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Caring and Well-being
A Lifeworld Approach
Av Kathleen Galvin, Les Todres
Häftad, 2014
879 kr
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Something is missing in contemporary health and social care. Health and illness is often measured in policy documents in economic terms, and clinical outcomes are enmeshed in statistical data, with the patient’s experience left to one side. This stimulating book is concerned with how to humanise …
Caring and Well-being
A Lifeworld Approach
Av Kathleen Galvin, Les Todres
Inbunden, 2012
2586 kr
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Something is missing in contemporary health and social care. Health and illness is often measured in policy documents in economic terms, and clinical outcomes are enmeshed in statistical data, with the patient’s experience left to one side. This stimulating book is concerned with how to humanise …
Contested Illness in Context
An Interdisciplinary Study in Disease Definition
Inbunden, 2019
2578 kr
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What makes a disease real? Why is it that patients with chronic fatigue syndrome or fibromyalgia are doubted when they say they are in pain, and cannot access the same benefits of patient-hood that others can? What defines the limits of our belief and, ultimately, compassion, when it comes to …
‘Ending AIDS’ in the Age of Biopharmaceuticals
The Individual, the State and the Politics of Prevention
Av Tony Sandset
Inbunden, 2020
2578 kr
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This book considers the change in rhetoric surrounding the treatment of AIDS from one of crisis to that of ‘ending AIDS’. Exploring what it means to ‘end AIDS’ and how responsibility is framed in this new discourse, the author considers the tensions generated between the individual and the state in …
Institutionalizing Assisted Reproductive Technologies
The Role of Science, Professionalism, and Regulatory Control
Av Alexander Styhre, Rebecka Arman
Häftad, 2023
710 kr
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Reproductive medicine has been very successful at developing new therapies in recent years and people having difficulties conceiving have more options available to them than ever before. These developments have led to a new institutional landscape emerging and this innovative volume explores how …
Assisted Reproductive Technologies in the Global South and North
Issues, Challenges and the Future
Av Virginie Rozée, Sayeed Unisa
Häftad, 2022
710 kr
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Assisted Reproductive Technologies in the Global South and North critically analyses the political and social frameworks of Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART), and its impact in different countries. In the context of a worldwide social pressure to conceive – particularly for women – this …
Dying Body as a Lived Experience
Av Alan Blum
Häftad, 2019
710 kr
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The anxiety over death persists in everyday life- though often denied or repressed- lingering as an unconscious worry or intuition that typically seems to compromise one’s feelings of well-being and experience in a range of areas; coming out often as malaise, depression, and anger in much conduct. …
Down's Syndrome Screening and Reproductive Politics
Care, Choice, and Disability in the Prenatal Clinic
Häftad, 2019
710 kr
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Nominated for the Foundation of Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize 2018In the UK and beyond, Down’s syndrome screening has become a universal programme in prenatal care. But why does screening persist, particularly in light of research that highlights pregnant women’s ambivalent and …
Recovery, Mental Health and Inequality
Chinese Ethnic Minorities as Mental Health Service Users
Av Lynn Tang
Häftad, 2019
755 kr
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Mental health has long been perceived as a taboo subject in the UK, so much so that mental health services have been marginalised within health and social care. There is even more serious neglect of the specific issues faced by different ethnic minorities. This book uses the rich narratives of the …
Rise of Autism
Risk and Resistance in the Age of Diagnosis
Inbunden, 2020
2578 kr
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The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429285912, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.This innovative book addresses the question of why increasing numbers of people are being …
Social Science of the Syringe
A Sociology of Injecting Drug Use
Häftad, 2019
680 kr
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This book addresses the history of harm reduction. It evaluates the consequences and constraints, stakes and costs of the policy of needle exchange for the purposes of harm prevention and health research. Vitellone situates the syringe at the centre of empirical research and theoretical analysis, …
Disclosure in Health and Illness
Av Mark Davis, Lenore Manderson
Häftad, 2019
710 kr
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Disclosure is a frequently used but rarely interrogated concept in health and social welfare. Abuse, disability, sexuality and health status can be ‘disclosed’ to peers and professionals, and on some occasions, disclosure is a requirement and not a choice. This innovative collection examines the …
Complaints, Controversies and Grievances in Medicine
Historical and Social Science Perspectives
Av Jonathan Reinarz, Rebecca Wynter
Häftad, 2019
710 kr
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Recent studies into the experiences and failures of health care services, along with the rapid development of patient advocacy, consumerism and pressure groups have led historians and social scientists to engage with the issue of the medical complaint. As expressions of dissatisfaction, disquiet …
Public Shaping of Medical Research
Patient Associations, Health Movements and Biomedicine
Av Peter Wehling, Willy Viehöver m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
710 kr
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Patient organizations and social health movements offer one of the most important and illuminating examples of civil society engagement and participation in scientific research and research politics. Influencing the research agenda, and initiating, funding and accelerating the development of …
Health, Food and Social Inequality
Critical Perspectives on the Supply and Marketing of Food
Häftad, 2019
710 kr
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Health, Food and Social Inequality investigates how vast amounts of consumer data are used by the food industry to enable the social ranking of products, food outlets and consumers themselves, and how this influences food consumption patterns.This book supplies a fresh social scientific perspective …
