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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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Book SynopsisThis book offers a close analysis of the relationship between diets and identity in modern Western culture through the examination of popular texts including blogs, diet books, and websites.The relationship between consumerism and identity has been explored by scholars for decades now, but less has been said about how food and eating behaviors have been wrapped up in this relationship. Using Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, chapters investigate how diets and eating are used as a means to navigate individuals' complex, unconscious desires and conflicts, and illustrate how diet and advertising industries use this to capitalize on the anxieties of the modern subject. The text's psychoanalytic approach offers rare insight into the unconscious desires that dictate individuals' choices around diets and lifestyle. By situating anxiety as the tension between jouissance and desire, the book promotes further understanding of individuals' subjective and complex relationships with food.Trade Review“What you put in your mouth, how you put it in your mouth, and indeed what you do not put in your mouth, informs us of the individual’s struggle to situate him or herself within a particular social and cultural context. Bethany Morris’ book offers readers a truly unique vantage point into American dieting behaviours from a Lacanian perspective. The Lacanian perspective is absolutely essential for understanding contemporary American diet culture today. This is a valuable resource and will leave all readers with more than enough to chew on.”Duane Rousselle, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Nipissing University, CanadaTable of ContentsChapter 1 – Eating the Lack Chapter 2 – Family Meals Chapter 3 – Comfort Food Chapter 4 – Diets as a Symptom Chapter 5 – Jouissance Is in The Carbs Chapter 6 – Disordered Eating Chapter 7 – Circumventing the Real: Detoxes And Cleanses Chapter 8 – A Diet of Lack

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Book SynopsisThis book reviews a wide-range of genetically modified (GM) crops to understand how they are produced, the impacts on the agricultural industry, and their potential for improving food security. The production of GM crops has now become an invaluable asset in the agricultural toolbox. With a significant portion of the world suffering from hunger and poverty, this book examines how food security can be achieved through GM crops. A wide variety of crops are examined, from the earliest developments of GM tomatoes and potatoes to recent interest in the development of low-cost, high yielding biofuels, such as microalgae. Chapters also discuss the role of GM crops in pest management and the consequential reduction in the use of insecticides. Overall, this book provides an important synthesis of GM crops from their commercial value to the agricultural industry, as well as their potential for improving food security. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars

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Book SynopsisPresenting a wide range of international case studies, the contributors to this book study the impact of Covid-19 on the risks faced by communities around the globe.Examining cases from the Americas, Europe and Asia including Mexico, Brazil, China, India, France, and Belgium Kuah, Guiheux, Lim and their collaborators look at how communities have coped with the social and economic impacts of the pandemic, as well as the public health concerns. Using a framework of risks, fear, and trust, they evaluate how the global health crisis has both revealed and exacerbated a deep crisis of confidence in institutions and systems around the world. In reaction to this they also look at how individuals, social groups and communities have faced fears and built trust at a more local level. The units of spatial analysis in these cases include urban cities, neighbourhoods, slum settlements, migrant camps, schools, markets and homes, for a broad spectrum of case types and rich empirical data.<Table of Contents1 Negotiating trust, risk and fear during Covid-19 pandemic: Responses within local communities across the world 2 Trust and Modalities of Social Action in the Pandemic 3 Practicing Safe Eating during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Hong Kong: A Trust in Action Perspective 4 State-led Covid-19 Governance and the Negotiation of Trust in Local Chinese Communities in the Greater Bay Area of China 5 Covid-19 responses of displaced slum dwellers in Delhi:Whom to trust and to rely on in times of sanitary and economic crisis? 6 Covid-19 responses of Women Solidarity Networks in Brazil: Levels of Protection and (Mis)Trust in a Polarized Society 7 Trust in business in times of Covid-19. The case of the Aubervilliers garment product wholesale market 8 Trust Beyond Binary Choices: Belgian Chinese Immigrants’ Localization of ‘Chinese Bubble’ in the ‘Belgian Bubble’ in the COVID-19 Pandemic 9 "Fear not the want of armor, for mine is also yours to wear:" Trust and Community Cultivation for Risk Response of a Chinese Immigrant Group in the United States 10 Whom to trust? International migration, risks, and responses to the Covid-19 crisis in Mexico and Central America

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Book SynopsisThe biggest challenges in public health today are often related to attitudes, diet and exercise. In many ways, this marks a return to the state of medicine in the eighteenth century, when ideals of healthy living were a much more central part of the European consciousness than they have become since the advent of modern clinical medicine. Enlightenment advice on healthy lifestyle was often still discussed in terms of the six non-naturals â airs and places, food and drink, exercise, excretion and retention, and sleep and emotions. This volume examines what it meant to live healthily in the Enlightenment in the context of those non-naturals, showing both the profound continuities from Antiquity and the impact of newer conceptions of the body.Chapter 8 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429465642 Table of Contents1. “The Most Valuable Part of Medicine”: The Six Non-Naturals in the Long Eighteenth Century; PART 1: AIRS, WATERS AND PLACES; 2. The Body is a Barometer: Dutch Doctors on Healthy Weather and Strong Constitutions; 3. Hot Climate and Health Care: Tropical Regions in the Dutch Atlantic, c.1600-c.1800; PART 2: FOOD AND DRINK; 4. Eating after the Climacteric: Food, Gender and Ageing in the Long Eighteenth Century; 5. The Impossible Ideal of Moderation: Food, Drink, and Longevity; PART 3: EXERCISE AND REST; 6. “For it is the debilitating fibres that execise restores”: Movement, Morality and Moderation in Eighteenth-Century Medical Advice Literature; 7. The Healthy Body, Civic Virtue, Gender and the New Physical Education in Germany, 1770-1800; PART 4: SLEEP AND WAKEFULNESS; 8. “That venerable and princely custom of long-lying abed”: Sleep and Civility in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Urban Society; 9. Wasted Days and Wasted Nights: Sleeping and Waking in the Long Eighteenth-Century; PART 5: EXCRETION AND RETENTION; 10. Keeping the body open. Impurity, excretions, and healthy living in the early modern period.; 11. Increasing and Reducing: Breastmilk Flows and Female Health; PART 6: PASSIONS AND EMOTIONS; 12. Feel-good tunes: Music Aesthetics, Performance and Well-being in the Eighteenth Century; 13. The Dietetics of the Soul in Britain in the Long Eighteenth Century; EPILOGUE; 14. “That is more excellent which preserveth health and preventeth sicknesse.” Continuity and Change in Vernacular Preventive Health Advice over the Early Modern Period

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Book SynopsisLong Lives Are for the Rich is the title of a silent ominous program that affects the lives of millions of people. In all developed countries disadvantaged and, especially, poor people die much earlier than the most advantaged. During these shorter lives they suffer ten to twenty years longer from disabilities or chronic disease. This does not happen accidentally: health inequalities including those between healthy and unhealthy life styles are mainly caused by social inequalities that are reproduced over the life course. This crucial function of the life course has become painfully visible during its neoliberal reorganization since the early 1980s. Studies about aging over the life course, from birth to death, show the inhumane consequences as people get older. In spite of the enormous wealth that has been piled up in the US for a dwindling percentage of the population, there has been growing public indifference about the needs of those in jobs with low pay and high streTrade Review"With a compelling and rigorous critical lens, Jan Baars uncovers the humanly destructive effects of neoliberalism and its 'humanist' intellectual apologists. He demonstrates clearly how popular narratives of social science, philosophy and popular culture are logically and empirically flawed, and how they have served to legitimate neoliberalism’s rise and its continued expansion while naturalizing or otherwise ignoring and obscuring the harmful impact its policies have on individual life chances and aspirations."Dale Dannefer, Case Western University, author of Age and the Reach of the Sociological Imagination"This superb book illuminates, more clearly than any other, the profound relationships among capitalism, neoliberalism, poverty, inequality, and aging. Baars cuts through the misconceptions about healthy aging by showing how the very rich have exploited old people in the quest to accumulate capital. Through a wide range of data and other startling information, the book documents the ways that neoliberal policies prop up global capitalism but deeply hurt people as they age. As a sociologist and medical practitioner trying to care for old people, I often have faced the disastrous conditions that this book describes. But until reading the book, I never fully understood the political- economic sources of patients’ suffering. The book’s revelations point to a need for fundamental social transformation if we are serious about improving health and quality of life for people as they age."Howard Waitzkin, MD, PhD, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Sociology and Health Sciences, University of New Mexico"A bold and original critique of the impact of neo-liberal policies in widening inequalities and undermining social rights. Drawing on his commitment to critical scholarship and a passion for social justice, Jan Baars provides a comprehensive account of the way in which neo-liberal policies have drastically reduced security for the middle and working class in the US, and for disadvantaged older people in particular. He demonstrates how the experiences of older citizens provide a powerful illustration of the operation of social inequalities – and the way these shape health inequalities – over the life course. Jan Baars concludes his book by arguing for a new moral vision of the life course, one guided by considerations of social justice, equity, and mutual respect between citizens."Chris Phillipson, Professor of Sociology and Social Gerontology, University of ManchesterTable of ContentsIntroduction. The neo-liberal turn against a supportive life course and the US as its tragic championChapter 1. From a supportive to an entrepreneurial organization of the life course Chapter 2. Long lives are for the Rich…until this backfires Chapter 3. Main forms and temporal dynamics of social inequalityChapter 4. Ageism as a form of social InequalityChapter 5. Social inequality: from central concern to its marginalization Chapter 6. Theories about Social Justice and Equality over the Life Course: Looking away from Social InequalityChapter 7. Social (In)equality over the Life Course: Pitfalls and Perspectives

