Medical sociology Books
University of California Press Life Beside Itself
Book SynopsisTakes us on a haunting ethnographic journey through two historical moments when life for the Canadian Inuit has hung in the balance: the tuberculosis epidemic (1940s to the early 1960s) and the subsequent suicide epidemic (1980s to the present).Trade Review"Stevenson explores how care in Inuit communities is like a raven, a spiritual force that binds the living and the dead in ways that are not always straightforward or obvious." -- G. Bruyere CHOICE "This courageous humanistic work is well worth a close and critical read, for the simple reason that its author, Lisa Stevenson, addresses one of the most important contemporary healthcare issues in the Canadian North-that of suicide- and along the way challenges the reader through been termed welfare colonialism and continues to struggle with a bureaucratic legacy determined by historical state structure and policy." American AnthropologistTable of ContentsPrologue: Between Two Women Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Facts and Images 2. Cooperating 3. Anonymous Care 4. Life-of-the-Name 5. Why Two Clocks? 6. Song Epilogue: Writing on Styrofoam Notes References List of Illustrations Index
£21.25
University of California Press The Pandemic Perhaps
Book SynopsisIn 2005, American experts sent out urgent warnings throughout the country: a devastating flu pandemic was fast approaching. Influenza was a serious disease, not a seasonal nuisance; it could kill millions of people. This book explores how American experts framed a catastrophe that never occurred.Trade Review"Caduff's detailed analysis of the sites, practices, and poetics of scientific authority and claim-making, in and through both uncertainties and indeterminacy, is uniquely insightful and compelling. His attentive, detailed, and discerning ethnography performs its own variety of dramatic work-the text itself is a delightful and gripping read. It is both an erudite collection of insights about that which goes into and makes up the contemporary world of 'scientific prophecy.' Caduff offers a surplus of generative ideas and his own brand of creativity and complexity in thinking through the politics of pandemic preparedness." Raad Fadaak, McGill University "In Carlo Caduff's brilliant ethnography The Pandemic Perhaps, we enter a world of delayed apocalypse. The HnNn mutation of the influenza virus is on the radar of the WHO; scientists prognosticate the next pandemic; preparedness measures are put in place by public health organizations; a flu vaccine is ready to be shipped by the pharmaceutical company. But, once more suspended, the pandemic does not happen today. To think about the intersection of scientific uncertainty and its relationship to the millennial public health message Caduff's The Pandemic Perhaps is just the right companion." Karen Jent, University of Cambridge "It is the strange serendipity of maternity leave that finds me reading 10:04 and The Pandemic Perhaps at odd hours and in tandem; two books for which hurricanes-or, more specifically, the preparations they precipitate-relay the condensed temporality of the coming catastrophe, a dovetailing of past perils and precarious futures for which a New York City 'on the brink' provides a hyperactive backdrop. Through often-exquisite prose (Lerner is a poet; Caduff's formulations can approximate verse) these authors explore the worlds that surface and dissolve under the shadow of prediction and the modes of attention that give them their shape." Ann Kelly, King's College London "I consider this book as a great contribution for the anthropology of life. Caduff's excellent investigation, both ethnographic and historical, offers a very convincing analysis of the material and conceptual configurations in which viruses are engaged, hence demonstrating the value of approaches which explore the agency of living beings and vital processes. He offers insightful ideas that shed new light on fundamental aspects of life. Focusing on the unique sort of beings viruses are, The Pandemic Perhaps constitutes, without any doubt, a very important work." Perig Pitrou, College de France "The Pandemic Perhaps presents a thoughtful ethnographic examination of the public culture of danger, specifically as the contemporary sense of impending doom has come to be linked ever more tightly to the assumed threat of a deadly influenza pandemic. More specifically still, it is a journey through the scientific, as well as governmental and corporate, reconstruction of the United States in the name of pandemic preparedness at a time when the biological world appears to be getting out of our control." Merrill Singer, Medical Anthropology Quarterly "Carlo Caduff's The Pandemic Perhaps is a story of the influenza pandemic that never was. Caduff tells this story from an American perspective through his encounters with scientists and other actors who engage in the august work of "preparedness," but in doing so, often draw upon and amplify an apocalyptic imaginary that doubtless shapes scientific and public priorities (and fears). With lucid and critical detail Caduff shows how forms of prophecy (new and old) push catastrophe towards further and further horizons." Todd Meyers, NYU Shanghai Caduff's book adds much to the history and social science of public health and infectious disease and will be of value to anyone interested in global health, influenza, or epidemiology. Bulletin of the History of MedicineTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1 * A Ferret's Sneeze 2 * On the Run 3 * Casualties of Contagion 4 * Experiments of Concern 5 * A Real Test 6 * The Great Deluge Epilogue Note on the Cover Image Notes Bibliography Index
£21.25
Harvard University Press Seeing Patients Unconscious Bias in Health Care
Book SynopsisIf you're going to have an organ transplant, or a joint replacement, here's the key to getting the very best medical care: be a white, straight, middle-class male. This book takes on one of the few topics that haven't figured in the heated debate over health care reform - the largely hidden yet massive injustice of bias in medical treatment.Trade ReviewWhite, noted professor of orthopedic surgery at Harvard University, addresses the pervasive but hidden problem of prejudice in medicine in this revealing book. He uses extensive research to show how subconscious stereotyping of Blacks, women, and other minorities influences the doctor–patient relationship and how many people, therefore, receive substandard treatment. -- Clarence Waldron * Jet *As vital to medicine as mapping the rhythm of the heart and the firing of the nerves is an understanding of the diversity of the human family. Gus White takes us on a marvelous personal journey that illuminates what it means to care for people of all races, religions, and cultures. The story of this man becomes the aspiration of all those who seek to minister not only to the body but also to the soul. -- Jerome Groopman, M.D., author of How Doctors ThinkGus White has written a tour de force—a compelling story about race, health and conquering inequality in medical care. Growing up in the segregated South, receiving medical training at all-white Stanford, caring for Americans and Vietnamese in Vietnam, Dr. White has a uniquely perceptive lens with which to see and understand unconscious bias in health care. He offers astute analysis and prescriptions for eliminating inequalities, and his journey is so absorbing that you will not be able to put this book down. -- Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., author of All Deliberate SpeedSeeing Patients is a powerful and extraordinarily important book. Dr. White uses his own experience to enable us to take a close look at the sensitive issue of bias in health care, and the damage it does. He knows from the inside how good people can be negatively affected by historical and cultural forces they are not even aware of. He acknowledges the magnitude and complexity of the problem, and encourages medical schools and physicians to work together to solve it. -- James P. Comer, M.D., author of Leave No Child Behind: Preparing Today’s Youth for Tomorrow’s WorldThis is first and foremost the immensely enjoyable story of Gus White’s astonishing life’s journey. With all his achievements, he has not lost sight of his roots. Recruiting minorities into medicine has been one of his life’s priorities, and he has been a leader in promoting cultural literacy in all physicians. Seeing Patients is both exciting and insightful. -- Alvin F. Poussaint, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical SchoolThe intertwining journeys of both orthopaedics and civil and human rights are chronicled in Dr. White’s life and career. Despite the progress made in these areas, unequal medical treatment in this country still exists due to biases, stereotypes, generalizations, language differences, and cultural barriers. -- Steven L. Frick, M.D. * AAOS Now *White’s story—part autobiography, part call to action—is a compelling and often uncomfortable read about a hidden world where even the most compassionate and egalitarian caregivers often fail a basic command of the Hippocratic oath: to do no harm. -- Sean Silverthorne * Harvard Business School Alumni Bulletin *Armed by the unique perspective afforded by being both within the American medical establishment and an African American whose grit and talent put him there, highly respected Harvard Medical School professor White is a crystal-clear visionary. The best means to improve health care for all, he says, is for medical schools to produce physicians who are not only scientifically competent but also equally culturally competent… Part stirring autobiography, part reasoned apology for egalitarian health care, White’s book makes a powerful case. -- Donna Chavez * Booklist *White uses his unique insights to discuss health care disparities, making it timeless and a must-read book that has the power to change the way we see the world…As the coronavirus pandemic brings racial, economic, and health care disparities into stark focus, Seeing Patients impresses upon us the need to see each other as fellow humans. -- Mary E. Arthur * Anesthesia & Analgesia *In this autobiography, White, Harvard’s first African American department chief, writing with Chanoff, chronicles his experiences growing up in Tennessee and his professional journey through medical school. Along the way, readers are shown how racism has impacted and still affects African Americans and others in the medical profession and in the medical system in general. -- A. W. Klink * Library Journal *White grew up in Memphis during the Jim Crow era. Affected deeply by the blatant racial prejudice he encountered in the South, as a student in Ivy League universities, as a physician during the Vietnam War, and as an orthopedic surgeon, White offers a deeply personal account. Part autobiography, and part sociological treatise on issues including race, the book chronicles how White’s epiphany in Vietnam (‘When I came out of that carnage in Vietnam, I came out with an even stronger sense that in the final analysis we are all so much more similar than different’) led to his realization that ‘the persistent derogation of out-groups’ results in unequal treatment of many categories of people. This understanding inspired him to become an activist dedicated to increasing knowledge and awareness of diversity issues. A fascinating account of how White became a professor of medical education/orthopedic surgery and the first African American department chief at Harvard’s teaching hospital, this book explains such sociological principles as race, class, and in-group/out-group processes in clear, uncomplicated prose. His a very enjoyable account of the remarkable life of an individual who did what a lot of people say they want to do: make a difference. -- C. Apt * Choice *When White attended Stanford in the late ’50s he was one of four students of color. A recommendation letter written by a mentor then included ‘this is a pale, colored boy’ to avoid misunderstanding. Now White recounts his ground-breaking life in an engaging, matter-of-fact manner… A chance encounter with a woman who felt doctors judged her by her full-body tattoo led White to consider disparities in health care. Challenges exist on both sides of the stethoscope, White argues, noting that the uncertainty felt by many African-American patients over how they will be perceived also impacts the medical encounter; the burden for alleviating racial and other disparities (such as those based in age, gender, and sexual orientation) falls on the medical and educational communities. Accessible, thought-provoking, and valuable. * Publishers Weekly *
£31.95
Elsevier Health Sciences Crash Course Medical Ethics and Sociology Updated
