Health, illness or addiction: social aspects Books

Book SynopsisShows how to create a comprehensive, community-wide prevention program to effectively confront the serious drug and alcohol problems threatening our youth. Shows how to employ community mobilization, educational strategies, volunteerism, and mass media to achieve significant reductions in adolescent drug use.Table of ContentsPart One: Preventing Drug Abuse Among Youth at Risk 1. The Problem of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse 2. Reducing Risk and Promoting Positive Social Development 3. Mobilizing the Community Part Two: Community Action Strategies 4. Selecting the Best Approaches for Your Community(J. DavidHawkins, Janet Y. Miller, Richard F. Catalano, Jr.) 5. Prenatal and Infancy Programs(Kathryn E. Barnard) 6. Early Childhood Education 7. Parent Training 8. School Organization and Management 9. Instructional Improvement in Schools 10. Drug and Alcohol Prevention Curricula(The W. T. GrantConsortium on the School-Based Promotion of SocialCompetence) 11. Community and School Drug Use Policies 12. Media Mobilization Part Three: Supporting Community Prevention Programs 13. Resources and Strategies for Funding(A. Baron Holmes IV, GaryD. Gottfredson, Janet Y. Miller)

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Book SynopsisThis book reconstructs the literary and cultural history of addiction from the nineteenth to the twentieth century. The notion of addiction has always conjured first-person stories, often beginning with an insidious seduction, followed by compulsion and despair, culminating in recovery and tentative hope for the future. We are all familiar with this form of individual life narrative, Susan Zieger observes, but we know far less about its history. 'Addict' was not an available identity until the end of the nineteenth century, when a modernizing medical establishment and burgeoning culture of consumption updated the figure of the sinful drunkard popularized by the temperance movement.In ""Inventing the Addict"", Zieger tells the story of how the addict, a person uniquely torn between disease and desire, emerged from a variety of earlier figures such as drunkards, opium-eating scholars, vicious slave masters, dissipated New Women, and queer doctors. Drawing on a broad range of literary and cultural material, including canonical novels such as ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"", ""The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"", and ""Dracula"", she traces the evolution of the concept of addiction through a series of recurrent metaphors: exile, self-enslavement, disease, and vampirism. She shows how addiction took on multiple meanings beyond its common association with intoxication or specific habit-forming substances - it was an abiding desire akin to both sexual attraction and commodity fetishism, a disease that strangely failed to meet the requirements of pathology, and the citizen's ironic refusal to fulfill the promise of freedom.Nor was addiction an ideologically neutral idea. As Zieger demonstrates, it took form over time through specific, shifting intersections of gender, race, class, and sexuality, reflecting the role of social power in the construction of meaning.Trade ReviewInventing the Addict is full of excellent things. It not only makes an important contribution to the field of addiction studies and many other areas of present interest in cultural, social, and material studies, it also functions partly as a summary and synthesis of much current work in nineteenth-century civilization. - Marty Roth, author of Drunk the Night Before: An Anatomy of Intoxication

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Book SynopsisCovid and . . . How To Do Rhetoric in a Pandemic is among the first edited collections to consider how rhetoric shapes Covid’s disease trajectory. Arguing that the circulation of any virus must be understood in tandem with the public communication accompanying it, this collection converses with interdisciplinary stakeholders also committed to the project of social wellness during pandemic times. With inventive ways of thinking about structural inequities in health, these essays showcase the forces that pandemic rhetoric exerts across health conditions, politics, and histories of social injustice.

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Book SynopsisThroughout the COVID-19 crisis, nation states found new ways to assert power under the guise of public health, from closing or tightening borders to expanding the boundaries of acceptable citizen surveillance. As these controls increased in intensity, citizens’ passions to cross borders seemed to grow in proportion. Pandemic Crossings explores how these processes of boundary making and crossing, often mediated by digital technology despite inequity of access, had profound and often contradictory consequences on individual lives, national politics, and U.S.–China relations. This rich and geographically diverse collection of studies informed by everyday, individual experiences contribute new insights to the interplay between digital technologies and state governance during the covid-19 pandemic. It opens up new avenues of research not only on the covid-19 pandemic but also on global health crises more broadly.

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Book SynopsisStreetWays: Chronicling the Homeless in Miami is a collection of interviews with 28 homeless individuals living in downtown Miami and Miami Beach. Besides extensive photographs of these people and their lives on the street, the book also includes interviews with social service providers, as well as a detailed analysis of homelessness in the United States and more specifically in Miami. The work concludes with a policy analysis and suggestions for addressing issues of homelessness in Miami and the nation.StreetWays attempts to make clear how and why homelessness occurs, and what the actual lives and experiences of the homeless are about. Through extensive interviews and extensive documentary photographs, a selected group of homeless Miamians lose their invisibility as their experiences, needs and aspirations are reported. The book calls for a better understanding of the experience of homelessness places such as Miami, and of the need to understand homelessness as an issue of diversity and human rights.

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Book SynopsisStreetWays: Chronicling the Homeless in Miami is a collection of interviews with 28 homeless individuals living in downtown Miami and Miami Beach. Besides extensive photographs of these people and their lives on the street, the book also includes interviews with social service providers, as well as a detailed analysis of homelessness in the United States and more specifically in Miami. The work concludes with a policy analysis and suggestions for addressing issues of homelessness in Miami and the nation.StreetWays attempts to make clear how and why homelessness occurs, and what the actual lives and experiences of the homeless are about. Through extensive interviews and extensive documentary photographs, a selected group of homeless Miamians lose their invisibility as their experiences, needs and aspirations are reported. The book calls for a better understanding of the experience of homelessness places such as Miami, and of the need to understand homelessness as an issue of diversity and human rights.

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Book SynopsisIn our current digital era, imagination and the cultural and material conditions by which it is developed are more crucially than ever implicated in the experienced adversities and contradictions of drug use. The technological changes of society underscore the need for rethinking dominant understandings which portray addiction as an immediate and even mindless relation between a person and a substance or behavior, only minimally affected by subjective significance and historical alterations of everyday life. Indeed, from ancient mythology to our modern times drugs have been part of our cultural history. Understandings and practices of their uses have developed through cultural ideas and cultural-material conditions like traditions, rituals and routines. Today, the omnipresence of digital media in everyday life is massively changing and expanding such cultural and material conditions. Digital media equip people with associations between drugs and an incredible abundance of images, ideas, facts, fiction, narratives, plots, soundtracks, characters, and much more, and thereby expanding their imaginable potentials for providing answers to biographical questions. People and potential drug use become connected in novel and labyrinthine ways through digital communities and arrangements of everyday life. And digital media are part of and transform the cultural-material practices in which activities and experiences of intoxication actually take place. In the book, all these details are extensively analyzed empirically based on qualitative data on the lives of a number of young, Danish people who were undergoing treatment for drug-related problems at the time of the research. An underlying premise of the entire work is that addiction may be seen as a more extreme expression of how the technological developments in our contemporary world more generally speaking magnify the contradictory implications of imagination for modern living.Over the recent years, psychological research into the significance of the human capacity to imagine for how people deal with and live their lives has received growing attention. Yet, the complex involvement of imagination in actual living and consequently the theoretical cruxes this engenders continue to amaze and surprise research and researchers. This book also contributes to these theoretical ambitions with a substantial work on the concept of imagination. It primarily suggests that a critical discussion of how imagining is essentially a contradictory process in everyday life and how it is always grounded in the agency of material aspects, ranging anywhere from mundane artifacts over mediated content to advanced technologies, is ultimately what makes the scientific study of imagination relevant to understanding and intervening in the dilemmas and crises of modern life and society.The book will primarily interest scholars of social psychology of everyday life, scholars working conceptually and empirically on imagination, scholars of social studies of media, materiality and technology, and researchers or practitioners working with addictions.

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Book SynopsisIn our current digital era, imagination and the cultural and material conditions by which it is developed are more crucially than ever implicated in the experienced adversities and contradictions of drug use. The technological changes of society underscore the need for rethinking dominant understandings which portray addiction as an immediate and even mindless relation between a person and a substance or behavior, only minimally affected by subjective significance and historical alterations of everyday life. Indeed, from ancient mythology to our modern times drugs have been part of our cultural history. Understandings and practices of their uses have developed through cultural ideas and cultural-material conditions like traditions, rituals and routines. Today, the omnipresence of digital media in everyday life is massively changing and expanding such cultural and material conditions. Digital media equip people with associations between drugs and an incredible abundance of images, ideas, facts, fiction, narratives, plots, soundtracks, characters, and much more, and thereby expanding their imaginable potentials for providing answers to biographical questions. People and potential drug use become connected in novel and labyrinthine ways through digital communities and arrangements of everyday life. And digital media are part of and transform the cultural-material practices in which activities and experiences of intoxication actually take place. In the book, all these details are extensively analyzed empirically based on qualitative data on the lives of a number of young, Danish people who were undergoing treatment for drug-related problems at the time of the research. An underlying premise of the entire work is that addiction may be seen as a more extreme expression of how the technological developments in our contemporary world more generally speaking magnify the contradictory implications of imagination for modern living.Over the recent years, psychological research into the significance of the human capacity to imagine for how people deal with and live their lives has received growing attention. Yet, the complex involvement of imagination in actual living and consequently the theoretical cruxes this engenders continue to amaze and surprise research and researchers. This book also contributes to these theoretical ambitions with a substantial work on the concept of imagination. It primarily suggests that a critical discussion of how imagining is essentially a contradictory process in everyday life and how it is always grounded in the agency of material aspects, ranging anywhere from mundane artifacts over mediated content to advanced technologies, is ultimately what makes the scientific study of imagination relevant to understanding and intervening in the dilemmas and crises of modern life and society.The book will primarily interest scholars of social psychology of everyday life, scholars working conceptually and empirically on imagination, scholars of social studies of media, materiality and technology, and researchers or practitioners working with addictions.

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Book SynopsisThe Provisions of War examines how soldiers, civilians, communities, and institutions have used food and its absence as both a destructive weapon and a unifying force in establishing governmental control and cultural cohesion during times of conflict. Historians as well as scholars of literature, regional studies, and religious studies problematize traditional geographic boundaries and periodization in this essay collection, analyzing various conflicts of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries through a foodways lens to reveal new insights about the parameters of armed interactions.The subjects covered are as varied and inclusive as the perspectives offered—ranging from topics like military logistics and animal disease in colonial Africa, Indian vegetarian identity, and food in the counterinsurgency of the Malayan Emergency, to investigations of hunger in Egypt after World War I and American soldiers’ role in the making of US–Mexico borderlands. Taken together, the essays here demonstrate the role of food in shaping prewar political debates and postwar realities, revealing how dietary adjustments brought on by military campaigns reshape national and individual foodways and identities long after the cessation of hostilities.Table of Contents Introduction: Geography and Chronology in Food and Warfare —Justin Nordstrom I – Expanding Geographic Boundaries 1. Yankee Pigs and Dying Cattle: Military Logistics, Animal Disease, and Economic Power in the U.S. and Colonial Africa in the Nineteenth Century —Erin Stewart Mauldin 2. The Decisive Weapon? Rations and Food Supply in the Boer War of 1899–1902 —Matthew Richardson 3. Food and Anticolonialism at Gandhi’s Intentional Communities in South Africa and India —Karline McLain 4. The Making of Indian Vegetarian Identity —Mohd Ahmar Alvi 5. Hungry Empire: Manchuria and the Failed Food Autarky in Imperial Japan, 1931–41 —Jing Sun 6. “We Don’t Need Red Tape, We Need Red Meat”: A Comparative Overview of the Fight against Black-Market Meat in Australia, Canada, Great Britain, and the United States during World War II —Leslie A. Przybylek 7. Food in the Counterinsurgency of the Malayan Emergency: Security, Hawking, and Food Denial —Yvonne Tan II – Expanding Chronological Boundaries 8. “To Calm Our Rebellious Stomachs”: U.S. Soldiers’ Experience with Food during the U.S.–Mexico War —Christopher Menking 9. Food, Hunger, and Rebellion: Egypt in World War I and Its Aftermath —Christopher S. Rose 10. Tasting Recovery: Food, Disability, and the Senses in World War I American Rehabilitation —Evan P. Sullivan 11. Culinary Nationalism and Ethnic Recipe Collections during and after World War I —Carol Helstosky 12. Still Poor, Still Little, Still Hungry? The Diet and Health of Belgian Children after World War I —Nel de MÛelenaere 13. Planting Pan-Americanism: The Good Neighbor Policy and the Visual Culture of Corn, 1933–45 —Breanne Robertson 14. “Six Taels and Four Maces (Luk-Leung-SeÍ)”: Food and Wartime Hong Kong, 1938–46 —Kwong Chi Ma 15. Selling Out the Revolution for a Plate of Beans: Social Eating and Violence in Peru’s Civil Conflict of the 1980s and 1990s —Bryce Evans

