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Den orättvisa hälsan : om socioekonomiska skillnader i hälsa och livslängd
AvMikael Rostila,Susanna Toivanen
Häftad, Svenska, 2025
589 kr
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Den orättvisa hälsan – om socioekonomiska skillnader i hälsa och livslängd beskriver ett samhälleligt perspektiv på hälsa, sjukdom och livslängd med utgångspunkt från hälsans sociala bestämningsfaktorer, det vill säga under vilka villkor människor föds, växer upp, lever, arbetar och åldras. Sådana bestämningsfaktorer kan var för sig och tillsammans påverka människors hälsa och livslängd.

Boken beskriver hur ojämlik hälsa uppstår, hur den kan mätas och förklaras, hur den varierar över livscykeln och vilka åtgärder som kan vidtas för att minska den. Denna tredje upplaga har uppdaterats med nya forskningsrön, statistik och referenser. Den har också fått ett helt nytt kapitel om sexuell läggning och könsidentitet i förhållande till ojämlikhet i hälsa.

Boken vänder sig till studenter inom områdena folkhälsa, samhällsvetenskapliga ämnen, vård och medicin. Den lämpar sig även väl för beslutsfattare och andra som är verksamma inom folkhälsoområdet.

Om författarnaMikael Rostila är professor i folkhälsovetenskap och docent i sociologi vid Stockholms universitet. Han forskar om hur migration, ojämlikhet och anhörigförlust påverkar hälsa och sjukdom.

Susanna Toivanen är professor i sociologi vid Mälardalens universitet där hon forskar om hälsa och ojämlikhet i den arbetande befolkningen utifrån ett genusperspektiv.

Bokens övriga författare är alla forskare och experter inom området.
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Psykiatrins kris : ett sociologiskt perspektiv
AvJonas Lindblom
Häftad, Svenska, 2023
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
420 kr
Diagnostisering av psykisk ohälsa och behandling med psykofarmaka blir allt vanligare. Men frågan är om det sättet att hantera människors problem är det mest hjälpsamma? I boken presenteras medicinsk och samhällsvetenskaplig forskning som visar att den medicinska modellen, som baseras på diagnostisering, medicinering och symtomreduktion, kan ifrågasättas. Författaren beskriver på vilket sätt ett sociologiskt perspektiv kan skapa en djupare förståelse av psykiatrins kritiska situation och vill med boken också inspirera till förnyelse för att bättre möta de lidandes behov.Psykiatrins kris vänder sig till studerande och yrkesverksamma inom psykiatri och behandling, beteendevetenskap och socialt arbete såväl som till en intresserad allmänhet.
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Sekretess och tystnadsplikt - inom hälso- och sjukvård
AvEbba Sverne Arvill
Häftad, Svenska, 2024
357 kr
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Patienter har sedan länge ett skydd mot att uppgifter om dem lämnas ut till andra. Detta skydd, sekretess och tystnadsplikt, är viktiga principer inom all hälso- och sjukvård. Det finns både rättsliga och etiska regler som styr principerna. Den här boken handlar i första hand om de rättsliga reglerna. I boken beskrivs hur sekretess och tystnadsplikt ska tillämpas inom dagens hälso- och sjukvård. Mycket av texten bygger på frågor och svar från olika föreläsningar och är därför relevant för den dagliga verksamheten. Boken innehåller också flera exempel på frågor som kan uppkomma i vardagen på en vårdcentral eller ett sjukhus. Den innehåller dessutom ett antal övningsexempel med förslag till svar. Boken riktar sig till alla som utbildar sig till ett yrke inom hälso- och sjukvården. Den är i första hand tänkt för högre utbildningar, men kan även vara lämplig för gymnasiet. Det är min förhoppning att den även ska kunna användas som en uppslagsbok i det dagliga arbetet.
