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Book SynopsisThis book is the first to focus on sex- and gender-based analysis (SGBA) in public health, addressing the dearth of thinking, practice, and publication on SGBA and public health. The Canadian government is a global leader in seeking gender equity and mandating SGBA in federal initiatives, programs, and policies, continuing to advocate for the uptake of SGBA. However, there is differential uptake of SGBA in many fields, and public health is lagging behind. This book analyses the movement toward SGBA in Canada and internationally, highlighting some key examples of public health concern such as HIV/AIDS and tobacco use.An international group of experts in the fields of SGBA, public health, program evaluation, policy development, and research comprise the authorship of the book. Collectively, the team of authors and editors have deep expertise in SGBA and public health nationally and internationally and have published widely in the SGBA literature.Topics explored among the chapters – organized under three thematic content areas: the SGBA terrain in public health, illustrative examples from the field, and the implications of SGBA in public health – include: Sex- and Gender-Based Analyses and Advancing Population Health Beyond “Women’s Cancers”: Sex and Gender in Cancer Health and Care Women, Alcohol and the Public Health Response – Moving Forward from Avoidance, Inattention and Inaction to Gender-Based Design Understanding Pandemics Through a Sex- and Gender-Based Analysis Plus (SGBA+) Lens Sex- and Gender-Based Analysis and the Social Determinants of Health: Public Health, Human Rights and Incarcerated Youth Gender-Transformative Public Health Approaches Sex- and Gender-Based Analysis in Public Health is an important text for graduate-level students and trainees as well as public health practitioners in a variety of disciplines such as health promotion, nursing, health administration, public administration, sociology, political science, gender and women’s studies. The book also is an essential resource for specialists in public health policy, programming, research, and evaluation.Table of ContentsForeword: Veronica MagarChapter 1: Introduction: Sex- and Gender-Based Analysis (SGBA) and Public HealthPart I: The SGBA TerrainChapter 2: Missing in Action: Sex- and Gender-Based Analysis in Public Health Chapter 3: Sex- and Gender-Based Analyses and Advancing Population HealthPart II: SGBA MattersChapter 4: HIV Prevention and the Need for Gender-Transformative ApproachesChapter 5: Tobacco Blinders: How Tobacco Control Remained Generic for Far Too LongChapter 6: Beyond “Women’s Cancers”: Sex and Gender in Cancer Health and CareChapter 7: Tuberculosis and the Relevance of Sex- and Gender-Based AnalysisChapter 8: Women, Alcohol and the Public Health Response – Moving Forward from Avoidance, Inattention and Inaction to Gender-Based DesignChapter 9: Sexual Health PromotionChapter 10: Understanding Pandemics Through a Sex- and Gender-Based Analysis Plus (SGBA+) Lens Part III: The Responsibilities of Public HealthChapter 11: Sex- and Gender-Based Analysis and the Social Determinants of Health: Public Health, Human Rights and Incarcerated Youth Chapter 12: Gender-Transformative Public Health ApproachesChapter 13: Translation, Implementation, and Engagement

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Book SynopsisThis book is a fresh and readable account of the Covid-19 pandemic and how scientists and medical doctors are helping governments to manage the crisis. The book contains interviews and exchanges with dozens of scientists, doctors, experts, government representatives, and journalists. Why do some of the most scientifically advanced countries have the highest Covid-19 mortality? During the pandemic, the research community has been at the heart of—and actor in—a global scandal. Why has science failed? With the help of numerous testimonies from China, France, the UK and the USA in particular, the book provides an insider’s view on this major crisis. Although the governments of these countries based their Covid-19 strategy on science, scientists failed to have a decisive influence on decision-makers—except in China—, which created genuine “time bombs.” The accelerated development of vaccines does not erase past months’ errors. The crisis led to the development of “science politics” at an unprecedented rate. More worryingly, experts themselves acknowledge that they did not rise to the challenge. Covid-19 also highlighted the weakness of democratic regimes and the power of technocapitalism. Countries pulled down their blinds, locked their doors, and promoted national approaches rather than international cooperation. The author proposes to set up an international framework on health risk to co-construct decision-making. He advocates political distancing in order to put the basics first: develop science, fight ignorance.The author, Michel Claessens on the Science for Policy Podcast from SAPEATable of ContentsA Microscopic Killer.- COVID-19 Diary.- Geopolitics of the Coronavirus.- Political Distancing.

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Book SynopsisThis open access book provides insight on how to interpret capability in ageing – one’s individual ability to perform actions in order to reach goals one has reason to value – from a multidisciplinary approach. With for the first time in history there being more people in the world aged 60 years and over than there are children below the age of 5, the book describes this demographic trends as well as the large global challenges and important societal implications this will have such as a worldwide increase in the number of persons affected with dementia, and in the ratio of retired persons to those still in the labor market. Through contributions from many different research areas, it discussed how capability depends on interactions between the individual (e.g. health, genetics, personality, intellectual capacity), environment (e.g. family, friends, home, work place), and society (e.g. political decisions, ageism, historical period). The final chapter summarizes the differences and similarities in these contributions. As such this book provides an interesting read for students, teachers and researchers at different levels and from different fields interested in capability and multidisciplinary research.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. The AgeCap conceptual framework for research on capability in ageing.- Chapter 3. The ICECAP-O measure.- Chapter 4. The capability approach in epidemiological studies.- Chapter 5 – Good self-rated health as an indicator of personal capability in old age.- Chapter 6. Capability in research on cognition and well-being in ageing and retirement.- Chapter 7. The neurochemistry of Alzheimer’s disease: one of the most common causes of reduced capability in the adult population.- Chapter 8. The capability approach in research on ageing well at home for frail older people.- Chapter 9. eHealth literacy and capability in the context of the pandemic crisis.- Chapter 10. Increasing people’s capabilities by using design thinking in the decision-making process.- Chapter 11. The capability approach in social work with older people.- Chapter 12. A historical perspective on ageing and capability.- Chapter 13. The capabilities approach and the concepts of self-determination, legal competence and human dignity in social services for older people.- Chapter 14. Invisible or powerful? Ageing in a mediatised society.- Chapter 15. System and life-course perspectives on capability to work and capability through work.- Chapter 16. Organisational capability for delayed retirement.- Chapter 17. Capability and political participation among ageing populations.

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Book SynopsisThis book is the result of reflections and work of the Specialty group on neurology in migrants of the World Federation of Neurology. The volume provides a synthesis of migrants’ health in relation to the sustainable development goals and the 2030 agenda, and an up-to-date overview on neurological diseases among migrants, refugees and ethnic minorities.The book is composed of both general chapters dealing with the history of migration, the relationship between climate change and migration flows, the migration and neurosciences research and the barriers to migrant’s health. Other chapters deal with the migrants' particularities of the common neurological diseases such as cerebrovascular diseases, epilepsy, dementia, movement disorders, multiple sclerosis, headache, functional and mental disorders. In addition, also neurological manifestation of COVID-19 in ethnic minorities and palliative care in migrants are discussed.Neurology in Migrants and Refugees will be useful to neurologists worldwide who can find appropriate knowledge for diagnosis and treatment when facing migrants with neurological disorders which are sometimes difficult to assess in the absence of clinical experience with the migrant population. It will also be very useful for international organizations, policymakers and non-governmental organizations working in the field of health and migration.This book will certainly find an indispensable place in neurological departments libraries and will constitute a basic textbook for teaching neurology taking into account ethnicity, culture and health inequalities in the care of neurological disorders.Table of Contents​ForewordPrefacePart I. Introductory Testimonies1. The trauma of migration. Considerations from a first-line doctor in Lampedusa2. Migration and PoetryPart II. Historical, Geography, and Health Problems of Migration3. History of Migration4. Migration across History5. History of North African Migration to Europe: the Case of Morocco6. Migration, Environment and Climate Change7. Child Migration and School Achievement8. Barriers to Health for Migrants and Refugees9. Contributions of Migration and Refugees Research to Neurology and Neurosciences10. How can Host Countries Provide Neurological Care to Migrants and Refugees11. Neurological and Mental Health Problems among Refugees from South AsiaPart III. Neurological Disorders in Migrants12. Neuroinfectious Diseases in Migrants and Refugees13. The Devastating Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Ethnic Minorities, Migrants, and Refugees14. Cerebrovascular Risk Factors in Migrants and Refugees15. Stroke in Migrants16. Multiple Sclerosis in Migrants17. Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorders in Migrants18. Neurological Manifestations of Behçet Diseases related to Migration and Ethnicity19. Headache in Migrants and Refugees20. Epilepsy in Migrants21. Movement Disorders in Migrants22. Cross-cultural Cognitive Examination in Aging Migrants23. Dementia in Aging Migrants24. Anxiety and Depression in Migrants25. Somatization and Functional Disorders in Migrants and Refugees26. Palliative Care in MigrantsPart IV. Future Developments27. Migrants’ Health, the Sustainable Development Goals and the COVID-19 pandemic