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Book SynopsisThis important book provides a critical examination of the sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) of young women and girls in Southern Africa, examining the ways in which current policies and programmes aimed at improving SRHR often fail to reach the most marginalised populations.Addressing key regional challenges such as high rates of unintended pregnancies, unsafe abortions and high rates of HIV, the book highlights how health inequalities in the region are in fact increasing, despite the Sustainable Development Goal of leaving no one behind'.  It draws on theoretical analysis and empirical data gathered from studies carried out in five Southern African countries (Madagascar, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe), arguing that a continued focus on HIV and interventions which target health in a narrow sense often fail to understand the wider socio-economic determinants of poor sexual reproductive health, and the ways in which girls and young women ar

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Book SynopsisDNA Barcoding has been promoted since 2003 as a new, fast, digital genomics-based means of identifying natural species based on the idea that a small standard fragment of any organismâs genome (a so-called âmicro-genomeâ) can faithfully identify and help to classify every species on the planet. The fear that species are becoming extinct before they have ever been known fuels barcoders, and the speed, scope, economy and âuser-friendlinessâ claimed for DNA barcoding, as part of the larger ferment around the âgenomics revolutionâ, has also encouraged promises that it could inspire humanity to reverse its biodiversity-destructive habits.This book is based on six years of ethnographic research on changing practices in the identification and classification of natural species. Informed both by Science and Technology Studies (STS) and the anthropology of science, the authors analyse DNA barcoding in the context of a sense of crisis â concerning global biodiversity loss, but also the

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Book SynopsisThe volume focuses on the relationship between migration, health and illness in a global context from c.1820 to the present day. It takes a wide range of finely-grained case studies to examine epidemic disease and its containment, chronic illness and mental breakdown and the health management of migrant populations in the modern world.Table of ContentsTables and Graphs Figures Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Migration, Health and Ethnicity in the Modern World; Catherine Cox and Hilary Marland 1. Insanity and Immigration Restriction; Alison Bashford 2. Itineraries and Experiences of Insanity: Irish Migration and the Management of Mental Illness in Nineteenth-Century Lancashire; Catherine Cox, Hilary Marland and Sarah York 3. Migration and Mental Illness in the British West Indies 1838-1900: The Cases of Trinidad and British Guiana; Letizia Gramaglia 4. The Colonial Travels and Travails of Smallpox Vaccine, c.1820-1840; Katherine Foxhall 5. Victim or Vector? Tubercular Irish Nurses in England 1930-1960; Anne MacLellan 6. Immigration, Ethnicity and 'Public' Health Policy in Postcolonial Britain; Robert Bivins 7. Immigration and Body Politic: Vaccination Policy and Practices during Mass Immigration to Israel (1948-1956); Nadav Davidovitch 8. From the Cycle of Deprivation to Troubled Families: Ethnicity and the Underclass Concept; John Welshman Index

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

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Book SynopsisThis study explores the female experience of death in early modern England. By tracing attitudes towards gender through the occasion of death, it advances our understanding of the construction of femininity in the period. Becker illustrates how dying could be a positive event for a woman, and for her mourners, in terms of how it allowed her to be defined, enabled and elevated. The first part of the book gives a cultural and historical overview of death in early modern England, examining the means by which human mortality was confronted, and how the fear of death and dying could be used to uphold the mores of society. Becker explores particularly the female experience of death, and how women used the deathbed as a place of power from which to bestow dying maternal blessings, or leave instructions and advice for their survivors. The second part of the study looks at ''good'' and ''bad'' female deaths. The author discusses the motivation behind the reporting of the deaths and the veTrade Review'... a careful treatment of a wide variety of primary materials... the variety of examples (wills, poetry, commonplace books, sermons, letters, treatises, diaries, memorials) lends authority to her claim of a culture-wide picture... will give you a richer understanding of the complexity and contradictions implicit in early modern death and mourning.' ClioTable of ContentsContents: Death in Early Modern England: Facing death: The fear of death: pious publications; Death as God's will: acceptance and preparation; Recording death: rehearsing and revising; Early modern women and death: Witnessing death: the domestic deathbed; Wives, widows and mothers: transition and transformation; Women as healers: medicine and superstition; Death as a gendered experience: blurring the boundaries; The creation of posthumous female images: Patterns for posterity: selecting and editing; Dying mothers: blessings and instruction; A public death: exposure and judgement; Contrasting Images: Women dying badly: Recording poor deaths: private and public writings; Female weakness: physicality and irrationality; Controlling femininity: popular pamphlets; The crime of self-murder: sin and despair; Upholding the patriarchy: education and social cohesion; Women dying well: Women and the family: wives, mothers and daughters; Women and politics: propaganda and persuasion; Religious propaganda: assertion and negation; The upholding of gender: praise and condemnation; Enduring Images: Death as an Opportunity: Women and the rituals of death: Funerals: sermons and sanctification; Commemoration: private grief and public memorials; Execution: assertion and repression; Female martyrs: leadership and idolatry; Female identity in death: wills and posthumous marital status: Women's wills: expression and conformity; Posthumous marital status: temporal and spiritual husbands; Women's writing and death: Women and publication: writing and revealing; Female authorship: challenges and solutions; Autobiographical writing: creation and introspection; Mothers' literary legacies: parenting and authoring; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisIn contemporary western societies, the fat body has become a focus of stigmatizing discourses and practices aimed at disciplining, regulating and containing it. Despite the fact that in many western countries fat bodies outnumber those that are thin, fat people are still socially marginalized, and treated with derision and even repulsion and disgust. Medical and public health experts continue to insist that an obesity epidemic' exists and that fatness is a pathological condition which should be prevented and controlled.Fat is a book about why the fat body has become so reviled and reviewed as diseased, the target of such intense discussion and debate about ways to reduce its size down to socially and medically acceptable dimensions. It is about the lived experience of fat embodiment: how does it feel to be fat in a fat phobic-society? Fat activism and obesity politics, and related controversies, are also discussed. Internationally-renowned sociologist Deborah LuTable of Contents1. Introduction2. Thinking about fat: a review of different perspectives3. Governing fat bodies4. The transgressive fat body5. Being/feeling fat6. Reframing fat: fat activism and size acceptance politics

