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Psychiatry and Empire (Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies)
by S. Mahone M. Vaughan'Psychiatry and Empire' brings together scholars in the History of Medicine and Colonialism to explore questions of race, gender and power relations in former colonial states across Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and the Pacific. The volume advances our understanding of the rise of modern psychiatry as it collided with the psychology of colonial rule.
Mental Health User Narratives: New Perspectives on Illness and Recovery
by Bruce M.Z. CohenFollowing extensive research in the UK, Bruce Cohen allows mental health users to tell their own stories (or 'narratives') of illness and recovery. Institutional and home treatment care is covered alongside controversial self-coping techniques such as drug-taking, spiritualism, alternative healing, sleep and watching television.
Researching Communication Disorders (Research and Practice in Applied Linguistics)
by A. Ferguson E. ArmstrongResearching communication disorders involves a range of disciplines including speech-language pathology, linguistics and psychology. This book provides an interdisciplinary description of the theoretical frameworks in the field of communication disorders and an overview of the main current methodological approaches.
The Global Politics of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Science: Regenerative Medicine in Transition (Health, Technology and Society)
by H. Gottweis B. Salter C. WaldbyDrawing on a wide range of interviews and primary and secondary sources, this book investigates the dynamic interactions between national regulatory formation and the global biopolitics of regenerative medicine and human embryonic stem cell science.
Uncertainty in Medical Innovation: Experienced Pioneers in Neonatal Care (Health, Technology and Society)
by Jessica MesmanThe Neonatal Intensive Care Unit is a site where hi-tech medicine and vulnerable human beings come into close contact. Focusing on a number of medical and ethical challenges encountered by staff and parents, this book provides a new perspective on the complexity of these treatments and the inventiveness of those involved.
Restoring Hope: Decent Care in the Midst of HIV/AIDS
by T. Karpf T. Ferguson R. Swift J. LazarusThis volume is a call to re-examine assumptions about what care is and how it be practised. Rather than another demand for radical reform, it makes the case for thinking clearly and critically. It urges people living with HIV to become full partners in designing and implementing their own care and for caregivers to accept them in this role.
The Discourse of Hospital Communication: Tracing Complexities in Contemporary Health Organizations (Communicating in Professions and Organizations)
by R. IedemaBringing together recent international research in the field of hospital communication and interaction, the contributors to this book contextualize clinical professional work by focussing on the rising intensity of information and communication practices in organizations generally, and in health care in particular.
Surgeons, Manufacturers and Patients: A Transatlantic History of Total Hip Replacement (Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History)
by J. Anderson F. Neary J. PickstoneThe Total Hip Replacement was invented by British surgeons after World War Two. It became the basis of a multi-billion global industry in joint replacement. This pioneering study ranges from inventive surgeons to multi-national manufacturers and explores total hip replacement in the very different health economies of the UK and the US.
Community Care in Perspective: Care, Control and Citizenship
by J. Welshman J. WalmsleyThis cohesive collection fills a major gap in medical and social history by offering a detailed account of community provision for so-called 'vulnerable adults' in the UK from 1948-2005. It examines key issues such as charity versus rights, the role of the market in care provision and the changing construction of social categories.
Revisioning Women and Drug Use: Gender, Power and the Body
by E. EttorreThis 'landmark' text by one of the most respected researchers in drug use considers the issues surrounding the gendering of drug use, and within this looks critically at two approaches - the classical and postmodern. Ettorre examines the idea of a drug-using society and the implications this holds for social inequality and exclusion.
The Body Beautiful: Evolutionary and Sociocultural Perspectives
by V. Swami A. FurnhamIn this volume, contributors from a range of perspectives - evolutionary psychology to anthropology, sociology to cognitive and motivational psychology - explore questions of what our attractiveness preferences are and why we find certain others physically attractive, offering a fresh perspective to understanding the perception of attractiveness.
Genetics from Laboratory to Society: Societal Learning as an Alternative to Regulation (Health, Technology and Society)
by Gerard De Vries K. HorstmanBased on detailed studies of the actual use of genetic testing in context, this book looks at the ethical and political questions raised by the expanding role of genetic information in society. In contrast to the established perspective which focuses on individual freedom, the authors emphasize a pragmatic approach focussed on societal learning.
Philosophy and Revolutions in Genetics: Deep Science and Deep Technology (Renewing Philosophy)
by Keekok LeeThe last century saw two great revolutions in genetics; the development of classic Mendelian theory and the discovery and investigation of DNA. Each fundamental scientific discovery in turn generated its own distinctive technology. Biotechnology is the offspring of the latter and is expected to be the driving force behind economic growth in the twenty-first century. These two case studies enable the author to conduct a philosophical exploration of the relationship between fundamental scientific discoveries on the one hand, and the technologies that spring from them on the other. As such it is also an exercise in the philosophy of technology.