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Book SynopsisThis Open Access book provides illustrative case studies that explore various research and innovation topics that raise challenges requiring ethical reflection and careful policymaking responses. The cases highlight diverse ethical challenges and provide lessons for the various options available for policymaking. Cases are drawn from many fields, including artificial intelligence, space science, energy, data protection, professional research practice and pandemic planning. Case studies are particularly helpful with ethical issues to provide crucial context. This book reflects the ambiguity of ethical dilemmas in contemporary policymaking. Analyses reflect current debates where consensus has not yet been achieved. These cases illustrate key points made throughout the PRO-RES EU-funded project from which they arise: that ethical judgement is a fluid enterprise, where values, principles and standards must constantly adjust to new situations, new events and new research developments. This book is an indispensable aid to policymaking that addresses, and/or uses evidence from, novel research developments.Table of ContentsChapter1. Introduction: Making the Case for the Case (Dónal O’Mathúna).- Chapter 2. Space: The Final Frontier (Emmanouil Detsis).- Chapter 3. Research and the Ethics of Urban Exploration and Criminal Trespass (Mark Israel).- Chapter 4. Science Advisors and “Good Evidence”: A Case Study (Gabi Lombardo).- Chapter 5. Automated Justice, Automated Policing: Issues, Benefits and Risks in the Use of Artificial Intelligence and its Algorithms in Access to Justice and Law Enforcement (Caroline Gans Combe).- Chapter 6. Data Protection in Croatia: An Indicator of Ethics Processes in Research Institutions (Zvonimir Koporc).- Chapter 7. Intellectual Corruption and the American Psychological Association (James F. Welles).- Chapter 8. PRO-RES Guidance Framework for Scientific Research: A Novel Response to Long-standing Issues (P. Kavouras).- Chapter 9. RRI and Research Ethics (Maria Teresa Berliri).- Chapter 10. The Wave Power Project (Ron Iphofen).- Chapter 11. Formulating a Guidance Code for Research Managers (the UK ARMA case) (John Oates).- Chapter 12. Ethics Versus The Law: The Case Of the Belfast Project (Helen Kara).- Chapter 13. Regulating Zoonotic Disease Research: Implications for Pandemic Preparedness (Dónal O’Mathúna).- Chapter 14. Responsible Research and Innovation and India: Towards a Dialectical Approach in Theory and Practice (Krishna Ravi Srinivas).

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Book SynopsisAs health becomes a central focus of political debate, are architects, urban designers, and landscape architects seeking a new moral and political agenda to address these concerns? Imperfect Health looks at the complexity of today's health problems juxtaposed with a variety of proposed architectural and urban solutions. Essays by Margaret Campbell, David Gissen, Carla C. Keirns, and Sarah Schrank deal with different aspects of the topic of health in the context of architecture such as: "An Architectural Theory of Pollution" and "Strange Bedfellows: Tuberculosis and Modern Architecture - How 'The Cure' Influenced Modernist Architecture and Design."

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Book SynopsisThis timely reference analyzes the rationale, impact, and feasibility of taxation of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) as a public health measure to contribute curbing obesity and diabetes rates, specifically in Canada. It presents the pros and cons of taxing soda, with the latest data on adverse health effects of its consumption, plus the various business and political issues surrounding the contentious proposition. Reviewed research is multidisciplinary, spanning health and medicine to ethics, economics, and law. Conclusions and caveats are clear and presented at a comfort level for the general reader. The result is a blueprint for analyzing the relevancy of taxes on sweetened soft drinks or other low-nutrition food products, plus a trove of valuable insights into aspects of government decision-making and consumer food behavior. Included in the coverage: · Reasons for specifically targeting SSBs · SSB taxation as a public health policy instrument · Effects of SSB taxation on energy intakes and population health · Potential undesirable effects relating to SSB taxation · Social and political acceptability of SSB taxation · Evaluability of SSB taxation Taxing Soda for Public Health will interest policymakers, public health professionals, advocacy groups, and researchers at the Canadian and international levels (e.g., in areas such as public health, nutrition, food and health policies, health economics, and evaluation), as well as students and all other parties interested in nutrition policies.Table of ContentsSummary1. Introduction2. Methods2.1 Theoretical basis2.2 A 'realist' review of evidence2.3 Data collection2.4 Data analysis3. Why - Rationale3.1 Reasons for targeting specifically SSB (sugar sweetened beverages) 3.1.1 SSB and health risks 3.1.2 SSB consumption and marketing trends 3.1.3 Considerations on some other non-alcoholic beverages 3.1.4 Concluding comments3.2 Merits of SSB taxation as a public health policy instrument 3.2.1 Price, a key determinant of food habits 3.2.2 Taxing SSB as part of a comprehensive strategy 3.2.3 Learning from tobacco taxation 3.2.4 Taxation, a highly cost-effective option 3.2.5 Concluding comments3.3 Economic rationale for taxation and ethical concerns 3.3.1 Economic debates about the normative justification of SSB taxation 3.3.2 Ethical concerns surrounding freedom of choice and autonomy 3.3.3 Concluding comments3.4 Clarifying SSB taxation logics4. What - Impact4.1 Tax effects on SSB prices 4.1.1 Factors that may impair SSB tax shift onto prices 4.1.2 Empirical evidence 4.1.3 Additional proposals to secure the pass-through 4.1.4 Concluding comments4.2 Tax effects on SSB demand 4.2.1 Findings from experimental studies 4.2.2 Factors that may impair tax effects on demand in the 'real world' 4.2.3 'Real-world' price-elasticity of SSB demand 4.2.4 Preliminary evidence from taxes implemented across the world 4.2.5 May we miss our core target? 4.2.6 Concluding comments4.3 Tax effects on energy intakes and population health 4.3.1 Overview of substitution concerns 4.3.2 Results from public health modeling studies 4.3.3 Results from economics modeling studies 4.3.4 Preliminary evidence from taxes implemented across the world 4.3.5 Concluding comments4.4 Potential inequities related to SSB taxation 4.4.1 Distribution of changes in SSB intakes 4.4.2 Distribution of the financial contribution to tax revenues  4.4.3 Distribution of effects according to SSB consumption levels 4.4.4 Equity concerns and acceptability of SSB taxation 4.4.5 Concluding comments4.5 Potential undesirable effects related to SSB taxation 4.5.1 Tax-related administration costs for industries 4.5.2 Tax impact on profitability 4.5.3 Tax impact on employment 4.5.4 Tax impact on investments 4.5.5 Tax impact on competitiveness 4.5.6 Tax impact on cross-border trade 4.5.7 Concluding comments4.6 Raising fiscal revenues from SSB taxation 4.6.1 Confidence and estimations 4.6.2 Justification for targeting SSB specifically 4.6.3 Pursuing both fiscal and behavioural logics may be paradoxical 4.6.4 The importance of earmarking tax revenues to health promotion 4.6.5 Concluding comments4.7 Potential 'signal' effects from SSB taxation 4.7.1 An 'alarm-signal' to the population 4.7.2 A 'coercive signal' to manufacturers 4.7.3 Arguments for a comprehensive 'de-normalization' strategy 4.7.4 The complex evaluation of signal effects 4.7.5 Concluding comments5. How - Applicability5.1 Legal and administrative feasibility 5.1.1 The complexity of sweetener inputs' taxation 5.1.2 Excise taxes commonly preferred to sales taxes 5.1.3 How feasible is it to rely on sales and/or excise SSB taxes in Canada? 5.1.4 Concerns on the scope of the tax and its rate 5.1.5 Concluding comments5.2 Social and political acceptability 5.2.1 International perspective 5.2.2 Canadian experts 5.2.3 Canadian civil society 5.2.4 Canadian elected representatives 5.2.5 Canadian public opinion 5.2.6 Importance of a constructive dialogue 5.2.7 Concluding comments5.3 Evaluability 5.3.1 Importance of SSB taxation evaluation 5.3.2 Evaluation of a price-induced behavioural logic 5.3.3 Evaluation of a fiscal logic 5.3.4 Evaluation of a signal-induced de-normalization logic  5.3.5 The challenge of robust economic evaluations 5.3.6 Concluding comments6. Discussion6.1 Proposal of a multi-dimensional evidence-based framework6.2 Conclusion7. Bibliography

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Book SynopsisWritten in the form of a professional memoir, the author describes the technical details and political intrigues behind these efforts. The book begins by describing his service with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in West Africa. It concludes with an account of an attempt to establish for WHO the Health Leadership Service', a young professionals programme modelled on the Epidemic Intelligence Service of the CDC. His story is supplemented with posters, photographs, and detailed charts and figures that bring to life a largely ignored public health triumph.