Handbook of Salutogenesis
AvMaurice B. Mittelmark,Georg F. Bauerm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
651 kr
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This open access book is a thorough update and expansion of the 2017 edition of The Handbook of Salutogenesis, responding to the rapidly growing salutogenesis research and application arena.Revised and updated from the first edition are background and historical chapters that trace the development of the salutogenic model of health and flesh out the central concepts, most notably generalized resistance resources and the sense of coherence that differentiate salutogenesis from pathogenesis. From there, experts describe a range of real-world applications within and outside health contexts. Many new chapters emphasize intervention research findings. Readers will find numerous practical examples of how to implement salutogenesis to enhance the health and well-being of families, infants and young children, adolescents, unemployed young people, pre-retirement adults, and older people. A dedicated section addresses how salutogenesis helps tackle vulnerability, with chapters on at-risk children, migrants, prisoners, emergency workers, and disaster-stricken communities. Wide-ranging coverage includes new topics beyond health, like intergroup conflict, politics and policy-making, and architecture. The book also focuses on applying salutogenesis in birth and neonatal care clinics, hospitals and primary care, schools and universities, workplaces, and towns and cities. A special section focuses on developments in salutogenesis methods and theory.With its comprehensive coverage, The Handbook of Salutogenesis, 2nd Edition, is the standard reference for researchers, practitioners, and health policy-makers who wish to have a thorough grounding in the topic. It is also written to support post-graduate education courses and self-study in public health, nursing, psychology, medicine, and social sciences.
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Tvång på gott och ont : en forskningsantologi om tvång i välfärden
Häftad, Svenska, 2025
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
512 kr
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Tvångsvård är paradoxalt – vård uppfattas som välmenande och gott, tvång som strängt och hårt. Ändå kan tvångsvård vara motiverat utifrån samhälleliga, etiska och rättsliga perspektiv. Denna antologi undersöker tvång inom psykiatrin, somatiken, missbruksvården, rättspsykiatrin, kriminalvården och socialtjänstens omsorg om barn och unga. Antologin är tvärvetenskaplig då författarna kommer från vetenskapliga discipliner som markant skiljer sig åt. Helheten har vuxit fram ur ett delat engagemang från författarna till de nitton olika kapitlen. Ett gemensamt drag i detta engagemang är kombinationen av att nyfiket undersöka och samtidigt inta ett kritiskt perspektiv på tvångsvård. Texterna drivs av en ambition att identifiera vad som är särskilt svårt och viktigt för de människor som är föremål för tvånget och den personal som utför det. Samtidigt pekar de på hur tvånget i det vardagliga också hänger ihop med förhållanden och val vi gör på samhällsnivå. Medverkande författare: Amina Guenna Holmgren, Anna Nilsson, Annika Staaf, Antoinette Lundahl, Arne Gerdner, Christoffer Rahm, Ebba Noland, Joar Björk, Kavot Zillén, Kerstin Svensson, Lisa Forsberg, Liv Zetterberg, Magnus Israelsson, Manne Sjöstrand, Maria Andersson Vogel, Mia Ramklint, Moa Dahlin, Niklas Juth, Pernilla Leviner, Peter Andersson, Sibel Korkmaz, Stefan Sjöström, Sven Pedersen, Titti Mattsson, Torbjörn Tännsjö, Tova Bennet, Tove Pettersson och Valentina Vidaurrazaga Aras.
Health Gap
The Challenge of an Unequal World
AvMichael Marmot
Häftad, Engelska, 2016
198 kr
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'Punchily written … He leaves the reader with a sense of the gross injustice of a world where health outcomes are so unevenly distributed' Times Literary Supplement'Splendid and necessary' Henry Marsh, author of Do No Harm, New StatesmanThere are dramatic differences in health between countries and within countries. But this is not a simple matter of rich and poor.A poor man in Glasgow is rich compared to the average Indian, but the Glaswegian’s life expectancy is 8 years shorter. The Indian is dying of infectious disease linked to his poverty; the Glaswegian of violent death, suicide, heart disease linked to a rich country’s version of disadvantage. In all countries, people at relative social disadvantage suffer health disadvantage, dramatically so. Within countries, the higher the social status of individuals the better is their health. These health inequalities defy usual explanations. Conventional approaches to improving health have emphasised access to technical solutions – improved medical care, sanitation, and control of disease vectors; or behaviours – smoking, drinking – obesity, linked to diabetes, heart disease and cancer. These approaches only go so far. Creating the conditions for people to lead flourishing lives, and thus empowering individuals and communities, is key to reduction of health inequalities. In addition to the scale of material success, your position in the social hierarchy also directly affects your health, the higher you are on the social scale, the longer you will live and the better your health will be. As people change rank, so their health risk changes. What makes these health inequalities unjust is that evidence from round the world shows we know what to do to make them smaller. This new evidence is compelling. It has the potential to change radically the way we think about health, and indeed society.
