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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.

Finding Blindness - International Constructions and Deconstructions (Paperback): David Bolt Finding Blindness - International Constructions and Deconstructions (Paperback)
David Bolt
R1,095 Discovery Miles 10 950 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Locates social attitudes towards blindness in a personal and cultural landscape. Is interdisciplinary in its crossing of lines among education, the humanities, and the social sciences. Includes case-studies from Canada, Cyprus, India, Indonesia, Italy, Poland, the United States, the United Kingdom, South Africa, South America, and Spain.

The Japanese LGBTQ+ Community in the World - The COVID-19 Pandemic, Challenges, and the Prospects for the Future (Paperback):... The Japanese LGBTQ+ Community in the World - The COVID-19 Pandemic, Challenges, and the Prospects for the Future (Paperback)
Masami Tamagawa
R1,110 Discovery Miles 11 100 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book: sheds light on the intersectionality of lived experiences, including gender, sexuality, family, (mental) health, race and ethnicity, migration, and nationality, offering a picture of a community whose experience is deeply embedded in the dynamic society around. takes an innovative approach in viewing the community as an integral part of the world in flux, rather than an isolated monoracial and monolingual tightly-knit entity. is ideal for students and scholars of Gender Studies, LGBTQ Studies, Sociology, Health, and Asian Studies.

Earth Detox - How and Why we Must Clean Up Our Planet (Paperback): Julian Cribb Earth Detox - How and Why we Must Clean Up Our Planet (Paperback)
Julian Cribb
R300 R244 Discovery Miles 2 440 Save R56 (19%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Every person on our home planet is affected by a worldwide deluge of man-made chemicals and pollutants - most of which have never been tested for safety. Our chemical emissions are six times larger than our total greenhouse gas emissions. They are in our food, our water, the air we breathe, our homes and workplaces, the things we use each day. This universal poisoning affects our minds, our bodies, our genes, our grandkids, and all life on Earth. Julian Cribb describes the full scale of the chemical catastrophe we have unleashed. He proposes a new Human Right - not to be poisoned. He maps an empowering and hopeful way forward: to rid our planet of these toxins and return Earth to the clean, healthy condition which our forebears enjoyed, and our grandchildren should too.

Later-Life Social Support and Service Provision in Diverse and Vulnerable Populations - Understanding Networks of Care... Later-Life Social Support and Service Provision in Diverse and Vulnerable Populations - Understanding Networks of Care (Paperback)
Janet M. Wilmoth; Series edited by Madonna Harrington Meyer; Edited by Merril D. Silverstein; Series edited by Jennifer Karas Montez
R1,379 Discovery Miles 13 790 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Later-Life Social Support and Service Provision in Diverse and Vulnerable Populations offers current, multidisciplinary perspectives on social support and service provision to older Americans. The chapters trace how our understanding of social support among older adults has developed over the past 40 years and explore current gerontological research in the area. They consider how informal care arrangements articulate with formal long-term care policies and programs to provide support to the diverse population of older Americans. They also emphasize heterogeneity in the composition of support networks, particularly in relation to gender, sexual orientation, race/ethnicity, and immigrant status. Collectively, the chapters provide insight into the complexity of older adult's social support networks that can be used to improve the services provided to caregivers and care recipients as well as the policies that promote high-quality support to people of all ages who are in need of assistance.

Cancer, Radiation Therapy, and the Market (Hardcover): Barbara Bridgman Perkins Cancer, Radiation Therapy, and the Market (Hardcover)
Barbara Bridgman Perkins
R3,912 Discovery Miles 39 120 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Appraising cancer as a major medical market in the 2010s, Wall Street investors placed their bets on single-technology treatment facilities costing $100-$300 million each. Critics inside medicine called the widely-publicized proton-center boom "crazy medicine and unsustainable public policy." There was no valid evidence, they claimed, that proton beams were more effective than less costly alternatives. But developers expected insurance to cover their centers' staggeringly high costs and debts. Was speculation like this new to health care? Cancer, Radiation Therapy, and the Market shows how the radiation therapy specialty in the United States (later called radiation oncology) coevolved with its device industry throughout the twentieth-century. Academic engineers and physicians acquired financing to develop increasingly powerful radiation devices, initiated companies to manufacture the devices competitively, and designed hospital and freestanding procedure units to utilize them. In the process, they incorporated market strategies into medical organization and practice. Although palliative benefits and striking tumor reductions fueled hopes of curing cancer, scientific research all too often found serious patient harm and disappointing beneficial impact on cancer survival. This thoroughly documented and provocative inquiry concludes that public health policy needs to re-evaluate market-driven high-tech medicine and build evidence-based health care systems.