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe style of the book ensures its readability. It is written in a pithy "note form" style with the book's mascot - the crash-helmeted bike rider - presiding over important "need to know" stuff...the stuff that virtually every doctor will eventually need. Dr Jeremy Sager, Univadis The curriculum coverage is comprehensive and the level of detail throughout is impressive. This book is delightfully easy to read and logically arranged. I really enjoyed reading this book and it will come in handy in some of my teaching. Dr Steven De Wilde, GP Trainer and Academic, Tooting, South LondonTable of Contents1 Foundations of medical ethics and law. 2 Professionalism and medical ethics. 3 The doctor, the patient and society. 4 Ethics and law at the beginning and end of life. 5 Healthcare commissioning and resource allocation. 6 Introduction to sociology and disease. 7 Experience of health and illness. 8 Organization of health care provision in the UK. 9 Inequalities in health and health care provision. 10 Epidemiology and public health. 11 Clinical governance. Self-assessment: Best of Five, Extended Matching Questions
£26.59
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Health Emotion and the Body
Book SynopsisThere is no other book like this on the market for students that thoughtfully guides the reader through all social, personal and emotional aspects of health and illness. The topic is a cutting-edge and popular theme of current medical sociology.Trade Review"Bendelow offers an accessible and extremely enjoyable book for anyone intrigued by contemporary ideas surrounding the ill body." Sociology "This comprehensive book critically examines contemporary models of health and illness ... The book reminds us of the need to consider the individual experience of illness while seeing each person in his or her social context ... Of particular note is the straightforward reminder that illness is a social and emotional experience. The author reminds us that is the patient who should be diagnosed, not merely the disease. 5/5" Nursing Standard "A cogent and intelligent account of the implications of mind/body interactions for health." Sociology of Health and Illness "The quality of writing is high. Apart from the many case histories used to illustrate the points being made, Professor Bendelow gives many insightful observations on modern life and the way in which medical practitioners are responding." RoSPA Occupational Safety & Health Journal "In this insightful, timely, and engaging book, Gillian Bendelow takes a fresh look at the relationship between physical and mental illness, and their treatment. Positing stress as the key to mind-body medicine, Bendelow’s analysis sheds much-needed light on key issues from medically unexplained symptoms to the surveillance implications of mind-body approaches. A must-read for anyone interested in the social dimensions of medicine, Health, Emotion and the Body charts the course to critical new areas of inquiry." Laura Carpenter, Vanderbilt University "Questions about the relationship between bodies, lives and medicine preoccupy all of us from time to time. In this accessible and very important book, Gillian Bendelow takes us through the critical issues underlying what medicine has to offer contemporary health problems. She identifies a paradigm shift, in which dualistic mind-body models and the dehumanizing and bureaucratic health care systems in which these are often embedded, are now widely understood as failing to provide any real understanding of how we live in and experience our bodies. Her arguments should be read by all those with an interest in humane health care (which is most of us, whether practitioners, users or students). The book is an elegant compendium of many different strands of thought, its conclusions a compelling directive for a more integrated approach." Ann Oakley, University of LondonTable of ContentsPreface. Chapter 1 Beyond Biomedicalization: Integrated Models of Health & Illness. Chapter 2 'Stress': the Key to Mind/Body?. Chapter 3 Medically Unexplained Symptoms and ‘Contested Conditions’. Chapter 4 Medical Responses to Emotional Distress. Chapter 5 Complementary Medicine and Alternative Healing Systems. Chapter 6 Holism or Healthism?. Bibliography
£49.50
Polity Press The Autism Matrix
Book SynopsisToday autism has become highly visible. Once you begin to look for it, you realize it is everywhere. Why? We all know the answer or think we do: there is an autism epidemic. And if it is an epidemic, then we know what must be done: lots of money must be thrown at it, detection centers must be established and explanations sought, so that the number of new cases can be brought down and the epidemic brought under control. But can it really be so simple? This major new book offers a very different interpretation. The authors argue that the recent rise in autism should be understood an aftershock of the real earthquake, which was the deinstitutionalization of mental retardation in the mid-1970s. This entailed a radical transformation not only of the institutional matrix for dealing with developmental disorders of childhood, but also of the cultural lens through which we view them. It opened up a space for viewing and treating childhood disorders as neither mental illness nor Trade Review"The Autism Matrix fills in crucial gaps, and will greatly improve how the context of diagnosis and treatment is understood...The original research represented here is wide-ranging and invaluable" Times Higher Education "Gil Eyal and colleagues, five sociologists from Columbia University, have brought a fresh perspective from a different discipline to try to explain autism's expansion in prevalence and popularity...Overall I found much to admire in this detailed study." British Medical Journal "This is a very useful book for those interested in autism and the role of parent movements and activists, and more generally in the social factors affecting changes in the classification of diseases." Sociology of Health and Illness "The development of the autistic spectrum is laid bare as a cultural construct still in evolutionary process, and the elucidation of this morphing phenomenon is the crowning achievement of this book." The Kelvingrove Review "Autism, rare and little publicized twenty years ago, is now constantly in the news and is absorbing ever larger sums of public funding and concern. It has changed school classrooms and perhaps the very nature of childhood. This book is the best available sociological analysis of how this happened, linking recent events to those early in the twentieth century. It tells of the formidable labour of autism activists, their dreams and schisms, with generosity and insight. Institutions, the ideals of the family and its management, and child minding, all play their role. This is a reflective analysis of a pervasive event of our times, replacing clichés by new ideas." Ian Hacking, Collège de France "The Autism Matrix is an exemplary exercise in historically informed medical anthropology and sociology. This richly argued, engaging, and well-researched book begins with the basic question of why autism diagnoses have increased in recent years and then offers a wealth of cascading implications. The authors succeed in showing that the simplistic question of 'epidemic or not?' is unproductive in comparison to the more intellectually fruitful question of how institutional matrices identify, name, count, and treat neuropsychiatric difference." Roy Richard Grinker, Ph.D. Professor of Anthropology, The George Washington University,and author of Unstrange Minds: Remapping the World of AutismTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Autism Matrix. Why focus on therapies? Between mental illness and mental retardation. Chapter 1: The Puzzle of US States and International Variation in Autism Rates. Diagnostic substitution. Supply-side and demand-side explanations for diagnostic substitution. Deinstitutionalization as key to explaining diagnostic substitution. Deinstitutionalization and the variation in autism rates. Chapter 2: The Feebleminded. Chapter 3: The Surveillance of Childhood. The unification of mental deficiency and mental hygiene under child psychiatry. The role of the middle class family. The institutionalization of children as part of a comprehensive surveillance system. Chapter 4: Deinstitutionalization. A new look at the deinstitutionalization of the retarded. The middle class family and the "valorization of retarded existence". Chapter 5: "An existence as close to the normal as possible": Normalization. Normalization as therapeutic practice. Behavior modification and normalization. Chapter 6: Childhood Schizophrenia. Chapter 7: The Rise of the Therapies. Autism therapies in the 1950s and 1960s. Working on the child's brain. Inculcating habits and building skills. Fuzzifying the boundary between expert and layman. The space between fields. Chapter 8: Rimland and the Formation of NSAC. The problem of credibility. Schopler and the new economy of blame and worth. The implications of behavioral therapy. Conclusion. Chapter 9: The Atypical Children. The struggle over inclusion in the developmental disabilities act: Autism as analogous with mental retardation. "Items of autistic behavior": Autism as concurrent with mental retardation. Looping and the transformation of autism. Chapter 10: Asperger and Neurodiversity. The riddle of simultaneous discovery dissolved. "Personality trait" vs. "psychotic process". Twins reunited. Loops of self-advocacy. Chapter11: The space of autism therapies and the making and remaking of the Spectrum. The Return of Rimland. The agonistic network. Fuzzifying the boundary between medicine and alternative medicine. The space of autism therapies. Conclusion.
£54.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Health and Globalization
Book Synopsis* Explores the links between health and globalization. * Considers important issues such as the global spread of pandemics (such as swine flu and bird flu), effects of migration, and health care systems across the world.Trade Review"This book is an excellent contribution to our understanding of the extraordinarily complex relationship between globalization and health/illness as well as the positive and negative implications of this relationship. It also provides a most useful source of bibliographical materials on the subject."Mark Field, Harvard University "This book provides new, useful information on health, especially the idea of global public health and sections on health behavior. It is a great addition to the growing interests in global health."Jennie Kronenfeld, Arizona State University "This is an easy to read general introduction to the complex relationship between globalization and health. It is up to date and coversmany issues currently under debate in health policy and health care organization."Fred Stevens, Maastricht UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1. Defining Globalization. Chapter 2. Globalization: Health Benefits and Risks. Chapter 3. Globalization and Disease. Chapter 4. Globalization and Health Care: The United States. Chapter 5. Globalization and Health Care in Selected Countries. Chapter 6. Actors in Global Health Governance. Chapter 7. Global Health and Governance: Public Goods and Collective Action. Concluding Remarks. References.
£49.50
Polity Press Health and Globalization
Book Synopsis* Explores the links between health and globalization. * Considers important issues such as the global spread of pandemics (such as swine flu and bird flu), effects of migration, and health care systems across the world.Trade Review"This book is an excellent contribution to our understanding of the extraordinarily complex relationship between globalization and health/illness as well as the positive and negative implications of this relationship. It also provides a most useful source of bibliographical materials on the subject." Mark Field, Harvard University "This book provides new, useful information on health, especially the idea of global public health and sections on health behavior. It is a great addition to the growing interests in global health." Jennie Kronenfeld, Arizona State University "This is an easy to read general introduction to the complex relationship between globalization and health. It is up to date and coversmany issues currently under debate in health policy and health care organization." Fred Stevens, Maastricht UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1. Defining Globalization. Chapter 2. Globalization: Health Benefits and Risks. Chapter 3. Globalization and Disease. Chapter 4. Globalization and Health Care: The United States. Chapter 5. Globalization and Health Care in Selected Countries. Chapter 6. Actors in Global Health Governance. Chapter 7. Global Health and Governance: Public Goods and Collective Action. Concluding Remarks. References.