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Research Handbook on Society and Mental Health
AvMarta Elliott
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
796 kr
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This engaging Research Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of research on social factors and mental health, examining how important it is to consider the social context in which mental health issues develop. It illustrates how social factors contribute to problems with mental health and how society, in turn, responds to people diagnosed with psychiatric disorders. Expert contributors provide an in-depth review of the history of social factors and mental health, and also discuss how boundaries between disorders such as bipolar and borderline personality disorder can be blurred and contested. Past and current social factors are thoroughly reviewed such as refugee mental health, stressors linked to discrimination based on race, gender or sexual orientation, exposure to police violence and the impact of the recent COVID-19 pandemic. The challenges and stigma faced by those diagnosed with disorders, alongside prejudices and discrimination in the health care system are also examined. The Research Handbook on Society and Mental Health will be an excellent resource for scholars studying social issues in relation to mental health or illness and researchers wishing to take an interdisciplinary approach by studying biopsychosocial factors. Mental health providers interested in well-rounded learning and those people experiencing and living with mental illness will find the alternative viewpoints to mainstream psychiatry and psychology informative and illuminating.
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Global Health
AvBrian D Nicholson,Judy McKimmm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
1 309 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
The concept of global health has moved on from focusing on the problems of the developing world to encompass health problems with global impact. Global health issues impact daily on local healthcare delivery and professional practice. This illuminating guide for healthcare students and practitioners introduces the major themes, challenges and debates relevant to global health that will equip the reader with the knowledge and skills required to thrive in this multi-faceted area of practice. Key features Puts global health in context considering key issues including health inequalities, human health and the global environment and climate change. Ideal reading for international electives, voluntary work, and further qualifications in global health. Contains insights from leading experts in the field. Relevant to those working in a culturally diverse context whether domestic or international.
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Illness
The Cry of the Flesh
AvHavi Carel
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
493 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
What is illness? Is it a physiological dysfunction, a social label, or a way of experiencing the world? How do the physical, social, and emotional worlds of a person change when they become ill? Can there be well-being within illness?In this remarkable and thought-provoking book, Havi Carel explores these questions by weaving together the personal story of her own illness with insights and reflections drawn from her work as a philosopher. Carel’s fresh approach to illness raises some uncomfortable questions about how we all – whether healthcare professionals or not – view the ill, challenging us to become more thoughtful. Illness unravels the tension between the universality of illness and its intensely private, often lonely, nature. It offers a new way of looking at a matter that affects every one of us.Revised and updated throughout, the third edition of this groundbreaking volume includes a new chapter on organ transplantation. Illness: The Cry of the Flesh will prove essential reading to those studying philosophy, medical ethics, and medical anthropology, as well as those in the healthcare and medical professions. It will also be of interest to individuals who live with illness, and their friends and families.
Health
AvMildred Blaxter
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
2,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
233 kr
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The second edition of Mildred Blaxter's successful and highly respected book offers a comprehensive and engaging introduction to the key debates surrounding the concept of health today. It discusses how health is defined, constructed, experienced and acted out in contemporary developed societies, drawing on a range of empirical data from the USA, Britain, France, and many other countries. The new edition has been thoroughly revised and updated, with new material added on health and identity, the "new genetics", the sociology of the body, and the formation of health capital throughout the life course. The topic is the concept of health, rather than the more usual emphasis on illness and health-care systems. Special emphasis is given to the lay perspective to show how people themselves think about and experience health. Blaxter guides students through all the relevant conceptual models of the relationship of health to the structure of society, from inequality in health to the ideas of the risk society, the ‘socio-biological translation’ and the contribution of health to social capital. The book concludes with a comprehensively revised and thought-provoking discussion of the impact of new technology, the boundaries between life and death, modern commodification of health, technological transformations of the body and theories of evolutionary biology.Health is an invaluable textbook for students of medicine and other health professions as well as those studying sociology, health sciences and health promotion.
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Nocebo Effect
Overdiagnosis and Its Costs
AvStewart Justman
Häftad, Engelska, 2016
286 kr
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The Nocebo Effect documents the transformation of normal problems into medical ones and brings out the risks of this inflationary practice. One notable risk is that people labeled as sick may find themselves living up to their label through the alchemy of the nocebo effect.