The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Autism Studies (Hardcover): Damian Milton, Sara Ryan The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Autism Studies (Hardcover)
Damian Milton, Sara Ryan
R5,725 Discovery Miles 57 250 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Includes 29 newly written chapters from scholars and activists around the world. First book to provide an overview of Critical Autism Studies and explore the different kinds of knowledges and their articulations, similarities and differences across cultural contexts and key tensions within this sub-discipline. Of interest to all scholars and students of disability studies, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, education, health, social care and political science as well as members of the autistic community and activists.

Framing Age - Contested Knowledge in Science and Politics (Hardcover): Iris Loffeier, Benoit Majerus, Thibauld Moulaert Framing Age - Contested Knowledge in Science and Politics (Hardcover)
Iris Loffeier, Benoit Majerus, Thibauld Moulaert
R3,922 Discovery Miles 39 220 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Ageing populations have gradually become a major concern in many industrialised countries over the past fifty years, drawing the attention of both politics and science. The target of a raft of health and social policies, older people are often identified as a specific, and vulnerable, population. At the same time, ageing has become a specialisation in many disciplines - medicine, sociology, psychology, to name but three - and a discipline of its own: gerontology. This book questions the framing of old age by focusing on the relationships between policy making and the production of knowledge. The first part explores how the meeting of scientific expertise and the politics of old age anchors the construction of both individual and collective relationships to the future. Part II brings to light the many ways in which issues relating to ageing can be instrumentalised and ideologised in several public debate arenas. Part III argues that scientific knowledge itself composes with objectivity, bringing ideologies of its own to the table, and looks at how this impacts discourse about ageing. In the final part, the contributors discuss how the frames can themselves be experienced at different levels of the division of labour, whether it is by people who work on them (legislators or scientists), by people working with them (professional carers) or by older people themselves. Unpacking the political and moral dimensions of scientific research on ageing, this cutting-edge volume brings together a range of multidisciplinary, European perspectives, and will be of use to all those interested in old age and the social sciences.

The 5:2 Fast Diet for Beginners - The Complete Book for Intermittent Fasting with Easy Recipes and Weight Loss Plans... The 5:2 Fast Diet for Beginners - The Complete Book for Intermittent Fasting with Easy Recipes and Weight Loss Plans (Paperback)
Rockridge Press
R268 R224 Discovery Miles 2 240 Save R44 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Intermittent fasting is a safe and sensible way not only to lose weight but also to transition to a healthier way of eating. Unlike the deprivation associated with full fasting, the 5:2 diet allows for reduced-calorie meals two days a week. On the other five days, you meet your recommended caloric intake with the help of a variety of healthful recipes. The 5:2 Fast Diet for Beginners is a complete guide to intermittent fasting. Included are: 16 reduced-calorie fasting-day recipes to make your dieting days both easy and flavorful. 35 non-fasting-day recipes that offer you healthful choices for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, as well as low-cal dessert and treat options. Use these recipes-along with your own favorites-to round out your month's meal plan. 4 weeks of fasting-day meal plans geared to the 500-calorie goal for women and 600-calorie goal for men recommended by the 5:2 diet. 10 tips for motivation and success to get you started toward your weight-loss goals and to keep you on track. References to scientific studies pointing to intermittent fasting's positive effects on heart health, brain function, and blood-sugar regulation. The 5:2 Fast Diet for Beginners: The Complete Book for Intermittent Fasting with Easy Recipes and Weight Loss Plans is all you need to begin experiencing the weight loss and health benefits associated with intermittent fasting.