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Book SynopsisThis book focuses on the risks that climate change poses for the health sector. It discusses the current vulnerabilities to climate-sensitive diseases, the resultant mortality and morbidity in human populations, the projected risks in connection with increasing global warming, and the options for tackling the adverse impacts of climate change. Adapting to climate change so as to effectively address the risks for and adverse impacts on the health sector requires an in-depth understanding of current deficits in health sector preparedness for climate-sensitive illnesses, as well as future plans and programs for increasing adaptive capacity and building resilience.The book situates climate and health adaptation concerns in the broader context of developing countries, providing insights that can be useful for other countries as well, helping them further their health adaptation efforts. In India, poverty and inadequate access to basic water, health and sanitation services combine with climate-related events to adversely impact health outcomes. Three case studies on the occurrence of heat stress, flooding, and extreme cyclonic events in India are presented along with a critical assessment of the level of preparedness and capacity of healthcare facilities to respond to the threats posed by climate change. The book presents the key challenges faced in reducing the risks posed to the health sector by climatic factors, and highlights the most important opportunities for promoting resilience and adaptation to achieve sustainable development.Dr. Dasgupta’s excellent book reviews the health risks of climate change, outlines an operational framework for health adaptation, and describes the socioeconomic context for adaptation in India. - Kristie L. EbiProfessor, Departments of Global Health, and Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington, USAThis pioneering work contributes to an the understanding of the preparedness in India to manage health risks from such (climate) change on the basis of detailed data analysis, both from large national surveys and contextualized field based surveys.- Kanchan ChopraFormer Director and Professor, Institute of Economic Growth, New Delhi, IndiaTrade ReviewClimate change is already causing morbidity and mortality, with risks projected to increase significantly in coming decades if no additional public health preventions are implemented. The impacts disproportionally affect populations in low- and middle-income countries. Dr. Dasgupta’s excellent book Climate Sensitive Adaptation in Health: Imperatives for India in a Developing Economy Context reviews the health risks of climate change, outlines an operational framework for health adaptation, and describes the socioeconomic context for adaptation in India. Managing the current burden of climate-sensitive health outcomes, such as undernutrition, malaria, and diarrheal disease, means ensuring universal access to safe water, improved sanitation, vaccination, and child health services, and enhancing disaster risk management as extreme weather and climate events increase in frequency and intensity. Developing effective and efficient longer-term adaptation policies and programs requires capacity building at local to national levels, enhanced and sustained surveillance, early warning systems, and research and development. The book provides much needed critical and practical insights for facilitating the transition to climate-resilient health systems. - Kristie L. Ebi Professor, Departments of Global Health and Occupational and Environmental Health Sciences, University of Washington, USAThis is a forward looking volume focusing on the interface between health policy and climate change, a subject little researched in India. Climate change is expected to result in an increase in extreme events such as cyclones, floods and heat waves. This pioneering work contributes to an the understanding of the preparedness in India to manage health risks from such change on the basis of detailed data analysis, both from large national surveys and contextualized field based surveys.The in-depth analysis provides insights into interventions required in health policy in the short run and directions for an innovative design of adaptation measures in the longer run. The study, a first of its kind will be of interest to experts in health policy and researchers working on climate change, adaptation measures and sustainable development. - Kanchan ChopraFormer Director and Professor, Institute of Economic Growth, New Delhi, India Table of ContentsIntroduction: Climate Risks in the Health Sector.- Climate Change Adaptation: The International Experience in Health.- Developing Economy Context for Adaptation Decision-Making.- Understanding Associations: Health, Socio-economic Wellbeing & Climate.- Analysing the Interface in Indian Plans and Policies.- Criticality of the Field: Three Case Studies.- Conclusion: Integrating Sustainable Development and Health Adaptation.

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Book SynopsisIn Sick Business, through personal accounts of patients, interviews with doctors and other medical professionals, and numerous reports, he unveils a chilling portrait of a healthcare system marred by vested interests, shady research, lax State intent, questionable ethics and general disarray. Overburdened public hospitals, expensive private healthcare, a rampant culture of quacks, the nexus between big pharma and doctors, a silent epidemic of surgeries and over-diagnosis-the book deals with such burning topics and more as it uncovers the truth behind the pristine façade of hospitals and the doctors who work within.

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Book SynopsisThis book has been written primarily for general practitioners; it describes the social problems which are presented by patients to their doctors for help and advice. The aim of the book is to help the doctor manage these problems, both through his own interventions and by involving or referring the patient on to other agencies. While the more common problems have been considered in detail, those rarely encountered have been omitted. The book also concentrates on help available from non-medical sources, as these will be less familiar to the general practitioner than other medical or nursing services. There is often a close association between social difficulties and health problems, both physical and psychiatric. It is, there­ fore, vital that an attempt is made to meet the social needs of patients in order to promote good physical and mental health. R. H. Corney 8 Series Foreword This series of books is designed to help general practitioners. So are other books. What is unusual in this instance is their collect­ ive authorship; they are written by specialists working at district general hospitals. The writers derive their own experi­ ence from a range of cases less highly selected than those on which textbooks are traditionally based. They are also in a good position to pick out topics which they see creating difficulties for the practitioners of their district, whose personal capacities are familiar to them; and to concentrate on contexts where mistakes are most likely to occur.Table of ContentsPreface.- Series Foreword.- 1 Social problems — the key role of the doctor.- 2 The social services and sources of help for social problems.- 3 Children and young people.- 4 Problems of adult and family life.- 5 The elderly.- 6 The physically disabled.- 7 Mental illness and handicap.- 8 Housing problems.- 9 Financial, employment and legal problems.- Appendix 1 General co-ordinating bodies and sources of information.- Appendix 2 Voluntary organizations: children and young people.- Appendix 3 Voluntary organizations: adult and family life.- Appendix 4 Voluntary organizations: the elderly.- Appendix 5 Voluntary organizations: the physically disabled.- Appendix 6 Voluntary organizations: the mentally disordered.- Appendix 7 Voluntary organizations: housing problems.- Appendix 8 Voluntary organizations: financial, employment and legal problems.