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Book SynopsisThe Provisions of War examines how soldiers, civilians, communities, and institutions have used food and its absence as both a destructive weapon and a unifying force in establishing governmental control and cultural cohesion during times of conflict. Historians as well as scholars of literature, regional studies, and religious studies problematize traditional geographic boundaries and periodization in this essay collection, analyzing various conflicts of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries through a foodways lens to reveal new insights about the parameters of armed interactions.The subjects covered are as varied and inclusive as the perspectives offered—ranging from topics like military logistics and animal disease in colonial Africa, Indian vegetarian identity, and food in the counterinsurgency of the Malayan Emergency, to investigations of hunger in Egypt after World War I and American soldiers’ role in the making of US–Mexico borderlands. Taken together, the essays here demonstrate the role of food in shaping prewar political debates and postwar realities, revealing how dietary adjustments brought on by military campaigns reshape national and individual foodways and identities long after the cessation of hostilities.Table of Contents Introduction: Geography and Chronology in Food and Warfare Justin Nordstrom I – Expanding Geographic Boundaries 1. Yankee Pigs and Dying Cattle: Military Logistics, Animal Disease, and Economic Power in the U.S. and Colonial Africa in the Nineteenth Century Erin Stewart Mauldin 2. The Decisive Weapon? Rations and Food Supply in the Boer War of 1899–1902 Matthew Richardson 3. Food and Anticolonialism at Gandhi’s Intentional Communities in South Africa and India Karline McLain 4. The Making of Indian Vegetarian Identity Mohd Ahmar Alvi 5. Hungry Empire: Manchuria and the Failed Food Autarky in Imperial Japan, 1931–41 Jing Sun 6. “We Don’t Need Red Tape, We Need Red Meat”: A Comparative Overview of the Fight against Black-Market Meat in Australia, Canada, Great Britain, and the United States during World War II Leslie A. Przybylek 7. Food in the Counterinsurgency of the Malayan Emergency: Security, Hawking, and Food Denial Yvonne Tan II – Expanding Chronological Boundaries 8. “To Calm Our Rebellious Stomachs”: U.S. Soldiers’ Experience with Food during the U.S.–Mexico War Christopher Menking 9. Food, Hunger, and Rebellion: Egypt in World War I and Its Aftermath Christopher S. Rose 10. Tasting Recovery: Food, Disability, and the Senses in World War I American Rehabilitation Evan P. Sullivan 11. Culinary Nationalism and Ethnic Recipe Collections during and after World War I Carol Helstosky 12. Still Poor, Still Little, Still Hungry? The Diet and Health of Belgian Children after World War I Nel de MÛelenaere 13. Planting Pan-Americanism: The Good Neighbor Policy and the Visual Culture of Corn, 1933–45 Breanne Robertson 14. “Six Taels and Four Maces (Luk-Leung-SeÍ)”: Food and Wartime Hong Kong, 1938–46 Kwong Chi Ma 15. Selling Out the Revolution for a Plate of Beans: Social Eating and Violence in Peru’s Civil Conflict of the 1980s and 1990s Bryce Evans

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Book SynopsisToward the end of World War II, Hitler's many health complications became even more pronounced, making an evil man yet more erratic and dangerous. While the subject of Hitler's health has been catalogued previously, never has it been done so this thoroughly or with this level of up-to-date medical expertise.Tom Hutton's new neurobehavioral analysis of Adolf Hitler draws from a lifetime of medical research and clinical experience to understand how the dictator's particular medical history further warped a deformed personality and altered Hitler's decision making.Dr. Hutton trained under the world-renowned neuropsychologist and father of modern neuropsychological assessment, Dr. Alexander Luria, giving him a uniquely qualified eye to undertake this most difficult assessment.While many books on the subject thumb through the annals of popular psychology to understand history's most famous monsters, Dr. Hutton's latest book uses contemporary clinical knowledge, lucidly synthesizing medical complexities for all audiences.Here Dr. Hutton undertakes a thorough medical history to elucidate a pivotal historical moment, examining how disease impacted Hitler's destructive life.

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Book SynopsisThis textbook provides workers and students with an introduction to effective injury prevention. It pays particular attention to how issues of precarious employment, gender, and ill-health can be better handled in Canadian occupational health and safety (OHS). Health and Safety in Canadian Workplaces offers an extensive overview of central OHS concepts and practices and provides practical suggestions for health and safety advocacy. It attempts to bring OHS into a twenty-first century context by discussing contemporary workplaces and the health effects of new work processes and structures while recognizing that safety has gendered and racialized dimensions. Foster and Barnetson contend that the practice of occupational health and safety can only be understood if we acknowledge that workers and employers have conflicting interests.

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Book SynopsisSherman Folland and Eric Nauenberg present the cutting-edge of research covering the ever-expanding social capital field. With excellent contributions from leading academics, the Elgar Companion to Social Capital and Health offers a developed examination of new research across sociology, epidemiology, economics, psychology and political science. Authors from across North America, Europe and Asia provide wide-ranging and detailed accounts of social capital and health, focusing on social networks, causality and productivity. Sections cover theoretical perspectives and empirical evidence supporting the connection between social capital and health worldwide. Authors discuss ageing, immigration, religion and workplace health, as well as focusing on social capital in developing countries experiencing rapid and extensive economic growth. Essential reading for any aspirational social capital and health policy academic, this Companion offers future paths for research within sociology, health economics, epidemiology, political science and social policy. The breadth of study would also benefit public health officials, policy analysts and healthcare decision-makers.Contributors include: S.R. Ali, N.D. Anderson, S. Child, H. Corman, S. Dinda, S. Folland, C. Frazier, J. Guo, M.K. Islam, T. Iversen, F. Jusot, O. Kaarbøe, M. Lindström, M. Ljunge, J. Mandelbaum, M. Menéndez, S. Moore, E. Nauenberg, K. Noonan, P.J. Pettis, N.E. Reichman, L. Rocco, L. Rochaix, E. Shapiro, C. Sharony, T.W. Someno, L. Song, Y.-H. WuTrade Review'Did you know that the concept of ''social capital'' can be traced to Marx? This Companion contains many more startling insights, not least due to its comprehensive review of worldwide empirical evidence suggesting that indeed social capital may have a causal effect not only on mental but also on physical health. Congratulations to the contributors!' --Peter Zweifel, University of Zurich, SwitzerlandTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction Sherman Folland and Eric Nauenberg PART I Theories on how social capital improves health 2. How does social capital contribute to health? Sherman Folland 3. History of social capital and health M. Kamrul Islam 4. How social capital arises in areas Tor Iversen and Tigist Woldetsadik Sommeno PART II Special inquiries on social capital and health 5. Social capital and health across the life cycle Eric Nauenberg 6. Religious and social capital and health Ephraim Shapiro and Chen Sharony PART III Empirical evidence: does social capital improve health? 7. Social capital in epidemiology Martin Lindström 8. Social capital and aging brain health Nicole D. Anderson 9. Social capital and types of illnesses: Where is it most effective? M. Kamrul Islam, Sherman Folland and Oddvar Martin Kaarbøe 10. Social capital and risk-taking behavior Sherman Folland PART IV Causality issues 11. Social capital and health interventions: Enhancing social capital to improve health Jean Guo, Setti Raïs Ali and Lise Rochaix 12. Does health affect social capital? Hope Corman, Kelly Noonan and Nancy E. Reichman 13. Trust promotes health: addressing reverse causality by studying children of immigrants Martin Ljunge 14. Workplace social capital and sickness absence M. Kamrul Islam and Lorenzo Rocco PART V Sociology and social capital 15. Network approaches to the study of social capital and health Spencer Moore, Stephanie Child, Yun-Hsuan Wu and Jennifer Mandelbaum 16. Do network members’ resources generate health inequality? Social capital theory and beyond Lijun Song, Cleothia G. Frazier and Philip J. Pettis PART VI Social capital and health in world development 17. Social capital and health inequalities in developing countries: A case study for Indonesia Florence Jusot and Marta Menéndez 18. Social capital and economic growth Soumyananda Dinda Index

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Book SynopsisThis lucid and comprehensive book explores the ways in which the State, the market and the citizen can collaborate to satisfy people's health care needs. It argues that health care is not a commodity like any other. It asks if its unique properties mean that there is a role for social regulation and political management. Apples and oranges can be left to the buyers and the sellers. Health care may require an input from the consensus, the experts, the insurers, the politicians and the bureaucrats as well.David Reisman makes a fresh contribution to the debate. He argues that the three policy issues that are of primary importance are choice, equality and cost. He explores the balance between the patient, the practitioner and public opinion; the disparities in outcome indicators and access to medical care; and the escalation in prices and quantities at the expense of other areas of social life. Reisman concludes that, despite its significance for the individual and the nation, there is no single definition of health or health care. The maximand is a mix. Yet decisions have to be made.This thought-provoking and insightful book will be of use to students and scholars of public policy, social policy and health economics. It will also be of interest to medical practitioners who want to situate hard choices about health and illness in a broad multidisciplinary context.Trade Review'Too often health economics proceeds without serious consideration of the concrete challenges of health policy. David Reisman's new book does just the opposite: it starts with those challenges and shows what the economics of health care must be to address them. This makes the economics of health care inseparable from the ethics of health care. This book is highly recommended for clear and sensible thinking about the economics of health policy.' --John Davis, Marquette University, US and University of Amsterdam, the NetherlandsTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Good Health 3. The Invisible Mind 4. Inputs and Outcomes 5. The Individual 6. The Practitioner 7. The Public 8. The Logic of Insurance 9. Insurance: Public and Private 10. Equity and Equality 11. The Right to Health 12. Inequality and Health 13. Narrowing the Gap 14. Equalising Medical Care 15. The Cost of Care 16. Cost Containment 17. State, Market and Cost 18. Conclusion Index

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Book SynopsisWinner of the Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize 2023 In a major contribution to the sociology of medicine, Alison Pilnick shifts the terms of the debate around patient centred care (PCC). PCC is typically framed as a moral imperative, necessary to prevent a return to the outmoded medical paternalism of the past. However, empirical research repeatedly fails to show a clear link between the adoption of PCC and improvement in health outcomes. These results are largely considered as professional failings, to be remediated through ‘better’ training in PCC; as a result empirical research is largely focused on the extent to which practice does not live up to checklists of PCC criteria. Through the detailed examination of a large corpus of healthcare interactions collected from a range of settings over a 25 year period, Pilnick illustrates the ways in which there are good organisational and interactional reasons for what may look from a PCC perspective like ‘bad’ healthcare practice. Conceptualisations of PCC typically foreground the importance of patient autonomy, to be exercised through choice and control; the analysis presented here highlights the problems with these consumerist underpinnings of PCC, and shows how the interactional consequence of attempting to enact them is often the sidelining of medical expertise that patients want or need. Arguing that reform would be better directed at considering how this expertise can be re-centred in contemporary healthcare, the analysis illustrates why values-driven policy can be problematic in practice, and points to the importance of using analyses of healthcare interaction to inform healthcare policy making from the outset, rather than simply as a barometer of its success.Trade ReviewReconsidering Patient Centred Care … is essential reading … it provides a convincing, empirically grounded assessment of patient centered care, which is being evaluated and judged both in relation to the logics and imperatives of real-life interaction in medical encounters and with reference to the societal purpose and function of medicine in the first place. -- Melisa Stevanovic * Symbolic Interaction *The book would be enjoyable and useful to clinicians and policymakers, as well as sociologists. It shows the problems with widespread assumptions about what happens in the medical encounter. Such assumptions are taken as the starting point of policy interventions (and indeed sociological analyses) into many pressing issues and the book therefore successfully commends conversation analysis as a method for interrogating PCC by starting, not ending, with study of interaction itself. -- Eleanor Kashouris, Kashouris, E. (2023), Reconsidering patient centred care: Between autonomy and abandonment. By Pilnick, Alison, Emerald. 2022. 168pp. £65 (hbck). ISBN: 9781800717442. Sociol Health Illn, 45: 1393-1394. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13646The array of topics and extracts in this 5-chapter monograph shows how challenging PCC is for healthcare professionals to define and enact, particularly when PCC is competing with other institutional goals and service delivery constraints […] The book is potentially of interest to anyone involved in researching, developing, teaching or implementing healthcare policy and practice and may particularly appeal to clinical academics. -- Avril Nicoll, Nicoll, A. (2023), Reconsidering patient centred care: Between autonomy and abandonment. By Pilnick, A. Bingley, Emerald Publishing Limited. 2022. pp. 168. £65.00 (hardback). ISBN: 9781800717442. Sociol Health Illn, 45: 1395-1396. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13677This is a pathbreaking book in its use of conversation analysis to revisit core issues in medical sociology [...] It shows a deep knowledge of the history of debates in the field and a breadth of scholarship that situates conversation analysis firmly as a sociological practice. [...] This book clearly shows the value of detailed, painstaking and thorough empirical work for challenging self-defined assumptions of virtuous practice. It needs to be read by anyone with an interest in the communication skills of health professionals. -- Robert Dingwall, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Nottingham Trent UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. What is Patient Centred Care? Chapter 2. Patient Centred Care in Practice Chapter 3. On good interactional reasons for ‘bad’ healthcare practice Chapter 4. Rehabilitating medical expertise for the 21st Century Chapter 5. Moving beyond Patient Centred Care?