Handbook of Salutogenesis
AvMaurice B. Mittelmark,Georg F. Bauerm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
527 kr
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This open access book is a thorough update and expansion of the 2017 edition of The Handbook of Salutogenesis, responding to the rapidly growing salutogenesis research and application arena.Revised and updated from the first edition are background and historical chapters that trace the development of the salutogenic model of health and flesh out the central concepts, most notably generalized resistance resources and the sense of coherence that differentiate salutogenesis from pathogenesis. From there, experts describe a range of real-world applications within and outside health contexts. Many new chapters emphasize intervention research findings. Readers will find numerous practical examples of how to implement salutogenesis to enhance the health and well-being of families, infants and young children, adolescents, unemployed young people, pre-retirement adults, and older people. A dedicated section addresses how salutogenesis helps tackle vulnerability, with chapters on at-risk children, migrants, prisoners, emergency workers, and disaster-stricken communities. Wide-ranging coverage includes new topics beyond health, like intergroup conflict, politics and policy-making, and architecture. The book also focuses on applying salutogenesis in birth and neonatal care clinics, hospitals and primary care, schools and universities, workplaces, and towns and cities. A special section focuses on developments in salutogenesis methods and theory.With its comprehensive coverage, The Handbook of Salutogenesis, 2nd Edition, is the standard reference for researchers, practitioners, and health policy-makers who wish to have a thorough grounding in the topic. It is also written to support post-graduate education courses and self-study in public health, nursing, psychology, medicine, and social sciences.
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John Berger
Ways of Learning
AvIona Heath
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
314 kr
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Iona Heath relates the importance that John Berger's work and friendship had on her working life as a GP. It includes extracts from letters that span 20 years of her correspondence with John Berger.In this book, Iona Heath writes about reading John Berger's writing over more than 50 years and her friendship and correspondence with him over the best part of 20 years. Dr Heath found that both of these interacted profoundly with her work as a general practitioner in a deprived urban area in London. For Iona Heath, general practice is a quite extraordinary undertaking: every working day, sitting with a succession of unique individuals, each worried about some aspect of their health or life circumstances, many burdened by unspoken fears, and each seeking some form of answer. Starting with A Fortunate Man, when she was an ignorant but hopeful undergraduate medical student, she found reading John Berger on any subject had something new to tell her about the aspirations and detail of her work: clues about how to look and how to listen and much else. Later when they started to correspond, Iona Heath found herself in the privileged position of being able to check her understanding directly with the writer and on each occasion found deeper levels of awareness and insight. She is convinced that reading John Berger made her a better doctor.
Antropolog eller medmänniska : reflektioner över fältanteckningar
AvLisbeth Sachs
Inbunden, Svenska, 2026
267 kr
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Lisbeth Sachs har blivit kallad för den medicinska antropologins moder i Sverige. Hon har publicerat omfattande om sin forskning såväl i Sverige som i andra länder. För första gången återvänder hon nu till de personliga fältanteckningar hon fört under hela sitt yrkesliv. I dagboken finns minnen som får Sachs att fundera över rollen som antropolog. Mötet med själva människorna ställer krav som ibland är oförenliga med den roll som antropologen har. Det är svårt att vara medmänniska, och liksom Janus är antropologen kluven mellan forskarens blick och de etiska kraven. Antropolog eller medmänniska är en i svensk kontext unik skildring av antropologen som människa och forskare, antropologin som verksamhet och problem samt de öden och individer som det hela handlar om.
När slutet kommer – vill jag bestämma själv!
AvAnita Lanz,Catarina Baldo Zagadou
E-bok
Svenska, 2020
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
94 kr
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Måste livet förlängas till varje pris - även när det oundvikliga står för dörren? I dagens samhälle är det inte många som tar sig tid att lyssna till en människas sista vilja. Att få hjälp med livskvalitén i livets slutskede är nog många tacksamma för, men vad händer när hen fått nog av mediciner, sprutor och allt som ryms innanför sjukhusets väggar? Vad de flesta inte vet är att det faktiskt går att bestämma hur man vill att ens sista tid i livet ska se ut. Och den behöver inte innehålla en endaste behandling - om man inte vill.I 'När slutet kommer - vill jag bestämma själv!' visar cancersjuksköterskan Anita Lanz hur man kan diktera sina egna villkor genom att upprätta ett patienttestamente. Boken har hon författat tillsammans med journalisten Catarina Baldo Zagadou. Tillsammans har de tidigare gett ut boken 'Jag vill dö med en ängel vid min sida'. Catarina Baldo Zagadou är en svensk författare som under sin författarkarriär skrivit ett flertal fackböcker, främst inom områdena psykologi och hälsa.Anita Lanz är en svensk sjuksköterska och författare. Lanz har under flera år arbetat som 'dödsmorska' på sjukhus i Schweiz där hon assisterat patienter nära döden.