£17.09
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Health
Book SynopsisThe second edition of Mildred Blaxter''s successful and highly respected book offers a comprehensive and engaging introduction to the key debates surrounding the concept of health today. It discusses how health is defined, constructed, experienced and acted out in contemporary developed societies, drawing on a range of empirical data from the USA, Britain, France, and many other countries. The new edition has been thoroughly revised and updated, with new material added on health and identity, the new genetics, the sociology of the body, and the formation of health capital throughout the life course. The topic is the concept of health, rather than the more usual emphasis on illness and health-care systems. Special emphasis is given to the lay perspective to show how people themselves think about and experience health. Blaxter guides students through all the relevant conceptual models of the relationship of health to the structure of society, from inequality in health to the ideas ofTrade Review"A great text: revised and updated for students of health, whatever their discipline or background. Changes in science, technology and our understanding of the body are among the many important topics covered. Mildred Blaxter writes in a lucid style and has a command of her material that is second to none. Highly recommended." Mike Bury, Royal Holloway, University of London "Updated and with new material, this book provides a fascinating insight into the phenomenon of health and how it is defined, constructed, expressed and experienced. Written in a clear and engaging style, it is an indispensable resource for students and researchers in the health and social sciences." Ellen Annandale, University of Leicester "This fine book takes sociological perspectives of health as a point of departure, while at the same time increasing our understanding of illness. Students and professionals alike will benefit from Blaxter's clear and succinct presentation." Peter Conrad, Brandeis UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction. 1. How is health defined? Health as the absence of illness. Disease as deviance. Health as balance or homeostasis. Health as function. Health as state or status. The biomedical model. Contemporary biomedicine. The social model. Health, disease, illness and sickness. How is health measured? Health capital. 2. How is health constructed? Health as social construction. Constructions of history. Constructions of culture. Constructivism and feminism. Illness, labelling and stigma. Constructions of mental illness. Constructions of disability. The critique of relativism. Medicalisation and the constructions of medical practice. 3. How is health embodied and experienced? Embodiment. Lay definitions of health. Social representations of health. Self-rated health. Concepts of the causes of health and illness. Health histories and subjective health capital. Illness narratives. Limitations of narrative. The search for meaning. Health as moral discourse and metaphor. Responsibility for health. 4. How is health enacted? The rise and fall of 'illness behaviour'. Person to patient: help-seeking behaviour. The patient role. Control and concordance. Enacted behaviour. Behaving 'healthily'. Structure/agency: health as cultural consumption. Structure/agency: health as self-governance. 5. How is health related to social systems? A functional relationship. Responses to functionalism. Medicine and society. Health, economic development and social organization. The downside of economic development. The concept of inequality in health. The nature and extent of inequalities. The causes of inequality. The socio-biologic translation. Neo-materialistic explanations. Social capital. 6. Contemporary change in the meaning of health. Technology and postmodernity. Changing boundaries between ill and not-ill. Changing boundaries of life and death. Changing boundaries between self and not-self. Changing boundaries between therapy and enhancement. Information technologies and medical practice. Changing attitudes to health and medicine. New technologies and the risk society. Evolutionary medicine. Conclusion. References. Index.
£45.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Health
Book SynopsisThe second edition of Mildred Blaxter's successful and highly respected book offers a comprehensive and engaging introduction to the key debates surrounding the concept of health today.Trade Review"A great text: revised and updated for students of health, whatever their discipline or background. Changes in science, technology and our understanding of the body are among the many important topics covered. Mildred Blaxter writes in a lucid style and has a command of her material that is second to none. Highly recommended." Mike Bury, Royal Holloway, University of London "Updated and with new material, this book provides a fascinating insight into the phenomenon of health and how it is defined, constructed, expressed and experienced. Written in a clear and engaging style, it is an indispensable resource for students and researchers in the health and social sciences." Ellen Annandale, University of Leicester "This fine book takes sociological perspectives of health as a point of departure, while at the same time increasing our understanding of illness. Students and professionals alike will benefit from Blaxter's clear and succinct presentation." Peter Conrad, Brandeis UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction. 1. How is health defined? Health as the absence of illness. Disease as deviance. Health as balance or homeostasis. Health as function. Health as state or status. The biomedical model. Contemporary biomedicine. The social model. Health, disease, illness and sickness. How is health measured? Health capital. 2. How is health constructed? Health as social construction. Constructions of history. Constructions of culture. Constructivism and feminism. Illness, labelling and stigma. Constructions of mental illness. Constructions of disability. The critique of relativism. Medicalisation and the constructions of medical practice. 3. How is health embodied and experienced? Embodiment. Lay definitions of health. Social representations of health. Self-rated health. Concepts of the causes of health and illness. Health histories and subjective health capital. Illness narratives. Limitations of narrative. The search for meaning. Health as moral discourse and metaphor. Responsibility for health. 4. How is health enacted? The rise and fall of 'illness behaviour'. Person to patient: help-seeking behaviour. The patient role. Control and concordance. Enacted behaviour. Behaving 'healthily'. Structure/agency: health as cultural consumption. Structure/agency: health as self-governance. 5. How is health related to social systems? A functional relationship. Responses to functionalism. Medicine and society. Health, economic development and social organization. The downside of economic development. The concept of inequality in health. The nature and extent of inequalities. The causes of inequality. The socio-biologic translation. Neo-materialistic explanations. Social capital. 6. Contemporary change in the meaning of health. Technology and postmodernity. Changing boundaries between ill and not-ill. Changing boundaries of life and death. Changing boundaries between self and not-self. Changing boundaries between therapy and enhancement. Information technologies and medical practice. Changing attitudes to health and medicine. New technologies and the risk society. Evolutionary medicine. Conclusion. References. Index.
£15.19
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Sociology and Psychology for the Dental Team
Book SynopsisThe role that the social and behavioural sciences play in the daily practice of dentistry is now an essential part of all dentistry training, but it can often seem distant from the reality of daily clinical practice.Trade Review�This new book represents a pioneering effort to bring important selected topics and practical examples from sociology and psychology to students of dentistry. Having participated in such a course at my own university, I can highly recommend this book.�William C. Cockerham, University of Alabama at Birmingham �This book comprehensively and critically discusses the application of health psychology and health sociology concepts to oral health. It is essential reading for oral health professionals and will help them introduce behavioural sciences in their everyday practice and also facilitate better understanding of the overall context of oral health care provision.�Georgios Tsakos, University College LondonTable of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1: The Social Context of Oral Health and DiseaseChapter 2: Poverty, Inequality and Oral HealthChapter 3: Gender and Oral HealthChapter 4: Ethnicity and Oral HealthChapter 5: Oral Health in Later LifeChapter 6: Disability and Oral HealthChapter 7: Symptoms and Help-SeekingChapter 8: Adherence and Behaviour Change in Dental SettingsChapter 9: Stress and HealthChapter 10: Issues in Social PsychologyChapter 11: Pain and Dental AnxietyChapter 12: Communication in the Dental SurgeryChapter 13: The Dentist in SocietyReferences
£49.50
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Sociology and Psychology for the Dental Team
Book SynopsisThe role that the social and behavioural sciences play in the daily practice of dentistry is now an essential part of all dentistry training, but it can often seem distant from the reality of daily clinical practice.Table of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1: The Social Context of Oral Health and DiseaseChapter 2: Poverty, Inequality and Oral HealthChapter 3: Gender and Oral HealthChapter 4: Ethnicity and Oral HealthChapter 5: Oral Health in Later LifeChapter 6: Disability and Oral HealthChapter 7: Symptoms and Help-SeekingChapter 8: Adherence and Behaviour Change in Dental SettingsChapter 9: Stress and HealthChapter 10: Issues in Social PsychologyChapter 11: Pain and Dental AnxietyChapter 12: Communication in the Dental SurgeryChapter 13: The Dentist in SocietyReferences
£20.89
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Pain A Sociological Introduction