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.With contributions from leading experts in the fields of anthropology, communications, disaster studies, economics, epidemiology, Indigenous studies, philosophy and sociology, this expansive book offers a diverse range of social science perspectives on the COVID-19 pandemic, providing critical insights into what a research agenda for COVID-19 and society resembles across different fields of study. This timely Research Agenda investigates what the social sciences can contribute to COVID-19 scholarship, exploring topics such as the impact of the pandemic on women and Indigenous Peoples, ideas behind herd immunity, drivers of vaccine diplomacy, magnification of existing inequalities, and the ethics of vaccine passports. Driven by a particular focus on the causes and consequences of the pandemic, the book considers the opportunities that research into COVID-19 presents, including how such disasters might be mitigated, as well as how we might change the world for the better and carry out our own work differently in the future. Drawing upon numerous critical theories and methodological approaches, this incisive Research Agenda will be an invaluable tool for academics across the social sciences, particularly disaster scholars. Graduate and undergraduate students will benefit from its wealth of insightful contributions from experts working in their respective fields.Trade Review‘Social science at its best. This important book takes huge steps towards helping us reimagine the social world, highlighting and thinking through the strengths but also the weakness of social, political and cultural bonds revealed by the pandemic. Strongly grounded in empirical research but also theoretically compelling, this book will stimulate a range of new insights into how we can navigate our way towards radically altered horizons.’ -- Robert van Krieken, The University of Sydney, Australia‘A Research Agenda for COVID-19 and Society provides impressive critical analyses and innovative research reflections on the complex social consequences of the SARS-CoV 2 pandemic. The volume has compelling contributions from social scientists from a range of disciplinary fields, including sociology, anthropology, philosophy and political economy, and provides incisive analyses of reactions to the pandemic in a number of countries, including Australia, Canada, China, Germany, New Zealand, Sweden and the US.A Research Agenda for COVID-19 and Society also provides analyses of the pandemic and its consequences in relation to indigeneity, gender and the pandemic amplification of the care crisis, the interconnection of humans to other animals, plants, and non-organic things, as well as in respect of the multiple disruptions to everyday life, and not least the ways in which the necessity for forms of governmental intervention and increased investment in and support for the public sphere has served to confirm the limitations of the neoliberal policy paradigm. A Research Agenda for COVID-19 and Society deserves to be widely read and will prove to be a very valuable resource for researchers across the social sciences.' -- Barry Smart, University of Portsmouth, England‘Steve Matthewman is unquestionably one of the world's leading sociologists of catastrophe and disaster. In this collection, he has unerringly marshalled a series of revelatory perspectives that will be essential for understanding COVID-19 and “the new normal”. There is not one weak spot among them. This is a landmark contribution to the field.’ -- Chris Rojek, City, University of London, UK

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Book SynopsisFeaturing state-of-the-art contributions from leading experts in their respective fields, the Encyclopedia of Health Research in the Social Sciences explores an extensive range of topics, concepts, research approaches and theoretical orientations aimed at providing guidance for those undertaking health research.Cross-disciplinary in scope, the Encyclopedia provides an accessible introduction to a wide variety of complex topics and presents a comprehensive overview of the latest findings in the field of health research. Entries examine timely issues such as big data in healthcare, complementary and alternative medicine, feminism and population health, social class and health inequalities, and vaccination debates. It ultimately exemplifies how social science perspectives can be deployed to help us better understand how individuals, institutions and society can act to support health and wellbeing. This informative Encyclopedia will be an indispensable reference for undergraduate and postgraduate students across disciplines with an interest in the complex relations between health research and the social sciences. Key Features: 65 fully-referenced entries An interdisciplinary approach, with topics ranging from animal studies to wellbeing Written in a concise and accessible style, enabling researchers and students of social science to consider how to relate entries to their own interests Trade Review‘Kevin Dew and Sarah Donovan offer an invaluable conceptual toolkit for health researchers wanting to learn more about what the social sciences have to offer them. The range of topics covered in this volume is impressive, providing guidance to key ideas, debates and further reading on specialist topics.’ -- Alan Petersen, Monash University, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to the Encyclopedia of Health Research in the Social Sciences x Kevin Dew and Sarah Donovan Animal studies and healthcare 1 James Gillett Big data in healthcare 7 Mary F.E. Ebeling Breastfeeding 12 Emily Hansen and Jennifer Ayton Chronic illness 18 Dima Rusho and Narelle Warren Commercial determinants of health 24 Sarah Hill Communication research on climate change 30 Eryn Campbell, Sri Saahitya Uppalapati, John Kotcher, and Edward Maibach Complementary and alternative medicine 36 Caragh Brosnan Complexity theory and evaluation 42 Elizabeth McGill Contested illness 48 Tarryn Phillips and Catherine Trundle Critical policy analysis 54 Heather Came and Dominic O’Sullivan Critical quantitative research 59 Lindsay McLaren Critical realism 65 Lee F. Monaghan Cultural health capital 71 Leslie Dubbin and Janet K. Shim Death and dying 77 Rebecca E. Olson and Zhaoxi Zheng Dementia studies 82 James Rupert Fletcher Digital health 88 Benjamin Marent and Flis Henwood Disasters and health 94 Sudeepa Abeysinghe Discourse analysis 98 Ewen Speed Economics for health equity 103 Lindsay McLaren Ethical sensibilities in ethnographies of care 109 Ignacia Arteaga and Henry Llewellyn Ethnicity, racism and health 115 Hannah Bradby Feminism and population health 122 Kalysha Closson and Allison Carter Framing pollution 128 Lesley Henderson Genetic medicine 135 Courtney Addison Harm reduction 140 Rebecca J. Haines-Saah and Elaine Hyshka Health promotion 146 Morten Hulvej Rod and Katherine L. Frohlich Hermeneutic phenomenology 151 Susan Crowther Hormonal contraception 158 Nayantara Sheoran Appleton Indigenous peoples and health research 164 Anna Adcock and Fiona Cram Indoor ecologies and health 169 Rachael Wakefield-Rann Leadership 175 David Evans LGBTQ+ health and social research 181 Anthony K.J. Smith and Christy E. Newman Life course research 187 David Blane Medicalisation 192 Kevin Dew Micro-analysis and health interactions 198 Maria Stubbe Mobilities and health 204 Judith Green Nature and wellbeing 211 Jonathan (Yotti) Kingsley Neoliberalism 216 Peri Ballantyne New medical technologies 221 John Gardner Occupational health and safety 227 Josh Barton Older age 232 Gavin J. Andrews and Stephanie Hatzifilalithis Pandemics and epidemics 237 Robert Dingwall Pharmaceuticalisation 243 Jonathan Gabe Postmodernism and health research 248 Lee Thompson Practice theory and health intervention 251 Fiona Spotswood Prenatal screening 256 Ruth P. Fitzgerald Professionalization 261 Jette Ernst Qualitative evidence synthesis 266 Christopher J. Colvin Qualitative interviews 271 Hilary Thomas and Sarah Earthy Responsibility 277 Catherine Trundle Science and Technology Studies 283 Catherine M. Montgomery Sensory methods 288 Marilys Guillemin and Susan M. Cox Sexuality and health 293 Maria Isabel Romero Ruiz Social class and health inequalities 299 Sarah Hill Social marketing 305 Fiona Spotswood Sociology of pesticides 310 Manuel Vallée Stigma and public health 317 Tamar M.J. Antin and Emile Sanders Symbolic interactionism 322 James Rupert Fletcher Translational research 328 Trisha Greenhalgh and Anne E. Ferrey Trust 335 Michael Calnan Vaccination debates 342 Brian Martin Video-reflexive ethnography 346 Katherine Carroll Violence against women 352 Janet L. Fanslow Visual methods 359 Susan M. Cox and Marilys Guillemin Wellbeing 365 Kim McLeod

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Book SynopsisThis unique book considers COVID-19 as one pandemic amongst many, forming an episodic era of ebbing and flowing crises: the Virocene. Investigating COVID-19 in the context of the phenomenology of the crisis, it offers critical exploration of key theses in the study of mobility and futures, travel and citizenship. Through thought-provoking and insightful analysis Rodanthi Tzanelli suggests that COVID-19, and any highly infectious virus that follows, evolves into the new self-governing principle of various forms of movement, acting as an ontological magnet: as mobilities become reshaped by remote technologies, the very order of reality changes.Examining how one viral crisis can trigger more crises, prompting radical self-assessment in the new orders of life, Tzanelli suggests that the Virocene and the Anthropocene interact in ways that may lead to multiple ecological failures or produce the key to better futures. This interdisciplinary book analyses contemporary events from a range of perspectives, providing a large-scale qualitative assessment of recent phenomena.It will be a key resource for students and scholars of cultural sociology, sociological theory, geography, anthropology, environmental humanities and communication studies, while also benefiting practitioners in crisis management and policymaking interested in alternative approaches to pandemics and social change.Trade Review‘Cultural (Im)mobilities and the Virocene: Mutating the Crisis deftly transcends both the myopic obsession with the crisis at hand and the optimistic platitudes about its aftermath that have circulated in popular pandemic commentary. In their place, Tzanelli offers a fresh perspective on the pandemic, arguing that it is not merely a momentary reordering of our daily (im)mobilities, but rather symptomatic of a new epoch in which recurring crises have become a hallmark of human life on earth. Tzanelli’s diagnosis shifts the conversation into an altogether different register, inviting readers to question our deeply held assumptions about the nature of reality and pointing us toward the real hopes we might harbor for our future world.’ -- Jennie Germann Molz, College of the Holy Cross, USTable of ContentsContents: PART I RE-INTRODUCING THE COENIC : OVERLAPPING ERAS = OVERLAPPING IMAGINARIES? Introduction to Cultural (Im)mobilities and the Virocene PART II VIROPOLITICS 1. Virocene imaginaries: colonising the ontic sphere 2. Virocene emplotments: masking cultural politics as biomedical events PART III FABRICA MUNDI (DIGITALIS) : THE RADICAL SHIFT 3. Work and the new (im)mobilities of the Virocene 4. Virocene pilgrimage in micro-spheres PART IV TOURISM, TRAVEL, ALTERMOBILITIES 5. Post-viral tourism’s antagonistic tourist imaginaries 6. Beyond technophilia: from alternative modernities to alternative realities PART V BEFORE THE REVOLUTION (IS THE DAY WE ALWAYS COME HOME Conclusion: pluritopia and pluriworlds that travel (with) us Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisLessons in resilience in the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in India. Focusing on the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in India between April and December 2021, Rustom Bharucha’s timely essay reflects on four interconnected realities that haunted this ongoing crisis—death, grief, mourning, and extinction. How do we cope with multiple deaths and the dislocation of rituals when the act of mourning is either postponed or denied? What roles do political surveillance, censorship, the regulation of lockdowns, and the sheer indifference to the lives of people play in the containment of civil liberties? Through vivid examples of photography, theater, dance, visual arts, and the cultures of everyday life, this meditative essay illuminates both the horror of the pandemic as well as its unexpected intimacies and revelations of shared suffering. Against the destruction of nature and the disrespect for the nonhuman, The Second Wave offers lessons in resilience through its reflections on the ethos of waiting and the need to re-envision breath as a vital resource of self-renewal and resistance.Trade Review"An extraordinarily thoughtful meditation on the depiction of illness, death and displacement, the expression of loss and grief, and the possible positive potential of the pandemic experience for the future." * Roughghosts *"The Second Wave is an unsettling read, deeply personal yet universal, horrifying yet infusing hope in the many acts of self-renewal and resistance during the pandemic. It is a book that merits multiple readings." * Biblio *"The Second Wave is an intellectual tour de force of contemplation on the depredations and consequences of the pandemic in India." * The Statesman *"Bharucha has certainly provided us the answer to the question ‘How to write about a tragedy?’ What is certain is that the manner in which Bharucha presents the pandemic before us and the fractures within our societies that he exposes, will change the lens the reader looks at the world through. The book would stay with the reader, urging her to keep coming back to it, a phenomenon rare with nonfiction." * Contributions to Indian Sociology *"Rustom Bharucha brings a poet's attentiveness and a lapidarist’s precision to his analysis of an unforeseen time and India's response to the Covid-induced pandemic." -- Jerry Pinto, author of The Education of Yuri"Cultural critic and dramaturg Rustom Bharucha’s masterful book takes readers on a trip into the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in India, with a particular focus on the harrowing days between April and October 2021. . . . Though it might be difficult to imagine finding hope in this scenario, Bharucha does just that—not by denying realities but by identifying in art an unexpected appreciation of what humans are capable of surviving." * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface1. Photography in the PandemicPreambleHospitalCrematoriaGanga Censoring the pandemicOwnershipThe Long MarchProblematizing durationRepresenting Jamlo Ethics of cryingIn the eyes of the law2. No time to MournSymptoms of griefThe Case of Ram Pukar PanditLiving with the deadPerforming mourning: life and art“Artistic” mourning practicesa.Artificeb.Objectsc.Documentaryd.Spectacle“Rudali”: mourning as survival“Walk”: mourning as resistanceMourning: performed or real?3. Endings/BeginningsExitOn the Cusp of Multiple TimesGenocideExtinctionHiroshima museumized: aporias of peaceThe ethos of waitingReclaiming the vitality of the bodyStillness in movementa.Pranab.Oxygen Breath, breathlessness, and combat breathingPostscriptNotes