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Table of Contents1: Alcoholism — A World-Wide Problem.- 1 Alcoholism treatment in the United Kingdom.- 2 Alcoholism management in New Zealand.- 3 Dependencies in the Socialist Republic of Croatia.- 4 Alcoholism in Nigeria.- 5 Alcoholism in Sri Lanka — a general survey.- 6 Alcohol—drinking habits of the Israeli public.- 2: Alcoholism — Treatment.- 7 A continuum of care: treatment, training, prevention.- 8 The Henwood programme — treating the whole person.- 9 A social—psychological approach to alcohol use and abuse.- 10 Field-independence—dependence and levels of logical reasoning as predictors of programme completion in the treatment of alcoholism.- 11 Diagnosis and treatment of drinking problems in health centre patients suffering from anxiety states, phobias and psychosomatic symptoms.- 12 Is neuro-electric therapy of possible use in alcohol misuse?.- 13 Alcoholics as a problem of alcohol control policy.- 14 Impact of mandated alcohol abuse referrals on outpatient treatment agencies in New York State.- 15 Can we treat alcoholism?.- 16 Outreach — a spiritual prescription for success.- 3: Alcoholism — The Need For Self-Help.- 17 AA and the growing self-help movement.- 4: Alcoholism — Medical Aspects.- 18 The medical aspects of alcoholism.- 19 Mortality and alcoholism — the need for urgent detoxification.- 20 The family doctor as a scientist and friend of his alcohol-diseased patients.- 5: Alcoholism — Spiritual Aspects.- 21 Spiritual recovery: from addiction to freedom.- 22 The spiritual dynamics of recovery.- 23 A pastoral approach to the use of the 12 steps.- 24 A spiritual foundation.- 25 My involvement in an alcoholic treatment unit.- 6: Alcoholism — Psychological Aspects.- 26 Behaviour therapy training for social workers, psychologists and physicians working in the addiction field.- 27 Natal alcoholism and emotionality.- 28 Object relationships and substance use: self-object and alcoholism.- 7: Alcoholism — Special Groups.- 29 Alcoholism and doctors.- 30 Treatment of gay alcoholics — separate but equal.- 31 Chemical dependency within the university communities.- 32 Increasing awareness in young people of alcohol problems.- 8: Alcoholism and the Family.- 33 The need for ‘recovery’ of the whole family.- 34 Wives of alcoholics.- 35 Children of alcoholics: young—adolescent—adult.- 36 Experiences of the counselling unit for families with alcohol-related problems.- 37 Sexuality and the alcoholic family: effects of chemical dependence and co-dependence upon individual family members.- 38 Women’s sexuality and alcoholism.- 9: Alcoholism and Industry.- 39 The history, the philosophy and the essential components of employee assistance programmes.- 40 A contemporary view of employee assistance.- 41 Alcohol problems at the workplace in the Federal Republic of Germany.- 42 Employee alcoholism programmes in Ireland.- 43 Employee assistance programmes and the treatment network: building an effective relationship.- 44 Unemployment and alcohol abuse.- 10: Alcoholism — Some Recent Research.- 45 Alcohol research and its implications for prevention and treatment.- 46 Drinking practices and their effect on sober cognitive performance.- 47 Attitudes towards drinking.- 48 Chronic alcoholism in a multidisciplinary clinic in a district general hospital.- 11: Alcoholism and Education.- 49 Alcohol education: does it really affect drinking problems?.

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Table of Contents1 The Aetiology of Homosexuality.- 2 Male Homosexuality: An analysis of the pattern.- 3 Female Homosexuality—a review.- 4 A Case Study: Homosexuality in the Netherlands.- 5 Homosexuality—Some Social and Legal Aspects.- 6 Homosexuality and the Law.- 7 Homosexuality and the Church.- 8 Homosexuality and Venereal Disease.- 9 The Population Explosion and the Status of the Homosexual in Society.

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Book SynopsisAlthough we have no good definition of 'health', all people have their own ideas of whether they are healthy or not. Based on personal experience and knowledge each person comes to accept that within themselves there is a normal range of feelings and performance, departure from which could be considered abnormal or unhealthy. Despite the many amazing technological advances made over recent decades it cannot be said that access to advanced medical care is the main determining factor in the healthiness or otherwise of a society. Even in these modern times most diseases and health problems are non-curable in the strict sense, and the scope for effective prevention of disease is more limited than some enthusiasts suggest. Individuals must appreciate the limitations of modern medical care and, while seeking to use the care available to best possible effect, accept that the responsibility for trying to prevent major disease rests in their own hands. In this book we have tried to present a balanced and realistic picture of the many factors that must be taken into account if optimum disease prevention and health maintenance are to be achieved. The health of your family is your responsibility. An understanding of what can go wrong, how it can be prevented or how it can best be coped with can only be helpful to you.Table of Contents1.- 1. Health and non-health.- 2. Family planning.- 3. Pregnancy.- 4. The new baby.- 5. Pre-school and early school years.- 6. Adolescence.- 7. Marriage and family.- 8. Middle age.- 9. Pre- and post-retirement.- 10. Health resources and how to use them.- II.- 11. Rheumatic diseases.- 12. Gastrointestinal diseases.- 13. Cardiovascular diseases.- 14. Nervous disorders.- 15. Emotional problems and mental illness.- 16. Respiratory diseases.- 17. Infectious diseases.- 18. Skin diseases.- 19. Endocrine disorders.- 20. Cystitis and gynaecological disorders.- 21. Cancer.- Appendix 1. How to stop smoking.- Appendix 2. Fast diet.- Appendix 3. Diet for healthy living.

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Book SynopsisWHY WE MUST PRACTISE TRANSCULTURAL MEDICINE Health professionals and GPs should concern themselves with ethnicity, religion and culture as much as with the age, sex and social class of their patients. Transcultural medicine is the knowledge of medical and communication encounters between a doctor or health worker of one ethnic group and a patient of another. It embraces the physical, psychological and social aspects of care as well as the scientific aspects of culture, religion and ethnicity without getting involved in the politics of segregation or integration. English general practitioners and health professionals tend to regard everyone as English, and to assume that all patients have similar needs. Would that it were as simple as that! For economic reasons - based on supply and demand - the mass migration of working populations from the new Commonwealth countries, along with their dependent relatives (including their parents) to Britain took place during one decade - the 1960s. Broadly speaking, the workers were in their thirties and forties, and their dependent parents were in their fifties and sixties. All these will, of course, be 30 years older in the 1990s.Table of ContentsI: General Aspects.- 1. Avoiding communication problems.- 2. Ethnic terminology and occupations.- 3. History-taking and the examination.- 4. Factors affecting diagnosis and how to avoid diagnostic traps.- 5. Psychiatric disorders among different ethnic groups.- 6. Diet-related diseases.- 7. Avoiding diagnostic traps related to customs.- 8. Diseases related to visits to country of origin.- 9. Therapy and multi-ethnic groups: factors affecting treatment.- 10. Alternative therapies and ethnic groups.- II: Special Considerations.- 11. Cultural conflicts in a mixed marriage.- 12. Disease patterns in mutli-ethnic groups in the UK.- 13. Hidden corners of ethnic medical history.- 14. Gaps and needs in ethnic care.- 15. Transcultural factors in the consultation: the three generations concept.- 16. Management of ethnic Asian patients in general practice.- 17. Obstetric problems in multi-ethnic women.- 18. Family planning and culture.- 19. Paediatric problems in various ethnic groups.- 20. Pharmacists’ understanding of cultural customs and dangers of multi-therapy.- 21. Midwife, health visitor and nurse: dealing with patients from different cultures.- 22. Cultural aspects of the MRCGP examination.- 23. Muslim patients and the British GP.- 24. Nutritional problems in ethnic groups.- 25. Skin problems encountered in multi-ethnic patients.- III: Selected Points.- 26. Multi-cultural medicine: a series in the British Medical Journal.- 27. Transcultural medicine: education and examination.- Appendix: Resources available.

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Table of Contents1. Introduction and General Principles.- I The Scientific Basis.- 2. Anatomy of the Nervous System.- 3. Physiology and Biochemistry of the Nervous System.- 4. The Physiology of the Human Response.- 5. Man as an Individual.- 6. Social Man.- 7. Schools of Psychology.- II Abnormal Psychological Reactions and their Management.- 8. Important Disordered Psychological Reactions.- 9. Psychiatric Disorders and their Classification.- 10. Critical Ages of Man.- 11. Therapy for Psychiatric Disorders.- 12. Psychotropic Drugs.- Legal and Social spects of Mental Illness.

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Book SynopsisThe need to improve maternal and child health care may be the most important global health need of the remaining years of the twentieth century. It is central to the World Health Organization's (WHO) goal of Health for All by the Year 2000. The vast majority of births occur in developing countries, where maternity care is often rudimentary. The rates of maternal and infant morbidity and death for these countries are extremely high but much of the morbidity and death is preventable, even with the limited resources available for health care in many parts of the world. The resources devoted to maternal and child care should be greatly expanded, but even the most hopeful projections will leave a wide gap between human needs and available services. WHO estimates that two billion deliveries in the remaining two decades of this century will not be attended by a trained person. At a minimum, it is probable that two million of these women will die in childbirth. There were approximately 130 million births in the world in 1980.Table of ContentsSection I: High-Risk Pregnancy.- 1 Childbearing after age 35: Its effect on early perinatal outcomes.- 2 Development of an index of high-risk pregnancy.- 3 Improving obstetric care by training traditional birth attendants, Fortaleza, Brazil.- Section II: Cesarean Delivery.- 4 Cesarean delivery in selected Latin American hospitals.- 5 Deliveries after cesarean birth in two Asian university hospitals.- 6 Management of breech presentations: vaginal or abdominal delivery?.- Section III: Birth Spacing: Determinants and Consequences.- 7 Child survivorship and pregnancy spacing in Iran.- 8 Infant and child survival and contraceptive use in the closed pregnancy interval.- 9 The effect of birth interval on perinatal survival and birth weight.- Section IV: Family Planning Services in the Maternity Hospital.- 10 Desire for additional children and contraceptive plans.- 11 Postpartum sterilization in Sao Paulo State, Brazil.- 12 Access to sterilization in two hospitals in Honduras.

