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  • Judging Drugs

    Key Issues in Law and Society

    Edited by Simon Flacks, Kate Seear ...
    Every day, judges determine vital questions about 'addiction', 'drugs', and the rights of those who use them. Despite the law's crucial role in handling drug 'problems', and in shaping drug practices, effects and outcomes, drug scholars have often overlooked case law. In a rapidly changing drug policy landscape, how is the law managing drug effects and harms, stigma, addiction, agency and ... Read more

    $114.79 USD

  • The Makings of a Modern Epidemic

    Endometriosis, Gender and Politics

    by Kate Seear ...
    Since its ’discovery’ some 150 years ago, thinking about endometriosis has changed. With current estimates identifying it as more common than breast and ovarian cancer, this chronic, incurable gynaecological condition has emerged as a ’modern epidemic’, distinctive in being perhaps the only global epidemic peculiar to women. This timely book addresses the scholarly neglect of endometriosis by the ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Law, Drugs and the Making of Addiction

    Just Habits

    by Kate Seear ...
    This book considers how largely accepted ‘legal truths’ about drugs and addiction are made and sustained through practices of lawyering.Lawyers play a vital and largely underappreciated role in constituting legal certainties about substances and ‘addiction’, including links between alcohol and other drugs, and phenomena such as family violence. Such practices exacerbate, sustain and stabilise ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Critical Perspectives on Coercive Interventions

    Law, Medicine and Society

    Edited by Claire Spivakovsky, Kate Seear, Adrian Carter ...
    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice
    Coercive medico-legal interventions are often employed to prevent people deemed to be unable to make competent decisions about their health, such as minors, people with mental illness, disability or problematic alcohol or other drug use, from harming themselves or others. These interventions can entail major curtailments of individuals’ liberty and bodily integrity, and may cause significant harm ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Making Disease, Making Citizens

    The Politics of Hepatitis C

    by Suzanne Fraser, Kate Seear ...
    Since the naming of hepatitis C in 1989, knowledge about the disease has grown exponentially. So too, however, has the stigma with which it is linked. Associated with injecting drug use and tainted blood scandals, hepatitis C inspires fear and blame. Making Disease, Making Citizens takes a timely look at the disease, those directly affected by it and its social and cultural implications. Drawing ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Feminist Legislation Project

    Rewriting Laws for Gender-Based Justice

    Edited by Becky Batagol, Kate Seear, Heli Askola, Jamie Walvisch ...
    In this book, leading law academics along with lawyers, activists and others demonstrate what legislation could look like if its concern was to create justice for women.Each chapter contains a short piece of legislation – proposed in order to address a contemporary legal problem from a feminist perspective. These range across criminal law (sexual offences, Indigenous women’s experiences of ... Read more

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  • Deprivation of Liberty in the Shadows of the Institution

    by Lucy Series ...
    Series series Law, Society, Policy
    ePDF and ePUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence.During the 20th century the locus of care shifted from large institutions into the community. However, this shift was not always accompanied by liberation from restrictive practices. In 2014 a UK Supreme Court ruling on the meaning of ‘deprivation of liberty’ resulted in large numbers of older and disabled people in care homes, supported ... Read more

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  • Medicine as Culture

    Illness, Disease and the Body

    by Deborah Lupton ...
    Lupton′s newest edition of Medicine as Culture is more relevant than ever.Trudy Rudge, Professor of Nursing, University of SydneyA welcome update of a text that has become a mainstay of the medical sociologist′s library.Alan Radley, Emeritus Professor of Social Psychology, Loughborough UniversityMedicine as Culture introduces students to a broad range of cross-disciplinary theoretical perspectives ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Teratologies

    A Cultural Study of Cancer

    by Jackie Stacey ...
    Series series International Library of Sociology
    Stories of cancer are full of monster and marvels; the monstrousness of the disease and the treatments, the marvels of the cures and the saved lives. Still one of the most dreaded diseases to haunt our imaginations, cancer is more than an illness - it is a cultural phenomenon. People who have cancer are bombarded with competing explanations of their conditions: it is genetically inherited; it is ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Ethical Choices in Contemporary Medicine

    Integrative Bioethics

    by Mary Ann Gardell Cutter, Raphael Sassower ...
    "Ethical Choices in Contemporary Medicine" jettisons the standard medical ethics models of "rights" language and shows how the bioethical problems that receive attention from the media and the public are related to and are explicable in terms of the epistemological foundations of science and medicine. These epistemological concerns include how medical knowledge is established (scientific validity) ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • HIV Interventions

    Biomedicine and the Traffic between Information and Flesh

    by Marsha Rosengarten ...
    Series series In Vivo: The Cultural Mediations of Biomedical Science
    Winner of the Sociology of Health and Illness Book PrizeHIV has changed in the presence of recent biomedical technologies. In particular, the development of anti-retroviral therapies (ARVs) for the treatment of HIV was a significant landmark in the history of the disease. Treatment with ARV drug regimens, which began in 1996, has enabled many thousands to live with the human immunodeficiency virus ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • 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

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