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Book SynopsisAI, robots, algorithms, and data/metrics are pervasive throughout the media industry, increasingly dictating and rapidly changing journalistic and newsroom practices, cultures, and norms - from editorial agenda setting to news production processes, to audience and advertiser targeting. Social media platforms in particular have been at the core of the AI and algorithmic turn, offering real-time consumer analytics and newsfeeds for insatiable and borderless digital citizens. The algorithms within these platforms make them powerful news aggregators, redirecting consumer habits and advertisers, making them vital in the journalism practice and media viability across the globe. Despite this, there is a shortage of scholarship on AI, algorithms and data-driven journalism from the global South, and especially in Sub-Saharan African contexts. Digitisation, AI and Algorithms in African Journalism and Media Contexts moves the focus from the West, addressing the significant knowledge gaps relating to the current state of AI, algorithms and data-driven journalism, as well as the implications for political, social, cultural, markets, media viability and journalism education. This timely collection offers new knowledge on key issues surrounding automation and data-driven media and journalism practice in post-truth, post-human and post-Covid African contexts. It is a vital resource for researchers, educators, media students, academics, advocacy groups, media practitioners, developers and policy makers, both in African countries and internationally.Table of ContentsForward; Martin Ndlela Part I: AI and Algorithms in Journalism and media practice Chapter 1. Towards automated fact-checking in Africa: the experience with artificial intelligence at Africa Check; Irene Larraz Chapter 2. Between Utopia and dystopia: Investigating journalism perceptions of AI deployment in Community media newsrooms in South Africa; Blessing Makwambeni,Trust Matsilele, and John G Bulani Chapter 3. AI and the algorithmic-turn in journalism practice in Eastern Africa: perceptions, practice and challenges; Carol Azungi Dralega Chapter 4. New challenges old tactics: How Uganda Newsrooms combat Fake news; Florence Namasinga Selnes, Gerald Walulya, and Ivan Nathaniel Lukanda Chapter 5. Newsday and the Herald’s inclusion of disabled people in the use of digital media in Zimbabwe; Witness Roya and Sandiso Ngcobo Part II: Policy, Governance, Indigenization of Digital Innovation and Critical literacies Chapter 6. A comparative study of AI policy frameworks on Journalism practice in sub-Saharan Africa; Carol Azungi Dralega, Wise Kwame Osei,Daniel Kudakwashe Mpala, Gezahgn Berhie Kidanu, Bai Santigie Kanu, and Amia Pamela Chapter 7. Analysis of Facebook and Twitter usage in Ghana’s 2020 presidential and Parliamentary elections; Kodwo Jonas Anson Boateng and Redeemer Buatsi Chapter 8. Conceptualizing data-driven journalism and the quest for good governance in Nigeria; Toyosi Olugbenga Samson Owolabi and reheemat Adeniran Chapter 9. Technology Indigenisation and Popularisation for Life Transformation in East Africa; Margaret Jjuuko and Emmanuel Munyarukumbuzi Chapter 10. An agenda for developing critical literacies for journalism education in an era of datafication; Carol Azungi Dralega

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Book SynopsisThis timely Handbook provides an essential guide to the major topics, perspectives, and scholars in the sociology of health and medicine. Contributors prove the immense value of a sociological understanding of central health and medical concerns, including public health, the COVID-19 pandemic, and new medical technologies.Through critically analysing the wide variety of approaches taken by sociologists of health and medicine, this Handbook explores what makes the field distinctive. Chapters cover the full human life span and review key theoretical viewpoints as well as significant empirical themes, drawing on cutting-edge research. The diverse selection of contributors offer insights into important areas of health and medical development including precision medicine, epidemics and pandemics, data-intensive medicine, AI, neuroscience, and future hospitals. The chapters also examine the implications of COVID-19 across various domains of health, medicine, and healthcare.Covering key questions, debates, and emerging perspectives, this Handbook will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars in sociology, public health, and science and technology studies. It will also be an important guide for policymakers and practitioners seeking to develop effective health policies and programs.Trade Review‘The Handbook on the Sociology of Health and Medicine is an outstanding resource, unpacking and exploring classic and contemporary perspectives in health sociology. Spanning enduring issues such as (bio)medicalisation right through to the more recent digital and affective turns, it contains fresh and critical contributions by an illustrious group of scholars who lead the field globally. Artfully balancing conceptual and empirical concerns, this Handbook will be essential reading for students and researchers interested in health, illness and care.’ -- Alex Broom, University of Sydney, Australia‘This Handbook is a triumph! Leading scholars contribute chapters on classic and contemporary sociological theories, substantive topics in health and medicine, and key concepts inter alia biomedicalization, digitisation, emotion, embodiment, inequality, narratives, and risk. This text is a must for students and scholars who are studying and researching matters of health, illness, and medicine.’ -- Sarah Nettleton, University of York, UK‘This timely Handbook is an ecumenical collection of essays from respected international colleagues, from Australasia, the UK, Canada and the US, and Scandinavia, each with refreshingly different perspectives and priorities. It covers a broad range of problems, levels of analysis, theoretical views, and methods, and draws upon and will be useful for knowledge workers in related disciplines like philosophy, epidemiology, healthcare policy, social psychology, anthropology, and ethics.’ -- John B. McKinlay, retired Professor of Sociology, Boston University, US‘In this wide-ranging collection of essays, leading international authors present evidence and analysis of key topics in medical sociology. A major addition to the field - especially relevant at a time of upheaval in global health and society. An essential guide for all students and researchers in health and illness.’ -- Mike Bury, Royal Holloway, University of London, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to the Handbook on the Sociology of Health and Medicine 1 Alan Petersen PART I MAJOR THEORETICAL INFLUENCES AND PERSPECTIVES 2 Constructing the boundaries of health sociology 28 Fran Collyer 3 Critical theories in sociologies of health and medicine 47 Graham Scambler 4 New materialist perspectives on health, illness and health care 62 Nick J. Fox 5 Sociologies of health and gender 76 Ellen Annandale 6 Biomedicalisation revisited: concepts and practices 91 Adele E. Clarke, Melanie Jeske, Janet K. Shim, and Laura Mamo 7 Health inequalities 110 Kevin Dew and Sarah Donovan 8 Illness narratives: from analysis to answerability 124 Danielle Spencer and Arthur Frank PART II SIGNIFICANT EMPIRICAL RESEARCH THEMES 9 Young people and the sociology of chronic illness: meanings, management and consequences 139 Jonathan Gabe and Lee F. Monaghan 10 The sociology of mental health and illness 151 Joan Busfield 11 Pharmaceuticalisation: origins, drivers and new developments 170 Jonathan Gabe and Paul Martin 12 Sociological approaches to the gendering of emotions in health and illness 187 Gillian Bendelow and Alison Phipps 13 Sociology of the medical profession and para-professions 199 Will Schupmann and Stefan Timmermans 14 Health, society and social suffering 213 Iain Wilkinson 15 Sociologies of food and eating 227 Anne Murcott 16 Diagnosis 243 Annemarie Jutel 17 The media politics of health, illness and healthcare 257 Alison Anderson 18 The sociology of bioethics 274 Raymond De Vries 19 Antimicrobial resistance: discourse, practice and relating 291 Nik Brown 20 Sociologies of public health and health promotion 308 Judith Green and Cristian Montenegro 21 Risk and health 324 Andy Alaszewski 22 Ageing 339 Paul Higgs and Chris Gilleard 23 Racism and racialisation in healthcare settings 354 Sarah Hamed and Hannah Bradby 24 Disability and the sociology of health and illness 378 Gareth M. Thomas 25 Sociology of the pregnant and birthing body 393 Mandie Scamell and Andy Alaszewski 26 Sleep, health and medicine: sociological agendas 408 Simon J. Williams, Catherine Coveney and Robert Meadows 27 Sociological contributions to the study of death in health and medicine 424 Glenys Caswell PART III EMERGING TOPICS AND PERSPECTIVES 28 Sociologies of precision medicine 439 Barbara Prainsack 29 The sociology of epidemics and pandemics 455 Robert Dingwall 30 Data-intensive medicine 474 Klaus Hoeyer 31 Artificial intelligence for long-term care in later life 488 Barbara Barbosa Neves and Maho Omori 32 Digital health: practices and infrastructures 504 Benjamin Marent and Henriette Langstrup 33 Neuroscience, novelty, and the sociology of the brain 525 Martyn Pickersgill 34 Hospitals of the future 541 John Gardner Index 555

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Book SynopsisThis ground-breaking book expertly brings together the many effective dementia interventions to reduce the symptoms of this debilitating condition and also, for the first time, a Cost-Benefit Analysis of those interventions to establish whether the benefits outweigh the costs. Focussing on new interventions such as years of education, medicare eligibility, hearing aids and vision correction, Robert Brent also takes an innovative look at the need to reduce elder abuse and initiate an international convention for human rights. Cost-Benefit Analysis and Dementia takes an insightful look at dementia by using a behavioural definition and explaining how the symptoms can affect daily life activities, rather than just using the medical definition. It examines the causality of dementia interventions to establish their effectiveness, dealing with the risk factors and expanding the current list of interventions. Furthermore, it provides an in-depth three-step procedure for evaluating the monetary benefits of those interventions to establish whether these are found to be socially worthwhile. Written in a comprehensive, yet accessible style, this book will be an excellent resource for economists interested in the Cost-Benefit Analysis of dementia care. Healthcare professionals and policymakers as well as non-professionals will find the different interventions discussed to reduce symptoms of dementia illuminating and informative.Trade Review‘The book offers a fascinating paradigm to reflect upon dementia interventions, promising to widen the lens of interested governments, public health and policy makers, as well as clinicians alike. By interlinking concepts of protecting human rights, preventing elder abuse, caring for persons living with dementia, all contributing to improving global health and economy, this book offers a solid rationale for an international United Nations convention on the human rights for older persons.’ -- Kiran Rabheru, University of Ottawa, Canada‘Robert Brent’s Cost-Benefit Analysis and Dementia provides a comprehensive and accessible examination of how economic tools can assist in making interventions for dementia more effective. Using state-of-the-art economic methods, Brent examines a broad range of efforts ranging from the role of Medicare eligibility to the importance of vision correction and hearing aids. Despite the rigorous attention to the costs and benefits of alternative policies, the book does not lose sight of concerns such as advocacy of broader protections for the human rights of those with dementia.’ -- W. Kip Viscusi, Vanderbilt Law School, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface PART I INTRODUCTION 1. Introduction to dementia, Cost-Benefit Analysis, and the new interventions 2. Measuring dementia symptoms PART II THE COST-BENEFIT ANALYSES 3. Years of education 4. Medicare eligibility 5. Hearing aids 6. Vision correction 7. Avoiding nursing homes PART III PUBLIC POLICY IMPLICATIONS OF DEMENTIA INTERVENTIONS 8. Elder abuse 9. Human rights Index

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Book SynopsisCurrently developed countries pay much more attention to harmfully addictive substances than developing countries. However, the experience of developed countries is very relevant to the developing world since substance abuse is likely to impose a continually increasing burden of disease in this region in the near future. This book extends the frontiers of research on the economics of substance use and abuse in a variety of extremely significant ways. It focuses on the determinants and consequences of the consumption of cigarettes, alcohol, betel quid, and illicit drugs in the United States, Great Britain and Taiwan. The authors use a variety of empirical techniques to examine the roles of price, advertising, risk perception, time preference and forward-looking behaviour in consumption decisions and the effects of these decisions on labour market outcomes, unintended pregnancies and criminal violence.Economic Analysis of Substance Use and Abuse will be required reading for scholars of economic development and health economics.Table of ContentsContents: Part I: Rational Addiction Part II: Risk Perception and Time Preference Part III: Costs of Substance Use Part IV: Criminal Violence and Substance Use Part V: Demand Analysis Index

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Book SynopsisThe effects of obesity have become practically ubiquitous in the US. This book aims to provide an alternative framework through which to explore the important and controversial obesity debate that has spilled over from the medical community. This book is not about obesity as a medical condition, nor does it offer a wide-ranging discussion on the health effects of obesity or the role of the 'right' diet. To this end, the contributors present a multidisciplinary portrait of this complex problem. They explore the rising trend in obesity of the US in terms of its significant economic and social consequences. The web of underlying causes of the 'infrastructure of obesity', they explain, lies with public policy decisions, economic factors and profit opportunities as well as the more obvious nutrition and health choices of individuals. Prevention and treatment of this now global pandemic are then tackled from the perspectives of businesses, governments, society and the individual. The taxation, marketing, cultural, ethical and institutional dimensions of obesity are also addressed.Obesity, Business and Public Policy is unique in its broad social science approach, exploring the obesity epidemic from economic, business, legal, social and public policy perspectives. As such, this truly multidisciplinary study will make fascinating reading for academics and professionals from a wide variety of backgrounds including: business, economics, public and social policy, medicine and nutrition.Trade Review'This collection of essays provides a thorough overview of the complex issue of obesity. . . The book provides an excellent overview of the obesity problem in the US, and does an excellent job of suggesting potential solutions, along with the difficulties we will likely encounter when trying to implement these solutions. It is written for the lay person and is an enjoyable read.' -- Inas Rashad, Eastern Economic Journal'The book brings together an impressive group of contributors, and the table of contents covers a range of issues from a discussion of culture, obesity and institutions, to discussions of obesity and the individual, and then sections on obesity and business, and obesity and government.' -- Linda Botterill, Australian Journal of Political Science'As numerous major American cities propose and implement bans on trans fats in prepared foods, a book examining the causes, consequences, and solutions to the rising incidence of obesity could not be timelier. This work provides important insights into the economic and policy issues associated with obesity. Recognizing the complex interrelationships between medical and economic aspects of both causes and treatments, and the conflicts between personal and public policy considerations, the editors offer a richly comprehensive approach. . . . Although this volume focuses on the causes of, and responses to, obesity in the US, its general discussion and framework provide a useful introduction to analyzing obesity internationally. Highly recommended.' -- E. Magenheim, ChoiceTable of ContentsContents: Foreword Former Governor Michael Huckabee Preface 1. Introduction Zoltan J. Acs and Alan Lyles PART I: CULTURE, OBESITY AND INSTITUTIONS 2. The Spread of Obesity David B. Audretsch and Dawne DiOrio PART II: OBESITY AND THE INDIVIDUAL 3. The Economics of Childhood Obesity Policy John Cawley 4. Obesity, Poverty and Diversity: Theoretical and Strategic Challenges Lenneal J. Henderson 5. The Labor Market Impact of Obesity John Cawley PART III: OBESITY AND BUSINESS 6. Mixed Messages in Marketing Communications about Food and Obesity Stephen J. Gould and Fiona Sussan 7. Weight Control, Private Health Insurance and Public Policies Alan Lyles and Ann Cotten PART IV: OBESITY AND GOVERNMENT 8. The Infrastructure of Obesity Zoltan J. Acs, Ann Cotten and Kenneth R. Stanton 9. Federal Communication about Obesity in the Dietary Guidelines and Checkoff Programs Parke E. Wilde 10. Tax Solutions to the External Costs of Obesity Julie Ann Elston, Kenneth R. Stanton, David T. Levy and Zoltan J. Acs PART V: LESSONS FROM THE PAST 11. Tobacco Control as a Model for Trimming the Obesity Problem David T. Levy and Marilyn Oblak 12. Perspectives on the Economic and Cultural Effects of Obesity Litigation: Lessons from Pelman v McDonald’s José Felipé Anderson PART VI: POLICY CONCLUSIONS 13. A Policy Framework for Confronting Obesity Zoltan J. Acs, Lenneal J. Henderson, David T. Levy, Alan Lyles and Kenneth R. Stanton Index