Book SynopsisPain in one form or another is probably the most common symptom presented to medical and healthcare professionals. Long a subject of biomedical interest, more recent biopsychosocial theories have extended the study of pain as a concept which is highly individual in the way it is experienced.Trade ReviewFirst Prize in Health and Social Care in the 2018 BMA Medical Book Awards "Elaine Denny has written a lively survey of research illuminating the experience of pain with a focus on the implications for clinical practice and policy. Problematising medical assumptions of objectivity around pain assessment, diagnosis and treatment that compound the experience of pain, this accessible book offers a strong critique of current clinical practice." Hannah Bradby, Uppsala University, Sweden"Given that the topic of pain covers such a vast spectrum including culture, religion, politics, science, medicine, and the arts, amongst others, this book does an impressive job of summarising these various, often conflicting, elements, giving the reader an excellent overview of its diverse philosophies. A must-read for those with a genuine interest in learning more about the field of pain."Paul Cameron, University of DundeeTable of Contents Introduction Chapter 1: Historical Perspectives on Pain Chapter 2: Sociological Theory, Concepts and Pain Chapter 3: The Experience of Pain Chapter 4: Care and Care Services for Pain Chapter 5: Structures of Diversity and Pain Chapter 6: Pain as an Contested Experience Chapter 7: Emotional Pain and Suffering Chapter 8: Health Professionals’ Experience of Pain Chapter 9 Conclusion References Index
£46.80
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Pain
Book SynopsisPain in one form or another is probably the most common symptom presented to medical and healthcare professionals. Long a subject of biomedical interest, more recent biopsychosocial theories have extended the study of pain as a concept which is highly individual in the way it is experienced.Trade ReviewFirst Prize in Health and Social Care in the 2018 BMA Medical Book Awards "Elaine Denny has written a lively survey of research illuminating the experience of pain with a focus on the implications for clinical practice and policy. Problematising medical assumptions of objectivity around pain assessment, diagnosis and treatment that compound the experience of pain, this accessible book offers a strong critique of current clinical practice." Hannah Bradby, Uppsala University, Sweden"Given that the topic of pain covers such a vast spectrum including culture, religion, politics, science, medicine, and the arts, amongst others, this book does an impressive job of summarising these various, often conflicting, elements, giving the reader an excellent overview of its diverse philosophies. A must-read for those with a genuine interest in learning more about the field of pain."Paul Cameron, University of DundeeTable of Contents Introduction Chapter 1: Historical Perspectives on Pain Chapter 2: Sociological Theory, Concepts and Pain Chapter 3: The Experience of Pain Chapter 4: Care and Care Services for Pain Chapter 5: Structures of Diversity and Pain Chapter 6: Pain as an Contested Experience Chapter 7: Emotional Pain and Suffering Chapter 8: Health Professionals’ Experience of Pain Chapter 9 Conclusion References Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Splicing Life The New Genetics and Society
Book SynopsisGeno-technology is a technology unlike any other, with significant implications for life in the 21st century. It directly affects us at a deeply personal level, it poses a threat to the boundaries which conventionally define selfhood, it generates potentially novel risks and dangers, and it threatens the very basis of accepted understandings of culture and society. This unique, exploratory volume discusses the ethical, cultural and philosophical issues surrounding the search for the ''book of life'', focusing on the mapping of the human genome in Britain, the USA and Europe. It examines the impact of genetically modified crops, food and pharmacogenomics, along with the science and technology policy issues deriving from the human genome project. The authors investigate the potential risks and implications of the new genetics and conclude with a discussion of how nature may be reconfigured to underpin developments in health, commerce, state regulation and the law, both on a local andTrade Review’A thorough, stimulating and well-researched account. Glasner and Rothman take the reader from the competitive science of the human genome project to the global strategies of the biotechnology business. Gene technology raises fundamental issues of governance, ethics and citizenship. Splicing Life? represents an essential guide to this fascinating field.’ Professor Alan Irwin, Brunel University, UK ’...the authors offer an interesting perspective on the important matter of human genetics research, technology and society.’ Nursing EthicsTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; The hunt for the holy grail: compiling the book of life; Doing the human genome project; Managing genetic information; 'Frankenstein' foods, or the revenge of the genetically modified potatoes; Globalization and the transformation of nature; From commodification to commercialization; Rights or rituals: involving the people; New genetics, new millennium, new society?; Bibliography; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Crime of Destruction and the Law of Genocide
Book SynopsisThis highly original work provides a thought-provoking and valuable resource for researchers and academics with an interest in genocide, criminology, international organizations, and law and society. In her book, Caroline Fournet examines the law relating to genocide and explores the apparent failure of society to provide an adequate response to incidences of mass atrocity. The work casts a legal perspective on this social phenomenon to show that genocide fails to be appropriately remembered due to inherent defects in the law of genocide itself. The book thus connects the social response to the legal theory and practice, and trials in particular. Fournet''s study illustrates the shortcomings of the Genocide Convention as a means of preventing and punishing genocide as well as its consequent failure to ensure the memory of this heinous crime.Trade Review'Genocide still features on today's front pages. This book offers intriguing insights into our collective failures of imagination and practice in preventing and punishing mass atrocity. It will be of interest to lawyers and policy makers, and to all who seek to understand the origins of our tragic institutional shortcomings and our moral debt to the memory of the victims.' David Fraser, Professor of Law and Social Theory, University of NottinghamTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: memory and genocide. Part I Specificity and Uniqueness of Genocides: The crime of genocide: 'A crime without a name'?; Dehumanizing intent and death by destruction. Part II The Conventional Interpretation of the Specificity of the Crime of Genocide: The Restrictive Approach of the Genocide Convention: The conventional approach to the genocidal pattern of conduct: the omission of dehumanization; The conventional selective protection of groups: the omission of 'racialization'; The conventional approach to genocidal intent; The genocidal state; The conventional omission of genocide denial; The conventional restrictive approach and the jus cogens prohibition of genocide. Part III Consequences of the Conventional Restrictive Approach to the Crime of Genocide: The Inapplicability of the Genocide Convention and Its Impact on Collective Memory of the Crime: The symptoms of the inapplicability of the genocide convention: the lack of state practice; Legal memory: its impact on social and collective memory of the crime and as a tool against denial; Conclusion: forgiving the unforgivable?; Bibliography; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Ashgate Research Companion to Anthropology
Book SynopsisThis companion provides an indispensable overview of contemporary and classical issues in social and cultural anthropology. Although anthropology has expanded greatly over time in terms of the diversity of topics in which its practitioners engage, many of the broad themes and topics at the heart of anthropological thought remain perennially vital, such as understanding order and change, diversity and continuity, and conflict and co-operation in the reproduction of social life. Bringing together leading scholars in the field, the contributors to this volume provide us with thoughtful and fruitful ways of thinking about a number of contemporary and long-standing arenas of work where both established and more recent researchers are engaged. The companion begins by exploring classic topics such as Religion; Rituals; Language and Culture; Violence; and Gender. This is followed by a focus on current developments within the discipline including Human Rights; Globalization; and Diasporas and Cosmopolitanism. It provides an interesting and challenging look at the state of current thinking in anthropology, serving as a rich resource for scholars and students alike.Trade Review’This is a rich source of anthropological approaches to significant social and cultural issues across the globe. The subject matter is topical, the contributors are scholars of renown and the analyses are informed by detailed empirical inquiry. The collection is a valuable resource for scholars, teachers, students and general readers.’ David Trigger, University of Queensland, Australia ’The editors and authors are to be congratulated for this compelling companion to research in what it means to be human. Twenty anthropologists provide rich synopses of anthropology’s intellectual heritage in their critical appraisals of key concepts long central to the discipline - belief systems, ritual, magic, sacrifice, myth, gender, war, violence, globalisation, language change and loss, indigenous knowledge and so on. More than the sum of its parts, this volume situates anthropological research as absolutely essential to understanding humanity’s past, present and possible futures.’ Naomi M. McPherson, University of British Columbia, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: Introduction, Andrew J. Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart. Part I Religion, Experience and Change: Healing, Geoffrey Samuel; Embodiment, performance and healing, Anne Sigfrid Grønseth; Mortuary rituals, Satsuki Kawano. Part II Ritual, Myth and Creativity: Anthropology, dreams and creativity, Katie Glaskin; Sacrifice, Kathryn McClymond; Charisma and myth, Raphael Falco. Part III Work, Play and Gender: Secular rituals, Margit Warburg; Anthropology of sport, John W. Traphagan; Gender, Victoria Goddard; Gender and space, Susan Rasmussen. Part IV Studies of World Religions: Christianity: an (in-)constant companion?, Simon Coleman; On Muslims and the navigation of religiosity: notes on the anthropology of Islam, David W. Montgomery. Part V Perspectives on Violence and Globalization: Ethnographies of political violence, Sami Hermez; Warfare and ritual in anthropology, Bryan K. Hanks; Globalization and its contradictions, Thomas Hylland Eriksen. Part VI Emergent Themes: Languages in change, Jonathan D. Hill and Juan Luis Rodriguez; Indigenous knowledge, Paul Sillitoe; Philosophy in anthropology, Nigel Rapport; Anthropology and the Iliad, Margo Kitts; Disaster anthropology, Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew J. Strathern. Index.
