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The Biomedical Sciences in Society
This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the interdisciplinary field of the Social Studies of Science and Technology (SSST). Over the past two decades, the biomedical sciences have transformed our understanding of the relationship between the social and natural worlds, while its ‘promissory visions’ are seen to offer extraordinary opportunities for economic and social developm…
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- 978-981-15-9523-3
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- ix, 203p.:ill
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- 362.1 Cri t
Eating Disorders and Child Sexual Abuse
This book takes up the challenge of examining women’s understandings of eating disorders and child sexual abuse away from a framework focused on pathology. The central argument is that women’s distress is an enactment of their engagement with certain discourses and practices, rather than a reaction triggered by child sexual abuse. Guided by a contemporary feminist framework and Mikhail Bakh…
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- 978-981-33-6296-3
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- xi, 280p.:ill
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- 362.1 Hod e
Healthcare Technology in Context
This book investigates how the technology used by telehealth services shapes our healthcare, and how we, as humans, collectively change and shape the technology and services used in healthcare. Based on extensive field research on telehealth services in Australia and Brazil, the book reveals some surprisingly obvious conclusions about our powers to shape the society.
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- 978-981-16-4075-9
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- xix, 298p.:ill
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- 362.1 Tay h
New Approaches to Health Literacy
In this anthology of health literacy, drawing on New Social Literacy studies and contemporary debates on equity, we discuss health literacy within German regional and cultural contexts as well as in selected non-European regions, such as in Asia and South America. Topics include unique reviews on health literacy, new empirical results on different population groups, in-depth ethnographic insigh…
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- 978-3-658-30909-1
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- xiii, 326p.:ill
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- 362.1 New
Sexual and Reproductive Health of Adolescents with Disabilities
This book investigates various experiences of teaching sexual and reproductive health to adolescents with disabilities. Following the adoption of the UNCRPD, adolescents with disabilities still commonly suffer from widespread violation of their rights particularly concerning sexual and reproductive health – often being viewed as either asexual or hypersexual. Contemporary societies do not rea…
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- 978-981-15-7914-1
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- xv, 223p.:ill
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- 362.1 Sex
Chemical Youth
This open access book explores how young people engage with chemical substances in their everyday lives. It builds upon and supplements a large body of literature on young people’s use of drugs and alcohol to highlight the subjectivities and socialities that chemical use enables across diverse socio-cultural settings, illustrating how young people seek to avoid harm, while harnessing the bene…
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- 978-3-030-57081-1
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- xxiii, 318p.:ill.
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- 362.1 Har c
COVID in the Islands: A comparative perspective on the Caribbean and the Pacific
This book provides the first wide-ranging account of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in two contrasting island regions - the Caribbean and the Pacific - and in several islands and island states. It traces the complexity of effects and responses, at different scales, through the first critical year. Written by a range of scholars and practitioners working in the region the book focuses on si…
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- 978-981-16-5285-1
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- xxvii, 538p.:ill
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- 362.1 Cov
Humans and Devices in Medical Contexts
This book explores an escalating modern-day crisis; managing waste in a sustainable way. The central question posed is whether advancing a circular economy provides a way to shift waste management practices towards more sustainable approaches. It begins with an in-depth analysis of the nature of waste management and the prevailing crisis, followed by a discussion about the circular economy in t…
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- 978-981-33-6280-2
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- xxiv, 324p.:ill
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- 362.1 Hum
The Power of Parasites
This book describes how malaria both frustrates and facilitates life for Indigenous Pälawan communities living in the forested foothills of the municipality of Bataraza on the island of Palawan in the Philippines. Tracing the arc of malaria on the archipelago from colonial encounters to the present day, it examines the ways in which malaria parasites have become entangled in contemporary lives…
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- 978-981-16-6764-0
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- ix, 217p.:ill
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- 362.1 Isk t
Public Secrets and Private Sufferings in the South African AIDS Epidemic
This book tells the story of the HIV epidemic in South Africa, and asks why, after more than three decades, it has not normalised. Despite considerable efforts to prevent infection, and ambitious targets set to end the epidemic by 2030, HIV infections are increasing among young women and treatment uptake and adherence have been uneven. Focusing on the years preceding and following treatment acc…
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- 978-3-030-69437-1
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- xiii, 188p.:Ill
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- 362.1 Sta p
Sociological Reflections on the Covid-19 Pandemic in India
This book presents a sociological study of the COVID-19 pandemic in the context of India. It invites readers to understand disasters and crises as triggers of radical transformations in society, changing the very nature of every day and the meaning of normal. It discusses the processes through which society accepts, internalizes and reinvents a new way of life. It provides insights into its imp…
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- 978-981-16-2320-2
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- xiii, 148p.:ill
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- 362.1 Soc
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