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Book SynopsisAnne McTiernan begins her second memoir at age twenty-nine, soon after completing her doctoral training in public health research at the University of Washington. She and her husband are now parents to four-year-old and three-month-old girls. She realizes that jobs in her field are scarce, especially for women and decides she needs better credentials to land a job. Overcoming her fear and life-long struggle with inadequacy, Anne moves the family 3,000 miles to New York, where she begins medical school. Within a few months of starting this new life, Anne is in deep trouble. She cannot handle the competing demands and feels isolated. The stress builds, until Anne suffers a series of paralyzing panic attacks that threaten her ability to function. She begins psychotherapy and starts on a journey of self-discovery, realizing she has to change to survive.Cured is the follow-up to her 2016 release Starved and differs from other physician memoirs in its themes of motherhood, mental illness, and the perspective of a female physician on how she turned adversity into a strength and set of skills.

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Book SynopsisThis volume is an important contribution to our understanding of global pandemics in general and Covid-19 in particular. It brings together the reflections of leading social and political scientists who are interested in the implications and significance of the current crisis for politics and society. The chapters provide both analysis of the social and political dimensions of the Coronavirus pandemic and historical contextualization as well as perspectives beyond the crisis. The volume seeks to focus on Covid-19 not simply as the terrain of epidemiology or public health, but as raising fundamental questions about the nature of social, economic and political processes. The problems of contemporary societies have become intensified as a result of the pandemic. Understanding the pandemic is as much a sociological question as it is a biological one, since viral infections are transmitted through social interaction. In many ways, the pandemic poses fundamental existential as well as political questions about social life as well as exposing many of the inequalities in contemporary societies. As the chapters in this volume show, epidemiological issues and sociological problems are elucidated in many ways around the themes of power, politics, security, suffering, equality and justice. This is a cutting edge and accessible volume on the Covid-19 pandemic with chapters on topics such as the nature and limits of expertise, democratization, emergency government, digitalization, social justice, globalization, capitalist crisis, and the ecological crisis. Contents Notes on Contributors Preface Gerard Delanty1. Introduction: The Pandemic in Historical and Global Context Part 1 Politics, Experts and the State Claus Offe2. Corona Pandemic Policy: Exploratory Notes on its ‘Epistemic Regime’ Stephen Turner3. The Naked State: What the Breakdown of Normality Reveals Jan Zielonka4. Who Should be in Charge of Pandemics? Scientists or Politicians? Jonathan White5. Emergency Europe after Covid-19 Daniel Innerarity6. Political Decision-Making in a Pandemic Part 2 Globalization, History and the Future Helga Nowotny7. In AI We Trust: How the COVID-19 Pandemic Pushes us Deeper into Digitalization Eva Horn8. Tipping Points: The Anthropocene and COVID-19 Bryan S. Turner9. The Political Theology of Covid-19: a Comparative History of Human Responses to Catastrophes Daniel Chernilo10. Another Globalisation: Covid-19 and the Cosmopolitan Imagination Frédéric Vandenberghe & Jean-Francois Véran11. The Pandemic as a Global Total Social Fact Part 3 The Social and Alternatives Sylvia Walby12. Social Theory and COVID: Including Social Democracy Donatella della Porta13. Progressive Social Movements, Democracy and the Pandemic Sonja Avlijaš14. Security for Whom? Inequality and Human Dignity in Times of the Pandemic Albena Azmanova15. Battlegrounds of Justice: The Pandemic and What Really Grieves the 99% Index Table of ContentsIntroductionGerard Delanty The introduction will set the scene for the volume by discussing the various questions that the pandemic poses for social and political analysis. Battlegrounds of Justice: what really grieves the 99% Albena Azmanova (University of Kent, Brussels) Before the pandemic, progressive forces were mobilising under the banner of fighting inequality. The pandemic, however, has revealed that the scourge of our societies is the generalised precarity — the massive economic and social fragility generated by four decades of cuts to public spending. What policies are necessary for a swift change of direction? Unhinged: Risks and globalisation in a pandemic world Daniel Chernilo (Santiago, Chile) This chapter argues that the current Covid-19 crisis can be understood as a crisis of globalisation itself. From the rapid worldwide expansion of the virus to its unprecedented impact on the global economy, this pandemic is likely to be remembered as the most global event in human history yet, as it has put 70% of the world population under similar restrictions of movement, work and education. As it was first formulated in 1986, Ulrich Beck’s risk society theory played a visionary role in highlighting the global nature of those challenges that come from the decoupling of politics, culture and the economy. I contend that we have now reached a new stage in this process, as this pandemic has led to the realisation that current globalisation has moved beyond a point of ‘decoupling’ and has become ‘unhinged’. The solution to this global crisis requires more rather than less globalisation. But it will have to be a globalisation of a different kind, one that will no longer be a zero-sum game between the global and the national but will require us to rebalance the dynamics global economy, the role of international institutions and the fiscal position of nation-states. Donatella della Porta (Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence) A title and summary is currently not available. The chapter will focus on social movements and democracy in the context of the pandemic. Six Political Philosophies in Search of a Virus: Philosophy and the Pandemic Gerard Delanty (University of Sussex, UK) The Coronavirus (Covid-19) poses interesting questions for social and political thought. These include the nature and limits of the ethical responsibility of the state, personal liberty and collective interests, human dignity, and state surveillance. As many countries throughout the world declared states of emergency, some of the major questions in political philosophy become suddenly highly relevant. Foucault’s writings on biopolitical securitization and Agamben’s notion of the state of exception take on a new reality, as do the classical arguments of utilitarianism and libertarianism. In this chapterr, I discuss six main philosophical responses to the pandemic, including provocative interventions made by Agamben, Badieu, and Žižek, Latour on the governance of life and death as well as the Kantian perspective of Habermas on human dignity and utilitarianism. The chapter includes a short discussion of nudge theory. Tipping Points: The Anthropocene and CoronaEva Horn (University of Vienna) The chapter deals with structural analogies between the complex ecological meta-crisis we have come to call the “Anthropocene” and the acute crisis we are facing with the Corona pandemic. Instead of trying to pinpoint causal relations between the Anthropocene and Corona, the text focuses on the type of event that is common to both crises: the tipping point, i.e. process that links a long, seemingly slow and incremental latency period to a short and very rapid change within a complex system. In the first part, I examine the different propositions for an Anthropocene starting date as attempts to understand the new geological epoch as a threshold, attempts that each bring the focus to different factors and aspects. Secondly, I describe the structure of tipping points as types of events both in natural and social complex systems. The reason why they are highly unpredictable, I argue, lies in their temporal structure, connecting a long and slow, seemingly linear process to a sudden and radical turning point. An understanding of such tipping points in natural processes, e.g. in climate science, can only be founded on a new understanding of nature that sees nature not as a balanced, stable harmony, but as an ever changing, dynamic system in which humans have come to play a major role of a novel, destabilizing factor. A third part tries to understand both the Anthropocene and Corona as types of radical transformation. While the Anthropocene can be dubbed a “catastrophe without an event” (Horn 2018), Corona is a catastrophe as a rapidly evolving event, but which can be understood as a model of the Anthropocene on fast-track. A forth part develops some perspectives for the lessons Corona can teach for a new understanding of sustainability in the future. Political Decision-making in a Pandemic Daniel Innerarity (University of the Basque Country) Crises are moments that put many things into question, especially our decision-making procedures. These decisions can be examined in a temporal order, from the decisions that governments have to take in order to be prepared for a crisis, therefore, before they take place, the decisions that are taken during the crisis and those that are taken as a result of it. The first question posed by a critical situation is whether we were prepared to manage it, that is, how it is decided when there is still, so to speak, nothing to decide. When crises erupt, their outcome is largely conditioned by the preparation and anticipation of our democratic societies to manage them. The second question I ask myself is whether populist systems (or, if you prefer, the populist features of many governments) offer an appropriate decision-making structure to deal with a crisis such as the current health crisis. Thirdly, I examine the drama that inevitably characterizes political decisions taken in the midst of a crisis that stresses the different values and logics of a differentiated society. And fourthly, I wonder about the debates that we must hold on globalization which, from this point of view, are going to require us to review which level of governance is the most appropriate for what kind of risks. Corona Pandemic Policy: Options and ConflictsClaus Offe (Hertie School of Governance, Berlin) The chapter provides an analysis of the contested policy terrain through an exploration of the policy options that follow from the presuppositions that governments have made as regards the demographic and epidemiological models. These modes divide the population into six epidemiological groups. The chapter looks at the policies that follow from these models. This leads to an analysis inspired by classic game theory about how collective action problems emerge. The chapter then discusses some of the dilemmas that result for policy makers. Beyond these problems, the chapter discusses how new patterns of stratification take shape, especially in relation to work. The chapter includes a discussion on the controversy over "right to life" vs. other human and civil rights. Title not yet availableGoran Therborn Tbc Covid-19 and Two TheodiciesBryan S. Turner (Australian Catholic University, Sydney) Plagues in the past called forth elaborate theodicies to explain human misfortune. The most famous, giving rise to the idea of theodicy, was Gottfried Leibniz’s response to devastating Lombardy floods in 1710. In response to the covid-19 pandemic, we might envisage both a religious and a political response, defining the consciousness of a covid-19 generation. However, in our secular European environment, a religious theodicy is unlikely. Religious gatherings have helped to spread covid-19 not to answer it. One critical example is the role of the Shincheonji religious cult of South Korea. By contrast, we have seen the pandemic playing into the hands of the Far Right: close the borders, end to immigration, send migrant workers home, defend national sovereignty, undermine international co-operation, reject multiculturalism and destroy the liberal state and its affluent elites. The political theodicy explains misfortune by identifying a global conspiracy to replace white populations. Far right militants fear the ‘great displacement’ whereby Muslims and other external enemies with high fertility rates will replace white populations now decimated by a ‘Chinese’ virus. The Naked State: What the Breakdown of Normality RevealsStephen P. Turner (University of South Florida) Giorgio Agamben was roundly criticized for a statement which predicted that the state would treat the Covid-19 crisis as a state of exception, and that the continuous invocation of exceptions would undermine the normality of law and politics itself. As the crisis unfolded, he appeared prescient. What was revealed was a triangle of power in which political leaders were dependent on experts, who were their only source of public legitimacy, but whose powers to define the situation and impose extreme, often extra-legal demands, proved to be greater than their power to resist, leaving resistance to “the people.” This exposed representative government, and even the courts, as sham institutions, and revealed expert power that did not merely depend on expert success. Because the crisis was a not a case of successful expertise, where expert power is hidden, but of extreme expert failure, it could not be hidden, and revealed “the new normal.” But it was only the hidden normal that had arrived on cats paws already. The Pandemic in Brazil: Systemic Breakdown under BolsonaroFrédéric Vandenberghe (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) I will analyse the systemic breakdown of Brazil before and during the pandemics of 2020. The chapter contains four parts. I will first present a chronicle of events (the revolts of 2013, the impeachment of President Dilma Roussef in 2015, the election of Jair Bolsonaro in 2015) that have led to systemic turbulence. Next, I will present an analysis of the conjuncture by looking at the events, the scenes, the actors and the correlation of forces that brought President Jair Bolsonaro to power. Then I will analyse how the rise to power has lead to the social and systemic disintegration of society. Finally, updating a radicalizing Habermas’s analysis of legitimation crisis, I will follow the sequence of crises (economic, political, institutional, security, ecology, sanitary, military and existential) that have led to a systemic breakdown of society. If I have the courage, I will work out the concept of a 　‘systemic clusterfuck. Who is charge now? Scientists or politicians?Jan Zielonka (University of Oxford and Venice) Liberals always complained that populist politicians ignore scientists and science. However, since the outbreak of the pandemics our lives seem to be in the hands of scientists more than politicians. Should we rejoice that Trump, Kaczyñski or Johnson seem no longer fully in charge? This chapter will argue that there is no simple answer to this question. Economists suggest different solutions than medical doctors and they all work on the basis of patchy evidence. Some of them have murky relations with either governments or firms or both. And in democracy we want to know that those in charge are elected and accountable. This is the case with politicians, however imperfect - but not with their scientific advisors. 　 Technocracy after Covid-19Jonathan White (LSE, UK) This chapter explores what the current crisis implies for government by expertise, in particular in economic policy.　 It charts shifting ideals of technocracy in the twentieth century, centred on the three figures of the engineer, the scientist and the doctor, and asks what model of expertise is emerging in the present period. Additional chapters:A further chapter is under discussion with Craig Calhoun. There may be scope for 2 or 3 additional chapters, especially on more sociological topics. Potential authors might include Syliva Walby, Will Davies, Rahel Jaeggi,