Invitation To Holistic Health (Paperback, 4th Revised edition): Charlotte Eliopoulos Invitation To Holistic Health (Paperback, 4th Revised edition)
Charlotte Eliopoulos
R2,658 Discovery Miles 26 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Invitation to Holistic Health: A Guide to Living a Balanced Life, Fourth Edition, features solid principles and proven practices to promote optimal health and well-being using a holistic approach. The text is divided into four parts: Strengthening Your Inner Resources; Developing Healthy Lifestyle Practices; Taking Charge of Challenges to the Body, Mind, and Spirit; and Safe Use of Complementary and Alternative Therapies. This easy-to-read guide provides how-to information for dealing with a variety of health-related issues, including nutrition, exercise, herbal remedies, and homeopathic remedies, to name a few. Unlike other holistic health textbooks, the Fourth Edition promotes a variety of therapies and provides evidence to support the practice of each one. New to the Fourth Edition: * Updated research related to holistic health and practices * Expanded coverage of obesity and diversity * Tips for practitioners on providing holistic care in conventional settings * Discussion around the integration of conventional medicine and alternative therapies

Transcultural Artificial Intelligence and Robotics in Health and Social Care (Paperback): Irena Papadopoulos, Christina... Transcultural Artificial Intelligence and Robotics in Health and Social Care (Paperback)
Irena Papadopoulos, Christina Koulouglioti, Chris Papadopoulos, Antonio Sgorbissa
R3,354 Discovery Miles 33 540 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Transcultural Artificial Intelligence and Robotics in Health and Social Care provides healthcare professionals with a deeper understanding of the incredible opportunities brought by the emerging field of AI robotics. In addition, it provides robotic researchers with the point-of-view of healthcare professionals to understand what the healthcare sector - as well as the market - really needs from robotics technology. By doing so, the book fills an important gap between both fields in order to leverage new developments and collaborative work in favor of global patients. The book is aimed at the non-technical reader, especially health and social care professionals, and explains in a simple way the technological principles applied in the development of socially assistive humanoid AI robots (SAHR), the values which guide such developments, the ethics related to them, and research approaches in the field, with a focus on achieving a culturally competent SAHR.

Social Science Perspectives on Global Public Health (Paperback): Vincent La Placa, Julia Morgan Social Science Perspectives on Global Public Health (Paperback)
Vincent La Placa, Julia Morgan
R1,131 Discovery Miles 11 310 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Approaching global health through a social justice lens, this text explores both established and emerging issues for contemporary health and wellbeing. Divided into two parts, the book introduces key concepts in relation to global public health, such as ethics, economics, health disparities, and globalisation. The second part comprises chapters exploring specific challenges, such as designing and implementing public health interventions, the role of social enterprise, climate change, sustainability and health, oral health, violence, palliative care, mental health, loneliness, nutrition, and embracing diverse genders. These chapters build on, and apply, the theoretical frameworks laid out in part one, linking the substantive content to broader contexts. Taking an inclusive, global approach, this is a key text for both undergraduate and postgraduate students of global health, public health, and medical sociology.

New Perspectives on Medical Clowning (Hardcover): Amnon Raviv New Perspectives on Medical Clowning (Hardcover)
Amnon Raviv
R1,484 Discovery Miles 14 840 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Taking the recent coronavirus pandemic as a starting point, this book presents and analyzes new research around medical clowning in hospitals, from social media use to the impact on the hospitalized child in later life. This innovative book begins with an overview of the work of medical clowns. It discusses the idea of humor as a mechanism related to the revolution in language and human consciousness, and makes a connection between humor and anxiety, exploring how this can be mobilized to support hospitalized patients. There is extensive examination of medical clowning to strengthen coping skills and promote wellbeing in the time of Covid-19, where loneliness and isolation loomed large and anxieties were high. Subsequent chapters explore the role of medical clowning in wartime and at time of natural disasters, the experiences of children some time after their experience of hospitalization and clowning, and the role of social media and medical clowns in community building. This book is a fascinating contribution to the literature on medical clowning. It is of interest to researchers, practitioners and lecturers in medical clowning, play in healthcare, nursing, medicine, and performance studies.

