Health & Society

Offers a range of accounts of how people in ethnic minority groups perceive and manage their illnesses. Illnesses discussed include: sickle-cell disorder, mental illness, hypertension, and coronary heart disease...

This book examines the risks of epidemic disease posed by the modern era of accelerated global trade. Conversely, it also addresses some of the potential benefits the same globalization can bring to epidemic control through surveillance, diagnostics, treatment, and investigation. The empirical appr..

This book examines the risks of epidemic disease posed by the modern era of accelerated global trade. Conversely, it also addresses some of the potential benefits the same globalization can bring to epidemic control through surveillance, diagnostics, treatment, and investigation. The empirical appr..

Safety or Profit?..

Safety or Profit?..

This book explores a number of different self-tracking techniques, emphasising the self-responsibility on which self-tracking relies, the educational value that it provides, and the way in which it can establish healthier social norms. It was originally published as a special issue of the Health Soc..

Sex matters in contemporary Indonesia and Indonesian sexualities are vibrant, complex and constantly under contestation. This innovative volume explores sexual politics in a wide variety of contexts; highlights sexual diversity, as well as opposition to diversity; examines and critiques representati..

Sex matters in contemporary Indonesia and Indonesian sexualities are vibrant, complex and constantly under contestation. This innovative volume explores sexual politics in a wide variety of contexts; highlights sexual diversity, as well as opposition to diversity; examines and critiques representati..

Exploring the theoretical, conceptual and historical issues surrounding the topic of sex research and sex therapy, this book examines the influential scientific sex research completed by Masters and Johnson and its implications for sex therapy and the study of human sexuality...

Sexuality, Health and Human Rights surveys the rapid changes taking place at the start of the twenty-first century in the social, cultural, political and economic domains and their impact on sexuality, health and human rights...

This book attempts to contribute to this growing body of literature by tracing and analyzing "personalized medicine" as it unfolds in Asia, and in so doing, illustrating various social forces shaping the "co-production" of science and social order in transnational settings. The book shows that there..

By analyzing 30 cases, Wu Fei studies the dynamics of suicide in terms of family politics and local psychology and finds that suicide is committed when a power balance is broken in the games of power in the family...