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Book SynopsisVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Addiction is a subject which straddles public and personal interests; societal and criminal justice concerns; and family, social, and medical responses. It is a continuing area of uncertainty and concern for society and professionals trained in the field.This Very Short Introduction presents the basic facts about addiction: what it is, how and why it develops, how it is treated, and how society can respond to it. Addictions to both illicit drugs and licit drugs (e.g., alcohol) are covered, as is the possibility that certain behaviours not involving drug use (e.g., compulsive gambling) can qualify as addictions. Keith Humphreys provides a jargon-free account of our present understanding of addiction, from treatment evaluations to studies on the effects of public policies. He also illuminates the personal experience of addiction and recovery. Humphreys considers why some people become addicted and others do not, what treatments exist to help people who are addicted, and how the laws and regulations society establishes about drugs affects the rate and experience of addiction. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.Table of Contents1: Understanding the terrain 2: Causes of addiction 3: Recovery and treatment 4: Cultural and public policy approaches to addiction 5: The future of addiction

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Book SynopsisA trenchant analysis of the dark side of regulatory life-making today In their seemingly relentless pursuit of life, do contemporary U.S. “biocultures”—where biomedicine extends beyond the formal institutions of the clinic, hospital, and lab to everyday cultural practices—also engage in a deadly endeavor? Challenging us to question their implications, Deadly Biocultures shows that efforts to “make live” are accompanied by the twin operation of “let die”: they validate and enhance lives seen as economically viable, self-sustaining, productive, and oriented toward the future and optimism while reinforcing inequitable distributions of life based on race, class, gender, and dis/ability. Affirming life can obscure death, create deadly conditions, and even kill.Deadly Biocultures examines the affirmation to hope, target, thrive, secure, and green in the respective biocultures of cancer, race-based health, fatness, aging, and the afterlife. Its chapters focus on specific practices, technologies, or techniques that ostensibly affirm life and suggest life’s inextricable links to capital but that also engender a politics of death and erasure. The authors ultimately ask: what alternative social forms and individual practices might be mapped onto or intersect with biomedicine for more equitable biofutures?Trade Review"Nadine Ehlers and Shiloh Krupar have written a brilliant book about the Janus-faced nature of neoliberal biopolitics. Focusing on a diverse range of topics, from race-based medicine to the ‘war on cancer,’ they superbly show how practices and technologies aimed at fostering life in liberal democratic regimes perversely produce vulnerability, death-in-life, and even death itself."—Jonathan Xavier Inda, author of Racial Prescriptions: Pharmaceuticals, Difference, and the Politics of Life"Deadly Biocultures is a highly original and innovative text which aims to shed light on the dual nature of neoliberal biopolitics."—Ethnic and Racial Studies "Deadly Biocultures offers a timely and provocative contribution to the rich literature on biopolitics from which it draws. Ehlers and Krupar provide unique examples and deep engagement with a wide array of American biocultures."—Disability Studies Quarterly

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Book SynopsisDelves deep into the archives that keep the history and work of AIDS activism alive Serving as a vital supplement to the existing scholarship on AIDS activism of the 1980s and 1990s, ViralCultures is the first book to critically examine the archives that have helped preserve and create the legacy of those radical activities. Marika Cifor charts the efforts activists, archivists, and curators have made to document the work of AIDS activism in the United States and the infrastructure developed to maintain it, safeguarding the material for future generations to remember these social movements and to revitalize the epidemic’s past in order to remake the present and future of AIDS. Drawing on large institutional archives such as the New York Public Library, as well as those developed by small, community-based organizations, this work of archival ethnography details how contemporary activists, artists, and curators use these records to build on the cultural legacy of AIDS activism to challenge the conditions of injustice that continue to undergird current AIDS crises. Cifor analyzes the various power structures through which these archives are mediated, demonstrating how ideology shapes the nature of archival material and how it is accessed and used. Positioning vital nostalgia as both a critical faculty and a generative practice, this book explores the act of saving this activist past and reanimating it in the digital age. While many books, popular films, and major exhibitions have contributed to a necessary awareness of HIV and AIDS activism, Viral Cultures provides a crucial missing link by highlighting the powerful role of archives in making those cultural moments possible. Trade Review "This is a timely, important project that adds to the conversations happening now about the early days of AIDS and AIDS activism in the United States and how we remember and document that period in the present and for the future. As we live through another pandemic, the questions Marika Cifor raises about how we document and archive illness and illness politics are especially urgent and necessary."—Lisa Diedrich, author of Indirect Action: Schizophrenia, Epilepsy, AIDS, and the Course of Health Activism "It may be that AIDS activism’s greatest legacy will have been its archival documentation. Marika Cifor runs with that legacy by offering the first full-length study of collections that now exist in institutional repositories. Through her provocative concept of ‘vital nostalgia,’ she explores the affective importance of AIDS activist archives for her queer generation. Viral Cultures itself is an act of curatorial caretaking that keeps HIV/AIDS archival activism alive to do its work in the present."—Ann Cvetkovich, director, Pauline Jewett Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies, Carleton University "We all have the lethal constraints of a human body; Cifor offers us a pathway to ensure that our most important work, the messy work of living, cannot so easily be erased."—The Atlantic "A particularly salient analysis, given the inequity exposed by COVID-19—and the systemic structures that made both [the AIDS and COVID-19] pandemics worse."—Fast Company "Viral Cultures honors the efforts of activist archivists and artists who built and continue to build archives as forms of respite, healing, and resistance for marginalized communities, even as it critiques the power dynamics and inequalities reflected within the AIDS activist movement and its documentation efforts."—The American Archivist "Cifor deftly demonstrates how activist archival and curatorial practices create a space from within which artists, activists, scholars, and others may productively resist the triumphalist impulse that undergirds so much contemporary AIDS coverage."—H-Net Review Table of ContentsIntroduction. For the Record: AIDS, Archives, and Vital Nostalgia1. “Your Nostalgia Is Killing Me!” ACT UP Nostalgia and the Meaning of HIV/AIDS2. How to ACT UP: AIDS Archival Temporalities and the (Anti-)Institutionalization of the ACT UP/New York Records3. An Archival Cure: Remedy, Care, and Curation with the Visual AIDS Archive4. Status = Undetectable: Liminality and Archival Exhibitions in the Age of Survivability5. Going Viral: Mobilizing AIDS Archives in Digital CulturesEpilogue: How to Survive Another PlagueAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisDrug overdoses now kill more Americans annually than guns, cars or breast cancer. But we have tried to solve this national crisis with policies that only made matters worse. In the name of sending the right message, we have maximized the spread of infectious disease, torn families apart, incarcerated millions of mostly Black and Brown people-and utterly failed to either prevent addiction or make effective treatment for it widely available.There is another way, one that is proven to work. However, it runs counter to much of the received wisdom of our criminal and medical industrial complexes. It is called harm reduction. Developed and championed by an outcast group of people who use drugs and by former users and public health geeks, harm reduction offers guidance on how to save lives and improve health. And it provides a way of understanding behavior and culture that has relevance far beyond drugs.In a spellbinding narrative rooted in an urgent call to action, Undo