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Book SynopsisKatie Wright explores how human wellbeing is constructed and how it ''travels'' across spatial boundaries. She draws on empirical research, undertaken with Peruvian migrants based in London and Madrid and their Peru-based relatives and close friends to explore how human wellbeing is constructed and how it ''travels'' transnationally.Trade Review'This innovative book by Katie Wright provides a much needed new perspective on the interrelations between international migration, development and wellbeing. It manages to skillfully combine fascinating empirical insights from the lives of migrants with a new conceptual approach to international migration that focuses on human wellbeing. This book will appeal to a very wide audience of migration and development scholars and serves as a major contribution to contemporary understandings of the experiences of international migrants.' - Professor Cathy McIlwaine, Queen Mary, University of London, UK. 'This rich comparative and multi-sited investigation of international migration goes beyond the narrow focus of traditional economic perspectives, providing a holistic and perceptive approach that foregrounds migrants' understandings of and quest for wellbeing and happiness.' - Professor Manuel A. Vásquez, University of Florida, USA.Table of ContentsIntroduction Migrating for a Better Life? Contextualizing Human Wellbeing in London and Madrid International Migration and Human Wellbeing in London and Madrid How do Constructions of Human Wellbeing Travel? Investigating the Global Interconnectedness of Human Wellbeing Outcomes between London, Madrid and Peru Conclusions and Implications for Theory and Policy

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Book SynopsisDesigning a successful retail business depends on relationships with four groups of people: customers, shareholders, employees and suppliers. This book takes you inside those strategic relationships and shows you how to redesign your business to get them right. Don''t let the humour fool you, there are ground-breaking ideas here. Highlights include a new theory of brands which shows how customer loyalty and service can be transformed. Insights into supply chain structure reveal a path to a new level of excellence. Job satisfaction is also given a complete overhaul for the new century. In each case the solution seems paradoxical - by finding a way to let the human element back into strategy we can actually increase its objectivity and extend its reach. Combining hardcore retail experience with state of the art theory and a steady flow of humour, this is the retail strategy book you''ve been waiting for. It''s infectiously readable, relentlessly illuminating and irreverently funny - it''Trade Review'This book is very well written and entertaining, and it gets behind the scenes to show how large retailers operate, from customer relations to creative accounting. Why can't all business books be this much fun to read?' - Julian Richer, Chairman, Richer Sounds Ltd 'Retail Therapy is an excellent study of the issues confronting retailers and their suppliers. It is not a therapeutic read, it is a call for improvement. Retail Therapy provides some practical solutions so that retailers and suppliers can work together to deliver a better offer to their customers.' - Stuart Rose, Chief Executive, The Arcadia Group 'If you think this book is just another retail primer, think again. This is a stimulating book that places retail in the wider context of good business practice. It is based on common sense and observed practice, both traits that private equity investors value and are applying increasingly to the exciting world of retail. If this book has an underlying theme, it is that there really is a better way out there, something I have believed in all my career.' - David Williams, CEO, First Quench Retail (Thresher and Victoria Wine) 'These guys not only know their retail stuff, but are able to impart their extensive knowledge and experience of this complex and competitive sector in an entertaining way.' - Marketing '...a highly entertaining, commonsense view of how retailers could approach their business operations differently...Where it differs from most business books is that in learning the potential solutions from the anecdotes and case studies, it is actually an enjoyable read.' - David Phillips, Business development manager, supplies The Co-operative Group, Supply Management.comTable of ContentsPreface; D.Williams Dan's Introduction Balancing the Tension between Competing Business Aims Planning Strategic Relationships Customers and the True Nature of the Retail Brand Employees Suppliers Finance

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Book SynopsisA qualitative, social science study using multi-sited ethnography and qualitative interviews with patients and medical professionals that analyses breast cancer experiences and how they are shaped by the interaction with biomedical, institutional and cultural contexts in the UK, France and Italy. -- .

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Book SynopsisHow can sociology explain the emergence of mental disorders in societies or individuals? This authoritative book makes a case for the renewal of the sociology of mental illness, proposing a reorganisation of this field around four areas: social stratification, stress, labelling and culture. Drawing on case studies from a range of global contexts, the book argues that current research focuses on identifying ‘social factors’, leaving the question of causality to psychiatry, while significant critical perspectives remain untapped. The result is an unprecedented resource that maps the current state of sociology of mental health, providing an invigorating manifesto for its future.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Towards a Critical Renewal of the Sociology of Mental Health 1. Social Positions ‘and’ Mental Disorders 2. Society as Stressor 3. The Weight of Labels 4. The Uses of Culture Conclusion: Explaining the ‘Mental Health Crisis’

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Book SynopsisWhat is it like to have a baby in climate crisis? This book explores the experiences of pregnant women and their partners, pre- and post-birth, during the catastrophic Australian bushfire season of 2019-20 and the subsequent COVID-19 pandemic. Engaging a range of concepts, including the Pyrocene, breath, care and embodiment, the authors explore how climate crisis is changing experiences of having children. They also raise questions about how gender and sexuality are shaped by histories of human engagements with fire. This interdisciplinary analysis brings feminist and queer questions about reproduction and kin into debates on contemporary planetary crises.Table of ContentsInterleave 1 1 Reproducing in Climate Crisis Interleave 2 2. Methods in Crisis Interleave 3 3. Breath, Breathing and 'Mum-Guilt' Interleave 4 4. Smoke, Machines and Public Health Interleave 5 5. Kin, Care and Crises Interleave 6 6. Pyro-Reproductive Futures Interleave 7 7. Making Bushfire Babies

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Book SynopsisIn this humane and important exploration of modern medicine, Druin Burch examines the future of medicine, our changing physicalities and the implications of longer life. From birth to death and through the exploration of topics such as disease, sex, mind, eating and drinking, Burch tracks the future of medicine by looking at what is already possible today. Weaving in insights from literature, art and history, The Shape of Things to Come considers the cultural complexity surrounding medicine as well as its impact on the humanities. As a specialist in geriatric medicine Burch writes with a keen understanding of the medical profession. He outlines the areas of medicine which have seen the greatest improvements and optimistically offers insight into further advancements. Praise for Druin Burch: 'A writer of searing intelligence and lively wit' GOOD BOOK GUIDE 'Each chapter is a self-contained pleasure to read' SUNDAY TIMES 'Intriguing and informed' THE TIMESTrade ReviewPRAISE FOR TAKING THE MEDICINE: 'Each chapter is a self-contained pleasure to read, like mini-fables on the perils of medicine' Sunday Times. 'Intriguing and informed' The Times. 'A gripping history of the blundering progress of medicine' Independent. 'A fascinating and irreverant history of medicine and those who've claimed to understand it, written by an NHS doctor with searing intelligence and lively wit' * Good Book Guide *

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Book Synopsis Expanding our understanding of contagion beyond the typical notions of infection and pandemics, this book widens the field to include the concept of biosocial epidemics. The chapters propose varied and detailed answers to questions about epidemics and their contagious potential for specific infections and non-infectious conditions. Together they explore how inseparable social and biological processes configure co-existing influences, which create epidemics, and in doing so stress the role of social inequality in these processes. The authors compellingly show that epidemics do not spread evenly in populations or through simple coincidental biological contagion: they are biosocially structured and selective, and happen under specific economic, political and environmental conditions. This volume illustrates that an understanding of biosocial factors is vital for ensuring effective strategies for the containment of epidemics.Trade Review “The book will be useful to medical anthropologists, public health workers, and other health care providers…Recommended.” • Choice “Challenging the notion that some diseases are non-communicable, [this book] offers an original and coherent argument for rethinking the relations between the biological and the social, but also for thinking through the communicability of conditions through the social, using concepts such as contagion and contamination, configuration and conflagration.” • Ruth Jane Prince, University of OsloTable of Contents List of Figures Introduction: Configuring Contagion in Biosocial epidemics Lotte Meinert and Jens Seeberg Chapter 1. Gender Configurations and Suicide in Northern Uganda Susan Whyte and Henry Oboke Chapter 2. Configuring Epidemic Suicide in Oceania Ted Lowe Chapter 3. Haunted by the Future: Autism and the Spectre of Prison – Configuring Race and Disability in the African American Community Cheryl Mattingly and Stephanie Keeney Parks Chapter 4. Configuring Affection: Family Experiences of Obesity and Social Contagion in Denmark Lone Grøn Chapter 5. Health Activists and Trauma Contagion: Cultural Epidemics and Raising Awareness of Trauma in Post-conflict, Post-tsunami Aceh Jesse Hession Grayman, Mary-Jo DelVeccio Good and Byron Good Chapter 6. Touched by Violence: Configuring Affliction after War in Northern Uganda Lars Williams and Lotte Meinert Chapter 7. ‘These Spirit Attacks are Like an Epidemic’: Spirit Possession as Affective Contagion in Niger Adeline Masquelier, Abouzeidi Maidouka Dillé and Ly Amadou H. Belko Chapter 8. Haunted by Internet Porn: Configuration of a Hidden Contagion Doug Hollan Chapter 9. Contagious Configurations: Reproductive Governance from Abortion to Zika virus in Latin America Lynn M. Morgan Chapter 10. Figures of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis. Jens Seeberg, Bijaylaxmi Rautray and Shyama Mohapatra Afterword: Epidemics and Ghosts Byron Good Index

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Book SynopsisThis Open Access Book contains reports on the situation of people in the second half of life during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic. The analyses are based on the German Ageing Survey (DEAS) and they provide insights on four main areas of life: income and work, subjective health and well-being, social support and loneliness as well as societal participation.This book is useful for scientists as well as political actors by directing attention to the risk groups that have been hard hit by the pandemic while also highlighting the resilience and adaptive capacities of many people in the second half of life.Table of ContentsPart I: Introduction.- Part II: I Material and the employment issues during the Corona Pandemic.- Part III: Active ageing and participation issues during the Corona Pandemic.- Part IV: Health and well-being issues during the Corona Pandemic.- Part V: Social issues during the Corona Pandemic and beyond.- Part VI: Conclusion and implications.