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Book SynopsisPsychotherapy and ethnography are jointly employed to produce an account of HIV-positive children's lives (and deaths) in Zimbabwe that is sensitive to emotions and their social contexts. The study explores the lives of children growing up HIV-positive in the eastern Zimbabwean town of Mutare at a time of severe crisis in the state, marked by impoverishment, organized violence and mass death. This ethnography grewout of a psychotherapeutic engagement with a group of children living with HIV. The study examines children's experiences through the institutional domains of family and kin, clinics and other forms of healing, churches and religious practices, and experiences of dying and bereavement. Against patrilineal norms, much daily caring occurs in mothers' families. Clinics continue to offer partial western medical care despite daunting resource constraints. Western medicine sits on older templates of 'traditional' and 'spiritual' healing. Anti-retrovirals and other basic medicines are available but may exacerbate domestic discord and fail to meet more obvious physical symptoms. Children and their families appear to prefer spiritual alternatives to medical care, perhaps partly as a result of the severe limitations placed on the latter. A wide variety of religious practices, primarily Christian in a plethora of forms, flourish in the context. Dying may come to be seen by children as preferable to continued struggle against severe adversity. Child deaths are deeply imbued with religious practice and given voice through religious idioms. Ross Parsons has extensive experience as a psychotherapist, a writer and a social researcher. He lives in Mutare and teaches anthropology and psychology at Africa University. Weaver Press: Zimbabwe and Southern Africa (South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland and Namibia)Trade ReviewProvides a detailed and painfully engaging portrayal of the lives of HIV-positive children, with insights essential for assessing existing treatment and care programs. * AFRICAN STUDIES QUARTERLY *Table of ContentsIntroduction: growing up with HIV in urban, eastern Zimbabwe In this vale of tears: an ethnography of suffering and sorrow Who cares? Family, kin and other forms of caring Visible secrets: illnesses, exposure and disclosure If I had faith: churches, spirits and healing One day this will all be over: dying, death and grief The heart remains: an epilogue

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Book SynopsisHIV/AIDS is much too complex a phenomenon to be understood only by reference to common sense and ethical codes. This book presents the cost?benefit analysis (CBA) framework in a well-researched and accessible manner to ensure that the most important considerations are recognized and incorporated. This book argues that HIV/AIDS policies need to be evidence based and that CBA is the best way to assemble and summarize the evidence. The work explains why CBA is needed and highlights a number of myths, misinformation and counterintuitive results in the field, and critiques the Millennium Development Goals approach. It also presents HIV/AIDS as a hunger issue in sub-Saharan Africa and as a sexual transmission problem in the US. The roles of nutrition, income, education, religion, agricultural policy, concurrency and sexual networks are all examined. Robert Brent explains the main cost?benefit methods and applications, including threshold analysis, willingness to pay, cost minimization, cost-effectiveness, human capital theory and the value of a statistical life. Applications cover female education, possible vaccines, condoms, and various forms of treatment. He concludes by explaining how CBA incorporates social considerations such as equity.With timely and controversial discussions, this book will be read with interest by AIDS activists, NGO members, policy-makers and public officials, as well as being accessible to non-economists interested in the subject of HIV/AIDS.Trade Review‘Professor Brent’s book is a superlative addition to the HIV/AIDS policy literature. Both non-specialists and specialists in policy evaluation will benefit from the lucid exposition of cost–benefit analysis (CBA) methods applied to the most critical and far-reaching problem that challenges social institutions and individual behavior. Essentially, Professor Brent has taken his vast experience in cost–benefit analysis, and on the ground African research, to apply CBA in a compelling and insightful manner. This book re-examines HIV/AIDS policy in Sub-Saharan countries where the devastation is an infection tsunami. . . Finding what actually works may be difficult, but Professor Brent argues persuasively that using a CBA framework is the best approach.’ -- William S. Cartwright, George Mason University, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface PART I: WHY COST–BENEFIT ANALYSIS IS NEEDED TO SET HIV/AIDS PRIORITIES 1. Introduction to the Book 2. Why Not Just Simply do What is Right and Try to Save Lives? 3. Myths and Misinformation 4. Counterintuitive Results 5. What is Wrong with Setting any Targets? 6. What is Wrong with Setting the Particular MDG Targets? 7. Cost–Benefit Analysis 101 8. Cost–Benefit Analysis 201 PART II: HIV/AIDS AS A HUNGER AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ISSUE 9. Introduction to Part II 10. HIV and Hunger 11. Nutrition and HIV at the Individual Level 12. Nutrition and HIV at the Country Level 13. Income as a Factor Raising HIV Rates 14. Education as a Factor Raising HIV Rates 15. Islam as a Factor Lowering HIV Rates 16. Impact of HIV on Agricultural Households 17. Agricultural Policy and HIV Interventions 18. Sex and HIV I: The Role of Transmission 19. Sex and HIV II: The Role of Concurrency 20. Sex and HIV III: The Role of Networks PART III: COST–BENEFIT METHODS AND APPLICATIONS 21. Introduction to Part III 22. Threshold Analysis Theory 23. Threshold Analysis Practice: The Effectiveness of HIV Education 24. Threshold Analysis Practice: The Benefits of Avoiding HIV 25. Threshold Analysis Practice: The Costs of a Possible HIV/AIDS Vaccine 26. Willingness to Pay Theory 27. Willingness to Pay Practice: The Benefits of Condoms 28. Cost Minimization Theory 29. Cost Minimization Practice: The Costs of Treating TB 30. Cost-Effectiveness Theory 31. Cost-Effectiveness Practice: The Benefits of ARVs 32. Human Capital Theory 33. Human Capital Practice: The Benefits of Female Primary Education 34. Value of a Statistical Life Theory 35. Value of a Statistical Life Practice: The Benefits of VCT PART IV: SOCIAL CONSIDERATIONS IN CBA 36. Introduction to IV 37. Commodification: Everything is Seen as a Commodity to be Bought and Sold 38. What is So “Social” About CBA? Fundamentals of CBA 39. Social and Private Perspectives in CBA 40. CBA and Equity I: Allowing for Ability to Pay 41. CBA and Equity II: Allocating by Time and Other Non-Price Methods 42. Conclusions I: How Not to Set Priorities for HIV 43. Conclusions II: Using CBA to Set Priorities for HIV References Index

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Book SynopsisThe issue of universal and free access to treatment is now a fundamental goal of the international community. Based on original data and field studies from Brazil, Thailand, India and Sub-Saharan Africa under the aegis of ANRS (the French nationalagency for research on Aids and viral hepatitis, this timely and significant book both assesses the progress made in achieving this objective and presents a rigorous diagnosis of the obstacles that remain. Placing particular emphasis on the constraints imposed by TRIPS as well as the poor state of most public health systems in Southern countries, the contributing authors provide a comprehensive analysis of the huge barriers that have yet to be overcome in order to attain free access to care and offer innovative suggestions of how they might be confronted. In doing this, the book renews our understanding of the political economy of HIV/AIDS in these vast regions, where the disease continues to spread with devastating social and economic consequences.This volume will be a valuable addition to the current literature on HIV/AIDS in developing countries and will find widespread appeal amongst students and academics studying economics, sociology and public health. It will also be of interest to international organizations and professional associations involved in the fight against pandemics.Table of ContentsContents: Foreword Jean François Delfraissy Introduction: A New Stage in the Fight Against the HIV/AIDS Pandemic – An Economic Perspective Benjamin Coriat PART I: TRIPS, GENERIC DRUGS AND ACCESS TO CARE: THE POST-2005 ISSUES 1. New Antiretroviral Treatments and Post-2005 TRIPS Constraints: First Moves Towards IP Flexibilization in Developing Countries Cristina d’Almeida, Lia Hasenclever, Gaëlle Krikorian, Fabienne Orsi, Cassandra Sweet and Benjamin Coriat 2. New Trends in IP Protection and Health Issues in FTA Negotiations Gaëlle Krikorian 3. Evolution of Prices and Quantities for ARV Drugs in African Countries: From Emerging to Strategic Markets Julien Chauveau, Constance Marie Meiners, Stéphane Luchini and Jean-Paul Moatti PART II: SECURING FREE AND UNIVERSAL ACCESS: LESSONS FROM BRAZIL 4. The Brazilian Experience of ‘Scaling-up’: A Public Policy Approach Guillaume Le Loup, Andreia Pereira de Assis, Maria Helena Costa-Couto, Jean-Claude Thoenig, Sonia Fleury, Kenneth Rochel de Camargo Jr and Bernard Larouzé 5. Technology Transfer Agreements and Access to HIV/AIDS Drugs: The Brazilian Case Amélie Robine 6. Scaling Up and Reverse Engineering: Acquisition of Industrial Knowledge by Copying Drugs in Brazil Maurice Cassier and Marilena Correa 7. Compulsory Licensing in the Real World: The Case of ARV Drugs in Brazil Cristina de Albuquerque Possas PART III: FIGHTING AIDS IN THE HEART OF THE PANDEMIC: SUB-SAHARAN AND LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES 8. HIV Prevalence Estimates: The New Deal in Sub-Saharan Africa Since 2000 Joseph Larmarange 9. Cost-effectiveness of HIV Antiretroviral Therapies in Resource-limited Settings Yazdan Yazdanpanah, Caroline E. Sloan and Kenneth A. Freedberg 10. ‘Fragility’: A Macro-dynamic Motive to Offer Quick and General Access to ART in LDC Bruno Ventelou, Yann Videau and Jean-Paul Moatti 11. Procurement Policies, Governance Models and ARV Availability in French-speaking African Countries: An Overview Mamadou Camara, Cristina d’Almeida, Fabienne Orsi and Benjamin Coriat PART IV: BUILDING THE FUTURE: PUBLIC HEALTH SYSTEMS AND THE FREE ACCESS CHALLENGE 12. The Public Health Approach to Antitretroviral Treatment: The Case of Cameroon Sinata Koulla-Shiro and Eric Delaporte 13. The Cost of Universal Free Access for Treating HIV/AIDS in Low-Income Countries: The Case of Senegal Bernard Taverne, Karim Diop and Philippe Vinard 14. Implementing Funding Modalities for Free Access: The Case for a ‘Purchasing Fund System’ to Cover Medical Care for PLWHA Philippe Vinard, Karim Diop and Bernard Taverne Index

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Book SynopsisThe effects of obesity have become practically ubiquitous in the US. This book aims to provide an alternative framework through which to explore the important and controversial obesity debate that has spilled over from the medical community. This book is not about obesity as a medical condition, nor does it offer a wide-ranging discussion on the health effects of obesity or the role of the 'right' diet. To this end, the contributors present a multidisciplinary portrait of this complex problem. They explore the rising trend in obesity of the US in terms of its significant economic and social consequences. The web of underlying causes of the 'infrastructure of obesity', they explain, lies with public policy decisions, economic factors and profit opportunities as well as the more obvious nutrition and health choices of individuals. Prevention and treatment of this now global pandemic are then tackled from the perspectives of businesses, governments, society and the individual. The taxation, marketing, cultural, ethical and institutional dimensions of obesity are also addressed.Obesity, Business and Public Policy is unique in its broad social science approach, exploring the obesity epidemic from economic, business, legal, social and public policy perspectives. As such, this truly multidisciplinary study will make fascinating reading for academics and professionals from a wide variety of backgrounds including: business, economics, public and social policy, medicine and nutrition.Trade Review'This collection of essays provides a thorough overview of the complex issue of obesity. . . The book provides an excellent overview of the obesity problem in the US, and does an excellent job of suggesting potential solutions, along with the difficulties we will likely encounter when trying to implement these solutions. It is written for the lay person and is an enjoyable read.' -- Inas Rashad, Eastern Economic Journal'The book brings together an impressive group of contributors, and the table of contents covers a range of issues from a discussion of culture, obesity and institutions, to discussions of obesity and the individual, and then sections on obesity and business, and obesity and government.' -- Linda Botterill, Australian Journal of Political Science'As numerous major American cities propose and implement bans on trans fats in prepared foods, a book examining the causes, consequences, and solutions to the rising incidence of obesity could not be timelier. This work provides important insights into the economic and policy issues associated with obesity. Recognizing the complex interrelationships between medical and economic aspects of both causes and treatments, and the conflicts between personal and public policy considerations, the editors offer a richly comprehensive approach. . . . Although this volume focuses on the causes of, and responses to, obesity in the US, its general discussion and framework provide a useful introduction to analyzing obesity internationally. Highly recommended.' -- E. Magenheim, ChoiceTable of ContentsContents: Foreword Former Governor Michael Huckabee Preface 1. Introduction Zoltan J. Acs and Alan Lyles PART I: CULTURE, OBESITY AND INSTITUTIONS 2. The Spread of Obesity David B. Audretsch and Dawne DiOrio PART II: OBESITY AND THE INDIVIDUAL 3. The Economics of Childhood Obesity Policy John Cawley 4. Obesity, Poverty and Diversity: Theoretical and Strategic Challenges Lenneal J. Henderson 5. The Labor Market Impact of Obesity John Cawley PART III: OBESITY AND BUSINESS 6. Mixed Messages in Marketing Communications about Food and Obesity Stephen J. Gould and Fiona Sussan 7. Weight Control, Private Health Insurance and Public Policies Alan Lyles and Ann Cotten PART IV: OBESITY AND GOVERNMENT 8. The Infrastructure of Obesity Zoltan J. Acs, Ann Cotten and Kenneth R. Stanton 9. Federal Communication about Obesity in the Dietary Guidelines and Checkoff Programs Parke E. Wilde 10. Tax Solutions to the External Costs of Obesity Julie Ann Elston, Kenneth R. Stanton, David T. Levy and Zoltan J. Acs PART V: LESSONS FROM THE PAST 11. Tobacco Control as a Model for Trimming the Obesity Problem David T. Levy and Marilyn Oblak 12. Perspectives on the Economic and Cultural Effects of Obesity Litigation: Lessons from Pelman v McDonald’s José Felipé Anderson PART VI: POLICY CONCLUSIONS 13. A Policy Framework for Confronting Obesity Zoltan J. Acs, Lenneal J. Henderson, David T. Levy, Alan Lyles and Kenneth R. Stanton Index