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Random House USA Inc League of Denial
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “meticulously documented and endlessly chilling” (The New York Times) exploration of the NFL’s decades-long attempt to deny and cover up mounting evidence connecting football and brain damage. “A first-rate piece of reporting [that] adds crucial detail, texture, and news to the concussion story, which despite the NFL’s best efforts, isn’t going away.”—Time ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Boston Globe, NPR“Professional football players do not sustain frequent repetitive blows to the brain on a regular basis.” So concluded the National Football League in a December 2005 scientific paper on concussions in America’s most popular sport. That judgment, implausible even to a casual fan, also contradicted the opinion of a growing cadre of neuroscientists who worked in vain to convince the NFL
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University of British Columbia Press The Impossible Clinic
Book SynopsisOnce considered revolutionary, evidence-based medicine (EBM) has failed. The Impossible Clinic explores the conundrum of EBM's attempt to translate evidence from medical research into recommendations for practice. Ironically, when medical institutions combine disciplinary regulations with EBM to produce clinical practice guidelines, the outcomes are antithetical to the aim. Such guidelines fail to increase individual physicians' decision-making capacities as EBM promises because they externalize judgment through disciplinary control. Ariane Hanemaayer uses a critical sociology approach to argue that EBM persists because it has congealed within the dominant liberal political strategy of governance, which seeks to improve health care at a distance, at the least cost, and without investment in infrastructure. As such, The Impossible Clinic is the first book to interrogate the history, practice, and pitfalls of EBM and explain how it persists due to intersecting relatioTrade ReviewThis important book provides a thoughtful analysis of shortcomings, but parts of the text are so rich in medical humanities jargon that they are sometimes hard to follow. -- M. Gochfeld * CHOICE Connect *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Conversations in Medicine: Problematizing Clinical Practice2 Institutional Sites: McMaster University and Canada’s Contribution to Medical Training3 Responsibilizing a New Kind of Clinician: Problem-Based Learning4 Technologies of Regulation: Clinical Practice Guidelines and the Effects of Normalization5 The Impossible Clinic: Biopolitics, Governmentality, LiberalismConclusionNotes; References; Index
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University of British Columbia Press The Impossible Clinic A Critical Sociology of
Book SynopsisThe aims of evidence-based medicine cannot be reconciled with its outcomes, yet this impossible practice persists at the intersection of professional medical regulation and liberal governance strategies.Trade ReviewThis important book provides a thoughtful analysis of shortcomings, but parts of the text are so rich in medical humanities jargon that they are sometimes hard to follow. -- M. Gochfeld * CHOICE Connect *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Conversations in Medicine: Problematizing Clinical Practice2 Institutional Sites: McMaster University and Canada’s Contribution to Medical Training3 Responsibilizing a New Kind of Clinician: Problem-Based Learning4 Technologies of Regulation: Clinical Practice Guidelines and the Effects of Normalization5 The Impossible Clinic: Biopolitics, Governmentality, LiberalismConclusionNotes; References; Index
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Taylor & Francis Hotel Ritz Comparing Mexican and U.S. Street
Book SynopsisExplore ways to reduce the rate of HIV infection in street prostitutes--and the inescapable connection between the heroin trade, prostitution, and HIV!This unique book draws on face-to-face interviews that the author conducted on the streets, with heroin-addicted street prostitutes in Southern California and their counterparts in four large Mexican cities. Author David James Bellis illustrates the significant--and surprising--differences in the risk of exposure to HIV and other STDs that exist between street prostitutes in the two countries arising from national differences in the legality, sociology, and economics of sex work. He points out that Mexican prostitutes, for whom sex work is a simple means of livelihood, are âœchoir girlsâ compared with their beaten-up, drug-addicted sisters north of the border who perform sex for drug money and are at much greater risk of HIV and other diseases, like Hepatitis C. This book explores those differences, suggesting new directions for UniteTable of Contents Preface Chapter 1. Introduction Theory, Research Design, and Study Limitations Mexican Study Main Drugs of Abuse and Injection Methods Concern of Street FSWs in Requiring Condom Use Compared to Ten Years Ago Chapter 2. Etiology of HIV Transmission Incidence and Prevalence of HIV/AIDS Hepatitis C (HCV), a Potentially More Serious Health Threat Reported AIDS Cases in Mexico The Relationship Between Commercial Sex Work, AIDS, and IDU Chapter 3. A Short History of Heroin and Commercial Sex Work Heroin Definitions of Prostitution History of Prostitution The FSW Hierarchy and the Bottom Rung of the Ladder Chapter 4. Study Setting and Methods Why Mexico? Why Particular Mexican Cities Were Chosen in Which to Interview Prostitutes The Tijuana Street Interview Experience FSW Interviews in Ciudad Juárez FSW Interviews in Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas Cuernavaca, Morelos: Another Interview Site Chapter 5. Findings: Comparing Mexican and San Bernardino Sex Workers Interview Research Questions Analysis and Discussion Chapter 6. Summary, Recommendation, and Conclusions Recommendations for Mexican FSWs Recommendations for American FSWs Conclusions Appendix. Survey Questionnaire References Index
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Cornell University Press Surgeons and the Scope
Book SynopsisIn Surgeons and the Scope, James R. Zetka Jr. describes the impact of the video laparoscope on the work lives of contemporary surgeons. The video laparoscope allows surgeons to peer into the inner abdomen with a miniaturized camera, thereby enabling them to perform complex operations without large incisions through small ports punched into the abdominal wall. This technological innovation revolutionized surgery as we know it. Zetka blends rich interview and archival data into a compelling account of an important technological development. He shows how the new laparoscopic technology challenged surgeons to rethink their approaches to surgery, to relearn basic hand-eye coordination, to master complex machinery, and to shift from individualistic to team-based work strategies. Zetka then explains how and why general surgeons embraced this disruptive technology by examining the breakdown of the division of labor between general surgeons and gastroenterologists in response tTrade ReviewOur strength of Zetka's work is that he enhances his historical analysis of the intraoccupational competition within medicine with a workplace focus. This allows him to demonstrate the importance of location in the focus. This allows him to demonstrate the importance of location in the occupational division of labor; as a downstream occupation, surgeons were dependent on referrals to procure patients on which to work.... A simultaneous workplace and historical occupational study is a daunting undertaking, and Zetka does a laudable job of combining the two. Another strength of the work is that it lies at an interesting intersection of occupations, work, and technology.... Scholars interested in the diffusion of innovation would find much to like in his analysis of the cultural and structural factors involved in the adoption of the surgical scope. -- Beth A. Bechky, University of California, Davis * American Journal of Sociology *Surgeons and the Scope is the fifth volume in a Cornell University series on technology and work. The author is a sociologist who used interviews of practitioners, observations of videoscopic procedures, and archival materials to describe the interplay of forces in medicine and surgery and other factors that led to surgeons' development and control of laparoscopic surgery. The book is written as a sociological case study of the impact of technology on work and is a solid contribution to the sociology of occupations and professions. Moreover, those other than sociologists should also find it an interesting and insightful account of the development and impact of 'scope' technology. * Journal of the American Medical Association *Table of ContentsSkill disruption in the surgical craft; Teamwork in conventional and video surgery; Dominance, competition, and negotiation within occupational divisions of labour; General surgeons' response to the early scopes; Gastroenterologists embrace the scope; State mediation and intraoccupational developments; Turf wars over the gastrointestinal tract; Technological innovation in the surgical craft; Theoretical reflections.
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Cornell University Press Collaborative Caring
Book SynopsisTaking an unusual approach to the topic of medical teamwork, this book gathers fifty engaging first-person narratives provided by people from various health care professions.Trade ReviewCollaborative Caring includes an examination of interprofessional practice, teamwork, and collaborative practice or collaborative caring. By using narratives and reflections that relate to real events in health care, this book discusses the contemporary concept of working together in teams. This publication is very relevant in the context of current health systems and is effective to stimulate reflection on action as individuals and teams work together toward common goals while at times taking a different approach. -- Susanne Murphy * Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy *
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Cornell University Press Creating the Health Care Team of the Future
Book SynopsisThis book shows how medical schools and teaching hospitals can implement the University of Toronto's successful model for interprofessional medical education, providing a step-by-step guide for deans, faculty, administrators, and health care providers.Trade ReviewThe real value of this book is as a highly practical guide for those individuals and organizations who are committed to making interprofessional education a reality... In addition to professional educatorsleaders of health care systems themselves can learn from this book as they work to transform their structures and cultures to support teamwork around patients at the point of care, ideally reinforcing what new hires are learning in well-designed interprofessional education programs rather than starting from scratch. -- Jody Hoffer Gittel * ILR Reivew *Table of Contents Introduction: Why a Toronto Model Workbook? 1. Getting Started 2. Structuring for Success 3. Building the Curriculum 4. Creating a Strong Education–Practice Interface 5. Thinking about Impact and Sustainability from the Start
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Cornell University Press The Question of Competence
Book SynopsisMedical competence is a hot topic surrounded by much controversy about how to define competency, how to teach it, and how to measure it. While some debate the pros and cons of competence-based medical education and others explain how to achieve various competencies, the authors of the seven chapters in The Question of Competence offer something very different. They critique the very notion of competence itself and attend to how it has shaped what we pay attention toand what we ignorein the education and assessment of medical trainees. Two leading figures in the field of medical education, Brian D. Hodges and Lorelei Lingard, drew together colleagues from the United States, Canada, and the Netherlands to explore competency from different perspectives, in order to spark thoughtful discussion and debate on the subject. The critical analyses included in the book's chapters cover the role of emotion, the implications of teamwork, interprofessional frameworks, the constructiTrade ReviewParts of the text... present a long-needed critical view of various aspects of competency-based education and evaluation.... [L]et us hope that everyone involved in conceptualizing and enacting competence-based education and evaluation has a chance to read this book. -- Richard Balon * Academic Psychiatry *
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Stanford University Press Peoples Science
Book SynopsisBy putting debates around stem cell research in to conversation with debates about universal healthcare, People's Science challenges readers to move beyond a narrow focus on bioethics to account for the larger social context in which new biotechnologies are coming to market.Trade Review"Some of the most pressing questions for science today start not with 'Can...?', but 'How...?' . . . Ruha Benjamin's excellent book focuses on such questions, taking as a case study of controversial passage of Proposition 71, a state bill that made conducting stem cell research in California a Constitutional right, and which guaranteed funding . . . for stem cell research over a decade."—Neil Singh, British Journal of the History of Science"People's Science is an important work on a complex topic, written with a passion for social justice and inclusion . . . In People's Science, Benjamin offers us an engaging, insightful, and challenging call to examine both the rhetoric and reality of innovation and inclusion in science and science policy. Using a clear and persuasive, moral, and sometimes even prophetic voice, Benjamin calls sociologists of science, technology, and medicine to investigate ever more deeply how scientific innovation works within a deeply unequal society, advantaging the already powerful and ignoring or silencing those who suffer from existing public policy."—Daniel R. Morrison, American Journal of Sociology"Much of the debate over stem cell research is seen in the public eye as part of the ongoing struggles between Left and Right, liberal and conservative. In People's Science, Benjamin problematizes this easy dichotomy, writing persuasively of the complex divides between support versus critique and advancement versus opposition to this branch of scientific research . . . Recommended."—M. D. Lagerwey, CHOICE"An impressive work of seminal scholarship, People's Science is a deftly written inquiry into the social issue implications of how scientific research is conducted in our democratic society including factors of race, disability, gender, and socio-economic class. As informed and informative as it is thoughtful and thought-provoking, People's Science is strongly recommended reading."—Andy Jordan, Midwest Book Review "Telling the story of the social and political lives of stem cells in America, Ruha Benjamin compels you to consider how political expedience and vague promises of a better future too often trump social equity in publicly funded scientific research. This is an immensely important and timely book, impeccably researched and forcefully argued."—Michael Montoya, University of California, Irvine, author of Making the Mexican Diabetic: Race, Science, and the Genetics of Inequality"Ruha Benjamin powerfully contests the autonomy of scientists and argues instead for a radically inclusive public engagement in science. Grounded in the heated battle over stem cell research, People's Science highlights the voices of people with disabilities, African Americans, and women to show why citizens should have the power to influence science as much as scientists influence society. A must read for students and scholars interested in science and society, as well as advocates for more democratic participation in cutting-edge biotechnologies."—Dorothy Roberts, University of Pennsylvania, author of Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century"In this fascinating account of an experiment both political and scientific, Ruha Benjamin takes us behind the scenes of California's massive, voter-driven investment in stem cell research. People's Science examines the tread marks where the rubber meets the road: Whose interests are served, whose bodies provide the raw research materials, and which groups reap the benefits? This is a must-read contribution to our understanding of health disparities, 'biological citizenship,' and the politics of knowledge-making."—Steven Epstein, Northwestern University, author of Inclusion: The Politics of Difference in Medical Research"As we move full steam into an era of citizen-driven science, Ruha Benjamin's wonderful examination of stem-cell initiatives is a welcome reminder that politics and social justice don't necessarily enjoy a good prognosis even when scientific priorities are motivated by democratic processes. Science of the people, by the people and for the people does not always mean all the people."—Dalton Conley, New York University
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Schocken Books This Narrow Space
Book SynopsisA memoir both bittersweet and inspiring by an American pediatric oncologist who spent seven years in Jerusalem treating children—Israeli Jews, Muslims, and Christians, and Palestinian Arabs from the West Bank and Gaza—who had all been diagnosed with cancer. In 2007, Elisha Waldman, a New York–based doctor in his mid-thirties, was offered his dream job: attending physician at Jerusalem’s Hadassah Medical Center. He had gone to medical school in Israel and spent time there as a teenager; now he was going to give something back to the land he loved. But in the wake of a financial crisis at the hospital, Waldman, with considerable regret, left Hadassah in 2014 and returned to the United States. This Narrow Space is his poignant memoir of seven years that were filled with a deep sense of accomplishment but also with frustration when regional politics got in the way of his patients’ care, and with tension over the fine line he had to walk whe
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Syracuse University Press AntiPsychiatry Quackery Squared
Book SynopsisMore than fifty years ago, Thomas Szasz showed that the concept of mental illness - a disease of the mind - is an oxymoron, a metaphor, a myth. In this book, he argues that his writings belong to neither psychiatry nor antipsychiatry. They stem from conceptual analysis, social-political criticism, and common sense.