Paradoxes of PrEP for HIV Prevention
AvMorten Skovdal
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
205 kr
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Available open access digitally under CC-BY licence.Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is a drug taken by HIV-negative people that reduces the risk of getting HIV. Comparing two case studies in Denmark and Zimbabwe, this book demonstrates six paradoxes that users often encounter in navigating their PrEP journey. These paradoxes lead to contentions, uncertainties, dilemmas and ambiguities that need to be carefully and pensively responded to through what the author terms ‘everyday PrEP negotiations’. The social nature and need for such everyday PrEP negotiations help explain why PrEP works for some people and not for others. This book argues that such insight is critical to make PrEP work for more people and to inform social public health responses.
Veteranhälsans limbo : en intervjustudie om ett försämrat mående och ökat lidande hos svenska utlandsveteraner
AvJan Grimell
Häftad, Svenska, 2023
300 kr
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I Sverige finns cirka 54 000 personer som av Försvarsmakten skickats ut på militära internationella insatser. Det rör sig om betydligt fler om man räknar de som inte längre lever. Därtill finns det personer på en rad andra myndigheter som skickats ut på insatser i världens olika konflikthärdar. Dessa personer kallas för utlandsveteraner. Att leva och arbeta i en krigszon kan påverka människor på flera olika plan fysiskt, psykiskt, emotionellt, relationellt och andligt. Utlandsveteraner kan uppleva ett försämrat mående efter att ha deltagit i insatser, men långt ifrån alla får diagnosen PTSD. Boken Veteranhälsans limbo bygger på en intervjustudie med 24 utlandsveteraner som ger läsaren en unik inblick i och förståelse för såväl internationella insatser som ett försämrat mående och ökat lidande som inte diagnostiserats som PTSD vid tidpunkten för intervjuerna. En utlandsveteran som befinner sig i ett veteranhälsans limbo kan sägas ha ett individuellt sammansatt problemkomplex som kan innehålla medicinska, psykologiska, sociala, moraliska och existentiella dimensioner. I boken används bland annat begrepp som moralisk skada, Krigarmasken, identitet och skadlig operationsstress för att diskutera komplexiteten i en sådan måendeförsämring.
Abortion Care As Moral Work
Ethical Considerations of Maternal and Fetal Bodies
AvJohanna Schoen
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
317 kr
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Abortion Care as Moral Work brings together the voices of abortion providers, abortion counselors, clinic owners, neonatologists, bioethicists, and historians to discuss how and why providing abortion care is moral work. The collection offers voices not usually heard as clinicians talk about their work and their thoughts about life and death. In four subsections--Providers, Clinics, Conscience, and The Fetus--the contributions in this anthology explore the historical context and present-day challenges to the delivery of abortion care. Contributing authors address the motivations that lead abortion providers to offer abortion care, discuss the ways in which anti-abortion regulations have made it increasingly difficult to offer feminist-inspired services, and ponder the status of the fetus and the ethical frameworks supporting abortion care and fetal research. Together these essays provide a feminist moral foundation to reassert that abortion care is moral work.
