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Moonshot - Inside Pfizer's Nine-Month Race to Make the Impossible Possible (Hardcover): Albert Bourla Moonshot - Inside Pfizer's Nine-Month Race to Make the Impossible Possible (Hardcover)
Albert Bourla
R459 Discovery Miles 4 590 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The exclusive, first-hand, behind-the-scenes story of how Pfizer raced to create the first Covid-19 vaccine, told by Pfizer's CEO Dr. Albert Bourla A riveting, fast-paced, inside look at one of the most incredible private sector achievements in history, Moonshot recounts the intensive nine months in 2020 when the scientists at Pfizer, under the visionary leadership of Dr. Albert Bourla, made "the impossible possible"-creating, testing, and manufacturing a safe and effective Covid-19 vaccine that previously would have taken years to develop. Dr. Bourla chronicles how the brilliant, dedicated minds at Pfizer, under the enormous strains of the global pandemic, overcame a series of crises that were compounded by social and political unrest, and reveals the doubts, decisions, obstacles, and failures they encountered. As Dr. Bourla makes clear, Pfizer's success wasn't due to luck; it was because of preparation driven by four simple values-Courage, Excellence, Equity, and Joy. Moonshot is a story of leadership under the most unprecedented circumstances-how Dr. Bourla, a Greek immigrant, a child of Holocaust survivors, and a veterinarian, became the head of one of the world's largest corporations and initiated a dramatic transformation of the organization just before a global health crisis would serve to test the organization, its scientists and its leader, like never before. Moonshot describes best practices that can be used to address the multiple, unprecedented challenges our world faces, reveals Pfizer's implementation of scientific breakthroughs at a record-breaking pace, and offers leadership lessons that can help anyone successfully manage their own seemingly unsolvable problems. As Dr. Bourla explains, "I am sharing the story of our moonshot-the challenges we faced, the lessons we learned, and the core values that allowed us to make it happen-in hopes that it might inspire and inform your own moonshot, whatever that may be."

Making Social Spending Work (Hardcover): Peter H Lindert Making Social Spending Work (Hardcover)
Peter H Lindert
R894 R748 Discovery Miles 7 480 Save R146 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

How does social spending relate to economic growth and which countries have got this right and wrong? Peter Lindert examines the experience of countries across the globe to reveal what has worked, what needs changing, and who the winners and losers are under different systems. He traces the development of public education, health care, pensions, and welfare provision, and addresses key questions around intergenerational inequality and fiscal redistribution, the returns to investment in human capital, how to deal with an aging population, whether migration is a cost or a benefit, and how social spending differs in autocracies and democracies. The book shows that what we need to do above all is to invest more in the young from cradle to career, and shift the burden of paying for social insurance away from the workplace and to society as a whole.

The Easy Way to Quit Caffeine - Live a healthier, happier life (Paperback): Allen Carr The Easy Way to Quit Caffeine - Live a healthier, happier life (Paperback)
Allen Carr
R209 R161 Discovery Miles 1 610 Save R48 (23%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Real Anthony Fauci - Bill Gates, Big Pharma And The Global War On Democracy and Public Health (Hardcover): Robert F.... The Real Anthony Fauci - Bill Gates, Big Pharma And The Global War On Democracy and Public Health (Hardcover)
Robert F. Kennedy Jr 3
R866 R699 Discovery Miles 6 990 Save R167 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Pharma-funded mainstream media has convinced millions of Americans that Dr. Anthony Fauci is a hero. He is anything but.

As director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Dr. Anthony Fauci dispenses $6.1 billion in annual taxpayer-provided funding for scientific research, allowing him to dictate the subject, content, and outcome of scientific health research across the globe. Fauci uses the financial clout at his disposal to wield extraordinary influence over hospitals, universities, journals, and thousands of influential doctors and scientists—whose careers and institutions he has the power to ruin, advance, or reward. During more than a year of painstaking and meticulous research, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. unearthed a shocking story that obliterates media spin on Dr. Fauci... and that will alarm every American—Democrat or Republican—who cares about democracy, our Constitution, and the future of our children’s health.