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Book SynopsisAn essential introduction to concepts of causation and causal inference that explores how our definitions of causes in epidemiology influence how we go about finding them and estimating their effects.A key goal of epidemiologic research is to uncover the causes of diseases and other health-related outcomes. But exactly what we mean by a cause and what types of phenomena qualify as causes, differ across historical periods, and is a contentious topic. The causal status of social phenomena has been, and continues to be, particularly precarious. In Causal Inference and the People''s Health, Sharon Schwartz and Seth J. Prins offer both a synthesis of the dominant school of thought around causality and propose an approach that keeps causal concepts as an organizing principle without marginalizing social phenomena. The authors examine the implications of the Causal Revolution,--introduced in epidemiology as the Potential Outcomes framework--which initiated a paradigm shift across the social sciences. As the authors show, this shift influences the questions we ask, the methods we use, the narratives we construct about our study results, and thus the knowledge we use to fight for the people''s health. The guiding principle of the Causal Revolution is simple but profound: researchers should specify if their goal is description, prediction, or causation. In other words, researchers should declare their causal goals even for observational studies. This principle not only produced important innovations, but it also reignited debates about the definition of causation, the causal status of important social constructs like class and gender, and the role of manipulation or intervention in causal inference. Interrogating these debates and embracing causal questions that identify and explain etiologic processes, Causal Inference and the People''s Health offers a path forward that expands causal inference to include social forces as causes of the people''s health, and therefore reinvigorates epidemiology''s historical role in targeting systems and structures for change.

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Book SynopsisPsychedelics have long been sanctioned as dangerous substances. Today, psychedelics are enjoying a new found appeal, even being idealized as wonder drugs. As part of the so-called psychedelic renaissance, reports abound about the benefits of these substances for remedying individual mental health issues and bringing about social change. Offering a critical view of these developments, Psychedelic Capitalism locates this renaissance in the context of corporate capture, medicalization, and the war on drugs. Wealthy entrepreneurs are investing billions in the psychedelics industry. Biotechnology firms are racing to capture intellectual property and monopolize psychedelic supply chains. Venture capitalists are leveraging the prospects of a lucrative mass market. Together, these actors are appropriating Indigenous knowledge and claiming ownership over substances that have been in the public domain for centuries. Brownlee and Walby ask if corporations and the medical establishment are suited to steward the mainstreaming of psychedelics, raising concerns with how the psychedelic renaissance is entrenching systems of inequality, limiting access and affordability, and increasing the reach of drug war surveillance and criminalization. Interrogating the consequences of psychedelic capitalism, the authors point to what could be gained from a just and equitable psychedelic future rooted in the public interest.

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Book SynopsisTom Feiling is an award-winning documentary film-maker. He spent a year living and working in Colombia before making Resistencia: Hip-Hop in Colombia, which won numerous awards at film festivals around the world, and was broadcast in four countries. In 2003 he became Campaigns Director for the TUC's Justice for Colombia campaign, which organizes for human rights in Colombia. This is his first book.Trade ReviewThe Candy Machine is highly addictive * Metro *It is hard to decide if Tom Feiling's future lies as a QC or the new Paul Theroux. He has written a vivid, argumentative, arresting book * The Sunday Telegraph *I've read a few documentary accounts of the rise of cocaine, and this might be the best of them. It's clear, sharp and solid. Very well told * Evening Standard *An important study of the cultivation, usage and suppression of cocaine * FT *A cracking read . . . Strong stuff, beautifully argued * Literary Review *

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Book SynopsisThe cigarette is the deadliest artifact in the history of human civilization. It is also one of the most beguiling, thanks to more than a century of manipulation at the hands of tobacco industry chemists. This title explores how the cigarette came to be the most widely-used drug on the planet, with six trillion sticks sold per year.Trade Review"Draws on previously confidential industry documents and Proctor's own experience as the first historian to testify in court about [industry] lies. What lies? How deep into the pleural linings did they go? All the way." Harper's Magazine "Lays out in head-shaking detail how a handful of companies painstakingly designed, produced, and mass-marketed the most lethal product on the planet." Mother Jones "[A] monumental and sobering indictment." Nature "Proctor documents a breadth and depth of the industry's duplicitous actions that is astounding." Science (AAAS) "A nearly 800-page book that begins as the Bible of the twentieth-century cigarette industry only to end as its millennial counterblaste." -- Joshua Cohen Harper's "Proctor challenges his readers to conceptualize a much happier and healthier world in which the manufacture and sale of cigarettes is prohibited." The Huffington Post "A landmark study in medicine and the history of science, and of an industry [Proctor] describes as 'evil.'" Toronto Globe & Mail "Proctor's extensive use of previously secret tobacco industry documents makes his case convincing, even compelling." -- Katherine E. Kenny Sociology/Science Studies, University of California San Diego Global Public Health "An invaluable reference for historians interested in the tobacco industry, health and medicine, or marketing in the twentieth century." -- Karen Miller Russell, University of Georgia Jrnl Of American History "A comprehensive and devastating account of tobacco industry perfidy in promoting the sale of its deadly cigarettes." -- Barron H. Lerner, New York University School of Medicine Bulletin Of The History Of Medicine "A historian's testimony on his own terms... Entertaining and hard-hitting." -- Carol Benedict, Georgetown University American Historical Review "Engaging, inexhaustible with information, and driven." Chronicle Of Higher Education "A passionate work and not for the faint of heart." American Journal Of Epidemiology "Proctor's book will be of great interest ... it debunks fraudulent industry claims past and present, provides credible arguments for banning cigarettes, and delineates steps to take before abolition is politically possible... For historians, Proctor's book particularly calls for serious conversation about ethics and best practices in our era of decreased public support of universities and rising dependence on corporate donors." -- Nan Enstad Journal of the History of MedicineTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Prologue Introduction: Who Knew What and When? PART ONE. The Triumph of the Cigarette 1. The Flue-Curing Revolution 2. Matches and Mechanization 3. War Likes Tobacco, Tobacco Likes War 4. Taxation:The Second Addiction 5. Marketing Genius Unleashed 6. Sponsoring Sports to Sell Smoke 7. Parties, the Arts, and Extreme Expeditions 8. Clouding the Web: Tobacco 2.0 PART TWO. Discovering the Cancer Hazard 9. Early Experimental Carcinogenesis 10. Roffo’s Foray and the Nazi Response 11. “Sold American”: Tobacco-Friendly Research at the Medical College of Virginia 12. A Most Feared Document: Claude E. Teague’s 1953 “Survey of Cancer Research” 13. “Silent Collaborators”: Clandestine Cancer Research Financed by Tobacco via the Damon Runyon Fund 14. Ecusta’s Experiments 15. Consensus, Hubris, and Duplicity PART THREE. Conspiracy on a Grand Scale 16. The Council for tobacco Research: Distraction Research, Decoy Research, Filibuster Research 17. Agnotology in Action 18. Measuring Ignorance: The Impact of Industry Disinformation on Popular Knowledge of Tobacco Hazards 19. Filter Flimflam 20. The Grand Fraud of Ventilation 21. Crack Nicotine: Freebasing to Augment a Cigarette’s “Kick” 22. The “Light Cigarette” Scam 23. Penetrating the Universities 24. Historians Join the Conspiracy PART FOUR. Radiant Filth and Redemption 25. What’s Actually in your Cigarette? 26. Radioactivity in Cigarette Smoke: “Three Mile Marlboro” and the Sleeping Giant 27. The Odd Business of Butts—and the Global Warming Wild Card 28. “Safer” Cigarettes? 29. Globalizing Death 30. What Must Be Done Notes Selected Bibliography Lexicon of Tobacco Industry Jargon Timeline of Global Tobacco Mergers and Acquisitions Timeline of Tobacco Industry Diversification into Candy, Food, Alcohol, and Other Products Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisThe exclusive, first-hand, behind-the-scenes story of how Pfizer raced to create the first Covid-19 vaccine, told by Pfizer's CEO Dr. Albert BourlaA riveting, fast-paced, inside look at one of the most incredible private sector achievements in history,Moonshotrecounts the intensive nine months in 2020 when the scientists at Pfizer, under the visionary leadership of Dr. Albert Bourla, made the impossible possiblecreating, testing, and manufacturing a safe and effective Covid-19 vaccine that previously would have taken years to develop.Dr. Bourla chronicles how the brilliant, dedicated minds at Pfizer, under the enormous strains of the global pandemic, overcame a series of crises that were compounded by social and political unrest, and reveals the doubts, decisions, obstacles, and failures they encountered. As Dr. Bourla makes clear, Pfizer's success wasn't due to luck; it was because of preparation driven by four simple valuesCourage, Excellence, Equity, and Joy.Moonshotis a story of le