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Social Medicine and the Coming Transformation
AvHoward Waitzkin,Alina Pérezm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
501 kr
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Social medicine, starting two centuries ago, has shown that social conditions affect health and illness more than biology does, and social change affects the outcomes of health and illness more than health services do. Understanding and exposing sickness-generating structures in society helps us change them.This first book providing a critical introduction to social medicine sheds light on an increasingly important field. The authors draw on examples worldwide to show how principles based on solidarity and mutual aid have enabled people to participate collaboratively to construct health-promoting social conditions. The book offers vital information and analysis to enhance our understanding regarding the promotion of health through social and individual means; the micro-politics of medical encounters; the social determination of illness; the influences of racism, class, gender, and ethnicity on health; health and empire; and health praxis, reform, and sociomedical activism. Illustrations are included throughout the book to convey these key themes and important issues, as well as on Routledge’s webpage for the book, under the Support Materials tab.The authors offer compelling ways to understand and to change the social dimensions of health and health care. Students, teachers, practitioners, activists, policy makers, and people concerned about health and health care will value this book, which goes beyond the usual approaches of texts in public health, medical sociology, health economics, and health policy.
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Pirate Care
Acts Against the Criminalization of Solidarity
AvValeria Graziano,Marcell Marsm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
215 kr
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'A most nourishing and encouraging book' - McKenzie Wark, author of A Hacker ManifestoIn many places around the world, the freedom to simply care for one another is being attack by the powerful, and acts of solidarity are being made illegal. In a moment of struggle defined by the rollback of the social safety net, the criminalization of migration, and the right-wing clampdown on bodily autonomy, radical networks of care are fighting back.From volunteer rescue boats in the Mediterranean to underground labs preparing gender-affirming hormones, people are reclaiming the means to care for one another in defiance of a system that devalues and exploits the labor of care.Against atomized despair, Pirate Care shows that fighting back isn't only about legal and legislative changes but also about organizing, direct action, and disobedient care.
Sedated
How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis
AvJames Davies
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
130 kr
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A provocative and shocking look at how western society is misunderstanding and mistreating mental illness. Perfect for fans of Empire of Pain and Dope Sick.In Britain alone, more than 20% of the adult population take a psychiatric drug in any one year. This is an increase of over 500% since 1980 and the numbers continue to grow. Yet, despite this prescription epidemic, levels of mental illness of all types have actually increased in number and severity.Using a wealth of studies, interviews with experts, and detailed analysis, Dr James Davies argues that this is because we have fundamentally mischaracterised the problem. Rather than viewing most mental distress as an understandable reaction to wider societal problems, we have embraced a medical model which situates the problem solely within the sufferer and their brain. Urgent and persuasive, Sedated systematically examines why this individualistic view of mental illness has been promoted by successive governments and big business - and why it is so misplaced and dangerous.
Town Called Asbestos
Environmental Contamination, Health, and Resilience in a Resource Community
AvJessica van Horssen
Inbunden, Engelska, 2016
444 kr
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For decades, manufacturers from around the world relied on asbestos to produce a multitude of fire-retardant products. As use of the mineral became more widespread, medical professionals discovered it had harmful effects on human health. Mining and manufacturing companies downplayed the risks to workers and the general public, but eventually, as the devastating nature of asbestos-related deaths became common knowledge, the industry suffered terminal decline. A Town Called Asbestos looks at how the people of Asbestos, Quebec, worked and lived alongside the largest chrysotile asbestos mine in the world. Dependent on this deadly industry for their community's survival, they developed a unique, place-based understanding of their local environment; the risks they faced living next to the giant opencast mine; and their place within the global resource trade. This book unearths the local-global tensions that defined Asbestos's proud history and reveals the challenges similar resource communities have faced – and continue to face today.
Not All In
Race, Immigration, and Health Care Exclusion in the Age of Obamacare
AvTiffany D. Joseph
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
455 kr
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Examines how health policy shifts fail to fully serve immigrant communities due to structural racism and anti-immigrant rhetoric and enforcement measures.Despite progressive policy strides in health care reform, immigrant communities continue to experience stark disparities across the United States. In Not All In, Tiffany D. Joseph exposes the insidious contradiction of Massachusetts' advanced health care system and the exclusionary experiences of its immigrant communities. Joseph illustrates how patients' race, ethnicity, and legal status determine their access to health coverage and care services, revealing a disturbing paradox where policy advances and individual experiences drastically diverge. Examining Boston's Brazilian, Dominican, and Salvadoran communities, this book provides an exhaustive analysis spanning nearly a decade to highlight the profound impacts of the Affordable Care Act and subsequent policy shifts on these marginalized groups. Not All In is a critical examination of the systemic barriers that perpetuate health care disparities. Joseph challenges readers to confront the uncomfortable truths about racialized legal status and its profound implications on health care access. This essential book illuminates the complexities of policy implementation and advocates for more inclusive reforms that genuinely cater to all. Urging policymakers, health care providers, and activists to rethink strategies that bridge the gap between legislation and life, this book reminds us that in the realm of health care, being progressive is not synonymous with inclusivity.