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Book SynopsisThis is the story of a professor of Medical Sociology, diagnosed with colon cancer. He undergoes the appropriate medical treatment. Passing through that trajectory, he realizes that things happen that he never read about in the professional literature. During his illness and rehabilitation he scribbles down notes about what is happening to him, what he is observing and what things do not tally with his knowledge of the sociological literature. This continuous connection of personal experience with academic literature is what makes this book such a powerful account of the ‘everyday’ life of a sick person. Recommended to teachers and students in the field of social health research; to everyone who works in health care, professionals as well as volunteers; and to men and women who themselves are experiencing a serious illness.Table of ContentsForeword.- Preface.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Disruption.- 3. Incantation.- 4. Collective Disruption.- 5. Sickness Work.- 6. Control.- 7. The Outside World.- 8. Legitimation.- 9. Epilogue.- Notes.- Index.

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Book SynopsisAre painkillers mundane medications safe for use to ease human suffering? Or are they drugs of abuse that cause addiction and death? Do they ameliorate pain, or do they cause it? This book explores growing interest among medical practitioners media outlets about the ‘misuse’ or ‘abuse’ of pharmaceutical pain medications. It contextualizes these emerging discourses of pharmaceutical ‘abuse’ within the social and political histories from which they have emerged by exploring the role of pleasure and pain in shaping individualized modes of medication consumption in a neoliberal age of anxiety.The book is divided into two parts: the first addresses the discursive construction of painkiller (ab)use as articulated in research and policy accounts; the second part provides an empirical investigation that draws on the lived experience of those who engage in non-medical consumption. This book argues that, contrary to the stereotype of the ‘seductive’ drug that coaxes its user into a life of dysfunction, there appears to be an intimate relationship between the motivations of pleasure seeking, health practice and productive citizenship among people who use painkillers for non-medical reasons.Table of ContentsForeword.- Acknowledgements.- Abbreviations.- Drug Glossary.- Preface.- Part One.- 1. Introduction: Understanding Painkiller Use in Contemporary Society.- 2. Drugs through Time: The History of the Regulation of Drug Consumption in Australia.- 3. 'Discovering' Non-Medical (Ab)Use: The Meaning and Measurement of Non-Medical Consumption.- 4. Problematizing Pain: Medical, Social and Commercial Approaches to Pain.- Part Two.- 5. Chilling Out: Recreational and Painkiller Use among Young People.- 6. Work Hard, Play Hard: Cycles of Restrain and Release in Painkiller Use.- 7. Chronic Pain and Dependence: Chronic Conditions, Opiates and Stigma.- 8. Beyond ‘Addiction’: Dependence, Injecting and Transitions in Opiate Use.- Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisSickness in the Workhouse illuminates the role of workhouse medicine in caring for England's poor, bringing sick paupers from the margins of society and placing them centre stage. England's New Poor Law (1834) transformed medical care in ways that have long been overlooked, or denigrated, by historians. Sickness in the Workhouse challenges these assumptions through a close examination of two urban workhouses in the west midlands from the passage of the New Poor Law until the outbreak of World War I. By closely analyzing the day-to-day practice of workhouse doctors and nurses, author Alistair Ritch questions the idea thatmedical care was invariably of poor quality and brought little benefit to patients. Medical staff in the workhouses labored under severe restraints and grappled with the immense health issues facing their patients. Sickness inthe Workhouse brings to life this hidden group of workhouse staff and highlights their significance within the local health economy. Among other things, as the author notes, workhouses needed to provide medical care for nonpaupers, such as institutional isolation facilities for those with infectious diseases. This groundbreaking book highlights these doctors and nurses in order to illuminate our understanding of this significant yet little understoodarea of poor law history. ALISTAIR RITCH was consultant physician in geriatric medicine, City Hospital, Birmingham, and senior clinical lecturer, University of Birmingham, UK, and is currently honorary research fellow,History of Medicine Unit, University of Birmingham, UK.Trade ReviewA thoroughly researched book packed full of detail, supported by a plentiful supply of table. * FACHRS NEWSLETTER *A welcome addition both to medical history and to studies of the poor law during the long nineteenth century. * CERCLES *Sickness in the Workhouse is a highly readable book that I found absolutely fascinating. There's no doubt that offering a health service is a complex issue, for medical staff, patients and medical scientists. It seems even more relevant these days as we consider the needs and responsibilities of our National Health Service. -- Sherryl Abrahart * Genealogists Magazine *Table of ContentsList of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction: Pauperism and Sickness From Acute Illness to Chronic Disability Segregating Fever Patients Controlling Disorderly Behavior Day-to-day Doctoring Medical Therapies Poor Law Nursing "Every Care and Kindness": The Standard of Workhouse Medicine Appendix A: Prevalence of Selected Infectious Diseases in Birmingham Workhouse on the Last Day of the First Week of Each Quarter for the Years 1877-80 and 1894-1911 Appendix B: Medical Relief in Birmingham Workhouse for Selected Weeks, 1851-56 Appendix C: List of Drugs Kept in the Wards of Birmingham Infirmary in 1896 Appendix D: Pauperism Rates and Institutionalization Rates for Birmingham Parish, Wolverhampton Union, and England and Wales, 1840-1911 Bibliography

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Disability: The Basics is an engaging and accessible introduction to disability which explores the broad historical, social, environmental, economic and legal factors which affect the experiences of those living with an impairment or illness in contemporary society. The book explores key introductory topics including: the diversity of the disability experience; disability rights and advocacy; ways in which disabled people have been treated throughout history and in different parts of the world; the daily realities of living with an impairment or illness; health, education, employment and other services that exist to support and include disabled people; ethical issues at the beginning and end of life. Disability: The Basics aims to provide readers with an understanding of the lived experiences of disabled people and highlight the continuing gaps

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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

