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  • Technosleep

    Frontiers, Fictions, Futures

    de Catherine Coveney, Michael Greaney, Eric L. Hsu, Robert Meadows, Simon J. Williams ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book draws on a variety of substantive examples from science, technology, medicine, literature, and popular culture to highlight how a new technoscientifically mediated and modified phase and form of technosleep is now in the making – in the global north at least; and to discuss the consequences for our relationships to sleep, the values we accord sleep and the very nature and normativities ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Sleep and Society

    Sociological Ventures into the Un(known)

    de Simon J. Williams ...
    Exploring the sociological aspects of sleep and their links to current health debates, this unique text discusses why sleep has been so neglected in sociological literature and examines significant modern issues such as:the 24-hour societysleep and workhomelessnessdream analysisthe medicalization and commodification of sleep.Written by a key international figure in medical sociology, this is the ... Leer más

    $66.99 USD

  • Modern Medicine

    Lay Perspectives And Experiences

    Edición de Simon J. Williams, Michael Calnan ...
    Do lay people view modern medicine as a fountain of hope or a font of despair? What are their experiences of modern medical care and technology, and how do their views and experiences differ across different social groups? Combining theoretical insights with a range of qualitative and ethnographic research, this volume examines lay experiences and evaluation of medicines and drugs, chronic illness ... Leer más

    $91.99 USD

  • The Lived Body

    Sociological Themes, Embodied Issues

    de Gillian A. Bendelow, Simon J. Williams ...
    The Lived Body takes a fresh look at the notion of human embodiment and provides an ideal textbook for undergraduates on the growing number of courses on the sociology of the body.The authors propose a new approach - an 'Embodied Sociology' - one which makes embodiment central rather than peripheral. They critically examine the dualist legacies of the past, assessing the ideas of a range of key ... Leer más

    $72.99 USD

  • Chronic Respiratory Illness

    de Simon J. Williams ...
    Chronic obstructive airways disease (COAD: bronchitis, emphysema and chronic asthma) is a major medical, psychological, social and economic problem. Breathlessness is one of the most distressing and disabling symptoms of COAD, and it has long been apparent that the condition results in impaired quality of life. Drawing upon sociological and psychological sources, and his own detailed research in ... Leer más

    $63.99 USD

  • Health, Medicine and Society

    Key Theories, Future Agendas

    Edición de Michael Calnan, Jonathan Gabe, Simon J. Williams ...
    Taking as its point of departure recent developments in health and social theory Health, Medicine and Society brings together a range of eminent, international scholars to reflect upon key issues at the turn of the century.Contributors draw upon a range of contemporary theories, both modernist and postmodernist, to look at the following themes:*health and social structure*the contested nature of ... Leer más

    $80.99 USD

  • Emotions in Social Life

    Critical Themes and Contemporary Issues

    Edición de Gillian Bendelow, Simon J Williams ...
    The development of a sociology of emotions is crucial to our understanding of social life as they hold the key to our understanding of social processes and sociological investigation.First published in 1997, Emotions in Social Life consolidates the sociology of emotions as a legitimate and viable field of enquiry. It provides a comprehensive assessment of the sociology of emotions using work from ... Leer más

    $72.99 USD

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  • How to Pass Your OSCE

    A Guide to Success in Nursing and Midwifery

    de Jacqueline Bloomfield, Anne Pegram, Carys Jones ...
    The Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) was developed for all undergraduate nursing programmes, with the aim of emphasising the need for nursing students to be competent in clinical skills, to assess clinical reasoning skills and as a means of standardizing the assessment process.This practical, easy to read and interactive study guide helps nursing and midwifery students at all ... Leer más

    $55.99 USD

  • Memoirs of an Addicted Brain

    A Neuroscientist Examines his Former Life on Drugs

    de Marc Lewis, PhD ...
    Marc Lewis's relationship with drugs began in a New England boarding school where, as a bullied and homesick fifteen-year-old, he made brief escapes from reality by way of cough medicine, alcohol, and marijuana. In Berkeley, California, in its hippie heyday, he found methamphetamine and LSD and heroin. He sniffed nitrous oxide in Malaysia and frequented Calcutta's opium dens. Ultimately, though, ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

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  • Recovery

    Freedom from Our Addictions

    de Russell Brand ...
    A guide to all kinds of addiction from a star who has struggled with heroin, alcohol, sex, fame, food and eBay, that will help addicts and their loved ones make the first steps into recovery“This manual for self-realization comes not from a mountain but from the mud...My qualification is not that I am better than you but I am worse.” —Russell BrandWith a rare mix of honesty, humor, and compassion, ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

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  • There is No Me Without You

    One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children

    de Melissa Fay Greene ...
    Two-time National Book Award nominee Melissa Fay Greene puts a humanface on the African AIDS crisis with this powerful story of one womanworking to save her country's children.After losing her husband and daughter, Haregewoin Teferra, an Ethiopian woman of modest means, opened her home to some of the thousands of children in Addis Ababa who have been left as orphans. There Is No Me Without You is ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • A Wolf at the Table

    A Memoir of My Father

    de Augusten Burroughs ...
    "As a little boy, I had a dream that my father had taken me to the woods where there was a dead body. He buried it and told me I must never tell. It was the only thing we'd ever done together as father and son, and I promised not to tell. But unlike most dreams, the memory of this one never left me. And sometimes…I wasn't altogether sure about one thing: was it just a dream?"When Augusten ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

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