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Book SynopsisThe central problem in the study of addiction is to explain why people repeatedly behave in ways they know are bad for them. For much of the previous century and until the present day, the majority of scientific and medical attempts to solve this problem were couched in terms of involuntary behavior; if people behave in ways they do not want, then this must be because the behavior is beyond their control and outside the realm of choice. An opposing tradition, which finds current support among scientists and scholars as well as members of the general public, is that so-called addictive behavior reflects an ordinary choice just like any other and that the concept of addiction is a myth. The editors and authors of this book tend to take neither view. There has been an increasing recognition in recent literature on addiction that restricting possible conceptions of it to either of these extreme positions is unhelpful and is retarding progress on understanding the nature of addiction and whTrade ReviewPsychologists, philosophers, behavioral scientists, neuroscientists, curious clinicians, and researchers with a wide array of interests would find something here to challenge them. This volume provides a thoughtful, comprehensive, and rewarding analysis of the dilemma of addiction where individuals seem enslaved and yet can break the bonds of this slavery. * Carlo DiClemente, PsyCRITIQUES *Table of ContentsSECTION I: INTRODUCTION; SECTION II: PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS; SECTION III: PERSPECTIVES FROM NEUROSCIENCE; SECTION IV: PERSPECTIVES FROM BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS AND COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY; SECTION V: IMPLICATIONS FOR TREATMENT, PREVENTION, AND PUBLIC HEALTH; SECTION VI IMPLICATIONS FOR THE PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF ADDICTION AND FOR LEGAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR ADDICTIVE BEHAVIOR; SECTION VII CONCLUSIONS

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Book SynopsisTimothy Donohue's diary chronicles four years of homeless existence from February of 1990 to December of 1994. Frequenting public libraries and renting typewriters, Donohue begins writing a journal in an effort to control his addiction.

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Book SynopsisThe HIV/AIDS epidemic has been a major catastrophe for gay communities. In less that two decades, the disease has profoundly altered their lives. This volume discusses the ways HIV/AIDS has changed collective and individual identities, and how our perceptions of the disease have been affected.

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Book SynopsisSociologist Neil Gong explains why mental health treatment in Los Angeles rarely succeeds, for the rich, the poor, and everyone in between. In 2022, Los Angeles became the US county with the largest population of unhoused people, drawing a stark contrast with the wealth on display in its opulentneighborhoods. In Sons, Daughters, and Sidewalk Psychotics, sociologist Neil Gong traces the divide between the haves and have-nots in the psychiatric treatment systems that shape the life trajectories of people living with serious mental illness. In the decades since the United States closed its mental hospitals in favor of non-institutional treatment, two drastically different forms of community psychiatric services have developed: public safety-net clinics focused on keeping patients housed and out of jail, and elite private care trying to push clients toward respectable futures. In Downtown Los Angeles, many people in psychiatric crisis only receive help after experiencing homelessnes

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Book SynopsisComplementary and Alternative Medicine is a sociological investigation of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in contemporary society, and an exploration of the forces throughout the globe, across different institutions, and within different therapeutic spaces, that constrain or foster alternative medicine.Drawing on 30 years of research, the book identifies the trends in the use of CAM and explores the scientific, political and social challenges that CAM faces in relation to orthodox medicine. The author examines the varieties of CAM practices and how they manifest in different institutional spaces including public inquiries, the orthodox medical practitioner's consulting room, medical journals and the homes of those who use CAM. It also compares unorthodox practices in different geo-political settings, namely the global north and the global south.This book is valuable reading for higher-level undergraduate and postgraduate social science students, Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction to complemenatary and alternative medicine and therapeutic pluralismChapter 2: State medicine, regulating practices and the creation of alternativesChapter 3: Disciplining and integrating practicesChapter 4: Adjusting to statist medicine and the manipulation of chiropracticChapter 5: Transformation, continuity and the ebb and flow of Chinese medicineChapter 6: Empire, tradition and the many therapeutic faces of IndiaChapter 7: The unregulated CAM user and the expansion of therapeutic possibilities Chapter 8: The fraught use of CAM in cancer careChapter 9: Incoherent forces: the disciplining and the unruliness of complementary and alternative therapies

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Book SynopsisIn the context of a growing criticism on the influence of the pharmaceutical industry on physicians, scientists, or politicians, Conflict of Interest and Medicine offers a comprehensive analysis of the conflict of interest in medicine anchored in the social sciences, with perspectives from sociology, history, political science, and law. Based on in-depth empirical investigations conducted within different territories (France, the European Union, and the United States) the contributions analyze the development of conflict of interest as a social issue and how it impacts the production of medical knowledge and expertise, physicians' work and their prescriptions, and also the framing of health crises and controversies. In doing so, they bring a new understanding of the transformations in the political economy of pharmaceutical knowledge, the politicization of public health risks, and the promotion of transparency in science and public life.Complementing the more noTable of ContentsIntroduction: Conflict of Interest and the Politics of BiomedicinePart 1. Knowledge and Expertise1. A Genealogy of Conflict of Interest 2. "Conflict of Interest" or Simply "Interest"? Shifting Values in Translational Medicine3. Managing Conflicts of Interest at the European Medicines Agency: Success or Weakness of the Soft Law Tools? 4. From the Management of Conflicts of Interest to the Transformation of Medical Experts’ Profiles. The Members of the Transparency Committee in France (2000–2020) Part 2. Physicians and the Framing of Prescription Practices5. Conflicts of Interest in Medical Practice: Causes and Cures 6. In Whose Best Interest? Framing Pharmacists’ and Physicians’ (Conflicts of) Interest in the French Market for Generic Drugs 7. The Politics of Industrial Transparency. Constructing a Database on the Pharmaceutical Funding of the Health Sector 8. Scientific Marketing and Conflict of Interest: Lessons From the Hormone Replacement Therapies (HRT) Crisis Part 3. Mobilizations and Controversies9. "This Corporation Has ‘Anesthetized’ the Actors in the Drug Chain". Influence Peddling and the Normality of Conflicts of Interest in the Mediator® Scandal 10. For Science, by Science. The Emergence and Circulation of Conflict of Interest as a Protest Repertoire to Fight Against Pesticides 11. Conflict of interest, Capture, Production of Ignorance, and Hegemony: Conceptualizing the Influence of Corporate Interests on Public Health Postface: Conflict of Interest, Industry Hegemony and Key Opinion Leader Management

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Book SynopsisThis volume examines the shift toward positive and more accurate portrayals of mental illness in entertainment media, asking where these succeed and considering where more needs to be done. With studies that identify and analyze the characters, viewpoints, and experiences of mental illness across film and television, it considers the messages conveyed about mental illness and reflects on how the different texts reflect, reinforce, or challenge sociocultural notions regarding mental illness. Presenting chapters that explore a range of texts from film and television, covering a variety of mental health conditions, including autism, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and more, this book will appeal to scholars of sociology, cultural and media studies, and mental health.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Why depictions of mental illness matter 2."Remember what Dr. Lopez said": Portrayals of mental health care in Nickelodeon’s The Loud House 3."And I suffer from short-term memory loss": Understanding presentations of mental health in Pixar’s Finding Nemo and Finding Dory through communication theory of identity 4.Family narratives and mental illness in This is Us 5.Cognitive differences in Star Trek: The case and evolution of Reginald Barclay 6.Popular culture and the (mis)representation of Asperger’s: A study on the sitcoms Community and The Big Bang Theory 7.Psychopath, Sociopath, or Autistic: Labeling and framing the brilliance of Sherlock Holmes 8.When Saga Norén meets neurotypicality: A liminal encounter along The Bridge 9.The Girl on the Swing: An analysis of cues and depression in Joe Wright’s Pride and Prejudice (2005) 10.Depictions of depression and eating disorders in My Mad Fat Diary 11."Portraying real feelings with comedy on top": Postpartum depression storylines and domestic sitcoms 12.Ruby Wax: Comedy, celebrity capital, and (re)presentations of mental illness 13.Post-traumatic stress disorder in the films Taxi Driver and You Were Never Really Here: A comparative progressive approach 14.Bipolar and Shameless: Showtime’s portrayal of living and working with bipolar disorder 15.Wrestling with eating disorders: Transmedia depictions of body issues in WWE’s women’s professional wrestling 16.Conclusion: Destigmatizing mental illness and neurodiversity in entertainment media