Critical Psychiatry: The Limits of Madness
by D. DoublePsychiatry is increasingly dominated by the reductionist claim that mental illness is caused by neurobiological abnormalities. Critical psychiatry disagrees with this and proposes a more ethical foundation for practice. This book describes an original framework for renewing mental health services in alliance with people with mental health problems.
AIDS in the Twenty-First Century: Disease and Globalization
by T. Barnett A. WhitesideEssential reading for social and medical scientists and all those interested in infectious diseases and public health, AIDS and the Twenty-First Century examines the social and economic origins and impacts of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. HIV/AIDS is not only a medical problem. It is an indication of the scale of the global crisis in public health. Accessibly written, this book is necessary reading for policymakers, students and all those who are concerned about the relationship between poverty, inequality and infectious diseases.
Breast Cancer and the Post-Surgical Body: Recovering the Self
by S. CrompvoetsAn examination of surgical breast reconstruction which establishes a strong link between, on the one hand, the personal feelings and actions of women with breast cancer, and on the other, powerful discourses and practices of the breast cancer movement.
The Challenge of Health Sector Reform: What Must Governments Do? (Role of Government in Adjusting Economies)
by A. Mills S. Bennett S. RussellNew thinking about the management of public health services has stimulated a widespread movement for health sector reform across the world. This book examines the feasibility and desirability of common reforms in low income countries, based on in-depth case studies in Ghana, Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka, India and Thailand, and asks whether governments possess or can develop the capacities needed for these new and often complex roles. The book challenges conventional reform wisdom, and argues that reform approaches are needed that are more sensitive to the institutional characteristics of individual countries.
HIV/AIDS in Russia and Eurasia: Volume I
by J. TwiggRussia and a few other Eurasian countries have been home to the fastest growing epidemics of HIV in the world over the last several years. This volume offers country-specific accounts, authored by the leading players in the analysis of the situation and the fight against the virus.
Biotechnology Policy across National Boundaries: The Science-Industrial Complex
by D. WestA globalization of innovation has produced the most massive spurt in biotechnology in world history. Businesses, universities, and non-governmental organizations are collaborating to produce a "science-industrial complex" in biotechnology. Using case studies of stem cell research, cloning, genetically modified food, in-vitro fertilization, and chimeras in a number of Eastern and Western countries around the world, I argue that much of this biotech activity is global in nature and independent of state control. This shift in the relative influence of state and non-state actors has led to the virtual deregulation of biotechnology and the liberation of innovation from geo-political constraints. These trends post a number of interesting social, political, and ethical issues for the contemporary period and suggest the need to rethink how controversial moral issues are handled by the science-industrial complex.
The Future of Pricing: How Airline Ticket Pricing Has Inspired a Revolution
by E. BoydA story about science, technology, and people, The Future of Pricing provides an inside look at how airlines price tickets and how practices developed in the airline industry are now revolutionizing the world of pricing. This book is written for business professionals and students wanting to better understand the rapid growth of scientific pricing.
Women's Health Movements: A Global Force for Change
by M. TurshenThis is an introduction to the women's health movements and what is being accomplished by women organizing to achieve better health care around the world.
The Values of Presidential Leadership (Jepson Studies in Leadership)
by J. WrenContributors address aspects of presidential leadership in essays on how presidential values are determined or constructed, how they are condoned and criticized, how they are packaged and conveyed, and how they are interpreted and acted upon. Includes scholars from communication, history, law, philosophy, political science, and psychology
African Women's Unique Vulnerabilities to HIV/AIDS: Communication Perspectives and Promises
by L. FullerThis is an in-depth look at the biomedical, socio-cultural, economic, legal and political, and educational vulnerabilities faced by the population that is most vulnerable to the risk of contracting HIV/AIDS: African women.
Boys to Men in the Shadow of AIDS: Masculinities and HIV Risk in Zambia
by A. SimpsonThis ethnography charts the lives of mission-educated men in Zambia and their search for meaning in the AIDS pandemic, as well as their responses to prevention and HIV testing. It also suggests how hegemonic masculinities may begin to be re-figured and gender relationships redesigned.
AIDS Treatment and Human Rights in Context
by P. JonesThe book poses and explores questions about the roles of antiretroviral treatment and human rights in the global AIDS epidemic. A novel approach is used, which places treatment and human rights in the context of global debates, national struggles, and, especially, a case study of the lived experiences within a local community in South Africa.