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Book SynopsisOn March 11, 2020 the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 pandemic and life as we knew it paused indefinitely. Confusion, doubts and uncertainty became daily companions as the world watched the pandemic consume country after country.At the University of British Columbia, Canada, a class of aspiring epidemiologists partnered with the professionals working at the frontline of COVID-19 healthcare and research, to examine key questions which would capture a snapshot of the historical pandemic.What caused this outbreak? How does a virus spread? What are the best potential treatments; how did we achieve the development of vaccines, and how do they work? What are the strategies to tackle a two-front war against the virus and the spread of dangerous misinformation and pseudoscience? These questions and more are examined throughout this volume.

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Book SynopsisAdventures with Germs and Your Health is an immersive encounter with the microorganisms that live around, on and inside us, and their impact on our lives. How do germs travel? What's the difference between a cold and the flu? Why should you watch what you eat? Grow your good bacteria, survive a pandemic, and avoid the perils of food poisoning! Bust some common myths about disease, and arm yourself to fight cancer! From the defences of your immune system to the healing effects of medication, experience the mind-blowing inner workings of your body as never before!The World of Science comics series engages, educates and entertains children, imparting scientific facts, while nurturing the love of Science through dynamic, full-colour comics. All topics covered are in line with the Singapore primary Science syllabus and the Cambridge primary Science curriculum, and also offer beyond-the-syllabus insights designed to stretch inquiring young minds.This book aligns with the following syllabi:

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Book SynopsisThis book captures the evolution of consumerism in the human services. By addressing the changing roles and contributions of consumers (those working within human service organizations and systems and those working outside of those organizations and systems) the author offers an encompassing framework of consumerism. This framework is multidimensional and incorporates multiple types and forms of consumerism. The author offers a rationale for consumerism in the human services, illustrates its evolution, and considers multiple perspectives and models culminating in policy considerations, including specific strategies. This book will equip consumers, survivors, practitioners, and policy makers with substantive knowledge of how to advance human services through action and innovation.Table of ContentsRationale for consumerism in the human services.- Evolution of consumerism in the human services.- Substantive differences between consumerism and survivorship.- Typology of consumerism and survivorship.- Cultures of consumerism in human services.- The inside-outside approach to consumerism- Progressive and radical policy strategies.- Consumerism as an enduring social force in human services.

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Book SynopsisThis open access book addresses the multiple health dimensions posed by the COVID-19 pandemic in India and other countries including nine in Asia, five in Sub-Saharan Africa, and New Zealand. It explores the impact of the pandemic on mental health, sexual and reproductive health and rights, health financing, self-care, and vaccine development and distribution. The contributing authors discuss its impact on vulnerable populations, including interstate migrants and female sex workers. The significant role of media and communications, rapid dissemination of information in social media, and its impact during the COVID-19 pandemic era are discussed. It closes with lessons learned from the experiences of countries that have contained the pandemic. With contributions from experts from around the world, this book presents solutions of problems that relate to COVID-19. It is a valuable resource appealing to a wide readership across the social sciences and the humanities. Readers include governments, academicians, researchers, policy-makers, program implementers, as well as lay persons.Table of ContentsPart 1. Responding to the impact of covid-19 on health service delivery.- Chapter 1. Investing in a Resilient and Responsive Healthcare System During COVID-19 Pandemic (Dr. Bulbul Sood).- Chapter 2. Using Technology to Harness Existing Resources for an Emergency: COVID-19 Response (Mr. Gopi Gopalakrishnan).- Chapter 3. Unveling the Clinical Face of COVID-19 (Dr. Arti Singh).- Chapter 4. The Twin Epidemics: TB and COVID-19 in India (Mr. Chapal Mehra).- Chapter 5. Self-care and COVID-19 in Africa and Asia (Priti Dave).- Chapter 6. COVID-19 Vaccine Development and Administration in India (Ms. Drishya Pathak).- Part 2. Impact of covid-19 on mental health, hunger and nutrition, sexual and reproductive health and rights, gender, and health financing.- Chapter 7. A Lifestyle Disorder that Spared Nobody: Mental Health and COVID-19 (Ms. Komal Mittal).- Chapter 8. Malnutrition and COVID-19 in India (Dr. Shweta Khandelwal).- Chapter 9. Sexual and Reproductive Health of Adolescents and Young People in India: The Missing Links During and Beyond a Pandemic (Ms.Sapna Kedia).- Chapter 10. Commentary- Family Planning During COVID-19 Pandemic (Dr. Sanghamitra Singha).- Chapter 11. Gender Insights into a Unique Threat to Human Development (Ms. Madhubala Nath).- Chapter 12. Financing for a Resilient Health System in India: Lessons from the COVID Pandemic (Dr. Indrani Gupta).- Part 3. IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON VULNERABLE POPULATIONS.- Chapter 13. Commentary-“I Just Want To Go Home”: What The Lockdown Meant for India’s Inter-state Migrants Workers (Ms. Philo Magdalene).- Chapter 14. From Vulnerability to Resilience: Sex Workers Fight COVID-19 (Ms.Sushena Reza-Paul).- Chapter 15. Communicating COVID: Learnings and Way Forward (Ms. Nandita Suneja).- Part 4. Changing Role Of Media And Communications In The Covid-Era.- Chapter 16. Commentary- Relevance of Social and Behavior Change and Communications in the Media on COVID-19 Response (Dr. Sanghamitra Singha).- Part 5. Experiences of countries that have successfully contained the pandemic.- Chapter 17. Commentary-“Go Ahead, Go Early”: New Zealand’s COVID-19 Elimination Strategy (Dr. Rashmi Pachauri Rajan).- Chapter 18. Learnings from Asia (Dr. Saroj Pachauri).

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Book SynopsisThis book introduces the field of Responsible Innovation in Health (RIH) by clarifying its theoretical foundations and the practical approaches that enable the design and production of responsible medical devices, health and social care interventions, digital tools and solutions based on artificial intelligence. It brings a lasting impact on the ways innovation stakeholders think about and develop solutions to twenty-first century challenges, including the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).Table of ContentsPart I RIH Concepts1 Introduction 2 Getting Started 3 Generating a Responsible Health Innovation Idea 4 Fleshing Out a Venture That Can Responsibly Tackle the Problem 5 Designing a Responsible Solution Part II Tools to Make and Measure RIH 6 Making RIH 7 Bringing It All Together 8 Assessing the Degree of Responsibility of a Health Innovation Part III A Sustainable Path for RIH 9 Orchestrating RIH 10 Clearing Obstacles, Harnessing Drivers 11 Conclusion

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Book SynopsisAlthough social scientists and practitioners have shown an increased interest in the inclusion of trans persons in recent years, the current position of this group in the (medical/psychological/nursing) care system remains under-researched. Studies tend to merge the issues of gender diversity and sexual diversity, rendering the lived experiences of trans persons invisible. In addition, trans people often face a discriminatory environment in which they are pathologised and stigmatised as mentally ill. This anthology addresses trans people's access to healthcare from a transnational perspective, and offers courses of action to improve nursing, medical, therapeutic, and social care for trans persons. Most contributions of this book are written from a lived trans experience.