The Real Anthony Fauci reveals how “America’s Doctor” launched his career during the early AIDS crisis by partnering with pharmaceutical companies to sabotage safe and effective off-patent therapeutic treatments for AIDS. Fauci orchestrated fraudulent studies, and then pressured US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulators into approving a deadly chemotherapy treatment he had good reason to know was worthless against AIDS. Fauci repeatedly violated federal laws to allow his Pharma partners to use impoverished and dark-skinned children as lab rats in deadly experiments with toxic AIDS and cancer chemotherapies.

In early 2000, Fauci shook hands with Bill Gates in the library of Gates’ $147 million Seattle mansion, cementing a partnership that would aim to control an increasingly profitable $60 billion global vaccine enterprise with unlimited growth potential. Through funding leverage and carefully cultivated personal relationships with heads of state and leading media and social media institutions, the Pharma-Fauci-Gates alliance exercises dominion over global health policy.

The Real Anthony Fauci details how Fauci, Gates, and their cohorts use their control of media outlets, scientific journals, key government and quasi-governmental agencies, global intelligence agencies, and influential scientists and physicians to flood the public with fearful propaganda about COVID-19 virulence and pathogenesis, and to muzzle debate and ruthlessly censor dissent.

Turning the World Upside Down Again - Global health in a time of pandemics, climate change and political turmoil (Paperback,... Turning the World Upside Down Again - Global health in a time of pandemics, climate change and political turmoil (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Nigel Crisp
R813 Discovery Miles 8 130 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

In Turning the World Upside Down Nigel Crisp argued that the most affluent and powerful countries in the world can learn a great deal about health from lower income countries with their different insights and experiences and their ability to innovate free from vested interests and received wisdom. In Turning the World Upside Down Again, he argues that they need to go further and listen to and learn from disempowered communities in their own countries. He describes how combining the learning from different countries and communities can lead us to a new ecologically based vision for health and new and practical ways of improving health for ourselves, our communities and our planet. This second edition, 12 years after the first, is extensively re-written and fully updated, drawing on examples from around the world and reflecting what has already been learned from the COVID-19 pandemic and from the onset of climate change. Turning the World Upside Down Again continues the search for understanding begun in the first edition and describes how western scientific medicine, which has served us so well in the 20th Century, must adapt and evolve further and faster to cope with the demands of the 21st Century.

Applied Sociology of Health and Illness - A Problem-Based Learning Approach (Paperback, 2nd edition): Costas S. Constantinou Applied Sociology of Health and Illness - A Problem-Based Learning Approach (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Costas S. Constantinou
R809 Discovery Miles 8 090 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Key Features: Student-centered approach that simplifies sociological theory and principles through practical examples, supporting understanding for those without a formal background in sociology Scenarios guide students and encourage questions for them to consider and discuss before they proceed for a deeper understanding Common themes are threaded throughout, reinforcing learning and aiding students to 'revise, re-apply and thus remember'

Critical Dementia Studies - An Introduction (Hardcover): Richard Ward, Linn J. Sandberg Critical Dementia Studies - An Introduction (Hardcover)
Richard Ward, Linn J. Sandberg
R3,693 Discovery Miles 36 930 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book puts the critical into dementia studies. It makes a timely and novel contribution to the field, offering a provocative and thought-provoking critique of current thinking and debate on dementia. Collectively the contributions gathered together in this text make a powerful case for a more politically engaged, deconstructive and critical treatment of dementia and the systems and structures that currently govern and frame it. The book is interdisciplinary and draws together leading dementia scholars alongside dementia activists from around the world. It frames dementia as first and foremost a political category. The book advances both theoretical and methodological thinking in the field as well as sharing learning from empirical research. Outlining the limits to existing efforts to frame and theorise the condition it proposes a new critical movement for the field of dementia studies and practice. The book will be of direct interest to researchers and scholars in the field of dementia studies and wider fields of health, disability and care. It will provide a novel resource for students and practitioners in the fields of dementia, health care and social care. The book also has implications for dementia policymaking, commissioning and community development.