Wounded Storyteller
Body, Illness, and Ethics, Second Edition
AvArthur W. Frank
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
260 kr
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Since it was first published in 1995, "The Wounded Storyteller" has occupied a unique place in the body of work on illness. Both the collective portrait of a "remission society" of those who suffer from some type of illness or disability and a cogent analysis of their stories within a larger framework of narrative theory, Arthur W. Frank's book has reached a large and diverse readership, including the ill, medical professionals, and scholars of literary theory. Drawing on the work of authors such as Oliver Sacks, Anatole Broyard, Norman Cousins, and Audre Lorde, as well as the people he met during the years he spent among different illness groups, Frank recounts a stirring collection of illness stories, ranging from the well-known - Gilda Radner's battle with ovarian cancer - to the private testimonials of people with cancer, chronic fatigue syndrome, and disabilities. Their stories are more than accounts of personal suffering: they abound with moral choices and point to a social ethic. In this new edition Frank adds a preface describing the personal and cultural times when the first edition was written.His new afterword extends the book's argument significantly, writing about storytelling and experience, other modes of illness narration, and a version of hope that is both realistic and aspirational. Reflecting on both his own life during the creation of the first edition and the conclusions of the book itself, Frank reminds us of the power of storytelling as way of understanding our own suffering.
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Hospital aesthetics
Disability, medicine, activism
AvAmanda Cachia
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
349 kr
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Hospital aesthetics: Disability, medicine, activism argues that contemporary disabled artists are offering a new hospital aesthetics, where health and care are being taken into their own hands and body-minds. Hospital aesthetics is defined as artwork that explores the ever-subjective experience of illness, set apart from and outside of a clinical or therapeutic setting, and in opposition to the medical model of disability. The author examines the work of nine contemporary disabled artists and four care collectives from the United States, Canada, and Europe across five chapters, utilising a range of mediums including drawing, sculpture, installation, painting, performance, video, and socially engaged art practice to illustrate “hospital aesthetics.”The visual culture of medicine typically undermines and controls disabled bodies, often resulting in unfavourable physical and psychological outcomes. It is therefore imperative that disabled artists establish a hospital aesthetics to rescript medical images of disability, both past and present, particularly in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. In doing so, contemporary disabled artists contribute to a form of disability activism that seeks to improve mainstream bioethics as well as ableist museum and gallery culture. Hospital aesthetics presents a different perspective on disabled bodies, aiming to undo the social and cultural impacts hospitals have had on disabled patients, both historically and today.
Medicalization of Society
On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders
AvPeter Conrad
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
343 kr
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Over the past half-century, the social terrain of health and illness has been transformed. What were once considered normal human events and common human problems-birth, aging, menopause, alcoholism, and obesity-are now viewed as medical conditions. For better or worse, medicine increasingly permeates aspects of daily life. Building on more than three decades of research, Peter Conrad explores the changing forces behind this trend with case studies of short stature, social anxiety, "male menopause," erectile dysfunction, adult ADHD, and sexual orientation. He examines the emergence of and changes in medicalization, the consequences of the expanding medical domain, and the implications for health and society. He finds in recent developments-such as the growing number of possible diagnoses and biomedical enhancements-the future direction of medicalization. Conrad contends that the impact of medical professionals on medicalization has diminished. Instead, the pharmaceutical and biotechnical industries, insurance companies and HMOs, and the patient as consumer have become the major forces promoting medicalization.This thought-provoking study offers valuable insight into not only how medicalization got to this point but also how it may continue to evolve.