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Book SynopsisContaining over 50 activities (exercises, worksheets and games) which can be used in working with children, adolescents or families, this text aims to encourage creativity in therapy and assist in talking with children to facilitate change.Trade Review"a simple resource book packed with many therapeutic activities and ideas." Kate Kirk, Isle of Man Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service, May 2004Table of ContentsGetting to know you feelings increasing motivation to change becoming less stressed learning new skills improving coping skills coming to terms with loss understanding my family promoting positive self-esteem reviewing progress. (Part contents)

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Book SynopsisThe guide gives the practitioner an understanding of why children and adolescents may come to play fruit machines/video games to excess and includes knowledge about the risk factors involved in this. It includes practical and common-sense interventions that may be beneficial for such children and adolescents and also includes practical advice to give to parents facing their child’s behavioural addiction.Trade Review"Some of these [books in the PACTS series 2] are quite outstanding guides for practitioners, full of practical steps to take and worldly wisdom as well as good theretical grounding ... there are a couple on behaviours that are less commonly covered in other places, including Avoiding Risky Sex, and Gambling. Its is very welcome to have these issues addressed in such a pragmatic way ... Overall I would recommend that this series is present for anybody working with adolescents, as they provide a very useful guide for trainees to get stuck in with treatment." Stephen Scott, Institute of Psychiatry, London, Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Volume 9, No. 2, 2004, pp 92-96Table of ContentsIntroduction. Part I: Behavioural Addictions. Part II: Technological Addictions. Part III: Adolescent Gambling. Part IV: Gambling on Fruit Machines. Part V: Videogames and Fruit Machines – Commonalities. Part VI: Adolescent Videogame Playing. Part VII: Fruit Machines and Videogames – Some Final Comments. References. Further Reading. Appendices. Hints for Parents.

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Book SynopsisIt aims to provide the practitioner with a description of depression, an explanation of factors that contribute to mood disorders and guidance on their assessment and treatment in adolescence. In addition, it aims to provide a framework for the assessment and management of adolescence that have threatened or attempted suicide.Trade Review"Some of these [books in the PACTS series 2] are quite outstanding guides for practitioners, full of practical steps to take and worldly wisdom as well as good theretical grounding ... The one on Depression and Attempted Suicide is by Alan Carr and, again, is thorough and broad in its approach, not shying away from medication if this is required in addition to psychological therapy ... Overall I would recommend that this series is present for anybody working with adolescents, as they provide a very useful guide for trainees to get stuck in with treatment." Stephen Scott, Institute of Psychiatry, London, Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Volume 9, No. 2, 2004, pp 92-96Table of ContentsIntroduction. Part I: Depression. Part II: Attempted Suicide. References. Further Reading. Appendices.

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Book SynopsisThis guide provides information about aggression and its development during childhood and adolescence. It introduces bullying as a subset of aggressive behaviour, highlights research on the nature and extent of bullying in schools and outlines some of the characteristics of children involved in bullying. It helpfully suggests common signs of bullying that Parents and practitioners need to be aware of and offers interventions and resources for those dealing with this behaviour.Trade Review"Some of these [books in the PACTS series 2] are quite outstanding guides for practitioners, full of practical steps to take and worldly wisdom as well as good theretical grounding ... Overall I would recommend that this series is present for anybody working with adolescents, as they provide a very useful guide for trainees to get stuck in with treatment." Stephen Scott, Institute of Psychiatry, London, Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Volume 9, No. 2, 2004, pp 92-96Table of ContentsIntroduction. Aims. Objectives. Part I: Aggression:. 1. What is Aggression?. 2. The Changing Nature of Aggression. 3. Are Boys More Aggressive Than Girls?. 4. When is Aggressive Behaviour a Problem?. 5. Factors Relating to Aggression. 6. Individual Differences in Aggression. 7. Tackling Aggression. Part II: Bullying:. 8. What is Bullying?. 9. Where Does Bullying Take Place?. 10. Types of Bullying. 11. How Common is Bullying?. 12. Effects of Bullying. 13. Who is Involved in Bullying?. 14. Tackling Bullying. Conclusion. References. Appendices:. Appendix A: Assessing Aggression. Appendix B: Bullying Resources. Hints for Parents.

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Book SynopsisGuiding the reader through definitions, causation, assessment and treatment, the book offers a useful insight into this complex area whilst offering practical advice on how to deal with panic disorder and anxiety.Trade Review"Some of these [books in the PACTS series 2] are quite outstanding guides for practitioners, full of practical steps to take and worldly wisdom as well as good theretical grounding ... The one on panic disorders has Tom Ollendick as a co-author and is up to date in using the latest cognitive and behavioural approaches ... Overall I would recommend that this series is present for anybody working with adolescents, as they provide a very useful guide for trainees to get stuck in with treatment." Stephen Scott, Institute of Psychiatry, London, Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Volume 9, No. 2, 2004, pp 92-96Table of ContentsIntroduction. Aims. Objectives. PART I: PANIC IN ADOLESCENTS. What Are Panic Attacks?. Non-Clinical Panic Attacks. Prevalence of Panic Attacks and Symptoms. What is Panic Disorder?. PART II: OTHER ANXIETY DISORDERS ASSOCIATED WITH PANIC IN ADOLESCENTS. Social Phobia. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Specific Phobia. PART III. THE THREE COMPONENTS OF ANXIETY. The Physical Component (‘What I Feel’). The Cognitive Component (‘What I Think’). The Behaviroural Component (‘What I Do’). The Cycle of Panic. PART IV: UNDERSTANDING THE CAUSES OF PANIC IN ADOLESCENTS. A Model of the Aetiology of Panic. Temperament, Attachment and Separation: Implications for the Development of Panic. PART V: ASSESSING ADOLESCENTS WITH PANIC AND ANXIETY. The Anxiety Disorders Interview Schedule for DSM-IV, Child Version (ADIS-IV, Child Version). Panic Attributional Checklist. Self-Report Measures of Panic, Anxiety and Fear. Childhood Anxiety Sensitivity Index. Spence Children’s Anxiety Scale. Fear Survey Schedule for Children - Revised. Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children. Behavioural Assessment: A Behavioural Approach Task for an Adolescent with Panic Disorder. PART VI: TREATING ADOLESCENTS WITH PANIC AND ANXIETY. Panic Control Treatment for Adolescents. Sessions 1 and 2. Sessions 3-5. Sessions 6-8. Sessions 9-11. How helpful is PCT for adolescents? The case of Beth. Treating Other Anxiety Disorders in Adolescents. PART VII: WORKING WITH PARENTS. PART VIII: HELPING ADOLESCENTS WITH ANXIETY: SOME FINAL THOUGHTS. References. Further Reading. Sources of Instruments. APPENDICES. Appendix 1. Brief Screening Instrument for Panic Attacks and Panic Disorder in Adolescents. Appendix 2. Panic Attributional Checklist. Appendix 3. Childhood Anxiety Sensitivity Index. Appendix 4. Fear Survey Schedule for Children - Revised. Appendix 5. Treating My Teenager’s Panic Disorder: A Guide for Parents.

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Book SynopsisOne of the first books on abstinence based treatment structurally to integrate psychoanalytic and cognitive/behavioural models, Containing the Uncontainable is a highly practical account of establishing and maintaining treatment with problem drinkers who might otherwise fail to achieve their stated aims. The programme described is particularly relevant for those who are unable to make attachments, or otherwise make use of AA, yet need an intensive, supportive, abstinence based treatment experience.The treatment model described will be of interest to professionals working in the alcohol misuse field who find their psycho/social, cognitive/behavioural programmes are ineffective yet do not see the AA/12 Step approach as an option. The model has direct applications to working with a wide range of substance misusers, eating disorders and those diagnosed with personality disorders as well as the dually diagnosed.The book begins by reviewing the pro?s and con?s of the most common treatment interventions for alcohol problems and then defines the features that lead to treatment resistance. The practice section of the book is straightforward and is easily replicated in most outpatient settings. The section on relevant psychoanalytic theory is at the heart of the book, though the author, a social worker and group analyst, hopes the ideas underpinning her model make a case for keeping most substance misuse away from the analytic consulting room and most interpretation away from the alcohol misuse service.Table of ContentsForeword - Philip J. Flores. Preface. Acknowledgements. Chapter 1 Introduction. Chapter 2 How do we define substance misues? Chapter 3 How does the PCCP model compare to other interventions? Chapter 4 Evidence for the effectiveness of treatment. Chapter 5 The features of treatment-resistant clients. Chapter 6 Psychoanalytic theory and some of its applications. Chapter 7 The Monday to Friday programme. Chapter 8 How the day programme works. Chapter 9 Practical issues. Chapter 10 Final thoughts. Appendix A - Alcohol-related statistics. Appendix B - Handouts from ACCEPT. Appendix C - Preliminary outcome data. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the theme of gambling in a wide range of nineteenth-century English novels. It examines the representation of gambling in the novels themselves and the role that gambling played in the lives of the individual novelists. It also considers the significance of gambling in the novels within the wider context of the development of Victorian society. Following an historical overview, the book comprises individual chapters on: Benjamin Disraeli, Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Anthony Trollope and George Moore. Gambling in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel not only provides fresh readings of established texts within a distinctive social and cultural context, but is also a comprehensive barometer of the social history of the time as attitudes towards leisure changed. It is essential reading for all those interested in the development of English society and culture in the Victorian era. Gambling occurred in all strata of society and was a national pastime. The pursuit of gambling took many forms: from after-dinner cards to pugilism, and indeed Stock Exchange transactions were considered by many to be gambling at its worst.

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Book SynopsisPharmaceutical policies are interlinked globally, yet deeply rooted in local culture. Prescribing Cultures examines how pharmaceuticals and their regulation play an important and often contentious role in the health systems of the Asia-Pacific. The first section of this timely book —which includes a foreword by Michael Reich of Harvard University —addresses pharmaceutical policy in China, Korea, Japan, Thailand, Taiwan, Australia, and India. The second section focuses on two crosscutting themes: differences in "prescribing cultures," especially among physicians, who are the primary dispensers of medicine in Asia, and the challenge of balancing access to drugs with incentives for innovation. The book's contributors discuss important issues for U.S. policy, notably drug imports from Asia, regulation of global supply chains to assure drug safety and quality, and new legislation to encourage development of drugs for neglected diseases. In Prescribing Cultures, pharmaceutical policy serves as a window into the economic trade-offs, political compromises, and cultural legacies that shape regional and global health systems.

