefan Timmermans, co-author of Saving Babies: The Consequences of Newborn Genetic ScreeningAmanda Gengler is a gifted ethnographer whose compassion and insight illuminate parents’ harrowing efforts to maintain hope while seeking life-saving treatments for their children. In showing how emotions intersect with cultural health capital, this indispensable book exposes the complex ways social inequality affects our ability to hope and cope in times of crisis. -- Jennifer Lois, author of Home is Where the School is: The Logic of Homeschooling and the Emotional Labor of Mothering
£62.90
New York University Press Save My Kid
Book SynopsisA frank analysis of the medical and emotional inequalities that pervade the healthcare process for critically ill children Families who have a child with a life-threatening illness face a daunting road ahead of them, one that not only upends their everyday lives, but also strikes at the very heart of parenthood. In Save My Kid, Amanda M. Gengler traces the emotional difficulties these families navigate as they confront a fundamentally unequal healthcare system in the United States. Gengler reveals the unrecognized, everyday inequalities tangled up in the process of seeking medical care, showing how different families manage their children's critical illnesses. She also uncovers the role that emotional goalsdeeply rooted in the culture of illness and medicineplay in medical decision-making, healthcare interactions, and the end of children's lives. A deeply compassionate read, Save My Kid is an inside look at inequality in healthcare among those with the most at stake.Trade Review"Gengler's measured yet empathetic tone sets an example for all sociologists writing on emotionally charged topics. As intense as her account oftentimes is, it never devolves into empty sensationalism. The result is an eloquent and memorable illustration of how social inequalities play out in hospitals—a solid contribution to medical sociology, the sociology of emotions, and scholarship on culture and inequality." * American Journal of Sociology *"Amanda Gengler movingly captures the high-stakes world of families coping with severe childhood illness and their struggle to maintain hope as they navigate the contemporary health landscape where inequality abound. A vivid demonstration of health as an arena that intensifies inequalities between families." -- Amy Best, author of Fast Food Kids: Lunch Lines, French Fries and Social Ties"With deep empathy and drawing from personal experience, this mesmerizing ethnography explores the opportunities and pitfalls of hope when parents face the challenge of their child’s life threatening disease. Rather than pinning all our hopes on hope, Gengler calls for a broader and more flexible emotional spectrum in times of life-or-death health crises." -- Stefan Timmermans, co-author of Saving Babies: The Consequences of Newborn Genetic Screening"Amanda Gengler is a gifted ethnographer whose compassion and insight illuminate parents’ harrowing efforts to maintain hope while seeking life-saving treatments for their children. In showing how emotions intersect with cultural health capital, this indispensable book exposes the complex ways social inequality affects our ability to hope and cope in times of crisis." -- Jennifer Lois, author of Home is Where the School is: The Logic of Homeschooling and the Emotional Labor of Mothering
£23.74
New York University Press Contesting Intersex
Book SynopsisWinner, 2017 Sex and Gender Distinguished Book Award, presented by the American Sociological AssociationWinner, 2016 Donald Light Award for the Applied or Public Practice of Medical Sociology, presented by the American Sociological AssociationA personal, compelling perspective on how medical diagnoses can profoundly hurt, or help, the lived experiences of entire communitiesWhen sociologist Georgiann Davis was a teenager, her doctors discovered that she possessed XY chromosomes, marking her as intersex. Rather than share this information with her, they withheld the diagnosis in order to protect the development of her gender identity; it was years before Davis would see her own medical records as an adult and learn the truth. Davis' experience is not unusual. Many intersex people feel isolated from one another and violated by medical practices that support conventional notions of the male/female sex binary which have historically led to secrecy anTrade ReviewDavis presents a compelling and beautifully-crafted text about the complex issues of gender and sexual identity. How medicine and diagnosis can either come in aid of, or brutally disrupt the experience of intersexuality is an important paradox, worthy of reflection and debate. With this book, Davis gets the ball rolling and demands our attention. It is well-worth the read. -- Annemarie Jutel,author of Putting a Name to It: Diagnosis in Contemporary SocietyThrough piercing interviews and astute analysis, and in a readable style, Contesting Intersex gets at the heart of recent controversies about the medical management of intersex and perceptively tracks the political engagement of intersex activists. -- Elizabeth Reis,author of Bodies in Doubt: An American History of IntersexWith refreshingly honest prose and an insider's insight, Georgiann Davis illuminates the ongoing, heated, and often painful debate about how best to respond to the naturally occurring diversity of sex development in human beings. This is groundbreaking work that is sure to become required reading for scholars of gender and the social history of medicine. -- Sharon Preves,author of Intersex and Identity: The Contested SelfThe histories of medicine, social movements, and gender productivity collide in sociologist Daviss compelling account of how activists, parents, assorted medical specialists and institutions, and people with intersex traits respond to the diversity of human reproductive development...[T]his book will inspire and inform the wide readership it deserves. * Choice *Davis provides her readers with a concise overview of her research as well as lists calls to action. Daviss strengths lie in the seamless blending of research, ethnography, interviews, and personal activism. * American Book Review *Contesting Intersexis an essential update to studies of the intersex and a must-read for those interested in social movements, gender, medicalization, diagnosis, and the relationship between science and culture. * American Journal of Sociology *Contesting Intersex is an unapologetic coalescence of Davis first-hand experiences of an intersex diagnosis and her academic inquiry into the topic. Whilst this, as she acknowledges, & may make the book read like an autoethnography at certain points, theory, politics and practice have never been discrete in intersex studies. Daviss own history and current participation in the intersex community help her to provide a circumspect consideration of the tensions at play. * Sociology of Health & Illness *Table of Contentsvii Contents Acknowledgments ix 1. Introduction: "You're in the Monkey Cage with Me" 1 2. The Transformation of Intersex Advocacy 26 3. Medical Jurisdiction and the Intersex Body 55 4. The Power in a Name 87 5. A Different Kind of Information 116 6. Conclusion: The Dubious Diagnosis 145 Appendix A: Table of Research Participants 171 Appendix B: Conference Agenda 173 Notes 179 References 191 Index 209 About the Author 221
£22.79
University of Toronto Press Diagnosis
Book SynopsisThe announcement of a serious diagnosis is a solemn moment when directions shift, priorities change, and life appears in sharper focus. It is also a moment when a story takes shape. It is a story we are able to imagine, even if we haven’t experienced it firsthand, because the moment of diagnosis is as pervasive in popular media as it is in medicine. Diagnosis: Truths and Tales shares stories told from the perspectives of those who receive diagnoses and those who deliver them. Confronting how we address illness in our personal lives and in popular culture, this compelling book explores narratives of diagnosis while pondering the impact they have on how we experience health and disease.Trade Review"Diagnosis: Truth and Tales provokes thought rather than simple assent. It offers a set of ideas that enable its readers’ various responses rather than prescribing an inevitable conclusion." -- Jeffrey Brown, University of the Sciences in Philadelphia * Medical Humanities *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword: Giving the Story Back – by Lisa Sanders Acknowledgments Introduction Touch of the Flu: The Paradoxes and Contradictions of Diagnoses Whose Stories? Narrative Exchange and Self-Diagnosis "The Expertness of His Healer": Diagnosis, Disclosure, and the Power of a Profession "The News Is Not Altogether Comforting": Fiction and the Diagnostic Moment Breaking Bad: The Diagnostic Moment in Film and Television – with Thierry Jutel A Picture Paints a Thousand Words: The Graphic Diagnosis – with Ian Williams The Intellectual Documentary: Methods for Understanding the Diagnostic Moment What’s There to Tell? Diagnosis-as-Mystery Notes References Index
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