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  • Sociology of Mental Health

    Theories, Social Contexts, and Systems

    Edited by Teresa L. Scheid, Eric R. Wright ...
    Sociology of Mental Health, 4th Edition offers a comprehensive introduction to the impact of social forces on mental health. Fully updated throughout, it features eleven new chapters on such topics as immigration, the work-family interface, and LGBTQ+ mental health. Part I addresses the central theoretical developments in the sociology of mental health. Part II examines the social context of ... Read more

    $73.59 CAD

  • A Handbook for the Study of Mental Health

    Social Contexts, Theories, and Systems

    Edited by Teresa L. Scheid, Eric R. Wright ...
    With chapters written by leading scholars and researchers, the third edition of A Handbook for the Study of Mental Health provides an updated, comprehensive review of the sociology of mental health. The volume presents an overview of the historical, social, and institutional frameworks for understanding mental health and illness. Part I examines the social factors that shape psychiatric diagnosis ... Read more

    $66.39 CAD

  • Trophy Cases

    The Theory, Design, and Cultural Politics of Video Game Trophies and Achievements

    Edited by Ryan Scheiding, Dan Staines, Sarah Christina Ganzon ...
    An interdisciplinary and international roster of contributors explore the theory, design, and player practices surrounding video game reward systems, arguing for the importance of understanding trophies and achievements as a central aspect of video game design and play.As PlayStation Trophies, Xbox Achievements, and other similar built-in reward systems have become widespread in the video game ... Read more

    $126.39 CAD

  • Fantasmic Objects

    Art and Sociality from Lebanon, 1920-1950

    by Kirsten L. Scheid ...
    Series series Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
    In Lebanon, the study of modern art—rather than power or hierarchy—has compelled citizens to confront how they define themselves as a postcolonial nation.In Fantasmic Objects, Kirsten L. Scheid offers a striking study of both modern art in Lebanon and modern Lebanon through art. By focusing on the careers of Moustapha Farrouk and Omar Onsi, forefathers of an iconic national repertoire, and their ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • Fantasmic Objects

    Art and Sociality from Lebanon, 1920–1950

    by Kirsten L. Scheid ...
    In Lebanon, the study of modern art—rather than power or hierarchy—has compelled citizens to confront how they define themselves as a postcolonial nation.In Fantasmic Objects, Kirsten L. Scheid offers a striking study of both modern art in Lebanon and modern Lebanon through art. By focusing on the careers of Moustapha Farrouk and Omar Onsi, forefathers of an iconic national repertoire, and their ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sociological Insights on Mental Health and Distress

    by Teresa L. Scheid, S. Megan Smith ...
    Introduces students to the study of the social forces that shape mental health and empowers the next generation to make an impact on mental health managementAs the prevalence of mental health issues worldwide continues to grow, an active area of sociology is investigating the social causes and consequences of mental health and illness. Young people are especially vulnerable to the current mental ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Chinese Medicine in Contemporary China

    Plurality and Synthesis

    by Volker Scheid, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, E. Roy Weintraub ...
    Series series Science and Cultural Theory
    As a traditional healing art that has established a contemporary global presence, Chinese medicine defies categories and raises many interesting questions. If Chinese medicine is "traditional," why has it not disappeared with the rest of traditional Chinese society? If, as some claim, it is a science, what does that imply about what we call science? What is the secret of Chinese medicine's ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Soviet Space Culture

    Cosmic Enthusiasm in Socialist Societies

    Edited by E. Maurer, J. Richers, M. Rüthers, C. Scheide ...
    Starting with the first man-made satellite 'Sputnik' in 1957 and culminating four years later with the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin, space became a new utopian horizon. This book explores the profound repercussions of the Soviet space exploration program on culture and everyday life in Eastern Europe, especially in the Soviet Union itself. ... Read more

    $153.69 CAD

  • Print Technologies and the Emergence of American Literary Cultures

    by Oliver Scheiding ...
    Series series American Literary Culture
    Explores the intersections of print, writing, and media in early American literary culturesPrint Technologies and the Emergence of American Literary Cultures traces the complex dynamics that shaped literary production in North America from pre-Columbian times through the early nineteenth century. Oliver Scheiding’s in-depth study demonstrates how literary cultures emerged not from isolated acts of ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • The Culture of Secrecy in Japanese Religion

    by Bernhard Scheid, Mark Teeuwen ...
    The Japanese Middle Ages were a period when forms of secrecy dominated religious practice. This fascinating collection traces out the secret characteristics and practices in Japanese religion, as well as analyzing the decline of religious esotericism in Japan.The essays in this impressive work refer to Esoteric Buddhism as the core of Japan’s "culture of secrecy". Esoteric Buddhism developed in ... Read more

    Was $94.99 CAD Now $85.19 CAD

  • Searching for the Dao of Medicine

    Landscapes of Thoughtful Practice in Late Imperial China

    by Volker Scheid ...
    In late imperial China, debates over how virtuosity in medical practice might be cultivated unfolded within a world that connected physicians to scholars, poets, calligraphers, Buddhist monks, Daoist life-cultivation experts and military strategists. This book traces these debates, showing how medicine was imagined as akin to poetry, how clinical insight was shaped through meditative bodily ... Read more

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  • A Handbook for the Study of Mental Health

    Social Contexts, Theories, and Systems

    Edited by Teresa L. Scheid, Tony N. Brown ...
    The second edition of A Handbook for the Study of Mental Health provides a comprehensive review of the sociology of mental health. Chapters by leading scholars and researchers present an overview of historical, social and institutional frameworks. Part I examines social factors that shape psychiatric diagnosis and the measurement of mental health and illness, theories that explain the definition ... Read more

    $53.59 CAD