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University of Arizona Press Global Health Why Cultural Perceptions Social
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Peter Lang Group AG Health Risk and News The MMR Vaccine and the
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Fordham University Press Affliction
Book SynopsisFocusing on low-income neighborhoods in Delhi, this book stitches together three different sets of issues. It examines the different trajectories of illness: What are the circumstances under which illness is absorbed within the normal and when does it exceed the normal putting resources, relationships, and even one's world into jeopardy?Trade Review"Told with delicacy, vigour and a sharply criticial eye, this compelling account of the everyday events of illness in low income neighborhoods [in Delhi] shows what anthropological attentiveness can do. If its power comes from the evident power of the mind behind it, it also comes from a modestly understated account of how to be both in the company of people and a recorder of affliction. Above all, it is a work of exquisite attention to the incoherences and normalizations that disease makes of family circumstances, medical practices, state provisioning, singular lives, and that these make of it. Socially sensitive and world-alert at the same time, Das's narrative holds the reader in (gripping, edifying) suspense between its different planes. No less perhaps than one would expect from this author, but a model of social science writing all the same." -- -Marilyn Strathern University of Cambridge "Reading Affliction: Health, Disease, Poverty is like observing a master at work. [This is a] formidable piece of scholarship immersed in more than a decade of ethnographic engagement etched in stunningly crafted anthropological prose. This longitudinal immersion in the everyday lives of urban poor produces a tender and intimate account without lapsing into unwitting sentimentality. An ethnographic and theoretical tour de force!" -- -Aditya Bharadwaj The Graduate Institute, Geneva Veena Das offers a complex ethnographic meditation on illness among the urban poor and the diverse kinds of response (practical, methodological, ethical) it invites. As Das so precisely attends to affliction, readers have the privilege of following one of anthropology's most distinctive and distinguished voices." -- -Michael Lambek University of Toronto "...a compelling read that should be of interest to scholars working in medical anthropology, psychological anthropology, and the anthropology of South Asia" -- Leslie Jo Weaver -Anthropology Quarterly "Veena Das' book, 'Affliction: Health, Disease, Poverty' provides an important, ethnographically powerful, laddering of scenes of instructions for us all." -- Michael M.J. Fischer -Somatosphere "Over four decades Veena Das has established herself as one of the most imaginative and sensitive writers to be found in any of the human sciences. In this brilliant book, she attends to the everyday work of care and endurance that makes up the life of the poor in Delhi. As ever, her ear is attuned to the fateful turn of phrase, the pause, the silence. But in this new volume she attends to other voices as well-[not only] the voices of health professionals and economists, struggling to put their understanding of the objective conditions that shape the experience of health and poverty to practical use but also the voices of fellow anthropologists wrestling with the limitations of their theoretical and descriptive language. Affliction is a work of great generosity and no little beauty. It is, if anything even more remarkable than its predecessors in Das's remarkable oeuvre." -- -Jonathan Spencer University of Edinburgh "This is a must read for scholars and researchers who work on matters related to health and illness and for those in the academy who see their research as being inherently applied and interdisciplinary in nature." -SCTIW Review "In this beautiful volume, Veena Das continues her quest into the minor events and enduring suffering, the mundane intensity of the present and remembrance of things past that constitute ordinary human existence, thus opening a novel line of reflection and research in what can be called an anthropology of life." -- -Didier Fassin author of Humanitarian Reason: A Moral History of the PresentTable of ContentsPreface 1. Affliction: An Introduction 2. How the Body Speaks 3. A Child Learns Illness and Learns Death 4. Mental Illness, Psychiatric Institutions, and the Singularity of Lives 5. Dangerous Liaisons: Technology, Kinship, and Wild Spirits 6. The Reluctant Healer and the Darkness of our Times 7. Medicines, Markets, and Healing 8. Global Health Discourse and the View from Planet Earth 9. Epilogue Note Bibliography Index
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Springer Publishing Company American Indian Health and Nursing
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Springer Publishing Company Professional Moral Courage in Nurse Executive
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Springer Publishing Co Inc The Rebel Nurse Handbook Inspirational Stories by
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Springer Publishing Company Theories Guiding Nursing Research and Practice
Book Synopsis[This book] has its origins in courses taught by the editors and their collaborators for doctoral students. It therefore addresses the need to focus on how theories can be applied in the real world of clinical practice and the research based on it. Introductory and concluding sections make the case for the importance of theoretical frameworks when developing practice and research settings. Eighteen chapters cover individual theoretical approaches. While some, such as the theory of human caring and transformational leadership theory, will be familiar to many readers in the UK, others cover new territory... SCORE: 4/5 stars. --John Adams , honorary research associate, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery , Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Nursing Standard This is the first book to clearly and fully demonstrate the process of using theory to guide nursing research and professional practice. It describes a step-by-step format for evaluating nursing theory''s applic
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Vanderbilt University Press Changing Birth in the Andes
Book SynopsisIn 1997, when the author began research in Peru, she observed a profound disconnect between the birth care desires of health personnel and those of indigenous women. Midwives and doctors would plead with her as the anthropologist to educate women about the dangerous inadequacy of their traditions. They failed to see how their aim of achieving low rates of maternal mortality clashed with the experiences of local women, who often feared public health centers, where they could experience discrimination and verbal or physical abuse. Mainly, the women and their families sought a good birth, which was normally a home birth that corresponded with Andean perceptions of health as a balance of bodily humors. Peru's Intercultural Birthing Policy of 2005 was intended to solve these longstanding issues by recognizing indigenous cultural values and making biomedical care more accessible and desirable for indigenous women. Yet many difficulties remain. Guerra-Reyes also gives ethnographic attenti
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Emerald Publishing Limited Sociology of Diagnosis Advances in Medical
Book SynopsisOffers an introduction to the sociology of diagnosis. This title presents articles that explore diagnosis as a process of definition that includes: labeling dynamics between diagnoser and diagnosed; boundary struggles between diverse constituents - both among medical practitioners and between medical authorities and others; and, more.Table of ContentsList of Contributors. Acknowledgments. Preface. Introduction: Looking within from without. Sociology of Diagnosis: A Preliminary Review. Diagnosis and Medicalization. Defining Social Illness in a Diagnostic World: Trauma and the Cultural Logic of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Resisting American Psychiatry: French Opposition to DSM-III, Biological Reductionism, and the Pharmaceutical Ethos. Labeling, Looping, and Social Control: Contextualizing Diagnosis in Mental Health Care. From Talk to Action: Mapping the Diagnostic Process in Psychiatry. “DSD is a Perfectly Fine Term”: Reasserting Medical Authority through a Shift in Intersex Terminology. Resisting Pathology: GID and the Contested Terrain of Diagnosis in the Transgender Rights Movement. Navigating Professional Knowledges: Lay Techniques for the Management of Conflictual Diagnosis in an AD/HD Support Group. The Vanishing Diagnosis of Asperger's Disorder. Hidden Diagnosis: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder from a Child's Perspective. Sick but Legitimate? Gender Identity Disorder and a New Gender Identity Category in Japan. Diagnosing the Criminal Addict: Biochemistry in the Service of the State. Troubling Diagnoses. Sociology of Diagnosis. Advances in medical sociology. Advances in medical sociology. Copyright page.
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Emerald Publishing Limited Access to Care and Factors That Impact Access
Book SynopsisPart of the "Research in the Sociology of Health Care" series, this title deals with both macro-level system issues and micro-level issues involving access to care, factors that impact access, patients as partners in care and changing roles of health providers.Table of ContentsList of Contributors. Systems of Health-Care Delivery: Sociological Issues Linked to Health Reform and Roles of Patients and Providers. Insider Knowledge and Male Nurses: How Men become Registered Nurses. The Direct Care Worker: Overcoming Definitions by Negation. Medical Interpreting by Bilingual Staff Whose Primary Role is not Interpreting: Contingencies Influencing Communication for Dual-Role Interpreters. Private Rehabilitation Clinics in a Public, Universal Health-Care System. Emergent Situations When Older Homebound Women had Fortuitous Help and a Typology of Helpers who were Involved. Patients, Trust, and Patient Participation: Factors Influencing Whether Patients Want to be Active Health Care Participants. Health-Care Consumerism and Access to Health Care: Educating Elders to Improve Both Preventive and End-of-Life Care. Feminist Centers Negotiating Medical Authority in the 21st Century: Implications for Feminist Care and the U.S. Women's Health Movement. A Strange Thing Happened on the Way to the Market: Privatization in Malaysia and its Effects on the Health-Care System. American Health Care: Public Opinion Differences in the Confidence, Affordability, and Need for Reform. Medicare Knowledge and Health Service Utilization Among Older Adults. Access to Care and Factors that Impact Access, Patients as Partners in Care and Changing Roles of Health Providers. Research in the sociology of health care. Research in the sociology of health care. Copyright page.