Curriculum Development for Medical Education
A Six-Step Approach
AvPatricia A. Thomas,David E. Kernm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
555 kr
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A thoroughly revised and updated fourth edition of a text that has become an international standard for curriculum development in health professional education.Intended for faculty and other content experts who have an interest or responsibility as educators in their discipline, Curriculum Development for Medical Education has extended its vision to better serve a diverse professional and international audience. Building on the time-honored, practical, and user-friendly approach of the six-step model of curriculum development, this edition is richly detailed, with numerous examples of innovations that challenge traditional teaching models. In addition, the fourth edition presents • updates in our understanding of how humans learn; • a new chapter on curricula that addresses community needs and health equity; and• an increased emphasis throughout on health systems science, population health, equity, educational technology in health professions education, and interprofessional education.This new edition remains a cutting-edge tool and practical guidebook for faculty members and administrators responsible for the educational experiences of health professional students, residents, fellows, and practitioners. It includes chapters on each of the steps of curriculum development, with updated examples and questions to guide the application of the timeless principles. Subsequent chapters cover curriculum maintenance and enhancement, dissemination, and curriculum development for larger programs. Appendixes present examples of full curricula designed using the six-step approach, which is widely recognized as the current standard for publication and dissemination of new curricula and provides a basis for meaningful educational interventions, scholarship, and career advancement for the health professional educator. The book also provides curricular, faculty development, and funding resources. Contributors: Chadia N. Abras, Belinda Y. Chen, Heidi L. Gullett, Mark T. Hughes, David E. Kern, Brenessa M. Lindeman, Pamela A. Lipsett, Mary L. O'Connor Leppert, Amit K. Pahwa, Deanna Saylor, Mamta K. Singh, Sean A. Tackett, Patricia A. Thomas
Confessions of a Male Nurse
AvMichael Alexander
Ljudbok
Engelska, 2012
196 kr
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From the people who brought you the bestselling Confessions of a GP.From stampeding nudes to inebriated teenagers, young nurse Michael Alexander never really knew what he was getting himself into. But now, sixteen years since he was first launched into his nursing career – as the only man in a gynaecology ward – he’s pretty much dealt with everything: Body parts that come off in his hands; Teenagers with phantom pregnancies; Doctors unable to tell the difference between their left and right; Violent drunks; Singing relatives; Sexism; . . . and a whole lot of nudity.Confessions of a Male Nurse is a touching, shocking and frequently hilarious account of one man’s life in nursing.
How to Solve a Murder
True Stories from a Life in Forensic Medicine
AvDerek Tremain,Pauline Tremain
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
113 kr
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As gripping as it is gruesome, How to Solve a Murder is a fascinating insight into the career of a forensic scientist. Includes a foreword from Dr Richard Shepherd, bestselling author of Unnatural Causes.FRACTURED SKULLS. GAS MASKS. BRAIN BUCKETS. VATS OF ACID. PICKLED BODY PARTS.Not the usual tools of trade, but for Chief Forensic Medical Scientist Derek and Forensic Secretary Pauline they were just part of a normal day in the office inside the world-famous Department of Forensic Medicine at Guy’s Hospital in London.Derek has played a pivotal role in investigating some of the UK’s most high-profile mass disasters and murder cases. Derek’s innovative work on murder cases, in particular, has seen him credited as a pioneer of forensic medical science, after developing ground-breaking techniques that make it easier to secure a conviction and also identify a serial killer.Warmly recalled and brilliantly told, these intriguing revelations will open your eyes to the dark world inhabited by those who investigate death and murder (typically most horrid), and unveil the secrets of how each case is solved.
How to Solve a Murder
True Stories from a Life in Forensic Medicine
AvDerek Tremain,Pauline Tremain
E-bok
Engelska, 2021
69 kr
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As gripping as it is gruesome, How to Solve a Murder is a fascinating insight into the career of a forensic scientist told by experts in the field. Includes a foreword from Dr Richard Shepherd, bestselling author of Unnatural Causes.FRACTURED SKULLS. GAS MASKS. BRAIN BUCKETS. VATS OF ACID. PICKLED BODY PARTS.Not the usual tools of trade, but for Chief Forensic Medical Scientist Derek and Forensic Secretary Pauline they were just part of a normal day in the office inside the world-famous Department of Forensic Medicine at Guy’s Hospital in London.Derek has played a pivotal role in investigating some of the UK’s most high-profile mass disasters and murder cases. Derek’s innovative work on murder cases, in particular, has seen him credited as a pioneer of forensic medical science, after developing ground-breaking techniques that make it easier to secure a conviction and also identify a serial killer.Warmly recalled and brilliantly told, these intriguing revelations will open your eyes to the dark world inhabited by those who investigate death and murder (typically most horrid), and unveil the secrets of how each case is solved.

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