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Book SynopsisThe growing scientific research output from Asia has been making headlines since the start of the twenty-first century. But behind this science story, there is a migration story. The elite scientists who are pursuing cutting-edge research in Asia are rarely ''homegrown'' talent but were typically born in Asia, trained in the West, and then returned to work in Asia. Asian Scientists on the Move explores why more and more Asian scientists are choosing to return to Asia, and what happens after their return, when these scientists set up labs in Asia and start training the next generation of Asian scientists. Drawing on evocative firsthand accounts from 119 Western-trained Asian scientists about their migration decisions and experiences, and in-depth analysis of the scientific field in four country case studies - China, India, Singapore and Taiwan - the book reveals the growing complexity of the Asian scientist migration system.Trade Review'The rise of science in Asia is changing science and Asia. In this fascinating study of Asian scientists returning after being educated and working in the West, the dynamics of migrating scientists as agents of change, enabled by governments' investments into the Research Technology and Innovation systems, are untangled. It reveals their efforts at acculturation and the 'gender compromises' that many women scientists have to make, but above all their passion for science and its values.' Helga Nowotny, Professor em.Former President of the European Research Council'Anju Mary Paul sheds unique light on the rise of bioscience in Asia by detailing Asian scientists' transnational migration trajectories. Combining precise delineations of these scientists' career patterns with sensitive interpretations about their aspirations and dilemmas, the book significantly advances social research on both science and migration.' Biao Xiang, Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Oxford; Director of Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology'This volume uses the example of bioscientists' mobility into and through Asia to show how science is made in and through mobilities in a multipolar research world and through changing bodies. With its deep insights into changing patterns of mobility underpinned by strong theoretical and epistemological conceptualisations, this book will set the agenda for research in skilled mobility for years to come'. Parvati Raghuram, Professor of Geography and Migration, The Open University'Asian Scientists on the Move is a compelling analysis of how scientific mobility and the emergence of an Asian scientist migration system is changing scientific cultures in Asia in general and aspiring scientists' careers in particular. It provides novel insights into how these dynamic processes are lifting select Asian countries from the periphery to the core of global science and in the process lifting the gaze of the region's scientific community with aspirations for Asia as the new locus of knowledge creation.' Devesh Kapur, Starr Foundation Professor of South Asian Studies at The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International StudiesTable of ContentsPart I. Contexts: 1. Introduction; 2. Four Case Studies of Science in Asia; Part II. Circulations: 3. Leaving Home, Heading West; 4. Learning Science in the West; 5. Return to the Future or the Past?; 6. Asian Women Scientists on the Move; Part III. Consequences: 7. New Scientific Research Systems in a Changing Asia; 8. Shifting Scientific Cultures in a Changing Asia; 9. Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis open access book is a thorough update and expansion of the 2017 edition of The Handbook of Salutogenesis, responding to the rapidly growing salutogenesis research and application arena.Revised and updated from the first edition are background and historical chapters that trace the development of the salutogenic model of health and flesh out the central concepts, most notably generalized resistance resources and the sense of coherence that differentiate salutogenesis from pathogenesis. From there, experts describe a range of real-world applications within and outside health contexts. Many new chapters emphasize intervention research findings. Readers will find numerous practical examples of how to implement salutogenesis to enhance the health and well-being of families, infants and young children, adolescents, unemployed young people, pre-retirement adults, and older people. A dedicated section addresses how salutogenesis helps tackle vulnerability, with chapters on at-risk children, migrants, prisoners, emergency workers, and disaster-stricken communities. Wide-ranging coverage includes new topics beyond health, like intergroup conflict, politics and policy-making, and architecture. The book also focuses on applying salutogenesis in birth and neonatal care clinics, hospitals and primary care, schools and universities, workplaces, and towns and cities. A special section focuses on developments in salutogenesis methods and theory.With its comprehensive coverage, The Handbook of Salutogenesis, 2nd Edition, is the standard reference for researchers, practitioners, and health policy-makers who wish to have a thorough grounding in the topic. It is also written to support post-graduate education courses and self-study in public health, nursing, psychology, medicine, and social sciences. Table of ContentsPARTS AND CHAPTERS (Revised Chapters Indicated by Δ)Part I Salutogenesis from its origins to the presentWhat is new in the 2nd Edition?Maurice B. MittelmarkThis is a two-page summary of the entire book, and explains the rationale for a new edition so soon after the 1st edition. It also brags a bit about the popularity of the 1st edition.Mileposts in the development of salutogenesis as a thriving academic arenaBengt LindströmThis new chapter gives Bengt a chance to tell the recent history of salutogenesis' development as a scientific arena, which only he can do justice to. It indicates names, places, events, and key developments that are the mileposts of our field’s development since the mid-1990’s.Δ Meanings of Salutogenesis: The Salutogenic Model of Health, The Sense of Coherence, and the broader salutogenic orientationMaurice B Mittelmark and Georg F. BauerThis returning chapter gets a very light polishing.Δ A profile of Aaron Antonovsky by two who knew him well (1923-1994)Avishai Antonovsky and Shifra SagyThis returning chapter gets a very light polishing.Δ Antonovsky’s development of the salutogenesis ideaEva LangelandThis returning chapter gets a very light polishing. Eva takes over as sole author, with a footnote thanking the original contributions of Hege Vinje and Torill Bull, both of whom are unavailable this time round, and both of whom have told us they are delighted that Eva is taking over the reins.Salutogenesis meeting places: The Society for Theory and Research on Salutogenesis, the Global Working Group on Salutogenesis, and the Center on Salutogenesis at the University of ZurichGeorg F. BauerThis new chapter gives Georg the opportunity to tell readers about our infrastructure to support salutogenesis’ development, and it is a sort of follow-up to Bengt’s earlier chapter. Georg promotes the Society and our web site.Part II Key concepts in the salutogenic model of healthSummary by Part Editor Monica ErikssonA one-page overview of the highlights of this part; really just an abstract of the Part.Δ The Sense of Coherence: The concept and its relationship to healthMonica Eriksson and Bengt LindströmThis returning chapter plans to be lightly polished, but Monica may have more ambitious plans.Δ The Sense of Coherence: measurement issuesMonica Eriksson and Paolo ContuThis returning chapter plans to be at least lightly polished, but perhaps the updated version is to be more extensive, with Paulo coming on as an enthusiastic new co-author (Maurice is coming off from his co-author role in the 1st edition).Δ Salutogenesis: generalised resistance resourcesOrly Idan, Monica Eriksson, Michal Al-Yagon and Ruca MaassThis returning chapter aims to be lightly polished.Δ Salutogenesis: specific resistance resourcesMaurice B. Mittelmark, Marguerite Daniel and Helga UrkeThis returning chapter is lightly polished.Part III The sense of coherence in the life courseSummary by Part Editor Claudia Meier MagistrettiThis Part emphasizes the centrality of cultural contexts at all life course phases, and also the importance of learning in the life course.A one-page overview of the highlights of this part; really just an abstract of the Part.The development of the sense of coherence in pre-, peri- and early postnatal lifeClaudia Meier Magistretti, Soo Downe, Shefaly Shorey, Bengt LindströmThis new chapter proposed by Claudia has several interested, possible co-authors, but authorship and order is still not decided.Δ The sense of coherence in families and childrenOrly Idan, Orna Braun-Lewensohn, Bengt Lindström and Malka MargalitThis returning chapter gets a very light polishing.Δ The sense of coherence in adolescenceOrna Braun-Lewensohn, Orly Idan, Bengt Lindström and Malka MargalitThis returning chapter gets a very light polishing.Δ The sense of coherence in older peopleMaria Koelen, Monica Eriksson and Mima CattanThis returning chapter gets a very light polishing. Not sure if Mima is available this time.Effectiveness of interventions to enhance the sense of coherence over the life courseClaudia Meier Magistretti, Bengt Lindström, Monica ErikssonThis new chapter may have co-authors, but it is still TBD.Part IV Salutogenesis beyond healthSummary by Part Editor Shifra SagyA one-page overview of the highlights of this part; really just an abstract of the Part.Salutogenesis beyond health: interdisciplinary research advancesShifra Sagy, Anan Srour and Adi ManCollective sense of coherence: advances of the concept from the individual to group levelsShifra Sagy, Anan Srour and Adi ManaSalutogenesis, the sense of coherence and intergroup relationsShifra Sagy, Anan Srour and Adi SrourΔ Positive Psychology and its relation to salutogenesisStephen Joseph and Shifra SagyA very light polishing of the 1st-edition chapter.The application of salutogenesis in political settingsGeir Arild Espnes, Ruca Elisa Maass, Mathieu Roy, Delors Juvinyà Canal and Bengt LindströmThis is a new chapter proposed by Geir and with Ruca, Mathieu, Delors and Bengt expressing eagerness to contribute. Shall this chapter address only health politics, and/or political processes more generally? What about equity, social justice, equal opportunity? It should be more than just health if it is to in this Part. It is important for Geir and potential co-authors to discuss this thoroughly, in concert with Shifra, so we can decide where in the book it is really at home.The application of salutogenesis to preservation of the environmentTrevor Hancock is to be contacted by Bengt Lindström about taking lead author responsibility for this chapterPart V Salutogenesis and community-based health promotionSummary by Part Editor Maurice MittelmarkA one-page overview of the highlights of this part; really just an abstract of the Part.