Pandemic Communication (Paperback): Stephen M. Croucher, Audra Diers-Lawson Pandemic Communication (Paperback)
Stephen M. Croucher, Audra Diers-Lawson
R1,190 Discovery Miles 11 900 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book details how the processes of communication are affected by the presence of a pandemic and establishes a research agenda of those effects across the broad field of communication studies. Through contributions from experts in communication subdisciplines such as crisis, organizational, interpersonal, health, intergroup, and intercultural, this book provides the reader with a comprehensive view of the emerging field of study "pandemic communication." Each chapter has four primary objectives: to 1) define critical issues of consideration for pandemic communication from its subdiscipline's perspective, 2) examine how communication varies during pandemic(s), 3) provide examples of how pandemic(s) have affected communication, and 4) propose a research agenda to build pandemic communication theory. This book is suited to undergraduate or post-graduate courses or modules in communication studies across a variety of subdisciplines as well as a reference for researchers in the subject.

Structure and Agency in Young People's Lives - Theory, Methods and Agendas (Paperback): Magda Nico, Ana Caetano Structure and Agency in Young People's Lives - Theory, Methods and Agendas (Paperback)
Magda Nico, Ana Caetano
R1,165 Discovery Miles 11 650 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Structure and Agency in Young People's Lives brings together different takes on the possible combinations of agency and structure in the life course, thus rejecting the notion that young individuals are the single masters of their lives, but also the view that their social destinies are completely out of their hands. 'How did I get here?' This is a question young people have always asked themselves and is often asked by youth researchers. There is no easy and single answer. The lives that are told, on one hand, and their interpretation, on the other, may have the underlying idea of 'own doing' or the idea of 'social determinism' or, more accurately and frequently, a combination of the two. This collection constitutes a comprehensive map on how to make sense of youth's biographies and trajectories, it questions and reshapes the discussion on the role and responsibility of youth studies in the understanding of how people juggle opportunities and constraints, and contributes to escaping what Furlong and Cartmel identified as the "epistemological fallacy of late modernity", in which young people find themselves responsible for collective failures or inevitabilities. It can thus interest students, researchers and professors, youth workers and all of those who work for and with young people.

Applied Theatre in Paediatrics - Stories, Children and Synergies of Emotions (Paperback): Persephone Sextou Applied Theatre in Paediatrics - Stories, Children and Synergies of Emotions (Paperback)
Persephone Sextou
R1,086 Discovery Miles 10 860 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book explores applied theatre practice for children in environments of illness and cure and how it can powerfully normalise children's hospitalisation experience. It is an essential tool for making meaning of children's illness, putting it into a fictional context and developing better control of their clinical experiences. It can be central to raising the standards of care and quality of life during illness. Taken from the author's research and participatory bedside theatre practice in hospitals before, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, this book demonstrates new learning about aesthetics, ethics, emotions, stories, puppetry, digital arts and research methodologies about children's health and wellbeing. It provides a selection of ten unique stories told by children inspired by applied theatre practice in paediatrics, cardiac, oncology, neurosurgery, burns units and complex and intensive care wards. Stories aid in understanding the language of children's pain for a better assessment and management of pain by healthcare professionals through the arts. It analyses synergistic theatre performance in 'stitched lands' between challenging realities and safe fictionalities. This book enables artists to develop new ways of thinking and contributes to further improvements in the provision of education and reflective learning in the field. It also addresses the emotional labour of the artist in healthcare and makes recommendations for balanced training to prevent emotional exhaustion. Designed for artists, healthcare professionals, therapists, play specialists and teachers who work with children in healthcare, this text aims to help many people find creative ways of making a positive difference in sick children's lives. It is a book for those who love and care for children.