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Book SynopsisA global history of the acquisition of progressively more potent means of altering ordinary waking consciousness, this book is the first to provide the big picture of the discovery, interchange, and exploitation of the planet’s psychoactive resources, from tea and kola to opiates and amphetamines.Trade ReviewThis book offers a fascinating, entertaining, and perceptive account of how politics, profit, and pleasure have shaped contemporary attitudes about psychoactive substances… In Forces of Habit [Courtwright] reviews, with calm reason and humor, histories of the use and abuse of a complete spectrum of psychoactive substances including alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, opiates, cannabis, cocaine, and hallucinogens… Courtwright presents a fresh and discerning discussion of contemporary issues and problems surrounding both illicit and legalized drugs. -- Jack H. Mendelson * Science *Courtwright tackles every one of the so-called psychoactive drugs. Some might find his scope surprising. Drugs are divided roughly into two kinds, ‘hard’ and ‘soft.’ Heroin and cocaine are hard, cannabis and ecstasy soft. Most people recognize that alcohol and tobacco are also drugs, but don’t think about them much. Still less do they consider the everyday drugs they indulge in. Courtwright does and includes them: tea, chocolate, coffee and coca. All over the world, people discovered natural substances that affected consciousness. Then came international trade in some drugs. It had immense social effects, good and bad. Courtwright writes engagingly and with humor, not discouraged by the daunting field he has to cover. -- Roy Herbert * New Scientist *A global history of the acquisition of progressively more potent means of altering ordinary waking consciousness, this book is the first to provide the big picture of the discovery, interchange, and exploitation of the planet’s psychoactive resources, from tea and kola to opiates and amphetamines. * African Sun Times *While we are very used to thinking of illegal drugs as destructive, historian David Courtwright vividly demonstrates…that most of these psychoactive substances have exacted and still exact a heavy toll… Courtwright, a historian who has written earlier admired books examining illegal drugs and the nature of violence in America, describes the rise of the global drug trade, discusses why some drugs are more popular than others, and then considers the intersection of drugs and political and economic power… What then caused the commercial and political leaders of the western world, who were profiting so wonderfully from the psychoactive revolution to reconsider their avid promotion of these products? In a phrase: the industrial revolution. As Courtwright so succinctly puts it, ‘A drunken field hand was one thing, a drunken railroad brakeman quite another.’ -- Jill Jonnes * Baltimore Sun *Why is tobacco legal and marijuana illegal? What is the difference between nations using alcohol to lure natives into questionable transactions, and drug dealers selling their products in dark corners (or broad daylight)? David Courtwright’s illuminating history of drugs in the modern world will shock and surprise readers who still believe that only criminals use—and want—drugs. -- Lee Milazzo * Dallas Morning News *[Courtwright’s] clearly written, thoughtful book…is unique in its broad scope… There is a lot to keep straight in this readable account. Though not a comprehensive history of drugs, it is good at identifying the trends and patterns from about the sixteenth century that have brought about Courtwright’s ‘psychoactive revolution.’ This is the book to go to when planning an assault on Jeopardy! -- Barbara Liss * Houston Chronicle *[This book] couldn’t be more timely arriving amid challenges to national drug policy… [It] is refreshingly evenhanded, potentially enlightening both to legalization proponents and those who consider tough anti-drug laws a moral imperative. Compact, quick-paced and witty… Forces of Habit is a thorough chronicle of a vast, complicated problem. Readers who think they know the solution to the drug dilemma are likely to come away with a better understanding of what a mess it really is. -- Katy Read * Minneapolis Star-Tribune *[With] entertaining details…[Courtwright’s] lively writing spices up a serious take on a grave subject. While Courtwright sees licit substances like tea and illegal heavy-hitters like cocaine as two ends of the same spectrum, he’s by no means trying to minimize the dangers of drugs. Rather, he wants to lay out the history clearly—perhaps partly hoping that if policy setters understand how drug use spread so widely and deeply, they’ll be better equipped to fight it. -- Polly Shulman * Newsday *Alcohol joins caffeine and tobacco to round out what Courtwright calls the ‘big three’ of currently legal psychoactive drugs. As he sees it, modern civilization is practically unthinkable without this trio. But why have they fared so well while equally intoxicating substances—like, say, marijuana—are banned and stigmatized, and others—like kava, khat and betel—are popular only in distinct geographic areas? And why is tobacco currently falling in popularity, while alcohol and caffeine are holding their grip on us? These questions are only partly answered in Courtwright’s otherwise excellent book, but that’s not really his fault. Drugs are as deceptive and multifaceted as the human beings whose metabolisms they mess with; a history of drugs may be possible, but an analysis of their role in culture is bound to be incomplete and provisional. There are simply too many ways to tell the story… Courtwright’s historical investigation is solid and fascinating. -- Maria Russo * Salon *Forces of Habit offers an ambitious interpretation of a challenging topic: the evolution of drug use and drug policy through time and across continents. Happily, it does this with no axe to grind. Most books in this genre that transcend the purely descriptive adopt a sensationalistic muckraking tone untroubled by coherence, let alone analysis… In refreshing contrast, David Courtwright has produced a serious book about a serious topic, and it is a fun read to boot. His explanation of how we got to where we are with drugs succeeds in large measure by focusing on the commonalities across different substances. The central insight of this book is that when viewed from a broad perspective, most psychoactive substances have similar histories. -- Jonathan P. Caulkins * Issues in Science and Technology *A penetrating study of what the author deems one of the most significant events in world history: the ‘psychoactive revolution’… Courtwright traces the origins of [psychoactive] substances, showing how political and economic forces have combined to ‘transform the everyday consciousness of billions of people and, eventually, the environment itself.’ His tale is endlessly fascinating, with oddments enough to enliven a thousand dissertations and cocktail parties… He has succeeded admirably in a book likely to become a standard. * Kirkus Reviews *In this engaging study, [Courtwright] shows how body- and mind-altering plants and their byproducts, as well as synthetic compounds, have also radically changed agriculture, commerce, religion, law and government as ‘drug cultivation and manufacturing’ have become big business. His argument is founded on an intriguing and encyclopedic array of information… In his discussions of the attempts and failures to do away with these substances…Courtwright’s exhaustive details cohere in a complex portrait of how psychoactive substances are not only part of human experience but, in many ways, fundamental to our view of civilization. * Publishers Weekly *Whether talking about America or China, caffeine or nicotine, Antiquity or Modernity, Courtwright has a sureness of touch and a completeness of information which are consistently impressive. His book is geographically and chronologically comprehensive. Forces of Habit is beautifully written in a controlled, easy, fluent style. This book should be of interest to a wide range of scholarly and lay readers in the fields of history, medicine, health-policy, politics, legal studies, international relations. There is no other book like it. -- Roy Porter, author of Creation of the Modern WorldCourtwright underlines the contingent and historical aspect of the circumstances that have allowed some psychoactive substances to be defined as licit and the others as illicit. The book covers an enormous range of material, time, and place. Courtwright has a good eye for the telling incident or policy reflection. Coherent and comprehensive. -- Charles E. Rosenberg, University of PennsylvaniaTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Psychoactive Revolution Part I: The Confluence of Psychoactive Resources 1. The Big Three: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Caffeine 2. The Little Three: Opium, Cannabis, and Coca

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Book SynopsisHealth care costs make up nearly a fifth of U.S. gross domestic product, but health care is a peculiar thing to buy and sell. Both a scarce resource and a basic need, it involves physical and emotional vulnerability and at the same time it operates as big business. Patients have little choice but to trust those who provide them care, but even thoseTrade ReviewOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015 "This book is an important resource for academic audiences and professionals in the health disciplines as well as those in the social sciences."--Choice "Kudos to Adam Reich for this well-researched book! Students of medical sociology, as well as health management and policy, will find Selling Our Souls useful."--Okori Uneke, Ph.D., International Social Science Review "Reich has written an excellent book."--Hengameh Hosseini, Political Science QuarterlyTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 PART ONE PubliCare Rebuffs the Market 19 Chapter 1 Health Care for All 26 Chapter 2 Privileged Servants 48 Chapter 3 Feels Like Home 59 PART TWO HolyCare Moralizes the Market 71 Chapter 4 Sacred Encounters 78 Chapter 5 Good Business 95 Chapter 6 The Martyred Heart 109 PART THREE GroupCare Tames the Market 123 Chapter 7 Flourishing 127 Chapter 8 Disciplined Doctors 147 Chapter 9 PARTnership 171 Conclusion 189 Acknowledgments 199 A Note on Methods 201 Notes 205 Bibliography 213 Index 221

