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Becoming with Care in Drug Treatment Services The Recovery Assemblage

Becoming with Care in Drug Treatment Services: The Recovery Assemblage

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Lena Theodoropoulou
May 27, 2024

Employing Deleuzo–Guattarian orientations to assemblage and feminist approaches to care, this book offers a critique of neoliberal approaches to recovery from drugs and alcohol, while collapsing the dualities of harm reduction and recovery. This monograph empirically explores the practices of care...

Cultures of Oral Health Discourses, Practices and Theory

Cultures of Oral Health: Discourses, Practices and Theory

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Claire L. Jones, Barry J. Gibson
May 27, 2024

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 ...

Techniques of Hearing History, Theory and Practices

Techniques of Hearing: History, Theory and Practices

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Michael Schillmeier, Robert Stock, Beate Ochsner
May 27, 2024

Hearing, health, and technologies are entangled in multi-faceted ways. This edited volume addresses this complex relationship by arguing that modern hearing was and is increasingly linked to and mediated by technological innovations. By providing a set of original interdisciplinary investigations ...

The Political Economy of Organ Transplantation Where Do Organs Come From?

The Political Economy of Organ Transplantation: Where Do Organs Come From?

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Hagai Boas
May 27, 2024

“This thought-provoking work examines how the relationships of organs, tissues, and cells transferred from one body to another through donation, sale, or gift are mediated by the state, market, and family. The book is a thorough review of the sociological, anthropological, and ethical literature ...

The Regulation of Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Europe Variation, Convergence and Trends

The Regulation of Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Europe: Variation, Convergence and Trends

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Erich Griessler, Lenka Slepičková, Heleen Weyers, Florian Winkler, Nicolle Zeegers
May 27, 2024

This book explores the social, ethical and legal implications of assisted reproductive technologies (ART). Providing a comparative analysis of several European countries, the authors evaluate the varied approaches to the application of ART throughout Europe. From a global perspective, countries ...

Sex, Intimacy and Living with Life-Shortening Conditions

Sex, Intimacy and Living with Life-Shortening Conditions

1st Edition

Edited By Sarah Earle, Maddie Blackburn
December 19, 2023

This multi-disciplinary and inclusive collection brings together theoretically informed and empirically focused research on sex, intimacy and reproduction in relation to young people and adults with life-shortening conditions. Advances in healthcare mean that increasing numbers of young people with...

Social Crisis and Mental Health Signs of Sanity

Social Crisis and Mental Health: Signs of Sanity

1st Edition

By Peter Morrall
November 22, 2023

This book focuses on the paradoxical effect of social crises on mental health. When crises occur, there's an upsurge of mental suffering due to an intensification of such social insanities as violence, inequality, and insecurity. Paradoxically, there are positive consequences due to acts of ...

Gender and Welfare Service Work in Biocapitalism Lean in Action

Gender and Welfare Service Work in Biocapitalism: Lean in Action

1st Edition

By Eeva Jokinen, Helena Hirvonen, Laura Mankki, Timo Aho, Iiris Lehto
September 27, 2023

This book explores how Lean – a global management doctrine – operates and is adopted in the real, corporeal, collective, and affective environments of health and social care services. During Lean implementation processes, knowledges, affects, skills, and materialities come together in manifold, ...

Weight Bias in Health Education Critical Perspectives for Pedagogy and Practice

Weight Bias in Health Education: Critical Perspectives for Pedagogy and Practice

1st Edition

Edited By Heather Brown, Nancy Ellis-Ordway
September 25, 2023

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 ...

Failures in Health and Social Care Governance and Culture Change

Failures in Health and Social Care: Governance and Culture Change

1st Edition

By Neil Small
June 30, 2023

This thought-provoking book examines breakdowns in the quality of health and social care over the past decade, exploring governance failures and the challenges of achieving lasting change.   Failures in care have been manifest across many different settings. Drawing on examples from care of older ...

Transcending Crisis by Attending to Care, Emotion, and Flourishing

Transcending Crisis by Attending to Care, Emotion, and Flourishing

1st Edition

Edited By Marci Cottingham, Rebecca Erickson, Matthew Lee
June 05, 2023

This book offers new empirical research and policy-relevant care practices from across the globe to understand the interrelation of care, emotion, and flourishing in the context of acute and persistent crises.   From COVID-19 responses around the world to the opioid epidemic in the United States, ...

Conflict of Interest and Medicine Knowledge, Practices, and Mobilizations

Conflict of Interest and Medicine: Knowledge, Practices, and Mobilizations

1st Edition

Edited By Boris Hauray, Henri Boullier, Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Hélène Michel
May 31, 2023

In the context of a growing criticism on the influence of the pharmaceutical industry on physicians, scientists, or politicians, Conflict of Interest and Medicine offers a comprehensive analysis of the conflict of interest in medicine anchored in the social sciences, with perspectives from ...

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