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  • Cultures of Intoxication

    Key Issues and Debates

    Edited by Fiona Hutton ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book considers the global discourses and debates about ‘intoxication’, engaging in critical academic discussion around this concept. The problems in defining intoxication are considered, alongside the meanings of intoxication and how these meanings often differ across diverse drug using populations. The way that intoxication has been engaged with over the centuries has affected how particular ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Risky Pleasures?

    Club Cultures and Feminine Identities

    by Fiona Hutton ...
    In this book Fiona Hutton provides a fascinating insight into women's experiences of clubbing. Based on a rich ethnographic account of the Manchester club scene, Risky Pleasures? is set within the context of the theoretical literature on youth subcultures, female friendship, consumption, risk and the city. The work highlights both the producers of club scenes - promoters, DJs, dealers - and the ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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  • Mad World

    The Politics of Mental Health

    by Micha Frazer-Carroll ...
    Series series Outspoken by Pluto
    ‘A radical antidote to the constraints of our current conceptualisation of mental health’ Dazed‘Exposes the underlying truth that capitalism is fundamentally incompatible with our wellbeing, and teaches us how to transform the ways we understand madness, illness, and disability to build a better world’ Beatrice Adler-Bolton, co-author of Health CommunismMental health is a political issue, but we ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • A Sociology Of Mental Health And Illness

    by Anne Rogers, David Pilgrim ...
    This book provides a sociological analysis of major areas of mental health and illness. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Psychiatry Disrupted

    Theorizing Resistance and Crafting the (R)evolution

    by Bonnie Burstow, Brenda A. LeFrançois, Shaindl Diamond ...
    There is growing international resistance to the oppressiveness of psychiatry. While previous studies have critiqued psychiatry, Psychiatry Disrupted goes beyond theorizing what is wrong with it to theorizing how we might stop it.Introducing readers to the arguments and rationale for opposing psychiatry, the book combines perspectives from anti-psychiatry and critical psychiatry activism, mad ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Contexts of Nursing

    An Introduction

    by John Daly, Sandra Speedy, Debra Jackson ...
    Contexts of Nursing 3e builds on the strengths of previous editions and continues to provide nursing students with comprehensive coverage of core ideas and perspectives underpinning the practice of nursing. The new edition has been thoroughly revised and updated. New material on Cultural Awareness and Contemporary Approaches in Nursing has been introduced to reflect the realities of practice. ... Read more

    $77.39 USD

  • Understanding Social Work Practice in Mental Health

    by Victoria Coppock, R. W. Dunn ...
    ′An excellent introduction to the main themes of social work and mental health. It provides a comprehensive summary of contemporary debates and perspectives around mental health practice. I would recommend this to all social work students.′ - Philip O′Hare, University of Central Lancashire"This book is a timely restatement of the central role of social work in mental health. In this important work ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • Tranquil Prisons

    Chemical Incarceration under Community Treatment Orders

    by Erick Fabris ...
    Antipsychotic medications are sometimes imposed on psychiatric patients deemed dangerous to themselves and others. This is based on the assumption that treatment is safe and effective, and that recovery depends on biological adjustment. Under new laws, patients can be required to remain on these medications after leaving hospitals. However, survivors attest that forced treatment used as a ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Social Perspectives in Mental Health

    Developing Social Models to Understand and Work with Mental Distress

    by Sarah Carr, Peter Beresford, Martin Webber ...
    Social Perspectives in Mental Health offers new practice frameworks that help to make sense of people's mental distress and recovery in relation to their social experience. This interdisciplinary volume promotes a holistic approach to mental health practice, with an emphasis on recovery and empowerment, and on building on the experiences of service users. The contributors explore the impact of ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Perspectives on Death and Dying

    by June Leishman, James Moir ...
    In the past, most people encountered death at a relatively young age. Dying relatives were cared for at home, and mortality rates were higher. Today, there is much less familiarity with death, which increasingly takes place in hospitals, hospices and nursing homes. This wide-ranging and enlightening book offers an exploration of death and dying as human conditions that impact on the individual, ... Read more

    $10.39 USD

  • The Routledge International Handbook of Mad Studies

    Edited by Peter Beresford, Jasna Russo ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    By drawing broadly on international thinking and experience, this book offers a critical exploration of Mad Studies and advances its theory and practice.Comprised of 34 chapters written by international leading experts, activists and academics, this handbook introduces and advances Mad Studies, as well as exploring resistance and criticism, and clarifying its history, ideas, what it is, and what ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Psychiatric Hegemony

    A Marxist Theory of Mental Illness

    by Bruce M. Z. Cohen ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book offers a comprehensive Marxist critique of the business of mental health, demonstrating how the prerogatives of neoliberal capitalism for productive, self-governing citizens have allowed the discourse on mental illness to expand beyond the psychiatric institution into many previously untouched areas of public and private life including the home, school and the workplace. Through ... Read more

    $125.09 USD