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Book SynopsisThis book is a layperson’s guide to understanding chemical risk. The toxicologist Gerald A. LeBlanc offers a nontechnical overview of the key factors in evaluating whether exposure to chemicals in our daily lives could be harmful.Trade ReviewEveryday Chemicals makes an essential yet fairly nuanced topic both intelligible and engaging. LeBlanc's narrative voice, humor, and good wit help readers navigate information and decision making regarding personal choice around toxicological risk. -- James C. Zimring, author of Partial Truths and What Science Is and How It Really WorksEngaging. Well-written. Recommended. * Choice Reviews, the American Library Association (ALA) *Table of ContentsPrefaceList of Abbreviations1. The Chemical Paradox2. Lessons from the Past3. Elements of Risk4. Coping with Uncertainty and Variability5. Assessing Risks6. Susceptible Populations7. A Cumulative Risk Assessment: Chemicals on the Produce Shelf8. Assessing Risks: Pharmaceuticals9. Assessing Risks: Herbal Supplements10. Assessing Risks: Chemicals in Our Water11. Assessing Risks: Chemicals in Our Food12. Assessing Risks: Chemicals on Our Skin13. Assessing Risks: The Curious Case of BPAEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisAlmost every town in France has a street named for Louis Pasteurbut did he alone stop people from spitting, persuade them to dig drains, influence them to get vaccinated? Latour makes the case that Pasteur's success depended upon a network of forces including the public hygiene movement, the medical profession, and colonial interests.Trade ReviewEverything [Latour] writes is provocative, important and worth the closest scrutiny… The radical originality and wit of Latour’s approach is hugely attractive. -- Steven Shapin * Nature *Bruno Latour [is] one of today’s most acute, if idiosyncratic, thinkers about science and society… [His] prose is often amusing… But the charm should not blind the reader to the serious intent. Mr. Latour is aiming at one of the late twentieth century’s biggest problems. He is trying to provide a way of talking about science and society that does not start from the differences between them: to break down the barrier between them that started to go up in the seventeenth century. * The Economist *Bruno Latour delights some of us and infuriates others, but either way he has, for the past decade, been one of the most brilliant and original writers about science. -- Ian Hacking * Philosophy of Science Journal *The Pasteurization of France offers everything one wants from a book. It is immensely stimulating, intelligent, and funny. Stylistically, it is dazzling, sometimes splendid. It offers a bold and light-hearted approach to problems that bedevil everybody trying to write historical accounts of scientific innovation in the wake of structural, poststructural, grammatological, sociological, anthropological, and narratological critiques of history. -- Elizabeth A. Williams * Social History of Medicine *Latour has written a complex and provocative book. His insight into the way in which Pasteur transformed social relations in France and its colonies by introducing a new agent, the microbe, is fascinating. -- Lindsay Wilson * Journal of Social History *Table of ContentsPART 1: WAR AND PEACE OF MICROBES Introduction. Materials and Methods 1. Strong Microbes and Weak Hygienists 2. You Will Be Pasteurs of Microbes 3. Medicine at Last 4. Transition PART 2: IRREDUCTIONS Introduction 1. From Weakness to Potency 2. Sociologics 3. Anthropologics 4. Irreduction of "The Sciences" Bibliography Notes Figures Index

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Book SynopsisDemanding a radical epidemiology in the face of the lethal failures of capitalism.Trade Review'This extraordinary work offers urgent analysis of the pandemic's politics of life and death, anchored in the longer histories and wider politics of bodies and borders, economy and infrastructure, and contagion. The abundant insight Mitropoulos offers readers is a precious gift.' -- Deborah Cowen, author of The Deadly Life of Logistics'An invaluable guide through the excessive noise of overlapping crises. Read this if, like so many of us, you need to pause and take in a broader sweep of thought, of history and of ways of understanding as we all try to survive yet another deadly plague.' -- Gargi Bhattacharayya, author of Rethinking Racial Capitalism'This book is a scalpel: a tool or a weapon if you hold it right' -- The New Inquiry‘Pandemonium unpacks the deadly structures of power behind the pandemic that changed the world’ -- ROARTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Origin of the Species Origins—Taxonomy—Speciation—Herding 2. Quarantine Neoliberalism—Colonialism—Medieval Europe—Cordon Sanitaire 3. Bodies in Motion Herd Immunity—Hobbes—Malthus—Epidemiological Mathematics—Statistics, Class, and Racial Classification 4. Pharmakon Patriarchal Feelings—Risk-Taking, Risk-Shifting—Pushing Hydroxychloroquine—Experiments, Trials, and Lab Rats 5. Liquid Geometries of Value Pandemic Bonds—Supply-Chain Logistics 6. Economy and Infrastructure Money and Debt—Postpandem Contracts Notes

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Book SynopsisFor seasoned professionals as well as students, A History of Public Health is visionary and essential reading.Table of ContentsForeword by Pascal James Imperato, MD, MPH&TMPublic Health, Past and Present: A Shared Social Vision by Elizabeth FeeGeorge Rosen, Public Health, and History by Edward T. MormanPreface to the 1958 Edition1. The Origins of Public Health2. Health and the Community in the Greco-Roman World3. Public Health in the Middle Ages (500–1500 A.D.)4. Mercantilism, Absolutism, and the Health of the People (1500–1750)5. Health in a Period of Enlightenment and Revolution (1750–1830)6. Industrialism and the Sanitary Movement (1830–1875)7. The Bacteriological Era and Its Aftermath (1875–1950)8. The Bacteriological Era and Its Aftermath (Concluded)BibliographyAccess to Primary Sources in the History of Public HealthClassified Bibliography of Secondary SourcesSubject IndexName Index

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Book SynopsisWiesman provides hope, help, and comfort to patients, families, and caregivers.Trade ReviewAn excellent book that I would recommend to my patients. Dr. Wiesman does a good job explaining difficult medical concepts in laymen's terms. Ahmet Hoke, MD, PhD, Professor of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Very well written in simple language, this book covers many aspects of neuropathy that would be of use to any sufferer... This book would be a useful read to any person who has the need of personal insight to this condition, either as a sufferer or family member. Nursing TimesTable of ContentsPreface Chapter 1. What Is a Nerve? Chapter 2. What Is Neuropathy? Chapter 3. Symptoms of Neuropathy Chapter 4. Causes of Neuropathy Chapter 5. How Is Neuropathy Diagnosed? Chapter 6. Tests Chapter 7. Treatment of Neuropathy Chapter 8. Clinical Trials Chapter 9. Things that Feel Like Neuropathy but Are Something Else Chapter 10. Living with Neuropathy Glossary Acknowledgments References Resources Index

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Book SynopsisLembke concludes that the prescription drug epidemic is a symptom of a faltering health care system, the solution for which lies in rethinking how health care is delivered.Trade ReviewA thought-provoking study that all healthcare professionals and patients should read. Library Journal ... a story with mythic resonance. Times Higher Education "... excellent... It's a short book, concisely written, giving plenty of examples of patients' stories while at the same time showing trends in policy and national practice." Metapsychology Drug Dealer, MD offers a fresh, comprehensive perspective on addiction and prescription drugs. The patient narratives provide compassionate, albeit sometimes extreme, examples of how the medical field has failed patients, while the data provide the facts needed to prove that this truly is a system failure rather than any one person's fault. This thought-provoking book should be a must-read for medical trainees, providers, and health policy leaders working at the forefront of addressing the prescription drug epidemic. Health Affairs Anna Lembke sheds light on the rise of prescription drug addiction in the USA, fuelled in part by the actions of doctors and the structure of the US healthcare system. London School of Economics Review of Books ... The book is written in a clear, easy-to-read style with lay readers in mind. Pharmaceutical Journal ... once I started reading it, I couldn't put it down. Drug Dealer, MD ... the most important medical book of the decade. -- Abigail Zuger Undark As far as I am concerned, "Drug Dealer, M.D.," in less than 200 unassuming, readable, and carefully referenced pages, may be the most important medical book of the decade for finally getting the story of this epidemic exactly right... every doctor and concerned citizen can take a first step in the right direction by reading Anna Lembke's book.Table of ContentsContents1. Introduction: The Prescription Drug Epidemic2. What is Addiction and Who's at Risk? 3. Pain is Dangerous, Difference is Psychopathology: The Role of Illness Narratives4. Big Pharma Joins Big Medicine, Co-Opting Medical Science to Promote Pill-Taking 5. The Drug-Seeking Patient: Malingering vs the Hijacked Brain 6. The Professional Patient: Illness as Identity and a Right to Be Compensated7. The Compassionate Doctor, the Narcissistic Injury, and the Primitive Defense8. Pill Mills and the Toyota-ization of Medicine 9. Addiction, the Disease Insurance Companies Still Won't Pay Doctors to Treat10. Stopping the Cycle of Compulsive Prescribing Bibliography