Giving Blood
The Institutional Making of Altruism
Av Johanne Charbonneau, André Smith
Häftad, 2021
710 kr
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Giving Blood represents a new agenda for blood donation research. It explores the diverse historical and contemporary undercurrents that influence how blood donation takes place, and the social meanings that people attribute to the act of giving blood. Drawing from empirical studies conducted in …
Bodily Exchanges, Bioethics and Border Crossing
Perspectives on Giving, Selling and Sharing Bodies
Av Erik Malmqvist, Kristin Zeiler
Häftad, 2019
710 kr
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Medical therapy, research and technology enable us to make our bodies, or parts of them, available to others in an increasing number of ways. This is the case in organ, tissue, egg and sperm donation as well as in surrogate motherhood and clinical research. Bringing together leading scholars …
Gendered Violence, Abuse and Mental Health in Everyday Lives
Beyond Trauma
Häftad, 2023
665 kr
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Gendered Violence, Abuse and Mental Health in Everyday Lives: Beyond Trauma offers new insights into the social dimensions of emotional distress in abuse-related mental health problems, and explores the many interconnections between gendered violence, different forms of abuse and poor mental …
Framing Age
Contested Knowledge in Science and Politics
Av Iris Loffeier, Benoît Majerus m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
710 kr
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Ageing populations have gradually become a major concern in many industrialised countries over the past fifty years, drawing the attention of both politics and science. The target of a raft of health and social policies, older people are often identified as a specific, and vulnerable, population. …
Understanding Drugs Markets
An Analysis of Medicines, Regulations and Pharmaceutical Systems in the Global South
Av Carine Baxerres, Maurice Cassier
Inbunden, 2021
2578 kr
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Drawing on anthropology, historical sociology and social-epidemiology, this multidisciplinary book investigates how pharmaceuticals are produced, distributed, prescribed, (and) consumed, and regulated in order to construct a comprehensive understanding of the issues that drive (medicine) …
Socio-economics of Precision Medicine in Asia
Av Shirley Sun
Häftad, 2019
740 kr
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The second decade of the twenty-first century has witnessed a surging interest in personalized medicine with the concomitant promise to enable more precise diagnosis and treatment of disease and illness, based upon an individual’s unique genetic makeup.In this book, my goal is to contribute to a …
Living Pharmaceutical Lives
Inbunden, 2021
2578 kr
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Increasingly, pharmaceuticals are available as the solutions to a wide range of human health problems and health risks, minor and major. This book portrays how pharmaceutical use is, at once, a solution to, and a difficulty for, everyday life.Exploring lived experiences of people at different …
Financing Healthcare in China
Towards universal health insurance
Häftad, 2019
740 kr
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China’s current social medical insurance system has nominally covered more than 95 per cent of 1.4 billion population in China and is moving towards the ambitious goal of universal health insurance coverage. Challenges posed by a rapidly ageing population, an inherently discriminatory design of the …
Childlessness in the Age of Communication
Deconstructing Silence
Inbunden, 2020
2578 kr
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Cristina Archetti started researching childlessness after being diagnosed with "unexplained infertility". She soon discovered that, although involuntary childlessness affects an increasing number of women and men across the world, this topic is shrouded taboo and shame. This book is both a …
Public Discourse and Health Policies
The Price of Health in Contemporary Italy
Inbunden, 2021
2578 kr
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The questions addressed in the book revolve around the public nature of health as an asset and the rights associated with it, by drawing attention to sociology’s role in shedding light on current dynamics and understanding how they may change in the future.In the field of public health, significant …
Public Health, Personal Health and Pills
Drug Entanglements and Pharmaceuticalised Governance
Av Kevin Dew
Häftad, 2019
710 kr
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Public Health, Personal Health and Pills explores the processes and effects of the increasing governance of our lives through pharmaceuticals, looking at the moral, interactional, social and political forces that shape our use of them. It demonstrates the ways in which social relationships and …
Transnationalising Reproduction
Third Party Conception in a Globalised World
Av Roisin Ryan Flood, Jenny Gunnarsson Payne
Häftad, 2020
740 kr
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Third party conception is a growing phenomenon and provokes a burgeoning range of ethical, legal and social questions. What are the rights of donors, recipients and donor conceived children? How are these reproductive technologies regulated? How is kinship understood within these new family …
Cultures of Oral Health
Discourses, Practices and Theory
Av Claire L. Jones, Barry J. Gibson
Inbunden, 2022
2578 kr
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Oral health is integral to wellbeing and quality of life. This important edited volume brings together leading scholars to address global oral health and the multiple ways in which theory, practice and discourse have shaped it in the modern period.Structured around key themes, the book chapters …
Weight Bias in Health Education
Critical Perspectives for Pedagogy and Practice
Av Heather Brown, Nancy Ellis-Ordway
Inbunden, 2021
2578 kr
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Weight stigma is so pervasive in our culture that it is often unnoticed, along with the harm that it causes. Health care is rife with anti-fat bias and discrimination against fat people, which compromises care and influences the training of new practitioners. This book explores how this happens and …
‘Ending AIDS’ in the Age of Biopharmaceuticals
The Individual, the State and the Politics of Prevention
Av Tony Sandset
Häftad, 2022
710 kr
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This book considers the change in rhetoric surrounding the treatment of AIDS from one of crisis to that of ‘ending AIDS’. Exploring what it means to ‘end AIDS’ and how responsibility is framed in this new discourse, the author considers the tensions generated between the individual and the state in …