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Book SynopsisEducator Patti Lather and psychologist Chris Smithies observed and chronicled support groups for women diagnosed with HIV. Whether black, Latina, poor, or middle class, the women in these groups share the common bond of living with HIV/AIDS, and they describe how it affects their lives in terms full of practical reality and moving poignancy, as they fight the disease, accept, reflect, live and die with and in it.Table of ContentsPreface 1 The Book -- Preface 2 The Women and the Support Group Meetings -- Life After Diagnosis -- “I’m Gonna Die from Stress, Not HIV” -- “Living with a Time Bomb” -- “Full Blown AIDS Had Came”: Lori -- “I Got Another Wake-Up Call”: Lina B -- “I’ve Got Some Stories That Would Curl Your Hair” -- “And I Didn’t Even Pay My Income Taxes”: Amber -- AIDS and Angels: A Cloudy Place -- Relationships -- “The Phony Stuff: You Don’t Want to Go Through It Anymore” -- “I’m Not Close-Mouthed at All”: A Daughter -- “I Don’t Have Fifty Years to Be a Mother”: Lisa -- “Love and Prayers, Mom”: Linda B -- “I’m a Sexy Momma” -- The Angel of History: AIDS as a Global Crisis -- Making Meaning -- “I Don’t Know Have to File It Away That This Has Happened to Us” -- “I’d Probably Be Dead if It Wasn’t for HIV” -- Angelology: A History of Truths -- Living/Dying with AIDS -- “We Are the Teachers” -- “A Greater Risk of Hope”: CR and Linda B -- “We Had a Real Nice Life”: Louisa -- Death Makes Angels of Us All -- Support Groups -- “It’s Taken Me Years to Get Here” -- “We’re Supposed to Be a Support Group” -- “Seize the Day”: Lori -- An Ache of Wings: The Social Challenge of AIDS -- Epilogue -- Troubled Reading: Our Bodies, This Book, This Fire -- Demographic Data (At Time of Group Interviews) -- "Time to Go Home":Holley

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Book SynopsisThe Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Reproduction is a comprehensive overview of the topics, approaches, and trajectories in the anthropological study of human reproduction. The book brings together work from across the discipline of anthropology, with contributions by established and emerging scholars in archaeological, biological, linguistic, and sociocultural anthropology. Across these areas of research, consideration is given to the contexts, conditions, and contingencies that mark and shape the experiences of reproduction as always gendered, classed, and racialized. Over 39 chapters, a diverse range of international scholars cover topics including: Reproductive governance, stratification, justice, and freedom. Fertility and infertility. Technologies and imaginations. Queering reproduction. Pregnancy, childbirth, and reproductive loss. Postpartum and infanTrade Review"This book expertly guides us through the intricacies of reproduction as a complex entanglement of biocultural, biographical and historically situated practices, in which relationships of unequal power and violence, as well as care and kinship are forged. The editors have showcased the astonishing breadth of topics that are centred on reproduction, from socio-cultural, evolutionary, linguistic, political, medical, technological and intersectional perspectives. The book will appeal to students and scholars at all levels with an interest in reproduction and I highly recommend it – even established experts will encounter new knowledge and will be inspired to broaden their thinking about reproduction beyond the confines of their own disciplinary imperatives and experiences. The book also has much to offer those who work to set policy and practices which relate, directly and indirectly, to reproduction. If clinicians, legislators, as well as those who determine public health policy, were to engage with the evidence and arguments so cogently presented in this book then perhaps the subject of reproduction could take its rightful place at the core of our everyday values, practices, and human rights." - Rebecca Gowland in Childhood in the Past Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I Opening conversations in reproduction 1. Conceiving Reproduction in Biological Anthropology 2. Developmental Origins of Health and Disease: Evidence, Proposed Mechanisms, and Ideas for Future Applications 3. Men and Reproduction: Perspectives from Biological Anthropology 4. Conceiving of Reproduction in Archaeology Part II Governance, stratification, justice, and freedom 5. Reproduction and the State 6. The Necropolitics of Reproduction: Racism, Resistance, and the Sojourner Syndrome in the Age of the Movement for Black Lives 7. Reproductive Governance in Practice: A Comparison of State-Provided Reproductive Health Care in Cuba and the United States 8. Reproduction through Revolution: Maoist Women’s Struggle for Equity in Post-Development Nepal 9. Policy, Governance, Practice: Global Perspectives on Abortion 10. Sterile Choices: Racialized Women, Reproductive Freedom, and Social Justice Part III Making fertility 11. Menstruation: Causes, Consequences, and Context 12. Menstruation: Sociocultural Perspectives 13. Infertility, In Vitro Fertilization, and Fertility Preservation: Global Perspectives 14. Global IVF and Local Practices: The Case of Ghana 15. Eggs 16. Surrogacy Part IV Queering reproduction 17. The Racial Contours of Queer Reproduction 18. Invisible Hands: The Reproductivities of Queer(ing) and Race(ing) Gynecology Part V Made and unmade: Personhood and reproduction 19. "Personhood" in the Anthropology of Reproduction 20. Prenatal Screening and Diagnosis 21. Navigating Reproductive Losses 22. Reproduction in the Past: A Bioarchaeological Exploration of the Fetus and Its Significance Part VI Pregnancy 23. Pregnancy and the Anthropology of Reproduction 24. Bringing Language into the Anthropology of Reproduction: The Text and Talk of Pregnancy 25. From Couvade to "Men’s Involvement": Sociocultural Perspectives of Expectant Fatherhood Part VII Birth 26. The Obstetrical Dilemma Revisited--Revisited 27. There Is No Evolutionary "Obstetrical Dilemma" 28. Midwifery in Cross-Cultural Perspectives 29. Doulas: Negotiating Boundaries in Birth 30. Rituals and Rites of Childbirth across Cultures 31. Making Dignified Care the Norm: Examining Obstetric Violence and Reproductive Justice in Kenya 32. Maternal Mortality Part VIII Postpartum and infant care 33. Making Space for Lactation in the Anthropology of Reproduction 34. The Bioarchaeology of Infant Feeding 35. Biocultural Perspectives on Infant Sleep Part IX Care as reproducing kinship 36. Menopause 37. The Shifting Role of Grandmothers in Global Reproduction Strategies 38. Alloparenting: Evolutionary Origins and Contemporary Significance of Cooperative Childrearing as a Key Feature of Human Reproduction 39. Adoption and Fostering Glossary

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Book SynopsisGlobalization is a form of social change, reshaping the socio-spatial milieu in which humans strive, and in which health and disease are managed and controlled. And yet the effects of globalization are distributed unevenly, with opportunities open for some but not for all.Globalization, Health and the Global South is an important textbook for any student of this fascinating area. Examining the dynamics of globalization through the lens of the Global South, it highlights risks and vulnerabilities that affect different regions and contexts, exacerbating inequalities despite the continuing speed of global processes. The books takes a critical approach to the topic, offering readers a deep understanding of health discourses and discusses a range of key topics, including migrant health, the role of politics and diplomacy and the Coronavirus pandemic.Including further reading and end of chapter discussion questions, this essential textbook will be important reading Trade ReviewGiven the multidisciplinary character of globalisation and health, this textbook could be of use to a number of students in different disciplines from health social sciences to areas such as public health, bioethics and epidemiology. As an undergraduate student in International Relations and Development, this textbook would have served me well as an introduction to globalisation, encouraging me to take a critical approach to consider the myriad of factors that influence health. The final two chapters, Global Health Targets and the Global South and Global Health Initiatives in the Global South would be of particular interest to anyone studying in a similar field . . . The real strength of this textbook is its ability to explain sophisticated ideas in an accessible way, encouraging critical reflection from the reader. Overall, an excellent addition to many students' bookshelves, providing rich ground for interdisciplinary enquiry into globalisation and health. Sociology of Health and IllnessTable of Contents1.Conceptualizing Globalization and Health. 2.Many Faces of Globalization of Health. 3.Understanding Social and Global Determinants of Health. 4.Globalization and Health: A Theoretical Lens. 5.Globalization and the Rise of Noncommunicable Diseases in the Global South. 6.Globalization and Infectious Diseases in the Global South. 7.Globalization and Health: The Case of Coronavirus of 2019. 8.Global Health Politics and Diplomacy. 9.Globalization and Migrants' Health: A Global South Perspective. 10.Global Health Targets and Healthcare Situation in the Global South. 11.Global Health Initiatives in the Global South

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Book SynopsisWhen originally published in 1988, this book presented new evidence of inequalities in health found among communities in different areas of the North of England. It relates this evidence to long-term trends taking place in patterns of health in Britain as a whole and explores how far health inequalities can be explained by variations in material deprivation. The book provides a detailed examination of the correlation between health and wealth, or ill-health and deprivation in Britain in the 20th century but the book has an enduring relevance as the Covid Pandemic has once again shown that regional disparities in wealth have profound outcomes for health. The book is of significance for health professionals, social services and those planner and politicians concerned with levelling up.