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Book SynopsisLiving in Death's Shadow is essential reading for everyone seeking to understand what it means to live with someone suffering from a chronic, fatal condition, including cancer, AIDS, Alzheimer's, and heart disease.Trade ReviewRecommended. All readers.—Choice. . . impressive contribution to the history of caring.—H-Net ReviewsHistorians of medicine, particularly death and dying, will find plenty of food for thought and inspiration for future scholarship in this study. But this book is also a timely political salvo, and it is to be hoped that it will be read widely for it is an astute and accessible critique of current attitudes and policies surrounding dying.—Society for the Social History of MedicineIn this book, the problems of palliative care are described from a slightly different angle (that of the relatives and carers), and I think most people who work in palliative care will find it a worthwhile read.—International Association for Hospice and Palliative CareLiving in Death's Shadow is essential reading for everyone seeking to understand what it means to live with someone suffering from a chronic, fatal condition, including cancer, AIDS, Alzheimer's, and heart disease.—Nursing and Health ScienceTable of ContentsIntroduction1. "The Human Touch"2. "Hope Became a Companion in Our Home"3. When Medicine Fails4. Caring by Kin5. The Shadow Workforce in Hospitals and Nursing HomesThe Evolution of Hospice CareConclusionAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisA statistics textbook that delivers essential data analysis techniques for Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases. Alzheimer's disease is a devastating condition that presents overwhelming challenges to patients and caregivers. In the face of this relentless and as-yet incurable disease, mastery of statistical analysis is paramount for anyone who must assess complex data that could improve treatment options. This unique book presents up-to-date statistical techniques commonly used in the analysis of data on Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases. With examples drawn from the real world that will make it accessible to disease researchers, practitioners, academics, and students alike, this volume presents code for analyzing dementia data in statistical programs, including SAS, R, SPSS, and Stata introduces statistical models for a range of data types, including continuous, categorical, and binary responses, as well as correlated data draws on datasets from the NatioTable of Contents1. Introduction to Statistical Software and Alzheimer's Data2. Review of Introductory Statistical Methods3. Generalized Linear Models4. Hierarchical Regression Models for Continuous Responses5. Hierarchical Logistic Regression Models6. Bayesian Regression Models7. Multiple Membership Models8. Survival Data Analysis9. Modeling Responses with Time-dependent Covariates10. Joint Modeling of Mean and Dispersion11. Neural Networks and Other Machine Learning Techniques for Big Data12. Case StudyReferencesAcknowledgments

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Book SynopsisThis foundational textbook provides a thorough understanding of the role of nutrition in public health in communities around the world. Nutrition is a fundamental building block for optimal health. In this essential textbook, Jessica Jones-Smith presents readers with a balanced introduction to the field of public health nutrition. Examining common nutrition-related problems in both high- and low-income countries, Jones-Smith allows students to draw connections between the principles and realities of public health nutrition. She also describes the fundamental tools of public health nutrition, from nutrition assessment to program monitoring and evaluation, as well as current and future solutions for public health nutrition's most pressing issues. Covering fundamental topics while helping students build the knowledge and skills foundational to public health nutrition research and practice, the book addresses nutrition surveillance dietary assessment methods program planning and progrTable of ContentsList of Contributors1. IntroductionJessica Jones-SmithPart One. Key Tools of Public Health Nutrition2. Population Surveillance and MonitoringMarissa L. Zwald and Cynthia L. Ogden3. Nutrition Epidemiology and Assessment of Dietary IntakeJessica Jones-Smith and Vanessa M. Oddo4. Community Health AssessmentA. Gita Krishnaswamy and Sarah Ross-Viles5. Program PlanningNoel Kulik, Rachael D. Dombrowski, and Jeanne M. Barcelona6. Monitoring and Evaluation in Nutrition ProgramsJulie C. Ruel-Bergeron, Andrew L. Thorne-Lyman, and Marie RuelPart Two. Major Nutrition-Related Disease Burdens7. Nutrition-Related Disease Burdens in High-Income CountriesColin D. Rehm8. A Deeper Look: ObesitySara N. Bleich, Johannah M. Frelier, and Kelsey A. Vercammen9. Nutrition-Related Diseases in Low-and Middle-Income CountriesValerie M. Friesen, Mduduzi N. N. Mbuya, Alison Tumilowicz, and Lynnette M. Neufeld10. The Nutrition TransitionLindsay M. Jaacks and Alexandra L. Bellows11. A Deeper Look: StuntingLora L. Iannotti and Melissa ChapnickPart Three. Influences on Nutrition12. Environmental Determinants of Nutrition-Related Health in High-Income Countries:Focus on the Neighborhood Food EnvironmentKimberly B. Morland13. Underlying Determinants of and Solutions for Malnutrition in Low-and Middle-Income CountriesMarie L. Spiker, Scott B. Ickes, and Jessica FanzoPart Four. Key Nutrition-Related Programs and Policies14. Nutrition-Related Programs and Policies in High-Income CountriesSara N. Bleich, Johannah M. Frelier, Scott A. Richardson, and Kelsey Vercammen15. A Deeper Look: The Special Supplemental Nutrition Programfor Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)Julie A. Reeder16. A Deeper Look: Cash Transfer Programs Garrison J. Spencer, Melissa Hidrobo, Damien de Walque, Paul Gertler,and Lia C. Haskin FernaldGlossaryIndex

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface1. The Affordable Care Act and The Politics of Health Care Reform2. Health, Health Care, and the Market Economy3. Health Care as a Reflection of Underlying Cultural Values and Institutions4. The Health Professions and The Organization of Health Care5. Health Insurance, HMOs, and the Managed Care Revolution6. Medicare7. Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program8. The Uninsured9. The Increasing Role of For-Profit Health Care10. Pharmaceutical Policy and the Rising Cost of Prescription Drugs11. Long-Term Care12. Factors Other Than Health Insurance That Impede Access to Health Care13. Key Policy Issues Affecting the Direction of Health Care Reform14. Epilogue/Prologue to Health Care Reform in AmericaReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisA new approach to understanding, preventing, and treating heart disease to empower you and your loved ones to live long and healthy lives. The main cause of heart diseasethe world's number one killer of women and menis a cancer-like tumor inside the coronary arteries that keep our hearts beating. Although this similarity to cancer is well-established in medical journals, most people (and their health care providers) don't approach heart disease as seriously as cancer, even though it's just as deadly. In Fight Heart Disease Like Cancer, cardiologist Michael McConnell shares the stories of his family, patients, and research to lay out a modern and effective approach to preventing, screening for, and treating heart disease like cancer to avoid its dire consequences. Dr. McConnell highlights the latest research on the substantial overlap between heart disease and cancer, from shared risk factors to screening for early detection to new and powerful therapies. In accessible language, and

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Book SynopsisWith historically underrepresented communities experiencing higher rates of COVID-19 infection and mortality, the pandemic has thrown into stark relief the severe inequities in US health care. In this special issue, a multidisciplinary group of contributors presents empirical evidence for how the pandemic has had a disproportionately negative impact on people of color, incarcerated people, and people with disabilities. These articles show how the pandemic response has been both wholly inadequate for the magnitude of the problem and, in certain policy arenas, has exacerbated existing inequities. Topics include changes in the treatment of disabilities under crisis standards of care, systemic racism in the federal pandemic health care response, and compounded racialized vulnerability within incarceration facilities. The contributors offer a dynamic and accessible analysis of the impacts of and public attitudes about the varieties of inequity in the COVID-19 pandemic. Contribut