ROC Analysis for Classification and Prediction in Practice (Hardcover): Christos Nakas ROC Analysis for Classification and Prediction in Practice (Hardcover)
Christos Nakas
R2,734 Discovery Miles 27 340 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Description of basic ROC methodology; R and STATA code Example Datasets Not too technical Many topics not included in other books

Mechanical Lumbosacral Spine Pain - Anatomy, Histology and Imaging (Paperback): Lynton G. F. Giles Mechanical Lumbosacral Spine Pain - Anatomy, Histology and Imaging (Paperback)
Lynton G. F. Giles
R1,812 Discovery Miles 18 120 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Key features: * Provides a clear explanation for many of the pain generators in low back pain and illuminate this perplexing and ubiquitous problem. * Addresses a gap in the existing literature, as "non-specific" or mechanical lumbosacral spine pain accounts for by far most chronic spinal pain sufferers' complaints for clinicians dealing with spinal pain syndromes like general medical practitioners, and spinal specialists in various fields such as sports medicine. * Illustrates anatomical structures that can be injured and thus become responsible for causing mechanical lumbosacral spine pain, frequently, such injuries cannot be detected on sophisticated imaging such as MRI.

Pharmaceutical Policy in Countries with Developing Healthcare Systems (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Zaheer-Ud-Din Babar Pharmaceutical Policy in Countries with Developing Healthcare Systems (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Zaheer-Ud-Din Babar
R5,656 Discovery Miles 56 560 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A comprehensive and granular insight into the challenges of promoting rational medicine, this book serves as an essential resource for health policy makers and researchers interested in national medicines policies. Country-specific chapters have a common format, beginning with an overview of the health system and regulatory and policy environments, before discussing the difficulties in maintaining a medicines supply system, challenges in ensuring access to affordable medicines and issues impacting on rational medicine use. Numerous case studies are also used to highlight key issues and each chapter concludes with country-specific solutions to the issues raised. Written by highly regarded academics, the book includes countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and South America.

Embodied Progress - A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception (Paperback, 2nd edition): Sarah Franklin Embodied Progress - A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Sarah Franklin
R1,218 Discovery Miles 12 180 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This new edition of Sarah Franklin's classic monograph on the development of in vitro fertilisation (IVF) includes two entirely new chapters reflecting on the relevance of the book's findings in the context of the past two decades and providing a 'state-of-the-art' review of the field today. Over the past 25 years, both the assisted conception industry and the academic field of reproductive studies have grown enormously. IVF, in particular, is belatedly becoming recognised as one of the most influential technologies of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, with a far-reaching set of implications that have to date been underestimated, understudied and under-reported. This pioneering text was the first to explore the emergence of commercial IVF in the United Kingdom, where the technique was originally developed. During the 1980s, the British Parliament devised a unique system of comprehensive national regulation of assisted reproduction amidst fractious public and media debate over IVF and embryo research. Franklin chronicles these developments and explores their significance in relation to classic anthropological debates about the meanings of kinship, gender and the 'biological facts' of parenthood. Drawing on extensive personal interviews with women and couples undergoing IVF, as well as ethnographic fieldword in early IVF clinics, the book explores the unique demands of the IVF technique. In richly detailed chapters, it documents the 'topsy-turvy' world of IVF, and how the experience of undergoing IVF changes its users in ways they had not anticipated. Franklin argues that such experiences reveal a crucial feature of translational biomedical procedures more widely - namely, that these are 'hope technologies' that paradoxically generate new uncertainties and risks in the very space of their supposed resolution. The final chapter closely engages with the 'hope technology' concept, as well as the idea of 'having to try' and uses these frames to link contemporary reproductive studies to core sociological and anthropological arguments about economy, society and technology. In the context of rapid fertility decline and huge growth in the fertility industry, this volume is even more relevant today than when it was first published at the dawn of what Franklin calls the era of 'iFertility'. Embodied Progress is an essential read for all social science academics and students with an interested in the burgeoning new field of reproductive studies. It is also a valuable resource for practitioners working in the fields of reproductive health, biomedicine and policy.