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Book SynopsisAn understanding of the social sciences within infection prevention and control (IPC) is important for those working in health and social care. This new book, Infection Prevention and Control: A Social Science Perspective positions the specialty of IPC as more than a technical discipline concerned with microbes. It is about people and their behaviour in context and the book therefore explores a number of relevant social sciences and their relationship to IPC across different contexts and cultures. IPC is relevant to every person who works in, and accesses health care and it remains a global challenge. Exploring novel approaches and perspectives that expand our collective horizons in an ever changing and evolving IPC landscape therefore makes sense.Key Features: Offers new perspectives beyond the topic area of infection prevention and control, to push the frontiers of knowledge and to challenge the status quo Interprofessional in nature and relevantTable of ContentsPart 1: Psychosocial Perspectives Chapter 1: Psychosocial theories and approaches: Their impact upon infection prevention and controlChapter 2: The psychosocial nature of infection prevention and controlChapter 3: The concept of truthPart 2: Leadership PerspectivesChapter 4: Leadership and influence in infection prevention and control Chapter 5: Power and compliance within infection prevention and control practiceChapter 6: Patient safety, governance, leadership and infection prevention and controlChapter 7: Communicating with compassion: service user perspectivesChapter 8: The weaponising of IPC and its heart breaking consequencesChapter 9: Why do we choose to work in infection prevention and control?Part 3: Real world perspectivesChapter 10: Human factors engineering in infection prevention and controlChapter 11: How we talk about infection prevention and hand hygiene matters for behaviour change Chapter 12: Do campaigns make you anxious: A focus on unintended consequencesChapter 13: Educating, engaging, campaigning – social media as an adjunct to infection prevention and controlChapter 14: Unshackling infectiousness and dismantling stigma: Gay men and HIVChapter 15: Physician Associates and their role in reducing the transmission of infection - a personal perspectiveChapter 16: Infection prevention and control in healthcare-built environmentsChapter 17: Musings on philosophy and infection prevention and control

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Book SynopsisAnthropology of Reproduction: The Basics is a clear and accessible guide to topics in reproduction from the perspective of anthropology, emphasizing the central importance of reproduction in human sociocultural and biological experience. It examines why reproduction matters so much to human beings and what anthropology offers to better understand their decisions about having or not having children, and their experiences with periods, infertility, contraception, abortion, pregnancy, pregnancy loss, birth, and care for children. The book shows that all of reproduction is shaped by our evolution, prehistory and history, as well as the cultural, social, political, and economic contexts and conditions that impact our lives. It tells the story of how these conditions enable, support, constrain or coerce reproduction and how people around the world survive or thrive within, comply with, or resist against these forces to create their reproductive futures. Its primary goals are to pr

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Book SynopsisStigma and discrimination of people with substance use disorders (SUD) contribute massively to the harm done by their condition: stigma has negative effects on service engagement, life opportunities, and personal shame, both for those who struggle with substance abuse and their families. Overcoming the stigma of substance use disorders is essential to aid recovery in those with SUD. This book provides an in-depth understanding of the stigma of SUD, and proposes ways to overcome it in different settings from the criminal justice system to healthcare. Combining a multitude of viewpoints within a consistent theoretical framework, this book both summarizes the latest evidence and gives hands-on advice and future directions on how to combat the stigma of SUD. People with lived experience of SUD, advocates, family members, policy makers, providers and researchers in the field of addiction stigma will greatly benefit from reading this book.Trade Review'Although those afflicted are at high risk of being discriminated against, substance use disorders have been neglected by stigma research for far too long. It is to the editors' credit that they have gathered an impressive group of scholars and people with lived experience, who provide a broad and in-depth analysis of substance use stigma, and how to overcome it.' Matthias C. Angermeyer, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, University of Leipzig, Germany'Schomerus and Corrigan's new book provides a comprehensive, deeply thoughtful, consideration of stigma as it applies to substance use disorders. Its central point is that, rather than controlling substance use through shame and punishment, stigma represents an enormous impediment, blocking wise policy and impeding recovery.' Bruce Link, Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Public Policy, University of California, Riverside, USA'This may be the one of the most salient descriptions of stigma that I have ever read. From the individual depths of self-stigma to the crushing weight and oppression of structural stigma, the authors wield a clear grasp of corrosive nature of societal response to the challenge presented by substance use disorder. Protest, contact, and education are strategies that make good, common sense, and are tenets that any recovery insurgent could live by.' Philip Rutherford, Chief Operating Officer at Faces & Voices of Recovery, USATable of Contents1. Understanding the stigma of substance use disorders; 2. My experience with the stigma of substance use; 3. Substance use stigma and policy; 4. Experiences of stigma and criminal in/justice among people who use substances; 5. Substance use disorders, stigma, and ethics; 6. Intersectional stigma in substance use disorders; 7. International perspectives on stigma towards people with substance use disorders 8. Using community-based participatory research to address the stigma of substance use disorder; 9. Three competing agendas of addressing stigma of substance use disorder; 10. The benefits of disclosure; 11. The role of peers in SUD stigma change: a personal perspective; 12. The role of media reporting for substance use stigma; 13. Reducing substance use stigma in health care; 14. Final considerations and future directions for erasing the stigma of substance use disorders.

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Book SynopsisThe human right to healthcare has had a remarkable rise. It is found in numerous international treaties and national constitutions, it is litigated in courtrooms across the globe, it is increasingly the subject of study by scholars across a range of disciplines, andperhaps most importantlyit serves as an inspiring rallying cry for health justice activists throughout the world. However, though increasingly accepted as a principle, the historical roots of this right remain largely unexplored. To Heal Humankind: The Right to Health in History fills that gap, combining a sweeping historical scope and interdisciplinary synthesis. Beginning with the Age of Antiquity and extending to the Age of Trump, it analyzes how healthcare has been conceived and provided as both a right and a commodity over time and space, examining the key historical and political junctures when the right to healthcare was widened or diminished in nations around the globe.To Heal Humankind Trade Review"I can’t imagine a more timely or urgent book. Adam Gaffney’s excellent To Heal Humankind is a sweeping account of a simple moral idea: that every human being deserves the right to live a healthy, dignified life. Gaffney is a medical doctor, yet he writes like a novelist and researches like an historian. This book will be required reading and will confirm Gaffney’s role as one of our most valued public voices." - Greg Grandin, New York University, and author of The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World"Adam Gaffney has written the most important book yet on the right to health, its history, and its future. With breathtaking scholarship and activist values that reflect his passionate work to improve access to care, this masterpiece traces health as a human right to its ancient origins and through each phase of its turbulent history throughout the world, to the present period of debate and struggle. Gaffney moves far beyond prior efforts, and the book will become a classic that will grip the attention of anyone concerned about the right to health for years to come." - Howard Waitzkin, University of New Mexico, and author of Medicine and Public Health at the End of EmpireTable of ContentsIntroductionChapter I. Health, Rights, and Welfare: Antiquity to the Early Modern EraChapter II: Enlightenment and Revolution: The Rights—and the Health—of ManChapter III: Public Health, Social Medicine, and Industrial CapitalismChapter IV: Blood and Iron and Health Insurance: Towards the Modern EraChapter V: The Rhetoric and Reality of Health Rights in Depression and WarChapter VI: Postwar: Health and Death in the Cold WarChapter VII: The Right to Health in the Age of NeoliberalismConclusion

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Book SynopsisThe Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization explores the nature of contemporary malaises, diseases, illnesses and psychosomatic syndromes, examining the manner in which they are related to cultural pathologies of the social body. Multi-disciplinary in approach, the book is concerned with questions of how these conditions are not only manifest at the level of individual patients'' bodies, but also how the social ''bodies politic'' are related to the hegemony of reductive biomedical and individual-psychologistic perspectives. Rejecting a reductive, biomedical and individualistic diagnosis of contemporary problems of health and well-being, The Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization contends that many such problems are to be understood in the light of radical changes in social structures and institutions, extending to deep crises in our civilization as a whole. Rather than considering such conditions in isolation - both from one another and from broader contexts - this bTrade Review’Drawing on the humanities and social sciences, this rich and interesting collection challenges the hegemony of reductive psychological and biomedical accounts of illness and emotional disorder under today’s globalized neoliberal capitalism.’ Dick Houtman, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands ’Few academics would feel comfortable with using the term civilization to define contemporary social and cultural complexes, and many would be suspicious, with good reason, of any attempt to use medical language in the investigation of their ills. However, this collection of papers courageously grasps the nettle in giving close interrogations to aspects of contemporary human experience and its unease in health and well-being, experience of selfhood and moral fluidity. Individual chapters in the book re-examine our vocabulary of social pathology and malaise with reference to cutting edge multi-disciplinary themes and bring us up to date with current anti-reductionist discourses in topics as diverse as psychiatry and the household economy. The painstaking level of conceptual analysis on display here should make any reader confident that the pathologies of civilization can be re-examined in very contemporary and innovative ways.’ Jeff Vass, University of Southampton, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction, Kieran Keohane and Anders Petersen; Part I Social Pathologies: Addressing the Question: The notion of social pathology: a case study of Narcissus in American society, Alain Ehrenberg; The social pathologies of contemporary civilization: meaning-giving experiences and pathological expectations concerning health and suffering, Arpad Szakolczai; Modernity as spiritual disorder: searching for a vocabulary of social pathologies in the work of Eric Voegelin, Bjørn Thomassen. Part II Social Pathologies: Contemporary Malaises: The value of houses in the libidinal economy: financialization as social pathogenesis, Kieran Keohane; Depression: resisting ultra-liberalism?, Bert van den Bergh; The pathologization of morality, Svend Brinkmann; The multiple self: a social pathology?, Annalisa Porfilio; Possible explanations for increasing antidepressant treatment in modern society, Margrethe Nielsen and Gunnar Scott Reinbacher. Part III Social Pathologies: Biopower, Subjectification and Civilization: Does society still matter? Mental health and illness and the social sciences in the 21st century, Pia Ringø; Evaluations as a process of disenfranchisement, Anders Petersen and Rasmus Willig; Schismogenesis, liminality and public health, Agnes Horvath; Index.