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Book SynopsisThe radically humanistic essays inArc of Interference refigure our sense of the real, the ethical, and the political in the face of mounting social and planetary upheavals. Creatively assembled around Arthur Kleinman’s medical anthropological arc and eschewing hegemonic modes of intervention, the essays advance the notion of a care-ful ethnographic praxis of interference. To interfere is to dislodge ideals of naturalness, blast enduring binaries (human/nonhuman, self/other, us/them), and redirect technocratic agendas while summoning relational knowledge and the will to create community. The book’s multiple ethnographic arcs of interference provide a vital conceptual toolkit for today’s world and a badly needed moral perch from which to peer toward just horizons. Contributors. Vincanne Adams, João Biehl, Davíd Carrasco, Lawrence Cohen, Jean Comaroff, Robert Desjarlais, Paul Farmer, Marcia Inhorn, Janis H. Jenkins, David S. Jones, SalmaaTrade Review“This is a book about life and death and about the aftermath of death. That alone makes it relevant to our species and to others, but Arc of Interference is also a book about the possibility of something more and something wonderful: across the continents, people struggle to care for one another.” -- Paul Farmer, from the Foreword“In this rich collection, leading medical anthropologists demonstrate ethnography as care. Attending to intimate realities and to the productive power of narrative, they use anthropology for collective healing.” -- Helena Hansen, coauthor of * Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America *“Arc of Interference is essential reading for anyone who cares about our troubled times. Its ethnographic creations mend what is broken by asking us to listen, care, and act.” -- Angela Garcia, author of * The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction and Dispossession along the Rio Grande *“A major undertaking of humanist anthropology, this volume insists on the necessity of medical anthropology for facing the great challenges of our time, from pandemics and structural violence to climate change and political oppression. Arc of Interference is a milestone in medical anthropology.” -- Susan Reynolds Whyte, editor of * Second Chances: Surviving AIDS in Uganda *“Biehl, Adams, and their contributors have . . . penned a classic in Arc of Interference. . . . In our current times of reckoning–both global and disciplinary–contributions like Arc of Interference are a good place to start.” -- Evelyn Hoon * LSE Review of Books *"As a family physician who treats patients, not disease states, I found this book both reinvigorating and challenging. ... The book is a worthwhile read for physicians who care for their patients, whether domestically or globally." -- Mark K. Huntington * Family Medicine *Table of ContentsForeword. Against the Grain: Medical Anthropology in the Anthropocene / Paul Farmer xi Introduction. Art of Interference / João Biehl and Vincanne Adams 1 Part I. Traversing Imperiled Worlds and Envisaging Human Futures 1. Death by Fire: The Problem of Moral Certainty in China’s Tibet / Vincanne Adams 23 2. Bringing Up the Bodies: Erasing and Caring for Mexicans in the Mexico-US Borderland / Davíd Carrasco 42 3. In the Vast Abrupt: Horizon Work in an Age of Runaway Climate Change / Adriana Petryna 65 Part II. The Category Fallacy and Care Amid the Experts 4. Justifying a Lower Standard of Health Care for the World’s Poor: A Call of Decolonizing Global Health / Salmaan Keshavjee 91 5. The Moral Economies of Heart Disease and Cardiac Care in India / David S. Jones 112 6. Intimate and Social Spheres of Mental Illness / Janis H. Jenkins 133 Part III. Worlds of Biotechnological Promise and the Plasticity of Self and Power 7. A Good Death: The Promise and Threat of Biometric Inclusion for Transgender Women in India / Lawrence Cohen 161 8. Medical Cosmopolitanism in Moral Worlds: Aspirations and Stratifications in Global Quests for Conception / Marcia C. Inhorn 187 9. Environments and Mutable Selves / Margaret Lock 210 Part IV. Tracing Arts of Living (Or, Anthropologies After Hope Has Departed) 10. Anthropology in a Mode of Dying / Robert Desjarlais 239 11. Ethnographic Open / João Biehl 257 12. Thinking on Borrowed Time . . . About Privileging the Human / Jean Comaroff 287 Afterword. Lessons Learned from the Ethnography of Care / Arthur Kleinman 305 In Memoriam 327 Acknowledgments 329 Bibliography 331 Contributors 371 Index 373

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Book SynopsisFor many residents of Western nations, COVID-19 was the first time they experienced the effects of an uncontrolled epidemic. This is in part due to a series of little-known regulations that have aimed to protect the global north from epidemic threats for the last two centuries, starting with International Sanitary Conferences in 1851 and culminating in the present with the International Health Regulations, which organize epidemic responses through the World Health Organization. Unlike other equity-focused global health initiatives, their mission—to establish "the maximum protections from infectious disease with the minimum effect on trade and traffic"—has remained the same since their founding. Using this as his starting point, Alexandre White reveals the Western capitalist interests, racism and xenophobia, and political power plays underpinning the regulatory efforts that came out of the project to manage the international spread of infectious disease. He examines how these regulations are formatted; how their framers conceive of epidemic spread; and the types of bodies and spaces it is suggested that these regulations map onto. Proposing a modified reinterpretation of Edward Said's concept of orientalism, White invites us to consider "epidemic orientalism" as a framework within which to explore the imperial and colonial roots of modern epidemic disease control.Trade Review"White writes critically and necessarily on the historical actions taken to prevent the spread of infectious disease. With great care, he deftly unpacks the racial and economic costs of global health initiatives and examines the ideals behind their genesis. The book is a remarkable and necessary re-thinking of medical history through the lens of 'epidemic orientalism'."—Hollie Sherwood-Martin, The Lancet Infectious Diseases"Over the course of his monograph, White successfully illustrates how an epidemic Orientalist worldview ultimately weakens epidemic responses and places the health of people on both sides of an imagined divide at a greater risk.... Historians and medical anthropologists and sociologists looking for a thoughtful synthesis of several intellectual frameworks for understanding medicine and empire will find Epidemic Orientalism a useful text."—Molly Walker, H-Sci-Med-TechTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Epidemic Orientalism 2. The International Sanitary Conventions at a Colonial Scale 3. Epidemics under the WHO 4. The Battle to Police Disease 5. Epidemics, Power, and the Global Management of Disease Risk 6. Pricing Pandemics Conclusion

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Book SynopsisPlagues and pandemics are a part of global history, from the biblical “plague of locusts” to today’s COVID-19 pandemic. Dealing with unchecked diseases and disasters has given rise to great human suffering and loss of life, but it has also played a significant role in shaping our societies. Advances in public health, medicine, scientific research, and even the arts have often been inspired by or required of those who have survived. This two-volume set includes content on the Black Death , smallpox, the plague, malaria, typhoid, polio, SARS, AIDS, Covid-19 and others.

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Book SynopsisTenacity in Children examines how multiple generations of parents and caregivers raised children to become successful adults. Until relatively recent times in human history, there were no schools or organized institutions, nor were there parenting books. Rather, caregivers depended on the seven important instincts that evolved across tens of thousands of years in the human species. This volume highlights the ways in which these instincts are more important than ever in preparing children for tomorrow’s successes. Key areas of coverage include individual chapters devoted to examining each of the seven instincts – intuitive optimism, intrinsic motivation, compassionate empathy, simultaneous intelligence, genuine altruism, virtuous responsibility, and measured fairness – as well as practical strategies to guide children in acquiring and fine-tuning these essential human instincts.Tenacity in Children provides a solid foundation to prepare children for a resilient and happy future. It offers well-defined guideposts for adults committed to providing every child with the opportunity to access, strengthen, and employ these instincts as they negotiate childhood and passage into adult life. This book also serves as a rich resource for researchers, practitioners, and graduate students in mental health and public health disciplines as well as many interrelated fields as we all strive to promote the well-being of children. The collaboration of these two esteemed psychologists has been impacting on our field for decades. This new book continues that tradition.– Richard D. Lavoie, M.A., M.Ed.Author of It's So Much Work to Be Your Friend:Helping Children with Learning Disabilities Find Social Success Tenacity in Children is the perfect balance between concepts, knowledge, scientific discourse, practical ideas and touching stories that truly illustrate the principles shared in the book. This book should reach the hands of every person dedicated to working with children.– Encarni Gallardo, MBA, CBMExecutive Director, Children’s Service Society of Utah Written in an easy-to-read, narrative style, Drs. Goldstein and Brooks impart their innovative concept of Tenacity in Children along with its seven essential instincts by using heartwarming stories, personal and professional insights, research, and wisdom.– Joyce C. Mills, Ph.D.Co-author of Therapeutic Metaphors for Children and the Child Within Visit our website at www.tenacityinchildren.com Table of ContentsChapter 1. Our Thirty-Year Journey.- Chapter 2. Tenacity is Instinctual.- Chapter 3. Intuitive Optimism.- Chapter 4. Intrinsic Motivation.- Chapter 5. Compassionate Empathy.- Chapter 6. Simultaneous Intelligence.- Chapter 7. Genuine Altruism.- Chapter 8. Virtuous Responsibility.- Chapter 9. Measured Fairness.- Chapter 10. Brain Dance.

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Book SynopsisThis original and progressive work affirms the urgent need for child advocacy and provides valuable guidance to those seeking to participate in efforts to help all children live healthier, happier lives.Trade ReviewDr. Palfrey presents a well-designed, articulate description of the political climate surrounding pediatric health care... Pediatric clinicians, politicians, students, and practitioners of health policy will be well-served by a read of this text to best understand what tools and information are needed. -- Bryan R. Fine, MD, MPH JAMA 2007 A must read if you are at all serious about health advocacy for children... thank you Judith Palfrey. Thank you for not shying away from the difficult issues, thank you for bringing it all together, and thank you for creating a must-read text... I am a better child health advocate after having read this book. -- George L. Askew, MD, FAAP Ambulatory Pediatrics 2007Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Child Health Advocacy2. A History of Child Health Advocacy3. The Current Status of Child Health4. Clinical Advocacy5. Group Advocacy6. Legislative Advocacy7. Professional Advocacy8. Political WillAppendix: Resources OnlineNotesIndex

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