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Book SynopsisLife expectancy in Japan, South Korea, and much of urban China has now outpaced that of the United States and other high-income countries. With this triumph of longevity, however, comes a rise in the burden of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) like diabetes and hypertension, reducing healthy life years for individuals in these aging populations, as well as challenging the healthcare systems they rely on for appropriate care. The challenges and disparities are even more pressing in low- and middle-income economies, such as rural China and India. Moreover, the COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the vulnerability to newly emerging pathogens of older adults suffering from NCDs, and the importance of building long-term, resilient health systems. What strategies have been tried to prevent NCDs—the primary cause of morbidity and mortality — as well as to screen for early detection, raise the quality of care, improve medication adherence, reduce unnecessary hospitalizations and increase “value for money” in health spending? Fourteen concise chapters cover multiple aspects of policy initiatives for healthy aging and economic research on chronic disease control in diverse health systems — from cities such as Singapore and Hong Kong to large economies such as Japan, India, and China. Table of Contents 1.Introduction. Karen Eggleston. 2. Inequality in Age of Death: Comparing Trends in Japan, Korea, Singapore, and the U.S. Victor Fuchs, Karen Eggleston, Daejung Kim, Zhi Ping Teo. 3. Healthy Aging and Economics Research on the Net Value of Noncommunicable Disease Management in Japan Chiyo Hashimoto and Karen Eggleston. 4. The Political Economy of Precision Health: The Case of Japan Minori Ito. 5.Personalized and Precision Medicine in Japan Hokuto Asano. 6. Policies for Healthy Aging in Korea Hongsoo Kim. 7. Noncommunicable Disease Management in Hong Kong: Current Policies and the Potential Role of Economics Research. Janet Tin Kei Lam, Sabrina Wong, Jianchao Quan. 8.Constructing National Demonstration Areas for Integrated Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Disease in China. Jianqun Dong and colleagues from China National CDC. 9. Promoting Local Innovation for Healthy Aging in China: Selection of NCD Control National Demonstration Areas Yiqun Chen, Maigeng Zhou, Yichong Li, Shiwei Liu, Kate Bundorf, Grant Miller, Kim Babiarz, Karen Eggleston, Helen Chen. 10. Avoidable Admission Rates for Diabetes Patients and Associated Medical Spending in Rural China Haibin Wu, Yiwei Chen, Hui Ding, Jieming Zhong, Ruying Hu, Chunmei Wang, Kaixu Xie, Xiangyu Chen, Pedro Gallardo, Karen Eggleston, Min Yu. 11. Exploring and Promoting the Family Doctor System in Aging China Hai Fang. 12. Hypertension Control after Health Insurance Expansion: Empirical Evidence from China Jason Li. 13. Private Roles for Public Goals in China's Social Services Jack Donahue, Karen Eggleston, Yijia Jing, Richard J. Zeckhauser. 14. Cancer, Disparities, and PublicPrivate Roles: Views from China and Taiwan Karen Eggleston, Rachel Lu, Christina Ping, Nancy Zhang. 15. Policies for Healthy Aging in India Kavita Singh. 16. Net value methods (appendix)

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Book SynopsisAuthored by Amanda Glassman and Miriam Temin with the Millions Saved Team and Advisory Group, Millions Saved: News Cases of Proven Success in Global Health, shows what works—and what doesn’t—in global health. In a foreword to the book, Bill Gates says, “I encourage global health experts, policymakers, funders, and anyone else interested in helping create a better world to read Millions Saved. I am confident you will come away with a clearer sense of what the world has learned about fighting some of our biggest health challenges—and how we can use that knowledge to save even more lives.”Over the past fifteen years, people in low- and middle-income countries have experienced a health revolution—one that has created new opportunities and brought new challenges. It is a revolution that keeps mothers and babies alive, helps children grow, and enables adults to thrive.Millions Saved: New Cases of Proven Success in Global Health chronicles the global health revolution from the ground up, showcasing twenty-two local, national, and regional health programs that have been part of this global change. The book profiles eighteen remarkable cases in which large-scale efforts to improve health in low- and middle-income countries succeeded, and four examples of promising interventions that fell short of their health targets when scaled-up in real world conditions. Each case demonstrates how much effort—and sometimes luck—is required to fight illness and sustain good health.The cases are grouped into four main categories, reflecting the diversity of strategies to improve population health in low-and middle-income countries: rolling out medicines and technologies; expanding access to health services; targeting cash transfers to improve health; and promoting population-wide behavior change to decrease risk. The programs covered also come from various regions around the world: seven from sub-Saharan Africa, six from Latin America and the Caribbean, five from East and Southeast Asia, and four from South Asia.Trade Review“This is one of the most uplifting volumes on global health that I have come across. Solid evidence of cost-effective health interventions at scale gives us hope that millions more lives of the poorest and most vulnerable among us can be saved.”—Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Former Finance Minister, Nigeria “I encourage global health experts, policymakers, funders, and anyone else interested in helping create a better world to read Millions Saved. I am confident you will come away with a clearer sense of what the world has learned about fighting some of our biggest health challenges—and how we can use that knowledge to save even more lives.”—Bill Gates, Co-chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation “This book serves as both an inspiration and as a practical tool—it reminds us that our work is constantly evolving and that our investments yield tangible change. These stories are proof that we are making a difference.”—Jimmy Kolker, Assistant Secretary for Global Affairs, United States Department of Health and Human Services“Positive deviance is usually thought of as finding the successful examples in a community, learning what they do best, and then scaling up those behaviors. This book is about global positive deviance. The authors have found examples of exceptional success in global health that serve as lessons for all of us working in the field.”—Stefano Bertozzi, Dean, UC Berkeley School of Public Health“As we look forward, and begin the work towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, the chronicles of global health presented in this and previous editions of Millions Saved provide us with documented evidence on what works and does not work in global public health. The studies from Latin America showcase that targeted interventions addressing the needs of vulnerable and marginal populations can yield enormous dividends in health, social and economic development.”—Carissa Etienne, Director, Pan American Health Organization “I applaud the book’s range of major categories of interventions for improving health, its learnings from programs that disappointed at scale, and its incorporation of costs in the discussion about program effectiveness and impact. Importantly, the book draws conclusions about common features and key lessons, rather than only offering a compilation of interesting case studies, which is essential for the volume to be effective.”—Jere Behrman, Professor, University of Pennsylvania

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Book SynopsisThe Opioid Epidemic and US Culture brings a new set of perspectives to one of the most pressing contemporary topics in Appalachia and the nation as a whole. A project aimed both at challenging dehumanizing attitudes toward those caught in the opioid epidemic and at protesting the structural forces that have enabled it, this edited volume assembles a multidisciplinary community of scholars and practitioners to consider the ways that people have mobilized their creativity in response to the crisis. From the documentary The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia to the role of cough syrup in mumble rap, and from a queer Appalachian zine to protests against the Sackler family's art-world philanthropy, the essays here explore the intersections of expressive culture, addiction, and recovery.Written for an audience of people working on the front lines of the opioid crisis, the book is essential reading for social workers, addiction counselors, halfway house managers, and people with opioid use disorder. It will also appeal to the community of scholars interested in understanding how aesthetics shape our engagement with critical social issues, particularly in the fields of literary and film criticism, museum studies, and ethnomusicology.Table of Contents Introduction: The Opioid Crisis and Expressive Culture Travis D. Stimeling Part I. On the Outside Looking In: The Opioid Crisis from Without 1. ""Something Too Pure / Is Killing Us"": Opioid-Addiction Porn, Endurance, and the Neoliberal Appropriation of Resilience Jordan Lovejoy 2. ""Snort Pills on My Head"": The Visual Rhetoric of Addiction, Abjection, and White Trash in The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia Christopher Garland 3. The Pill: Aesthetics, Addiction, and Gender in Jennifer Weiner's All Fall Down Ashleigh Hardin 4. Prince, Tom Petty, and Pain: Projections of Authenticity in Popular Music Leigh H. Edwards 5. ""Maybe If I'd Stayed"": Appalachian Outmigration and Narratives of Loss in Nate May's Dust in the Bottomland Travis D. Stimeling Part II. If You Lived Here: Representing the Opioid Epidemic from Within 6. Pretty Lil Azzie Crystal Good 7. The Way the World Is: From Maggie Boylan Michael Henson 8. Finding Maggie Boylan Michael Henson 9. You Talkin' about Me? Turning the Blood of Appalachia's Opioid Epidemic into Ink Jacqueline Yahn 10. Remediating the Opioid Crisis in Museums Ethan Sharp 11. A Hole Is Not a Void: Extraction, Addiction, and Aesthetics Jonas N. T. Becker 12. Narrative Engagement with the Opioid Epidemic: From Personal Story to Personal Reflection Amanda M. Caleb and Susan McDonald 13. Recovering from Addiction in Sobriety: Narrating Disability/Mental Illness through the Medium of Comic Art Tatiana Prorokova-Konrad 14. ""Hey, Let's Have a Very Good Time"": The Opioid Aesthetics of Post-Verbal Rap Austin T. Richey Part III. New Day Dawning: Recovery, Sobriety, and Post-Opioid Futures 15. Queer Addiction and Queer Harm Reduction in Appalachia Gina Mamone 16. Healing Open Wounds Chelsea Jack 17. Pain Is One Dance Partner: Move with It Anne Lloyd Willett 18. Images of Opioid Addiction, Recovery, and Privilege in Mainstream Hip Hop Paige Zalman 19. The Voices of Hope A Recovery Community Choir: Redefining Self, Community, and Success Natalie Shaffer Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisIn the twenty-first century, expecting parents are inundated with information and advice from every direction, but are often strapped for perspective on how to think through it. Unlike traditional pregnancy guidebooks that offer recommendations, Carrying On helps expecting parents make sense of the overwhelming amount of counsel available to them by shedding light on where it all came from. How and why did such confusing and contradictory guidance on pregnancy come to exist? Carrying On investigates the origin stories of prevailing prenatal health norms by exploring the evolution of issues at the center of pregnancy, ranging from morning sickness and weight gain to ultrasounds and induction. When did women start taking prenatal vitamins, and why? When did the notion that pregnant women should “eat for two” originate? Where did exercise guidelines come from? And when did women start formulating birth plans? A learning project with one foot in the past and the other in the present, Carrying On considers what history and medicine together can teach us about how and why we treat pregnancy–and pregnant women–the way we do. In a world of information overload, Carrying On offers expecting parents the context and background they need to approach pregnancy and prenatal health from a new place of understanding.Trade Review"Carrying On dives deep into science to clarify all of the open questions around pregnancy. Clair's writing is clear, personal, and relatable....Carrying On is an original concept that is well written, well researched, much needed, and offers indigenous and midwifery perspectives alongside the traditional 'science.'" -- Tina Cassidy * author of Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born *"Pregnancy Weight Gain Guidelines: Where Did They Come From, Anyway?," by Brittany Clair * Pregnant Chicken *"The Truth About the 'Right' Pregnancy Diet," by Brittany Clair * Amara *"This book is part-science, part-history, a dash of memoir, and it lives in the weeds. It’s nine chapters that follow some sort of rough chronological logic, but all stand in relative isolation (i.e., you could jump around, skip a chapter, or read in whatever order suits you) and dive into one key question or topic. For example: How has medicine (not) managed morning sickness over time? When did we start using obstetric ultrasound, and what is it doing for us? When the hell — and why — did prenatal weight gain recommendations gain any traction? What about exercise guidelines? " * Lucie's List, The Best Pregnancy Books *Table of ContentsPreface List of Abbreviations Introduction: On Carrying On 1 Provide 2 Endure 3 Grow 4 Eat 5 Watch 6 Move 7 Sleep 8 Plan 9 Commence About the Author Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThe individual and structural biases that affect the American healthcare system have serious emotional and physical consequences that all too often go unseen. These biases are often rooted in power, class, racial, gender or sexual orientation prejudices, and as a result, the injured parties usually lack the resources needed to protect themselves. In Healthcare and Human Dignity, individual worth, equality, and autonomy emerge as the dominant values at stake in encounters with doctors, nurses, hospitals, and drug companies. Although the public is aware of legal battles over autonomy and dignity in the context of death, the everyday patient’s need for dignity has received scant attention. Thus, in Healthcare, law professor Frank McClellan’s collection of cases and individual experiences bring these stories to life and establish beyond doubt that human dignity is of utmost priority in the everyday process of healthcare decision making.Trade Review"This is an excellent book. The stories are terrific, the analysis pitched just right, and the underlying themes of fair treatment, dignity, and inequality of treatment based on race are well-developed." -- Barry R. Furrow * Director, the Health Law Program, Thomas R. Kline School of Law, Drexel University *"Engaging, conversational, thought-provoking...McClellan's writing blends ethical arguments, a lay person's understandings of dignity, and legal frameworks very well. I felt as I was reading that someone was clearly and carefully walking me through stories about human dignity, medicine, and the law. His is a very humanistic legal gaze." -- Nora L. Jones * Director of Bioethics Education, Center for Bioethics, Urban Health and Policy, Temple University *"McClellan...maintains that violation of the trust between physician and patient may result from conscious or unconscious bias against a specific group of people. Such violations repeat themselves in part due to the short memory of the public. Within this context, McClellan also stresses that the rule of law is central to protecting human dignity when patients are seeking health care. The negative influence on human dignity of racism, limited access, high cost, and power relationships in health care is at the heart of McClellan's argument. Recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsPART ONE: FIGHTING FOR ACCESS TO CARE Introduction: Human Dignity as a Lived Experience 1 Healthcare and Law: Appreciating the Need to Protect Human Dignity: Law Matters: Law Matters: Introduction to the Powers and Limitations of American Law 2 Philosophical and Legal Conceptions of Dignity: Trusting Your Doctor: Defining Dignity: Law Matters. 3 Emergency Care in America: Law, Morality and Ethics “I’m nobody. Who are you? Are you nobody too?”: Economic vs. Moral Decision-Making: Seeking Help From Strangers: A Pregnant Woman: Reflections on Law, Morality and Ethics: The Wallet Biopsy: Patient Dumping PART TWO: POWER AND TRUST 4 Professional Bias, Class Bias, and Power: Emotional Distress: Abuse of Power, Intentional Torts and Dignitary Harms: Tort Law and Patient Autonomy 5 The Love Doctor: Sex and Gender Bias; Breach of Trust and Abuse of Power: Medical Ethics and Professional Power: Law matters 6 Innovative Therapy and Medical Experimentation: The Maverick Surgeon: Medical Experimentation on Children?: Law Matters: Legal Cases: Lessons Learned: Legal Regulation of Professional Medical Care: Trying a New Approach with a New Device: The Legal Rules Governing Medical Malpractice Claims: Medical Research, Ethics and Law: Lessons Learned PART THREE: RACISM IN HEALTHCARE: PRACITCE, POLICY AND LAW 7 Introduction: Perspectives on Racism: “Black People Just Don’t Understand”– the Botched Hysterectomy: Race, Healthcare, and Human Dignity 8 Healthcare Disparities as a Lived Experience: One Family’s Story: Unequal Community Access 9 Catastrophic Injuries: Protecting and Restoring Human Dignity: The Lawsuit That Lasted Ten Years: Life After A Catastrophic Injury: Reflections on Healthcare, Law and Catastrophic Injuries 10 Orthopedic Health Disparities: Grappling with Socioeconomic Factors that Affect Health and Healthcare: Being Human: Joint and Bone Health: Informed Consent and Shared Decision-Making: Toward Patient-Centered Care: Revisiting Kathy Jones 11 Paying for Healthcare Costs: Lessons From a 50-Year-Old Government Program Called Medicare: Sustainability Issue: Payment Models and Human Dignity: A Personal Story: Lessons from Managed Care: Setting Limits: Medicare for All?: The Fight Over Obamacare: 12 Health Care and Human Dignity in a Diverse and Changing World the Critical Role of Empathy, Compassion and Humility: Humility: Empathy: Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThe individual and structural biases that affect the American healthcare system have serious emotional and physical consequences that all too often go unseen. These biases are often rooted in power, class, racial, gender or sexual orientation prejudices, and as a result, the injured parties usually lack the resources needed to protect themselves. In Healthcare and Human Dignity, individual worth, equality, and autonomy emerge as the dominant values at stake in encounters with doctors, nurses, hospitals, and drug companies. Although the public is aware of legal battles over autonomy and dignity in the context of death, the everyday patient’s need for dignity has received scant attention. Thus, in Healthcare, law professor Frank McClellan’s collection of cases and individual experiences bring these stories to life and establish beyond doubt that human dignity is of utmost priority in the everyday process of healthcare decision making.Trade Review"This is an excellent book. The stories are terrific, the analysis pitched just right, and the underlying themes of fair treatment, dignity, and inequality of treatment based on race are well-developed." -- Barry R. Furrow * Director, the Health Law Program, Thomas R. Kline School of Law, Drexel University *"Engaging, conversational, thought-provoking...McClellan's writing blends ethical arguments, a lay person's understandings of dignity, and legal frameworks very well. I felt as I was reading that someone was clearly and carefully walking me through stories about human dignity, medicine, and the law. His is a very humanistic legal gaze." -- Nora L. Jones * Director of Bioethics Education, Center for Bioethics, Urban Health and Policy, Temple University *"McClellan...maintains that violation of the trust between physician and patient may result from conscious or unconscious bias against a specific group of people. Such violations repeat themselves in part due to the short memory of the public. Within this context, McClellan also stresses that the rule of law is central to protecting human dignity when patients are seeking health care. The negative influence on human dignity of racism, limited access, high cost, and power relationships in health care is at the heart of McClellan's argument. Recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsPART ONE: FIGHTING FOR ACCESS TO CARE Introduction: Human Dignity as a Lived Experience 1 Healthcare and Law: Appreciating the Need to Protect Human Dignity: Law Matters: Law Matters: Introduction to the Powers and Limitations of American Law 2 Philosophical and Legal Conceptions of Dignity: Trusting Your Doctor: Defining Dignity: Law Matters. 3 Emergency Care in America: Law, Morality and Ethics “I’m nobody. Who are you? Are you nobody too?”: Economic vs. Moral Decision-Making: Seeking Help From Strangers: A Pregnant Woman: Reflections on Law, Morality and Ethics: The Wallet Biopsy: Patient Dumping PART TWO: POWER AND TRUST 4 Professional Bias, Class Bias, and Power: Emotional Distress: Abuse of Power, Intentional Torts and Dignitary Harms: Tort Law and Patient Autonomy 5 The Love Doctor: Sex and Gender Bias; Breach of Trust and Abuse of Power: Medical Ethics and Professional Power: Law matters 6 Innovative Therapy and Medical Experimentation: The Maverick Surgeon: Medical Experimentation on Children?: Law Matters: Legal Cases: Lessons Learned: Legal Regulation of Professional Medical Care: Trying a New Approach with a New Device: The Legal Rules Governing Medical Malpractice Claims: Medical Research, Ethics and Law: Lessons Learned PART THREE: RACISM IN HEALTHCARE: PRACITCE, POLICY AND LAW 7 Introduction: Perspectives on Racism: “Black People Just Don’t Understand”– the Botched Hysterectomy: Race, Healthcare, and Human Dignity 8 Healthcare Disparities as a Lived Experience: One Family’s Story: Unequal Community Access 9 Catastrophic Injuries: Protecting and Restoring Human Dignity: The Lawsuit That Lasted Ten Years: Life After A Catastrophic Injury: Reflections on Healthcare, Law and Catastrophic Injuries 10 Orthopedic Health Disparities: Grappling with Socioeconomic Factors that Affect Health and Healthcare: Being Human: Joint and Bone Health: Informed Consent and Shared Decision-Making: Toward Patient-Centered Care: Revisiting Kathy Jones 11 Paying for Healthcare Costs: Lessons From a 50-Year-Old Government Program Called Medicare: Sustainability Issue: Payment Models and Human Dignity: A Personal Story: Lessons from Managed Care: Setting Limits: Medicare for All?: The Fight Over Obamacare: 12 Health Care and Human Dignity in a Diverse and Changing World the Critical Role of Empathy, Compassion and Humility: Humility: Empathy: Conclusion