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Berghahn Books Evidence Ethos and Experiment The Anthropology
Book SynopsisDrawing on rich, ethnographic and historiographic material, this volume represents the emergent field of anthropological inquiry that links Africanist ethnography to recent concerns with science, the state, and the culture of late capitalism in Africa.Trade Review “Each of the chapters is noteworthy. Together, they offer a promising opportunity to broaden the field of postcolonial science studies in ways that remind us how ethicality is at the heart of these encounters of science… the volume will be useful to medical anthropologists, science studies scholars, and generalist scholars of Africa and global health. Individual chapters, as well as whole sections of the book, will be particularly useful for teaching at the upper-division undergraduate or graduate levels.” • Medical Anthropology Quarterly “…a series of compelling and well written chapters…Considering the explosion of medical research in Africa in the age of global health, Evidence, ethos and experiment is a valuable and much-needed contribution to the development of multiple contextual frameworks for historical and contemporary medical research in Africa and elsewhere.” • Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale “The book is instructive, interesting and innovative. it draws on strong empirical work and opens up significant discussions concerning epistemological and ethical issues and will be of interest to a wide range of scholars, including medical anthropology, history, medicine, science and epidemiology.” • Tijdschrift Medische Antropologie “This is an extremely interesting and innovative collection with unusual empirical richness, with ethical and epistemological discussions cutting across anthropology, medicine, history, epidemiology and other disciplines.” • Lotte Meinert, Department of Anthropology, Aarhus UniversityTable of Contents Introduction: Studying trial communities: anthropological and historical inquiries into ethos, politics and economy of medical research in Africa P. Wenzel Geissler This chapter is available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license thanks to the support of the Wellcome Trust. Engagements Chapter 1. Writing Knowledge and Acknowledgement: Possibilities in Medical Research Susan Reynolds Whyte Chapter 2. Can one Rely on Knowledge? Marilyn Strathern Chapter 3. Being 'with MRC': Infant Care and the Social Meanings of Cohort Membership in Gambia's Plural Therapeutic Landscapes Melissa Leach and James Fairhead Chapter 4. Contextualising Ethics in AIDS Research: or, the Morality of Knowledge Production in Ethnographic Fieldwork on ‘the Unspeakable’ Hansjörg Dilger Chapter 5. Testing a New Drug for Leprosy: Clofazimine and its Precursors in Ireland and Nigeria, 1944-1966 John Manton Chapter 6. Elucidating Ethics in Practice -- Focus on Accountability George Ulrich Evidence Chapter 7. When Physicians Meet: Local Medical Knowledge and Global Public Goods Steven Feierman Chapter 8. The Plausibility Design, Quasi-Experiments, and Real World Research: a Case Study from the Interdisciplinary Monitoring Project for Antimalarial Combination Treatment in Tanzania S. Patrick Kachur Chapter 9. Remember Bambali: Evidence, Ethics and the Co-Production of Truth Ann Kelly Chapter 10. Foetuses, Facts and Frictions: Insights from Ultrasound Research in Tanzania Babette Müller-Rockstroh Chapter 11. Healers and Scientists: The Epistemological Politics of Research about Medicinal Plants in Tanzania or ‘Moving Away from Traditional Medicine’ Stacey A. Langwick Chapter 12. Parasite Lost. Remembering Modern Times with Kenyan Government Medical Scientists P. Wenzel Geissler Chapter 13. Is the Sharia of the Doctors Killing the People? A Local Debate on Ethics and the Control of HIV/AIDS in a Rural Area in Kenya Suzette Heald Politics Chapter 14. The Historical Interface between the State and Medical Science in Africa: Kenya’s Case Kenneth S. Ombongi Chapter 15. The intimate rules of the French Coopération: Morality, Race and the Postcolonial Division of Scientific Work at the Pasteur Institute of Cameroon Guillaume Lachenal Chapter 16. The Mosquito Taken at the Beer-Hall’: Malaria Research and Control on Zambia’s Copperbelt Lyn Schumaker Chapter 17. Trial Communities: HIV and Therapeutic Citizenship in West Africa Vin-Kim Nguyen Chapter 18. Differences in Medicine, Differences in Ethics: or, When is it Research and When is it Kidnapping or is That Even the Right Question? Luise White Index
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Berghahn Books Where There Is No Midwife Birth and Loss in Rural
Book SynopsisIn the Sitapur district of Uttar Pradesh, an agricultural region with high rates of infant mortality, maternal health services are poor while family planning efforts are intensive. By following the daily lives of women in this setting, the author considers the women's own experiences of birth and infant death, their ways of making-do...Trade Review “The book constantly changes between the micro level of the village with good, long quotes or stories from the field to the geopolitics and theories of development. The former really brings the topic to life for the reader, whilst the latter sets the book in the wider socio-economic and political context of India today…Pinto tells a lovely story of applied research ethics, which many who have conducted research in developing countries and/or with marginalised people have experienced…an exciting and useful book for those interested in 'Development Studies'; 'Reproductive Health'; 'Women's Studies', the 'Sociology of Health & Illness' as well as, of course 'Medical Anthropology'.” · Sociological Research Online “…a fascinating new ethnography on birth and infant death and the ways in which these twin events serve as sites for the construction of political subjectivity in areas of rural North India where multiple development projects and discourses converge, leaving in their wake both excess and lack…it provides provocative insights into some of the forces that set our globe offkilter.” · Medical Anthropological Quarterly "Drawing on the theoretical literature of medical anthropology as well as that of psychoanalysis, this is a complex, multilayered work. Pinto is a fine writer, and throughout the book her ethnography... [that] holds together brilliantly... beautifully illuminates her theoretical argument... [and] makes a significant contribution to the literature on reproduction, globalization, and development in India." · South East Review of Asian Studies "...[the] ethnography is…rich, topical, and thought-provoking." · JRAI “Pinto masterfully intertwines reproductive health experiences of women in Uttar Pradesh with wider concerns…Pinto’s book is a valuable contribution to the anthropology of childbirth in India. The author has produced an insightful work enriched with detailed ethnographic descriptions, intense case studies, and nuanced personal reflections on her fieldwork and the production of ethnographic knowledge · AnthroposTable of Contents Note on transliterations Acknowledgments Beginnings Chapter 1. Work: Where there is no midwife Chapter 2. Bodies: The poisonous lotus Chapter 3. Medicine: Development without institutions Chapter 4. Seeing: Visuality in pregnancy Chapter 5. Dying: In the big, big hands of God Chapter 6. Ideals: Ciphers of tradition Chapter 7. Talking: Casting desire Continuing Notes Works Cited
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Berghahn Books The Cult and Science of Public Health A
Book SynopsisIn contemporary manifestations of public health rituals and events, people are being increasingly united around what they hold in common - their material being and humanity. As a cult of humanity, public health provides a moral force in society that replaces "traditional" religions in times of great diversity or heterogeneity of peoples...Trade Review “…an extremely detailed, structured and intelligent investigation into the vast, constantly changing world of public health. Dew excels at addressing the many different variants of public health as a whole: from epidemiology and social determinants to expansive campaigns focused on large populations and environments where the lines between hazard and health become blurred. Where other pieces of work of this nature tend to read as broad and one-sided, Dew has provided a stellar account of the importance of public health in our world as well as the effect the role of public health has on our societies.” · Social Analysis “The main interests of this compelling book are threefold. Firstly, its interest lies in the impressive range of debate and theory that it draws upon to build its argument about the nature of public health. Secondly, the argument presented in the book encourages us to think about public health in relation to society and its beliefs…Thirdly,… it conceptualizes public health not only as an instrument of power, but also as an instrument of morality, thus allowing for a more positive assessment of the function of public health whilst still highlighting its ambivalent nature.” · Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute “…an outstanding overview of public health, neatly traversing complex theoretical fields and developing a fascinating account of the moral significance of modern public health and its rituals…the book truly breaks new ground in allowing us to think through the complexities and paradoxes of public health as it acts at one time to free and protect the individual and at others to tend towards a moral absolutism of control.” · Kevin White, Australian National University, Canberra “…the text is impressive, in terms of the amount of material brought together and the accessibility afforded to potential readers.” · Mike Bury, Royal Holloway, University of LondonTable of Contents Acknowledgements Chapter 1. Introduction: Public health theories and theorising public health Chapter 2. Myths, morality and modern public health Chapter 3. The politics of public health Chapter 4. Health promotion settings and health hostile environments Chapter 5. Public health and health professionals Chapter 6. The political use of public health Chapter 7. Public health campaigns Chapter 8. The cult of health and its rituals References
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Patterns of Everyday Life The Formation of the
Book SynopsisThis volume deals with fundamental aspects of the material life of Islamic societies in the formative period. Three broad sections comprise the scope of the book: the first on housing, the second on textiles and clothing, and the final one on food and drink. In each section, studies based upon both archaeological and literary sources are included. The aim of the collection is to highlight features of continuity between the pre-Islamic cultures of the Middle East and those other aspects which were introduced as a consequence of the development and spread of the Islamic religious tradition. The editor''s introduction to the volume reviews the developments and current trends in each area, and notes the problems in constructing knowledge of the material civilisation of the early Islamic period.Table of ContentsContents: General editor's preface; Introduction; Shelter: Pre-Islamic traditions of domestic architecture in Islamic Egypt, Alexandre Lézine; A mansion in Fustat: a 12th-century description of a domestic compound in the ancient capital of Egypt, S.D. Goitein; The houses of Siraf, Iran, David Whitehouse; The Andalusi house in Siyãsa: attempt at a typological classification, Julio Navarro Palazón; The palm-frond house of the Batinah, Paolo M. Costa; Type and variation: Berber collective dwellings of the Northwestern Sahara, William J.R. Curtis; New caves for old: Beduin architecture in Petra, Piotr Bienkowski; Architectural provision against heat in the Orient, Alexander Badawy; Textiles and clothing: The Tirãz system, R.B. Serjeant; Notes on costume from Arabic sources, Reuben Levy; New data on Islamic textiles from the Geniza, Yedida K. Stillman; Abbasid silks of the 9th century, Ernst Kühnel; Covered with flowers: medieval floor coverings excavated at Fustat, Louise W. Mackie; A medieval face-veil from Egypt, Gillian Eastwood; Food and drink: The most ancient recipes of all, J. Bottéro; The Arab agricultural revolution and its diffusion, 700-1100, A. Watson; Dietetic aspects of food in al-Andalus, Expiración GarcÃa Sánchez; Pots and fire: the cooking processes in the cookbooks of al-Andalus and the Maghreb, Manuela MarÃn; Muzzawar: counterfeit fare for fasts and fevers, David Waines and Manuela MarÃn; Al-Rãzî on when and how to eat fruit, Rosa Kuhne Brabant; Abu Zayd al-Balkhi on the nature of forbidden drink: a medieval Islamic controversy, David Waines, Index.