Knowledge Transformation in Health and Social Care - Putting Mindlines to Work (Paperback): John Gabbay, Andree Le May Knowledge Transformation in Health and Social Care - Putting Mindlines to Work (Paperback)
John Gabbay, Andree Le May
R1,104 Discovery Miles 11 040 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The term 'mindlines' has become common currency in the world of research implementation and evidence-based practice. This book updates, develops and applies the mindlines model more widely. It sheds light on how we can realistically mobilise and transform research-based evidence into practice in context. This illuminating book shows how the mindlines model can be put to work. It highlights how practitioners collectively share and internalise implicit, flexible ways of rapidly handling complex clinical situations. Drawing on research and reflective studies from practice, education, and guidelines-development across a wide range of international health and care settings, the authors unpack the general components of mindlines. They find practical ways to uncover, bring together and apply specific mindlines to improve practice; and to develop evidence-based healthcare policy, practice and education in ways that capitalise on the crucial role of mindlines. Closely edited by the originators of the mindlines model, this book brings together the work of a cohesive group of researchers and practitioners to showcase and develop its theory and consequences. It is an essential read for all those interested in knowledge mobilisation, evidence-based practice, and research implementation both within healthcare and beyond.

Lost in Perfection - Impacts of Optimisation on Culture and Psyche (Hardcover): Vera King, Benigna Gerisch, Hartmut Rosa Lost in Perfection - Impacts of Optimisation on Culture and Psyche (Hardcover)
Vera King, Benigna Gerisch, Hartmut Rosa
R3,906 Discovery Miles 39 060 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The permanent struggle for optimisation can be seen as one of the most significant cultural principles of contemporary Western societies: the demand for improved performance and efficiency as well as the pursuit of self-improvement are con-sidered necessary in order to keep pace with an accelerated, competitive modern-ity. This affects not only work and education, but also family life, parent-child relationships and intimate relationships in respect to the body and the self, in regard to the public as well as the private realm. Bringing together contributions from renowned scholars from the fields of sociology, psychology and psycho-analysis, this book explores the impacts of optimisation on culture and psyche, examining the contradictions and limitations of optimisation, in conjunction with the effects of social transformations on individuals and shifts in regard to the meaning of 'pathology' and 'normality'.

Participatory Pedagogic Impact Research - Co-production with Community Partners in Action (Hardcover): Mike Seal Participatory Pedagogic Impact Research - Co-production with Community Partners in Action (Hardcover)
Mike Seal
R3,913 Discovery Miles 39 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Involvement of community partners in the structure and design of services is largely accepted in principle, but its practice is heavily contested. This book argues that the co-production of research is one of the best ways to involve community partners. As well as having intrinsic value in and of itself, research embeds a culture of learning, co-production and of valuing research within organizations. It also creates a mechanism for developing evidence for, monitoring and evaluating subsequent ideas and initiatives that arise from other co-production initiatives. The book makes a case for research to be a synthesis of participatory research, critical pedagogy, peer research and community organizing. It develops a model called Participatory Pedagogic Impact Research (PPIR). Participatory research is often criticized for not having the impact it promises. PPIR ensures that the issues chosen, and the recommendations developed, serve the mutual self-interest of stakeholders, are realistic and realizable. At the same time this approach pushes the balance of power towards the oppressed using methods of dissemination that hold decision makers to account and create real change. PPIR also develops a robust method for creatively identifying issues, methods and analytic frameworks. Its third section details case studies across Europe and the United States of PPIR in action with professional researchers' and community partners' reflections on these experiences. This book gives a unique articulation of what makes for genuinely critical reflective spaces, something underdeveloped in the literature. It should be considered essential reading for both participatory research academics and those involved in health and social care services in the planning, commissioning and delivery of services.