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Book SynopsisIncreasingly, we question what makes us healthy?', as well as what makes us ill?'. What does this shift mean for frailty? Almost wholly defined in negative terms, the term frail' tends to refer to a group of older people who are at highest risk of adverse outcomes such as falls, infections, disability, admission to hospital or the need for long-term care. This ground-breaking book takes a holistic approach to frailty. It connects the medical literature with the wider social science discourse on ageing, and focuses on promoting wellbeing and the building up of strengths.Living with Frailty draws together the latest biomedical evidence and good practice in this emerging area and explores ideas about assets and resilience, the role of society and the social model of disability in relation to frailty, arguing that insufficient attention is paid to positive action such as developing bone strength, maintaining good nutrition and exercising. Chapters look at: <Table of ContentsForeword I (Ken Rockwood) Foreword II (Adam Gordon) Chapter 1 Frailty: from awareness to identity Chapter 2 Living well with frailty: from identity to care Chapter 3 Evidence-based practice in frailty: falls and activity Chapter 4 Surgical outcomes, cognitive frailty and delirium Chapter 5 Sarcopenia and frailty Chapter 6 Interventions in frailty care and enhancing independence Chapter 7 Person-centred integrated care and end of life Afterword

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Book SynopsisOne of the founders of the posthumanities, Donna J. Haraway is professor in the History of Consciousness program at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Author of many books and widely read essays, including the now-classic essay The Cyborg Manifesto, she received the J.D. Bernal Prize in 2000, a lifetime achievement award from the Society for Social Studies in Science.Thyrza Nicholas Goodeve is a professor of Art History at the School of Visual Arts. Trade Review"If Modest_Witness was a revelation twenty years ago when it was first published, it is essential reading now. We need this book to understand all that has become even more urgent, even more confounding and even more important. It is also a book that reveals how essential is the feminist engagement with science, one that encompasses questions of race and the history of colonialism for scholarship that remains ground-breaking and path-making." -Inderpal Grewal, Yale University"Brava all over again! A true classic---requisite for beginners, deeply provocative at third reading. Leading with humor and politics, Haraway marks a transformation of our planet and sustains her project of revisioning its futures. A brilliant new introduction situates Modest_Witness and clarifies Haraway’s incisive and sorely needed conceptual universe." -Adele E. Clarke, University of California, San Francisco, USA"From one of our most visionary contemporary thinkers, here is your guide to the New World Order of Technoscience. In this timely re-issue of Haraway’s intensely interesting, incisive, and inspiring exploration of what happens to life and living when technology becomes the beating heart of science, we learn how to ask the urgent questions. As genes and chips implode modernity’s defining distinctions—between nature and culture, science and society, technology and politics—what will guide and ground our ability to collectively think and live together? When a rodent can be both intellectual property and a model for breast cancer, who lives and dies and how, and what kin shall we keep? Who is the ‘we’—the collective—that will live these lives, and die these deaths? Haraway’s is a plea for a less-literal minded and more imaginative understanding of what is at stake in these powerful world making practices of modern biology. The task is critical. In a time when the bits and bytes of our bodies—our blood, tissue and DNA—are the site of massive worldly transformations, Haraway powerfully argues for the urgency of a civic biology, a biology which capacitates us to ask the formative questions."--Jenny Reardon, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNothing Comes Without Its World: Donna J. Haraway in conversation with Thryza Nicols GoodevePart OneSyntactics: The Grammar of Feminism and TechnosciencePart TwoSemantics: Modest_Witness@Second_Millenium.FemaleMan_Meets_OncoMouse™1 Modest_Witness@Second_Millenium2 FemaleMan_Meets_OncoMouse™Mice into Wormholes: A Technoscience Fugue in Two Parts3 A Family ReunionPart ThreePragmatics: Technoscience in Hypertext4 Gene: Maps and Portraits of Life Itself5 Fetus: The Virtual Speculum in the New World Order6 Race: Universal Donors in a Vampire Culture7 Facts, Witnesses, and ConsequencesStudy GuideNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisArt Therapy for Social Justice seeks to open a conversation about the cultural turn in art therapy to explore the critical intersection of social change and social justice. By moving the practice of art therapy beyond standard individualized treatment models, the authors promote scholarship and dialogue that opens boundaries; they envision cross disciplinary approaches with a focus on intersectionality through the lens of black feminism, womanism, antiracism, queer theory, disability studies, and cultural theory. In particular, specific programs are highlighted that re-conceptualize art therapy practice away from a focus on pathology towards models of caring based on concepts of self-care, radical caring, hospitality, and restorative practice methodologies. Each chapter takes a unique perspective on the concept of care that is invested in wellbeing. The authors push the boundaries of what constitutes art in art therapy, re-conceptualizing notions of care and wellbeing as anTrade Review"Scholars, researchers, educators, and practicing art therapists require a new paradigm. By centralizing the voices of women and art therapists of color, Talwar complicates who art therapy is practiced by and who art therapy is for. Included are theoretical perspectives from a range of disciplines providing a foundation to move the field forward."Yasmine J. Awais, MAAT, ATR-BC, ATCS, LCAT, LPC, Assistant Clinical Professor, College of Nursing and Health Professions, Drexel University"Talwar brings together the voices of art therapists who give shape and meaning to the ‘cultural turn’ in art therapy. Their radical intersections offer colleagues across the arts therapies a language with which to claim and encourage practices centered on social justice, self-reflexivity, care, and wellbeing."Nisha Sajnani, PhD, RDT-BCT, Associate Professor and Director, Drama Therapy Program, New York University "Talwar’s book is timely—art therapy urgently needs to expand notions of helping beyond the therapy room. She and the contributing authors challenge traditional models of pathology and ‘art as healing,’ urge practitioners to question theories and practices that support unjust systems, and motivate the construction of new models of care that examine structures of oppression impacting those we serve. This is inspiring and passionate scholarship and some of the best writing on social justice I’ve seen."Donna Kaiser, PhD, past Executive Editor, Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy AssociationTable of ContentsSection 1: Theoretical Framework 1. Beyond Multiculturalism and Cultural Competence: A Social Justice Vision in Art Therapy Talwar 2. Critiquing Art Therapy: History, Science, and Representation Talwar 3. Identity Matters: Questioning Trauma and Violence Through Art, Performance, and Social Practice Talwar 4. Intersectional Reflexivity: Considering Identities and Accountability for Art Therapists Talwar, Clinton, Sit, and Ospina 5. Envisioning Black Women’s Consciousness in Art Therapy Gipson Section 2: Praxis: Public Therapeutics and Art Therapy 6. "‘You Want To Be Well?’: Self-Care as a Black Feminist Intervention in Art Therapy" Tillet and Tillet 7. Radical Caring and Art Therapy: Decolonizing Immigration and Gender Violence Services Ravichandran 8. Res(Crip)ting Art Therapy: Disability Culture and Art as a Social Justice Intervention Yi 9. "The Sweetness of Money": Creatively Empowered Women (CEW) Design Studio, Feminists Pedagogy and the Art Therapy Talwar

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Book SynopsisExamines the abuse of drugs in the West and the scope and value of the illegal drugs business, and the failure of the drug enforcement programmes either to curtail the supply of drugs or to persuade users to abandon their habit.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The world pattern: an overview Chapter 1: The role of the United Nations Chapter 2: The drugs Chapter 3: Statistics and comparisons (Britain) Chapter 4: British attitudes to drugs Chapter 5: The US drug scene Chapter 6: US statistics Chapter 7: The US policy of certification Chapter 8: Colombia: key to the cocaine trade Chapter 9: Colombia’s neighbours Chapter 10: Central America, the Caribbean, and Mexico Chapter 11: The Golden Triangle Chapter 12: The Golden Crescent Chapter 13: The involvement of all Asia Chapter 14: The growing involvement of Africa Chapter 15: Europe Chapter 16: Money laundering Chapter 17: The cannabis debate Conclusions

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