The Ethics of Pandemics - An Introduction (Paperback): Iwao Hirose The Ethics of Pandemics - An Introduction (Paperback)
Iwao Hirose
R1,059 Discovery Miles 10 590 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

First book to examine the ethics of pandemics from a philosophical standpoint Examines the key and controversial issues that arise out of pandemics, such as government response, test and trace, restrictions on human freedom and movement and vaccine passports Very useful reading for those in related fields such as medicine and health care as well as applied ethics within philosophy Case studies from UK, south east Asia, US and Europe

Marine Pollution and Microbial Remediation (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Milind Mohan Naik, Santosh Kumar Dubey Marine Pollution and Microbial Remediation (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Milind Mohan Naik, Santosh Kumar Dubey
R6,378 Discovery Miles 63 780 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Marine environment is the largest habitat covering approximately 70% of the total earth surface. Oceans are the main regulatory agent of earth's climate and harbour a huge diversity of living organisms. Marine environment provide a unique ecological niche to different microbes which play a significant role in nutrient recycling as well as various environmental activities. However with rapid industrialization, urbanisation, ship trafficking and mining activities enormous amounts of waste including heavy metals, hydrocarbons, chemicals, dyes, organic load, agriculture waste, pesticides, antifoulants (e.g. tributyltin) and bacterial pathogens have accumulated in marine/estuarine environments over several decades and pose a serious threat to marine macro and micro biota and humans and therefore require special attention. However some natural marine microbes are known to possess diverse resistance mechanisms and degradation pathways to variety of toxic pollutants and these unique characteristics of marine/estuarine bacteria proved to be an ideal tool in bioremediation of contaminated marine and estuarine environmental sites. Reclamation of marine polluted environments using marine microbes has been found to be effective, affordable and ecofriendly technological solution over conventional physical and chemical methods. Objective of this book is focus on marine pollution and application of marine microorganisms in cost effective and ecofriendly methods of pollution abatement.

Nutrition Facts - The truth about food (Paperback): Karen Frazier Nutrition Facts - The truth about food (Paperback)
Karen Frazier
R518 R435 Discovery Miles 4 350 Save R83 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Diabetes - A History Of Race & Disease (Paperback): Arleen Marcia Tuchman Diabetes - A History Of Race & Disease (Paperback)
Arleen Marcia Tuchman
R630 R419 Discovery Miles 4 190 Save R211 (33%) In Stock

Who gets diabetes and why? An in‑depth examination of diabetes in the context of race, public health, class, and heredity.

Who is considered most at risk for diabetes, and why? In this thorough, engaging book, historian Arleen Tuchman examines and critiques how these questions have been answered by both the public and medical communities for over a century in the United States.

Beginning in the late nineteenth century, Tuchman describes how at different times Jews, middle‑class whites, American Indians, African Americans, and Hispanic Americans have been labeled most at risk for developing diabetes, and that such claims have reflected and perpetuated troubling assumptions about race, ethnicity, and class. She describes how diabetes underwent a mid-century transformation in the public’s eye from being a disease of wealth and “civilization” to one of poverty and “primitive” populations.

In tracing this cultural history, Tuchman argues that shifting understandings of diabetes reveal just as much about scientific and medical beliefs as they do about the cultural, racial, and economic milieus of their time.