COVID-19: Individual Rights and Community Responsibilities (Paperback): J. Michael Ryan COVID-19: Individual Rights and Community Responsibilities (Paperback)
J. Michael Ryan
R1,124 Discovery Miles 11 240 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

COVID-19: Individual Rights and Community Responsibilities provides critical insights into the tensions between individual rights and community responsibilities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Questions about mandates, lockdowns, priorities, and broader questions related to neighborly responsibilities and human rights have been central to debates about how to confront the pandemic. The scholarship presented in this volume adds to those debates by confronting such issues as the role of social media in spreading misinformation, mask mandates, pandemic politics, and the very ethos of what is meant by human and individual rights. Drawing on the expertise of scholars from around the world, the work presented here represents a remarkable diversity and quality of impassioned scholarship on the impact of COVID-19 and is a timely and critical advance in knowledge related to the pandemic.

Environmental Policy and Public Health - Principal Health Hazards and Mitigation, Volume 1 (Hardcover, 3rd edition): Barry L.... Environmental Policy and Public Health - Principal Health Hazards and Mitigation, Volume 1 (Hardcover, 3rd edition)
Barry L. Johnson, Maureen Y. Lichtveld
R2,565 Discovery Miles 25 650 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Introduces students to current environmental hazards to human and related ecosystem health. Explains detrimental policy changes to existing policies and recently developed policies that impact the health of the environment and that of communities. Presents a perspective for global sources of pollution and how actions have emerged for control of environmental hazards such as climate change and global air pollution. Includes foundation lectures, case studies, and practice questions to help create student led discussions for both in-class and homework assignments. Describes social justice issues and COVID-19 impacts in relation to environmental hazards.

The 12 Stages of Healing - A Network Approach to Wholeness (Paperback): Donald M. Epstein, Nathaniel Altman The 12 Stages of Healing - A Network Approach to Wholeness (Paperback)
Donald M. Epstein, Nathaniel Altman 1
R478 R398 Discovery Miles 3 980 Save R80 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Becoming with Care in Drug Treatment Services - The Recovery Assemblage (Hardcover): Lena Theodoropoulou Becoming with Care in Drug Treatment Services - The Recovery Assemblage (Hardcover)
Lena Theodoropoulou
R3,553 Discovery Miles 35 530 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

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 emerging in two drug recovery services in Liverpool and Athens. Following the flows of the participants' desires, it argues that it is not the lack of the substance that holds the recovery assemblage together, but the production of connections that enhance a body's power of acting, constituting recovery a practice of collective care. The outcome of the analysis of the lived experiences of people in recovery is a call for the dismissal of policy as an intervention coming from outside, and its reconstitution as a practice produced inside the recovery assemblage. Focusing on the value of the assemblage as a viable methodological, ontological and epistemological orientation for critical drug studies, this volume contributes to the sociology of health and illness and will appeal to students and researchers interested in fields such as Deleuzian Studies, Science and Technology Studies, Sociology and Social Policy, Drugs and Addiction, Public Health and Medical Anthropology.

Neurodiversity Studies - A New Critical Paradigm (Paperback): Nick Chown, Anna Stenning, Hanna Rosqvist Neurodiversity Studies - A New Critical Paradigm (Paperback)
Nick Chown, Anna Stenning, Hanna Rosqvist
R1,246 Discovery Miles 12 460 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Building on work in feminist studies, queer studies and critical race theory, this volume challenges the universality of propositions about human nature, by questioning the boundaries between predominant neurotypes and 'others', including dyslexics, autistics and ADHDers. This is the first work of its kind to bring cutting-edge research across disciplines to the concept of neurodiversity. It offers in-depth explorations of the themes of cure/prevention/eugenics; neurodivergent wellbeing; cross-neurotype communication; neurodiversity at work; and challenging brain-bound cognition. It analyses the role of neuro-normativity in theorising agency, and a proposal for a new alliance between the Hearing Voices Movement and neurodiversity. In doing so, we contribute to a cultural imperative to redefine what it means to be human. To this end, we propose a new field of enquiry that finds ways to support the inclusion of neurodivergent perspectives in knowledge production, and which questions the theoretical and mythological assumptions that produce the idea of the neurotypical. Working at the crossroads between sociology, critical psychology, medical humanities, critical disability studies, and critical autism studies, and sharing theoretical ground with critical race studies and critical queer studies, the proposed new field - neurodiversity studies - will be of interest to people working in all these areas.

