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Social epidemiology is the study of how the social world influences -- and in many cases defines -- the fundamental determinants of health. This link was substantiated in the first... Læs mere
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The world we live in is hugely unequal. People in a better socioeconomic position do not only lead more comfortable lives, but also... Læs mere
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This book brings together scholars from across the social sciences and humanities to examine what it means to be vulnerable, to care and be cared for, within conditions of inequality, violence and crisis across the globe.
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Policing Prostitution examines the complex world of commercial sex in the late Russian Empire, investigating the lives of women who sold sex, the men who paid for it, mediators, the police, and wider urban communities.
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This volume presents original case-histories of readers to delve into just what reading is and how it works. Each chapter begins with a poem or excerpt which becomes the scene either of... Læs mere
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More than ten million children suffer from severe acute malnutrition globally each year. In Uganda,... Læs mere
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A collection of essays, historical and contemporary, on the health and healing of children around the world. It sheds light on the medical, political, and cultural dimensions of the efforts to preserve and protect the lives of our most vulnerable citizens.
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An ethnographic exploration of research ethics committees in the UK, which highlights the central role of trust in biomedical regulatory decision making. -- .
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Bringing the experiences of patients, carers and practitioners to the fore, this book explores how individual and collective futures are... Læs mere
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By examining the popular and vernacular discourse of stress, the book traces the ways in which stress became a ubiquitous condition of everyday life by the end of the twentieth century in Britain. -- .
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Sets a case study of deaf people’s leisure in NW England within a wider British context; gives insights into a misunderstood,... Læs mere
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A frank portrayal of the medical care of dying people past and present, The Inevitable Hour helps to explain why a movement to restore dignity to the dying arose in the early 1970s and why its goals have been so difficult to achieve.