Δ The application of salutogenesis in communities and neighbourhoodsLenneke Vaandrager and Lynn KennedyA light polishing is in order, but maybe Lenneke and Lynn have more ambitious plans - TBD.The application of salutogenesis to communitywide mental health promotionVibeke Koushede and Robert DonovanThis new chapter is centered on the ABCs of mental health project in Denmark, and hopefully also the Act-Belong-Commit project in Australia if Robert is interested in participating… Vibeke needs to contact him about this. Both programmes are mental health promotion campaigns using a community approach. Nina Helen Mjösund from Norway might be a good addition to this chapter, but she has not been contacted about this as yet. It is up to Vibeke to decide whether to contact Nina or not.Δ The application of salutogenesis in cities and townsRuca Elisa Karin Maass, Monica Lillefjell and Geir Arild EspnesThis most likely gets a light polishing.The application of salutogenesis in neonatal and infant care settingsSoo Downe (pending confirmation), Claudia Meier Magistretti, Bengt Lindström, Shefaly ShoreyThis new chapter is proposed by Claudia, and the other persons listed have all indicated great interest in this topic. Claudia plans to have discussions with Soo and Shefaly about their participation.The application of salutogenesis in early childcareBengt Lindström and Helga UrkeThis is a new chapter that Bengt and Helga are already in contact about, both ready and eager to collaborate on this.The application of salutogenesis for active, engaged ageing at homeMélanie LevasseurThis chapter and author is a suggestion by Mathieu, and Mélanie is quite happy to take the lead.Digital health promotion and the advancement of salutogenesisPauline Bakibinga, Luis Saboga-Nunes, Georg F. BauerThis new chapter was proposed some time ago (at our Zurich meeting) by Pauline, and Luis and Georg have indicated keen interest. Pauline needs to get a dialogue going between this author grouping to outline the contents of the chapter.Salutogenesis post-graduate education: Experience from the European Perspective on Health Promotion Summer courses, 1991 to the presentVaandrager, L. Bonmati, A., Contu, P., Ortiz Barreda, G., Masanotti, G., Hofmeister, A., Boonekamp, G., Kennedy, L., Pocetta, G., Juvinya, D., Garista, P., Lindstrom, B. & Wrzesińska, M.Maurice is delighted that this group has agreed to participate with a description of this capacity-building summer school on health promotion, in which salutogenesis has permeated every nook and cranny!Part VI Salutogenesis in health-promoting organisations and environmentsSummary by Part Editor Georg F. BauerA one-page overview of the highlights of this part; really just an abstract of the Part.Δ The application of salutogenesis in organisationsGeorg F. Bauer and Gregor J. JennyThis gets a light polishing.Δ The application of salutogenesis at workGregor J. Jenny, Georg F. Bauer, Katharina Vogt and Steffen TorpThis gets a light polishing.Δ The application of salutogenesis in restorative settingsEike von Lindern, Freddie Lymeus and Terry HartigThis gets a light polishing.Δ Salutogenic architectureJan A. GolembiewskiThis gets a light polishing, but knowing Jan it might well be more than that.Salutogenesis for organisational leaders and decision makers: Case studies illustrating what is possibleMathieu Roy and Sally FergusonThis new chapter is under early discussion by Mathieu and Sally.Δ The application of salutogenesis in schoolsBjarne Bruun Jensen, Wolfgang Dür and Goof BuijsThis gets a light polishing.Δ The application of salutogenesis in universitiesMark Dooris, Sharon Doherty and Judy OrmeThis gets a light polishing.Δ The application of salutogenesis in the training of health professionalsLiv Hansen Ausland and Eva LangelandThis gets a light polishing. Liv has kindly agreed to take lead author responsibility as Hege Vinje is unable to do it.The Application of Salutogenesis in Military SettingsAvishai AntonovskyThis new chapter is enthusiastically proposed by Avishai; Maurice is unaware if Avishai plans to ask co-authors to contribute.Part VII The application of salutogenesis in health careSummary by Part Editor Jürgen M. PelikanA one-page overview of the highlights of this part; really just an abstract of the Part.Δ The application of salutogenesis in hospitalsChristina Dietscher, Ulrike Winter and Jürgen M. PelikanThis gets a light polishing.The application of salutogenesis in primary health careDaniela Rojatz, Peter Nowak, Jürgen M. PelikanThis is a new chapter, covering an area that was missed in the 1st edition.Δ The application of salutogenesis in mental healthcare settingsEva LangelandThis gets a light polishing by Eva, without Hege who was co-author in the first edition.Δ The application of salutogenesis in vocational rehabilitation settingsMonica Lillefjell, Ruca Elisa Karin Maass and Camilla IhlebækThis gets a light polishing.Δ The application of salutogenesis in residential care settingsViktoria Quehenberger and Karl KrajicThis gets a light polishing.Δ The application of salutogenesis in chronic care settingsIsabelle Aujoulat, Lawrence Mustin, François, Julie Pélicand and James RobinsonThis gets a light polishing.The application of salutogenesis in midwifery practiceSally Ferguson and Deborah DavisA very welcome new chapter!Sense for coherence: An emerging concept for salutogenesis practice?Claudia Meier MagistrettiAlso a very welcome new chapter; Maurice is not sure it belongs here and needs to hear more from Claudia about its main theme.PART VIII Salutogenesis in challenging social circumstances and environmentsSummary by Part Editor Bengt LindströmA one-page overview of the highlights of this part; really just an abstract of the Part.Δ The salutogenic approach to childcare in Sub-Saharan Africa: A focus on children who thrive in the face of adversityDickson Amugsi, Pauline Backibinga, Dennis MatandaThis offering is from three of Maurice's former PhD students, from Ghana, Kenya and Uganda, a real lift for participation in the book from Africa!Salutogenesis and migrationMarguerite Daniel and Fungisai Puleng Gwanzura OttemöllerThis is from two of Maurice's closest colleagues here in Bergen, whose research is centered right on this topic.Salutogenesis as a framework for child protectionGaby Margarita Ortiz BarredaGaby plans to recruit co-authors; she is a new, very productive member of Maurice's Department.Salutogenesis in Dementia CareJan Golembiewski, Lenneke Vaandrager, Monica Eriksson (pending her interest)Jan is doing a lot of work on this subject these days, and he is very enthusiastic to take this chapter on in addition to his returning chapter elsewhere in this book.Salutogenesis as a framework for social recovery after disasterMathieu Roy and Mélissa GénéreuxA new chapter proposed by Mathieu.Salutogenesis and the mental health of first respondersAvishai AntonovskyA new chapter proposed by Avishai; he may recruit co-authors.Salutogenesis in PrisonsJames Woodall, Nick de Viggiani, Rachael Dixey, and Jane SouthThis new chapter ‘replaces’ the 1st-edition chapter by Henning et al on correctional officers. It now covers prisons more comprehensively.Part IX Salutogenesis theory and methods: developments and innovationsSummary by Part Editor Lenneke VaandragerA one-page overview of the highlights of this part; really just an abstract of the Part.Evolution of the ‘health’ concept in salutogenesisJürgen M. Pelikan and Georg F. BauerA new chapter these fellows have been dying to write for ages!An Integrated Health Development Model: Interaction Paths of Pathogenesis and SalutogenesisGeorg F. BauerGeorg has written about this integration before, but we need it in our book!Theoretical issues in the further development of the sense of coherence constructJacek HochwälderMaurice recruited Jacek after reading some of his newer work on salutogenesis as theory. He has a forthcoming journal publication on this subject that is impressive.Qualitative approaches to the study of the sense of coherenceAvishai Antonovsky, Lenneke Vaandrager, Susana Arveklev Höglund, Ulla Hällgren Graneheim, Berit Lundman (Pending expressions of interest from the last four)This is Avishai’s proposal, supported enthusiastically by Monica and LennekeThe dynamic interrelatedness of the sense of coherence componentsLuis Saboga-NunesThis is Luis’ proposal, as a member of the Working Group.Context-sensitive evaluation of salutogenic interventionsLenneke VaandragerLenneke is tremendously excited about writing this chapter!Salutogenesis and health literacy – how do these concepts relate?Jürgen M. Pelikan, Luis Saboga-NunesThese two are already in contact about this chapter; they may ask other health literacy aficionados to participate.Fostering salutogenesis and Indigenous CommunitiesMargareth Santos Zanchetta, Melissa Stevenson, Joanna Anneke Rummens, Michelle Peltier and two collaborators, Jessica Sherk and Matthias Nunno.Maurice recruited Margareth and her team after reading her work on this subject; this chapter really adds depth and context to the book.Salutogenesis in academic literature other than English: A comparative analysisBengt LindströmBengt and Maurice had the idea to include other languages in this way, thinking that it might be too early to update the languages Part from the 1st edition. This analysis plans to use, among other material, the chapters in this Part of the 1st edition.