Managing Long-term Conditions and Chronic Illness in Primary Care - A Guide to Good Practice (Paperback, 3rd edition): Judith... Managing Long-term Conditions and Chronic Illness in Primary Care - A Guide to Good Practice (Paperback, 3rd edition)
Judith Carrier
R1,099 Discovery Miles 10 990 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This practical guide will assist healthcare practitioners to manage and meet the physical and psycho-social needs of people with complex chronic diseases/long-term conditions. Systematic and evidence-based care which takes account of the expert patient and reduces unnecessary hospital admissions is vital to support those with long-term conditions/chronic diseases and those who care for them. Effective management of long-term conditions is an essential part of contemporary nursing and healthcare policy and practice globally. Reflecting recent changes in the curriculum, this fully updated multidisciplinary edition highlights the key issues in managing long-term conditions. It provides a practical and accessible guide for nurses and allied health professionals in the primary care environment including: case studies on HIV and dementia and content on mental health the physical and psychosocial impact of living with long-term conditions effective case management self-management and the expert patient behavioural change strategies and motivational counselling Packed with helpful, clearly written information, Managing Long-term Conditions and Chronic Illness in Primary Care includes case studies, fact boxes and pointers for practice. It is ideal reading for pre- and post-registration nursing students taking modules on long-term conditions and will be a valuable companion for pre-registration students on community placements.

Lessons from COVID-19 - Impact on Healthcare Systems and Technology (Paperback): Habil Arturas Kaklauskas, Ajith Abraham,... Lessons from COVID-19 - Impact on Healthcare Systems and Technology (Paperback)
Habil Arturas Kaklauskas, Ajith Abraham, Kingsley Okoye, Shankru Guggari
R3,341 Discovery Miles 33 410 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Lessons from COVID-19: Impact on Healthcare Systems and Technology uncovers the impact that COVID-19 has made on healthcare and technology industries. State-of-the-art case studies, empirical research, and new trends in technology-mediated solution are discussed to help inform and guide readers in understanding the effects that the COVID-19 outbreak has had across healthcare and technology industries. The book discusses challenges to identify vaccines, changes in legislation on clinical trials and re-purposing of licensed drugs, effects on primary healthcare, best practices adopted by different countries to control the pandemic, and different effects on patients within diverse age groups and comorbidities. In addition, the book covers technology-mediated solutions and infrastructures applied, digital transformations, modeling techniques, statistical projections, and the benefits and use of cloud computing and artificial intelligence. This is a valuable resource for healthcare professionals, medical doctors, researchers and graduate students from both biomedical and technological fields who are interested in learning more about the use of new technologies to fight a pandemic.

Outbreaks And Epidemics - Battling Infection From Measles To Coronavirus (Paperback): Meera Senthilingam Outbreaks And Epidemics - Battling Infection From Measles To Coronavirus (Paperback)
Meera Senthilingam 1
R340 R138 Discovery Miles 1 380 Save R202 (59%) In Stock

A journey through the history and science of epidemics and pandemics – from measles to coronavirus.

For centuries mankind has waged war against the infections that, left untreated, would have the power to wipe out communities, or even entire populations. Yet for all our advanced scientific knowledge, only one human disease – smallpox – has ever been eradicated globally. In recent years, outbreaks of Ebola and Zika have provided vivid examples of how difficult it is to contain an infection once it strikes, and the panic that a rapidly spreading epidemic can ignite.