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Cornell University Press The Evolving Healthcare Landscape
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Taylor & Francis Inc AIDS and AlcoholDrug Abuse
Book SynopsisAIDS is the number one health issue facing the nation today. The way in which AIDS relates to substance abuse is explored by drug abuse researchers in this timely volume. A major focus of AIDS and Alcohol/Drug Abuse is on the problems of conducting AIDS research on racial minorities in this country. Bringing together experts in the field, this volume examines the specific obstacles and challenges researchers have faced in assessing and addressing the needs of underserved populations and maps routes and procedures that can improve both research and available health care services.This unique volume also focuses on aspects of HIV infection that have received little attention elsewhere. It includes the first information published in the open literature about intravenous drug use in Alaska. Another chapter highlights some little-known facts that relate substance abuse to HIV infection in the American Indian/Alaskan Native population, among whom--it has been predicted--a devastatinTable of ContentsContents Preface Expectations of Racial Prejudice in AIDS Research and Prevention Programs in the United States Intravenous Drug Use in Alaska Warning Signs: Intravenous Drug Abuse Among American Indians/Alaskan Natives The Human Immunodeficiency Virus in Alaska and Its Relationship to Intravenous Drug Use Drinking, Alcoholism, and Sexual Behavior in a Cohort of Gay Men Shooting Galleries, Their Proprietors, and Implications for Prevention of AIDS AIDS Prevention With Drug Users: Health Psychology Research Reference Notes Included
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Cambridge University Press The Trajectory of Discovery
Book SynopsisExploring the forces that determine the rate and direction of medical progress, this book brings together the worlds of scientific policy, economics, sociology, and innovation to describe the medical research landscape. Covers how issues, including incentive structures and lack of novelty in drug development, influence and impede progress.Trade Review'With engaging examples and a surprising breadth of research, The Trajectory of Discovery, brilliantly illuminates how both the rate and trajectory of medical research rests on the incentives built into the scientific system and the social context in which research takes place. Khurana deftly applies a host of classical and new findings from across scientometrics, sociology of science, and the economics of innovation to the medical area and highlight why we (don't) know what we (don't) know. Through examples, theory, and empirical research, the book argues that discovery rests crucially on the aggregated choices of many scientists, whose actions are shaped by the social logic of scientific system - a logic that is not necessarily optimized for this endeavor. It will be a great read for social scientists interested in the intricacies of medical science, or doctors in search for explanations of why science works the way it does.' Emil Bargmann Madsen, Postdoctoral Researcher, Danish Centre for Studies in Research and Research Policy, Aarhus University'The rate and direction of medical progress remain neglected topics for systematic study. Mark P. Khurana's The Trajectory of Discovery shines the spotlight on such issues and makes this what is likely to be the most important book on both biomedicine and science policy this year.' Tyler Cowen, Professor of Economics, George Mason University'A compelling route into the contemporary world of science. With plenty of illuminating examples from biomedical research, Khurana gives us an insider's view into how prizes, important discoveries, easily-accessible tools, funding bubbles, temporary emergencies and crises have long-term effect on what scientists study, and contribute to determine whether science will ultimately progress or sluggish. It shows how patients' groups, philanthropic institutions, corporate lobbies and governments can have a say into what gets prioritized and discusses how some of the current obsessions of science, such as having positive findings, publishing first and cumulate citations pose additional frictions. The final portrait is a world where little room, if any, is left to academic freedom.' Chiara Franzoni, Professor of Applied Economics, School of Management, Polytechnic University of MilanTable of ContentsPart I. Incentives, Context and Capital: 1. Citations as currency; 2. Hacking statistics; 3. The allure of prizes; 4. Streetlight effects; 5. Patented and regulated progress; 6. Teams and diversity; Part II. The Financial Determinants of Discovery: 7. The research marketplace; 8. Winners take all; 9. Public service; 10. The medici model; 11. The goldilocks zone; 12. Kindling creativity; Part III. Bending the Arc: 13. Lobbying for change; 14. Scientific elasticity; 15. Death of a star // new kids on the block; 16. Great emergencies; 17. Fraudulent findings; 18. Serendipity; 19. Converging paths; Part IV. Reflecting on the Trajectory: 20. Civic engagement; 21. Uncertainty; 22. Commercialization and power; 23. Morality and progress.
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Cambridge University Press Essential Lifestyle Medicine
Book SynopsisWith an emphasis on practical guidance, this is a thorough overview of Lifestyle Medicine covering the 6 pillars of mental wellbeing, social connection, healthy eating, physical activity, sleep and minimisation of harmful substances and behaviours. Complex clinical skills are explored and sample scripts and clinical assessments included.
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Taylor & Francis Routledge International Handbook of Critical
Book SynopsisThe Routledge International Handbook of Critical Issues in Health and Illness is a multidisciplinary reference book that brings together cutting-edge health and illness topics from around the globe. It offers a range of theoretical and critical perspectives to provide contemporary insights into complex health issues that can offer ways to address inequitable patterns of illness and ill health. This collection, written by an international pool of expert academics from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, is unique in providing theoretical and critical analyses on key health topics, considering power and broader social structures that influence health and illness outcomes. The chapters are organised in three parts. The first covers medical contexts; here, chapters provide commentary and critical analysis of the history of medicine, medicalisation, pharmaceuticalisation, services and care, medical technology, diagnosis, screening, personalised medicine, and Table of ContentsEditors Contributors Acknowledgements 1. Critical perspectives on health and illness Part I. Medical Contexts 2. The social and cultural histories of medicine 3. Medicalisation 4. Pharmaceuticalisation: Origins, drivers and new directions 5. Governing medical technology 6. Health services and care: Political and affective economies 7. Diagnosis: A social and political phenomenon 8. Population-based screening for detection and prevention 9. Personalised medicine 10. Complementary and alternative medicine Part II. Life Contexts 11: Health inequality 12. Beyond binary categories: A contemporary gender studies perspective on health and illness 13. Sexual orientation and gender identity as determinants of health and illness 14. Reproductive justice: Revitalising critical reproductive health research 15. Ethnicity and health 16. Indigeneity and wellness: Critically understanding the health of Indigenous peoples and communities 17. Disability, technology and health 18. Health and illness among older people: What has age got to do with it? 19. Death, dying and end-of-life care Part III. Shifting Contextual Domains 20. Bioethics: Critical reflections and future directions 21. Digital health 22. Migration and health 23. Medical travel: Critical perspectives 24: Place in health, illness and health care 25. Commercialization: The role of unhealthy commodity industries 26. Towards a critical social science of climate change and health 27. Globalisation and health Index
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Taylor & Francis Routledge International Handbook of Critical
Book SynopsisThe Routledge International Handbook of Critical Issues in Health and Illness is a multidisciplinary reference book that brings together cutting-edge health and illness topics from around the globe. It offers a range of theoretical and critical perspectives to provide contemporary insights into complex health issues that can offer ways to address inequitable patterns of illness and ill health. This collection, written by an international pool of expert academics from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, is unique in providing theoretical and critical analyses on key health topics, considering power and broader social structures that influence health and illness outcomes. The chapters are organised in three parts. The first covers medical contexts; here, chapters provide commentary and critical analysis of the history of medicine, medicalisation, pharmaceuticalisation, services and care, medical technology, diagnosis, screening, personalised medicine, and Table of ContentsEditors Contributors Acknowledgements 1. Critical perspectives on health and illness Part I. Medical Contexts 2. The social and cultural histories of medicine 3. Medicalisation 4. Pharmaceuticalisation: Origins, drivers and new directions 5. Governing medical technology 6. Health services and care: Political and affective economies 7. Diagnosis: A social and political phenomenon 8. Population-based screening for detection and prevention 9. Personalised medicine 10. Complementary and alternative medicine Part II. Life Contexts 11: Health inequality 12. Beyond binary categories: A contemporary gender studies perspective on health and illness 13. Sexual orientation and gender identity as determinants of health and illness 14. Reproductive justice: Revitalising critical reproductive health research 15. Ethnicity and health 16. Indigeneity and wellness: Critically understanding the health of Indigenous peoples and communities 17. Disability, technology and health 18. Health and illness among older people: What has age got to do with it? 19. Death, dying and end-of-life care Part III. Shifting Contextual Domains 20. Bioethics: Critical reflections and future directions 21. Digital health 22. Migration and health 23. Medical travel: Critical perspectives 24: Place in health, illness and health care 25. Commercialization: The role of unhealthy commodity industries 26. Towards a critical social science of climate change and health 27. Globalisation and health Index
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