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Book SynopsisMedical anthropology is playing an increasingly important role in public health. This book provides an introduction to the basic concepts, approaches and theories used, and shows how these contribute to understanding complex health related behaviour. Public health policies and interventions are more likely to be effective if the beliefs and behaviour of people are understood and taken into account. The book examines: Concepts of culture Medical systems Patient's experience of illness and treatment The use of medicines and healing practices Public health and medical research Examples of particular health problems, such as HIV and malaria, are used to show how an anthropological approach can contribute to both a better understanding of health and illness and to more culturally compatible public health measures.Series Editors: Rosalind Plowman and Nicki Thorogood.Table of ContentsOverview of the book Anthropology and cultureAnthropological perspectivesApproaches to medical anthropologyMedical systems and medical syncretismInterpreting and explaining sicknessSituating sickness and healthThe relationship between anthropology and biomedicineSubstances of powerLocal and global medicinesCultures, persons, bodiesMedical researchHealth interventions as a field of social practiceIndex

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Book SynopsisClose relationships are a vital part of people''s daily lives; thus family members, friends, and romantic partners play an integral role in people''s health and well-being. Understanding the ways in which close relationships both shape and reflect people''s health and wellness is an important area of inquiry. Showcasing studies from various disciplines that are on the cutting-edge of research exploring the interdependence between health and relationships, this collection highlights several relationship processes that are instrumental in the maintenance of health and the management of illness, including interpersonal influence, information management, uncertainty, social support, and communication. Although the existing health literature is rich with knowledge about individual and ecological factors that are influential in promoting certain health behaviors, the relationship scholars featured in this volume have much to contribute in terms of documenting the interpersonal dynamics that Trade Review'Health and wellness are substantially affected by the quality of communication in close relationships. In this volume, Theiss and Greene bring together an exceptional group of scholars whose cutting-edge research illuminates the important connections between social behavior and well-being. This text will prove to be an essential resource for researchers and students alike.' Kory Floyd, University of Arizona'This interdisciplinary volume provides a major advance in our understanding of how close relationships and actual interpersonal interactions shape (and are shaped by) health behaviors, health decisions, and ultimately health outcomes. As scholars, scientists, and health professionals seek new perspectives on vexing health problems, this book will be an indispensable guide for years to come.' David Sbarra, University of Arizona'This is an exceptional collection that focuses on how people in close relationships cope with health-related challenges. Cutting-edge research is presented, documenting the interplay between being in a close relationship (as a spouse, intimate partner, family member, or healthcare provider interacting with a patient) and health outcomes. This will be an invaluable resource for health researchers and students in communication, psychology, family studies, and nursing as well as for health practitioners who want to understand the role of close relationships in health.' Valerian Derlega, Old Dominion University, VirginiaTable of ContentsIntroduction: the interdependent influence among relationships, health, and wellness Jennifer A. Theiss and Kathryn Greene; Part I. Interpersonal Influence in Health and Relationships: 1. Differences in perceptions of spousal influence and family communication in cancer risk-reducing behaviors Wendy C. Birmingham and Maija Reblin; 2. Stigma, heteronormative passing with healthcare providers, and partner health involvement in male same-sex couples Stephen M. Haas; 3. 'Let's take a walk': relationship maintenance and health communication in romantic relationships Tricia Burke; Part II. Information Management in Health and Relationships: 4. Health-related issues that individuals with type 2 diabetes avoid discussing with their romantic partner John Leustek and Jennifer A. Theiss; 5. Closeness, recipient response, and interaction effectiveness: an application of the actor-partner interdependence model in the mental health disclosures Maria K. Venetis, Patricia E. Gettings and Skye Chernichky-Karcher; 6. From the drawing board to the kitchen table: an analysis of parental messages concerning nutrition, physical activity, and weight Emily Scheinfeld, Erin Nelson and Brittani Cook; Part III. Uncertainty in Health and Relationships: 7. 'We have been robbed of the life we planned': relational turbulence and experiences of Alzheimer's disease Danielle Catona; 8. Communication as a source of misunderstanding and a resource for responding to the stress of parental caregiving Teresa Keeler; 9. Examining uncertainty and interference with cardiology patients: applying a relational turbulence perspective in health contexts Amanda Carpenter, Kathryn Greene, Maria G. Checton and Danielle Catona; 10. Uncertainty management in bereavement: parent and child uncertainty sources and management strategies Brandi N. Frisby, Jacob M. Matig and Christina J. Harris; Part IV. Support and Caregiving in Health and Relationships: 11. Family reactions to partner stress and depression in same-sex couples: a dyadic examination of the moderating effects of dyadic coping Chun Tao, Ashley K. Randall and Casey J. Toenhagen; 12. 'I just want my wife and my life back': men's experiences of stress and social support during their partner's postpartum depression Keli Steuber-Fazio, Keelin Moran, Caitlin McNair and Erica Cogland; 13. Communication skills (Comskil) training for oncology nurses to improve patient centered care Smita C. Banerjee, Ruth Manna and Patricia A. Parker; Part V. Communication Patterns in Health and Relationships: 14. Alcoholic and non-alcoholic parents' orientations toward conformity and conversation as predictors of attachment and psychological well-being for adult children of alcoholics Marie C. Haverfield and Jennifer A. Theiss; 15. Alzheimer's caregiver distress in adulthood: the role of time invested in caregiving and family verbal aggression in childhood Lindsay Susan Aloia and Anne M. Stone; 16. Depression and sexual intimacy: layered challenges and communication strategies Amy L. Delaney; Epilogue: the important role of relationship research in promoting healthy individuals and relationships Jennifer A. Theiss and Kathryn Greene.

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Book SynopsisStriking the right balance between public health priorities and health innovation is a critical policy challenge for India given their mutually conflicting nature and interests. India has a huge burden of diseases implicated by a gamut of health problems including the uneven distribution of demographic and epidemiological transition, threat of new infectious disease pandemic like COVID 19, increasing privatisation of healthcare, low affordability to life saving medicines and most importantly the escalating healthcare expenditure coupled with poor financial risk protection. The central question that the book addresses is whether health innovation in India is sensitive to the public health needs and priorities. It unearths the overriding issues related to responsiveness and equity in India''s health innovation. The book highlights the need for a responsible innovation framework for India that balances the priorities of public health and the industry goals.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; List of tables and figures; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Health Innovation and its Institutional Co-production in India; 2. The Disease Focus of Health Research and Development; 3. Drug Development and Responsiveness to Disease Burden; 4. Affordability and the Social Divide; 5. The Puzzle of Responsive and Responsible Health Innovation; References; Index.

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Book SynopsisSakkiya is a Hausa word, which has its origin from the Hausa culture, and it means the act of using hot pointed metallic tip to puncture bodily swelling with the aim of achieving a curative effect. The Hausa culture is one of the three most popular cultures in Nigeria. The Hausas are predominantly located in the northwestern geopolitical zone of Nigeria, predominantly working as farmers. The majority of the Hausa people practice the Islamic religion. Encounters from the medical setting with cases of complications arising from failure of Sakkiya treatment, where some patients did not survive this treatment made investigation into this form of alternative medicine a paramount issue. In order to fill the void of information and literature on Sakkiya treatment, the authors embarked on a literature search and field studies resulting in this book. The authors found a lack of historical evidence concerning the old traditional Sakkiya practice, and therefore urge archaeologists, anthropologists, sociologists and historians to investigate into the historical evolution of Sakkiya practice in northern Nigeria.Kehinde Kanmodi, BDS, ACIPM, AISQEM is a dental surgeon, lecturer, multidisciplinary researcher, and manager affiliated with Cephas Health Research Initiative Inc, Ibadan (head office), Community Health Officers Training Programme, Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital, Sokoto, National Teachers Institute, Department of Political Science of the National Open University of Nigeria, Abuja, Nigerian Institute of Management, Abuja, Chartered Institute of Project Management, Lagos, and Dental Clinic, Kebbi Medical Centre, Kalgo, Nigeria.Joav Merrick, MD, MMedSci, DMSc, born and educated in Denmark is professor of pediatrics, child health and human development affiliated with the Division of Pediatrics, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Mt Scopus Campus, Jerusalem, Israel, Kentucky Childrens Hospital, University of Kentucky, Lexington, United States and professor of public health at the Center for Healthy Development, School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, United States, the former medical director of the Division for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services, Jerusalem and the founder and director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Israel.