But while we chase the diseases we are already aware of, new ones are constantly emerging, like the coronavirus that spread across the world in 2020. At the same time, anti-microbial resistance is harnessing infections that we once knew how to control, enabling them to thrive once more.

Meera Senthilingam presents a timely look at humanity’s ongoing battle against infection, examining the successes and failures of the past, along with how we are confronting the challenges of today, and our chances of eradicating disease in the future.

Drug Law Enforcement, Policing and Harm Reduction - Ending the Stalemate (Paperback): Matthew Bacon, Jack Spicer Drug Law Enforcement, Policing and Harm Reduction - Ending the Stalemate (Paperback)
Matthew Bacon, Jack Spicer
R1,142 Discovery Miles 11 420 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

1. This book brings the large fields of policing and drugs together; two distinct areas rarely studied together. 2. This book also has a market among public health scholars, given the overlapping areas of interest.

Death and Religion: The Basics (Paperback): Candi Cann Death and Religion: The Basics (Paperback)
Candi Cann
R534 Discovery Miles 5 340 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Provides a thorough introductory overview of the intersection of death and religion from a multitude of religious perspectives. An accessible format with helpful pedagogic features such as a glossary, further reading and key terms. This volume can be used on a range of courses due to its interdisciplinary nature, appealing to students of religious studies, thanatology, anthropology, philosophy and sociology.

Disneyization of Drug Use - Understanding Atypical Intoxication in Party Zones (Paperback): Tim Turner Disneyization of Drug Use - Understanding Atypical Intoxication in Party Zones (Paperback)
Tim Turner
R1,174 Discovery Miles 11 740 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Disneyization of Drug Use offers an innovative, ground-up understanding of the atypical patterns of illegal drug use that often permeate multi-day party zones such as nightlife tourist resorts and music festivals. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted over three summers in Ibiza, the book contextualizes the drug and alcohol-related experiences of tourists and seasonal workers operating in the island's infamously hedonistic party spaces. Through an innovative application of Alan Bryman's (2004) seminal work, The Disneyization of Society, the book argues how the same marketing principles that generate consumption in the legal economy of Disney theme parks also drives illicit drug use in Ibiza and music festivals, where the line between legal and illegal substances rapidly blurs to the point of collapse. This highly innovative book offers rich insights into the complex interplay between drug and alcohol use, agency, pleasure, risk, consumerism, and social context. It will be of great appeal to academics and students interested in the fields of cultural criminology, deviant leisure, drug and alcohol studies, youth culture, and ethnographic research methods.

Men and Welfare (Paperback): Anna Tarrant, Laura Way, Linzi Ladlow Men and Welfare (Paperback)
Anna Tarrant, Laura Way, Linzi Ladlow
R1,130 Discovery Miles 11 300 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book explores the complex, evolving relationships between men, masculinities, and social welfare in contemporary context. It is inspired by themes examined in 'Men, Gender Divisions and Welfare', an edited collection published in 1998 by Popay, Hearn, and Edwards. While international policy agendas reflect a growing commitment to critically addressing the relations between men, masculinities, and policy, in policy and popular discussions, societies continue to grapple with the question of 'what to do with men?' This question reflects an ongoing tension between the persistence of men's power and control over welfare and policy development, alongside their ostensible avoidance of welfare services. The collection constitutes an up-to-date account of the gendered and social implications of policy and practice change for men, and their inherent contradictions and complexities, tracing both stability and change over the past 25 years. This book will appeal to students and scholars in diverse fields, particularly in sociology, social policy, applied social sciences, gerontology, gender studies, youth studies, welfare studies, politics, and social geography. Given the volume's empirical attention throughout to both policies and practice developments, it will also be of interest to those training in applied and vocational degrees such as health and social care, social work, family support, and health visiting.

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