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  • Genetic Governance

    Health, Risk and Ethics in a Biotech Era

    Edición de Robin Bunton, Alan Petersen ...
    Ethical and practical issues around genetic research are of major international concern, both in academia and in the public domain. Questions concerning what interventions are possible and appropriate with the increasing amount of genetic information available, challenge our understandings of ourselves, our health and wellbeing, and the role of medical ethics, public health, surveillance and risk. ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • The New Genetics and The Public's Health

    de Robin Bunton, Alan Petersen ...
    The rapid advancement of genetic science, fuelled by the Human Genome Project and other related initiatives, promises a new kind of public health practice based on the pre-detection of disease according to calculations of genetic risk. This book by two well-known sociologists:* explores the implications of the new genetics for public health as a body of knowledge and a domain of practice* assesses ... Leer más

    $45.99 USD

  • Health Promotion

    Disciplines and Diversity

    Edición de Robin Bunton, Gordon MacDonald, Gordon MacDonald ...
    Health promotion is an increasingly central tenet in health professionals' lives. It has come into the public eye as the subject of party politics and policy, but where does the movement come from? This book brings together views from a range of subjects, some not always associated with health promotion, such as marketing or communication theory. Others, such as social policy of psychology may ... Leer más

    $80.99 USD

  • The Sociology of Health Promotion

    Critical Analyses of Consumption, Lifestyle and Risk

    Edición de Robin Bunton, Roger Burrows, Sarah Nettleton ...
    Promotion of health has become a central feature of health policy at local, national and international levels, forming part of global health initiatives such as those endorsed by the World Health Organisation. The issues examined in The Sociology of Health Promotion include sociology of risk, the body, consumption, processes of surveillance and normalisation and considerations relating to race and ... Leer más

    $72.99 USD

  • Foucault, Health and Medicine

    Edición de Robin Bunton, Alan Petersen ...
    The reception of Michel Foucault's work in the social sciences and humanities has been phenomenal. Foucault's concepts and methodology have encouraged new approaches to old problems and opened up new lines of enquiry. This book assesses the contribution of Foucault's work to research and thinking in the area of health and medicine, and shows how key researchers in the sociology of health and ... Leer más

    $80.99 USD

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  • The Strength of Bone

    de Lucie Wilk ...
    An Amazon.ca Best Book of 2013: Top 100/Editors' PickA gorgeous debut.”-JOSEPH BOYDEN, author of Through Black Spruce and The OrendaAt the hospital in Blantyre, Malawi, Bryce is learning to predict the worst. Racing heart: infection, probably malaria. He’ll send Iris for saline. Shortness of breath? TB. Another patient rolled to the ward. And the round swellings, the rashes with dimpled centres, ... Leer más

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  • A Handbook for the Study of Mental Health

    Social Contexts, Theories, and Systems

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

    $47.99 USD

  • The Meaning of Illness

    de Marc Auge, Claudine Herzlich ...
    First Published in 1988. The Meaning of Illness offers new ways of understanding the nature of disease and explores the idea that health and illness have a special interdependence. Experiences which illness brings to our attention -limitation, vulnerability and dependence - are explored here as inescapable and valuable dimensions to human existence which we ignore at our peril. The contributors ... Leer más

    $77.99 USD

  • The Globalization of Addiction

    A Study in Poverty of the Spirit

    de Bruce K. Alexander ...
    'The Globalization of Addiction' presents a radical rethink about the nature of addiction. Scientific medicine has failed when it comes to addiction. There are no reliable methods to cure it, prevent it, or take the pain out of it. There is no durable consensus on what addiction is, what causes it, or what should be done about it. Meanwhile, it continues to increase around the world. This book ... Leer más

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  • AIDS and Power

    Why There Is No Political Crisis – Yet

    de Alex de Waal ...
    Series series African Arguments
    One in six adults in sub-Saharan Africa will die in their prime of AIDS. It is a stunning cataclysm, plunging life expectancy to pre-modern levels and orphaning millions of children. Yet political trauma does not grip Africa. People living with AIDS are not rioting in the streets or overthrowing governments. In fact, democratic governance is spreading. Contrary to fearful predictions, the social ... Leer más

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  • The Body Politic

    The Battle Over Science in America

    de Jonathan D. Moreno ...
    A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year and Scientific American Book Club selectionMoreno pulls apart the debates on eugenics, abortion, end-of-life decisions, embryonic stem-cell research, reproductive cloning, chimeras and synthetic biology, among others, carefully reassembling what’s at stake for each side. In graceful, sparkling prose, he illuminates intricate threads of history and complex ... Leer más

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  • Ethics and Visual Research Methods

    Theory, Methodology, and Practice

    Edición de Jenny Waycott, Susan Cox, Marilys Guillemin, Deborah Warr ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This collection presents stories from the field that were gathered from researchers using a breadth of visual methods. Visual methods refer to the use of still or moving images either as forms of data, to explore research topics and explorations of artistic practice. In addition to well-established visual methods, such as photo-voice and photo-elicitation, the possibilities for visual methods are ... Leer más

    $107.99 USD