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Book SynopsisThis lucidly written textbook covers the historical background of clinical sociology as a field and its developing trends around the world. It addresses the urgent need for sociologists to develop a clinical approach in their effort to improve society, with the emphasis that clinical sociology should complement the work of other disciplines such as clinical psychology, social work, and social anthropology. This book discusses in depth the concept of clinical sociology itself and the obligations of clinical sociologists. It fills a gap in the literature which reveals a lack of discussion and consensus on the roles and responsibilities of clinical sociologists, therefore making an important contribution to clinical sociology, and sociology, more broadly. Graduate students, practitioners and professionals in the field of clinical sociology, social work and other related disciplines will find this book very useful. Table of ContentsPart I: Introduction to Clinical Sociology.- Chapter 1. Introduction: Setting the Stage for Clinical Sociology.- Part II: The Fundamentals of Clinical Sociology.- Chapter 2. Defining ‘Clinical Sociology’.- Chapter 3. Interdisciplinary Collaboration.- Part III: The Contributions of Clinical Sociology.- Chapter 4. Beyond Research: From Respondents to Clients.- Chapter 5. Case Management.- Chapter 6. Attracting the Clinically-Inclined.- Chapter 7. Where Do We Go From Here? Conclusion.- Index.

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Book SynopsisThe book critically examines how concepts such as self-determination, participation, ethics, or dialogue, developed not least by the feminist movement and directed against repression, heteronomy and professional paternalism, have been integrated into new contexts and transformed into new social technologies. Crossing a variety of fields from birthing, genetic counselling, living wills, hospital ethics, to population policies and politics of biomedicine, it shows that medicine and medicine-related policies and practices form crucial arenas of these transformations. What we see emerging is procedural management as a new set of social techniques. With a preface by William Ray Arney.

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Book SynopsisThis book covers the questions ranging from medical ethics and points of law to issues in medical negligence viewed from the standpoint of practically all specialities in the practice of medicine and surgery. The discussions are enlivened by reports on illustrative cases and human interest stories which would be of great interest to patients, practising doctors, hospitals, advocates and members of Consumer Fora. The chapters on almost every branch of Medicine and Surgery contains a wealth of up-to-date information on the current scientific understanding of the subject, which intends to present medical malpractice in the larger context of the admirable advances in medicine which have made life so much safer and better in the last few decades. The book contains detailed guidelines to the doctors, patients and hospitals in three different chapters with a concluding chapter on Medical Insurance. The book is written in a lucid style which would be understood not only by physicians and lawyers but also the general public.

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Book SynopsisCOVID-19: Proportionality, Public Policy and Social Distance explores the social and political response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It details the sociological aspects of the spread of the virus, the role played by social distancing in virus mitigation, and the comparative effect of social proximity and distance on national anti-viral behavior. Peter Murphy discusses various public policy approaches to the pandemic and their successes and failures. In this engaging analysis, he investigates the way that contemporary societies think about risk, threat and harm, and how social mood affected the response to COVID-19.Table of Contents1. Social Distance.- 2. Public Policy.- 3. Social Mood.

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Book SynopsisOne Sunday in February 1987, protesters stood outside the Unitarian Universalist Church of Amherst in Massachusetts, whose minister planned to hand out condoms during his sermon, dramatizing the need for the church to confront the AIDS crisis. The minister gave out nearly five hundred condoms as the audience exploded into applause. But he could not hang around to enjoy it; having received threats in advance of the service, he dashed out of the sanctuary immediately. Thus was the climate for religious AIDS activism in the mid-1980s. After the Wrath of God is the first book to tell the story of American religion and the AIDS epidemic. Anthony Petro shows how religious leaders and organizations posited AIDS as a religious and moral epidemic, and analyzes how this construction has informed cultural and political debates about public health and sexual morality. While most attention to religion and AIDS foregrounds the role of the Religious Right, this book examines the much broader-and moreTrade Review[O]f interest to graduate students in the social sciences. * Mary Jo Iozzio, Religious Studies Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction: AIDS, Sexuality, and American Religion ; 1) Emerging Morality: American Christians, Sexuality, and AIDS ; 2) Governing Authority: C. Everett Koop and the Moral Politics of Public Health ; 3) Ecclesiastical Authority: AIDS, Sexuality, and the American Catholic Church ; 4) Protest Religion!: ACT UP, Religious Freedom, and the Ethics of Sex ; Afterword: We "Other Christians" ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index

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Book SynopsisSocial epidemiology is the study of how the social world influences -- and in many cases defines -- the fundamental determinants of health. This link was substantiated in the first edition of Social Epidemiology, and the generation of research that followed has fundamentally changed the way we understand epidemiology and public health. This much-awaited second edition elevates the field again, first by codifying the last decade of research, then by extending it to examine how public policies impact health. The new edition includes: 11 fully updated chapters, including entries on the links between health and discrimination, income inequality, social networks, and emotion Four all-new chapters on the role of policies in shaping health, including how to translate evidence into action with multi-level interventions Updated references, detailing the best research over the last two decadesThe result is a bold, brilliant text that will serve the new world of epidemiology in which scientists bTrade ReviewAn extraordinary work of scholarship. Its excellence provides assurance that it will become a classic. * Leon Eisenberg, New England Journal of Medicine *[Social Epidemiology] is brilliant. * Journal of Public Health Medicine *In providing a resource that explicates the social determinants of illness and helps the reader to understand the impact of social organization and structure of health and access to healthcare, the editors make this book a valuable contribution to the literature on psychosocial epidemiology. * Doody's *Provocative and stimulating... a great resource. * International Journal of Epidemiology *An important book, and a critical and timely addition to the field. * The Epidemiology Monitor *Table of ContentsForeword ; Leonard Syme ; Chapter 1 ; A Historical Framework for Social Epidemiology: Social Determinants of Population Health ; Lisa F. Berkman and Ichiro Kawachi ; Chapter 2 ; Socioeconomic Status and Health ; M. Maria Glymour, Mauricio Avendano, and Ichiro Kawachi ; Chapter 3 ; Discrimination and Health Inequities ; Nancy Krieger ; Chapter 4 ; Income Inequality ; Ichiro Kawachi and SV Subramanian ; Chapter 5 ; Working Conditions and Health ; Lisa F. Berkman, Ichiro Kawachi, And Tores Theorell ; Chapter 6 ; Labor Markets, Employment Policies, and Health ; Mauricio Avendano and Lisa F. Berkman ; Chapter 7 ; Social Network Epidemiology ; Lisa F. Berkman and Aditi Krishna ; Chapter 8 ; Social Capital, Social Cohesion, and Health ; Ichiro Kawachi and Lisa F. Berkman ; Chapter 9 ; Affective States and Health ; Laura D. Kubzansky, Ashley Winning, and Ichiro Kawachi ; Chapter 10 ; Changing Health Behaviors in a Social Context ; Cassandra Okechukwu, Kirsten Davison, and Karen Emmons ; Chapter 11 ; Experimental Psychosocial Interventions ; Thomas A. Glass, Amii M. Kress, and Lisa F. Berkman ; Chapter 12 ; Policies as Tools for Research and Translation in Social Epidemiology ; M .Maria Glymour ; Chapter 13 ; Applications of Behavioral Economics to Improve Health ; Ichiro Kawachi ; Chapter 14 ; Biological Pathways Linking Social Conditions and Health: Plausible Mechanisms and Emerging Puzzles ; Laura D. Kubzansky, Teresa E. Seeman, M .Maria Glymour ; Chapter 15 ; From Science to Policy ; Michael Marmot and Jessica Allen

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