Culture, Diversity, and Criminal Justice - Towards Culturally Safe Criminal Justice Systems (Paperback): Alex Workman, Ranya... Culture, Diversity, and Criminal Justice - Towards Culturally Safe Criminal Justice Systems (Paperback)
Alex Workman, Ranya Kaddour, Patricia M. Griffin
R1,069 Discovery Miles 10 690 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This ground-breaking textbook engages readers in conversation about responding to the effects of diversity within formal criminal justice systems in Westernized nation-states. Moving past a binary concept of diversity that involves only race and gender, this book elaborates upon a wide variety of other forms of diversity, including sexuality, disability, mental health, gendered identity, refugees, the young and the ageing, and culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) peoples, with an awareness of how intersecting identities make some people more vulnerable than others. With reported statistics providing only a snapshot of the incongruent experiences of diverse minorities in contact with criminal justice systems, there is a clear need for nuanced training and accessible information regarding diversity in criminal justice. The book examines diversity in terms of both criminal justice agents and justice-involved individuals such as people in prison, those convicted of crimes, the victimized, and the community. This volume brings together a group of international scholars to articulate on each of the identified populations, examining the effect of culture and diversity on criminal justice outcomes and outlining how those diverse perspectives can improve criminal justice service delivery overall. Incorporating case studies, reflections, and activity questions, this book is a valuable resource for courses in criminology, criminal justice, corrections, and law enforcement, and is ideal for any program focusing on multiculturalism and diversity in criminal justice. Scholars, researchers, and professionals will also benefit from the analysis.

Policing Domestic Abuse - Risk, Policy, and Practice (Paperback): Katy Barrow-Grint, Jacqueline Sebire, Jackie Turton, Ruth Weir Policing Domestic Abuse - Risk, Policy, and Practice (Paperback)
Katy Barrow-Grint, Jacqueline Sebire, Jackie Turton, Ruth Weir
R1,074 Discovery Miles 10 740 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book is dedicated to improving the practice of the policing of domestic abuse. Its objective is to help inform those working in policing about the dynamics of how domestic abuse occurs, how best to respond to and investigate it, and in the longer term how to prevent it. Divided into thematic areas, the book uses recent research findings to update some of the theoretical analysis and to highlight areas of good practice: 'what works and why'. An effective investigation and the prosecution of offenders are considered, as well as an evaluation of the success of current treatment options. Policing domestic abuse can only be dealt with through an effective partnership response. The responsibilities of each agency and the statutory processes in place when policy is not adhered to are outlined. Core content includes: A critique of definitions and theoretical approaches to domestic abuse, including coverage of the myths surrounding domestic abuse and their impact on policing. An exploration on the challenges of collecting data on domestic abuse, looking at police data and the role of health and victim support services. A critical review of different forms of abuse, different perpetrators and victims, and risk assessment tools used by the police. A critical examination of the law relating to domestic abuse; how police resources are deployed to respond to and manage it; and best practice in investigation, gathering evidence, and prosecution Key perspectives on preventing domestic abuse, protecting victims, and reducing harm. Written with the student and budding practitioner in mind, this book is filled with case studies, current research, reports, and media examples, as well as a variety of reflective questions and a glossary of key terms, to help shed light on the challenges of policing domestic violence and the links between academic research and best practice.

Environmental and Health Management of Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) (Paperback): Mohammad Hadi Dehghani, Rama Rao... Environmental and Health Management of Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) (Paperback)
Mohammad Hadi Dehghani, Rama Rao Karri, Sharmili Roy
R2,628 Discovery Miles 26 280 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Environmental and Health Management of Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) examines mitigation measures that can be adopted at the time of a novel coronavirus outbreak to lessen environmental contamination and impacts on human health. The book discusses origin, structure and pathogenesis, epidemiology, environmental transmission and the potential spread routes of COVID-19 via surfaces, air, water, wastewater, medical waste and food products. It also covers guidelines and protocols for setting safety conditions to provide adequate health care and reduce the risk of infection in health and non-healthcare settings, along with preventative measures and disinfection technologies. In addition, the book discusses challenges, opportunities and future perspectives, the global crisis, and global consequences on the environment and health. With contributions from experts, this book presents a multidisciplinary reference resource for virologists, microbiologists, public health professionals, environmental health managers and others engaged in the study and mitigation of the environmental and health impacts of the virus.

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