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Book SynopsisLosing her smile to synkinesis after unresolved Bell’s palsy changed how Faye Linda Wachs was seen by others and her internal experience of self. In Metamorphosis, interviewing over one hundred people with acquired facial difference challenged her presumptions about identity, disability, and lived experience. Participants described microaggressions, internalizations, and minimalizations and their impact on identity. Heartbreakingly, synkinesis disrupts the ability to have shared moments. When one experiences spontaneous emotion, wrong nerves trigger misfeel and misperception by others. One is misread by others and receives confusing internal information. Communication of and to the self is irrevocably damaged. Wachs describes the experience as a social disability. People found a host of creative ways to reinvigorate their sense of self and self-expression. Like so many she interviewed, Wachs experiences a process of change and growth as she is challenged to think more deeply about ableism, identity, and who she wants to be.Trade Review“Metamorphosis is an important contribution to sociology of the body, critical disability, and sociology of emotion scholarship, as well as being of interest and use to anyone interested in understanding more about the nuts and bolts of face-to-face communication; Wachs is a gifted writer.”— Travers, author of The Trans Generation: How Trans Kids (and Their Parents) are Creating a Gender Revolution “Metamorphosis is a groundbreaking, nuanced study of the experience of facial paralysis (FP) and synkinesis. This is the first academic book on synkinesis or facial paralysis, and Wachs is the perfect person to write it.”— Kathleen Bogart, director of the Disability and Social Interaction Lab at Oregon State UniversityTable of ContentsContents 1 When Life Gives You Lemons…. Interview Lots of Other People Also With Lemons 2 Theorizing Change: Culture, Identity, and the Face 3 Microaggressions, Internalizations, and Contested Ideological Terrain 4 It's My Face—Why That Matters 5 Disrupted Selves 6 Someone I Would Rather Be 7 Walking Away: The Challenge of Change Acknowledgments Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2021 Excellence in Research and Scholarly Activity Award from the University of Wisconsin-MilwaukeeFinalist for the 2021 American Book Fest Best Book AwardsAging is one of the most compelling issues today, with record numbers of seniors over sixty-five worldwide. Gray Matters: Finding Meaning in the Stories of Later Life examines a diverse array of cultural works including films, literature, and even art that represent this time of life, often made by people who are seniors themselves. These works, focusing on important topics such as housing, memory loss, and intimacy, are analyzed in dialogue with recent research to explore how “stories” illuminate the dynamics of growing old by blending fact with imagination. Gray Matters also incorporates the life experiences of seniors gathered from over two hundred in-depth surveys with a range of questions on growing old, not often included in other age studies works. Combining cultural texts, gerontology research, and observations from older adults will give all readers a fuller picture of the struggles and pleasures of aging and avoids over-simplified representations of the process as all negative or positive. Trade Review“Creative, wide-ranging and well-written, Gray Matters offers a many-sided, complex understanding of late-life. It demonstrates that this period of our lives interweaves our past and present, takes grit, and offers opportunities for positive experiences. For some, learning becomes more enjoyable, as the phrase ‘senior college’ indicates. Gray Matters also skillfully shows that aging occurs in a social context, a fact often overlooked when the process is understood as solely an individual matter.” -- Margaret Cruikshank * from the foreword *"Gray Matters invites readers to reexamine what they think they know about growing old. Offering succinct close readings of richly diverse cultural texts, Lem’s book presents literature as a resource for dealing with the practical and existential concerns of aging. With its interdisciplinary grounding in age studies theory and sociological data, Gray Matters is itself a valuable resource for readers ready to reorient their view of later life." -- Erin Lamb * co-editor of Research Methods in Health Humanities *"Lem draws examples from literature, film, television, and a survey of older people to support a wide-ranging and accessible examination of contemporary culture. Especially helpful to those who are new to the field, this book is a welcome addition to age-studies scholarship." -- Valerie Lipscomb * author of Performing Age in Modern Drama *"A savvy analysis of films, books, and studies undermining Philip Roth’s contention that 'Old age is not a battle. It is a massacre.'" -- Susan Gubar * author of Late-Life Love: A Memoir *"The Literature of Elder Care is Often About Shifting Power Dynamics: Ellyn Lem on Works by Shakespeare, Lauren Fox, and Others" https://lithub.com/the-literature-of-elder-care-is-often-about-shifting-power-dynamics/ * Literary Hub *"Drawing on literature, movies and TV as well as her survey research with 200 seniors, Lem explores the diversity of experiences of older people and pushes back against negative stereotypes about aging. Sexuality, housing, memory loss, adult children and death are among the topics." * Milwaukee Journal Sentinel *"Often, the elderly handle the pandemic very well. Here’s why," by Ellyn A. Lem https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/elderly-coping-pandemic-despite-isolation/2020/09/18/f397dea8-f763-11ea-89e3-4b9efa36dc64_story.html#comments-wrapper * Washington Post *"Gray Matters increases readers’ knowledge about contemporary literature, media, and research focused on lived experiences of older adults. The content and insights can be introduced into gerontology courses and social work practice, human behavior, policy, and research courses, as well as informing direct practice with critical perspectives." * Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work *"Just How Well Is Popular Culture Portraying Older Adults?" by Ellyn Lem * Next Avenue *"This illuminating book will be appreciated by anyone who is growing old, or who is committed to social changes that ensure a pleasant and productive old age for all. Recommended." * Choice *"What the New Movie 'Old' Gets Right About Aging," by Ellyn Lem * Next Avenue *Table of ContentsForeword by Margaret Cruikshank Introduction: “Where Do I Begin?” Senior Parents and Their Adult Children: “Can’t We All Just Get Along?” Surveying the Housing Options: “No Place like Home”? Understanding Memory Loss: “Am I Losing my Mind?” Intimacy: “Love is All You Need”? Women and Men: “Separate But Equal”? Money, Work and Retirement: “Are We There Yet?” Death: “The Final Frontier”? Afterword Acknowledgments Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisMedical Entanglements uses intersectional feminist, queer, and crip theory to move beyond “for or against” approaches to medical intervention. Using a series of case studies – sex-confirmation surgery, pharmaceutical treatments for sexual dissatisfaction, and weight loss interventions – the book argues that, because of systemic inequality, most mainstream medical interventions will simultaneously reinforce social inequality and alleviate some individual suffering. The book demonstrates that there is no way to think ourselves out of this conundrum as the contradictions are a product of unjust systems. Thus, Gupta argues that feminist activists and theorists should allow individuals to choose whether to use a particular intervention, while directing their social justice efforts at dismantling systems of oppression and at ensuring that all people, regardless of race, gender, sexuality, class, or ability, have access to the basic resources required to flourish. Trade ReviewMedical Entanglements is required reading for anyone interested in the feminist stakes of biomedical interventions. Provocatively insisting that “medicine isn’t special,” Gupta reimagines the terrain of sexual pharmaceuticals, gender affirmation procedures, and weight loss technologies, providing fresh insights about how all three can be sites of survival, well-being, and even flourishing. Gupta’s writing is clear, her arguments comprehensive, and her suggestions for how we get from A to B are a sensible companion in these urgent times. -- Chrstine Labuski * author of It Hurts Down There: The Bodily Imaginaries of Female Genital Pain *"Modern biomedicine presents us with a growing number of socially and ethically troubling situations, where there is always a temptation to seek a ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ solution. In this important book, and with theoretical sophistication and supported by detailed case studies, Gupta shows the most ethical way forward may be acceptance that difficulties are only imperfectly resolvable, entangled as they are in broader systems of injustice. She argues with skill and imagination for a different approach, framed by a different language, to feminist thinking about healthcare." -- Jackie Leach Scully * co-editor of Feminist Bioethics: At the Center, on the Margins *Table of Contents1. Introduction: No Safe Ground 2. Feminist Critiques of Medicine (and Some Responses) 3. Theorizing from Transition-Related Care: Analytical Tools for Complexity 4. Sexuopharmaceuticals: Queering Medicalization 5. Constructing Fat, Constructing Fat Stigma: Rethinking Weight-Reduction Interventions 6. Conclusion: Medicine Without Eugenics? Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index

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