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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “matilda hellman”
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  • Addiction and the Brain

    Knowledge, Beliefs and Ethical Considerations from a Social Perspective

    by Matilda Hellman, Michael Egerer, Janne Stoneham, Sarah Forberger, Vilja Männistö-Inkinen, Doris Ochterbeck, Samantha Rundle ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book investigates the neuroscientific knowledge on addiction as an epistemic project. ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Governing Human Lives and Health in Pandemic Times

    Social Control Policies

    Edited by Matilda Hellman, Tom Kettunen, Saara Salmivaara, Janne Stoneham ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    Governing Human Lives and Health in Pandemic Times looks into the instruments and the type of reasoning involved when large-scale social control strategies were implemented worldwide in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.The repertoires of institutional and administrative governance tools used during the pandemic are studied in their unique institutional, socio-geographic, and cultural settings, in ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Setting Limits

    Gambling, Science and Public Policy

    by Pekka Sulkunen, Thomas F. Babor, Jenny Cisneros Ornberg, Michael Egerer, Matilda Hellman, Charles Livingstone, Virve Marionneau, Janne Nikkinen, Jim Orford, Robin Room, Ingeborg Rossow ...
    Commercial gambling is a recent historical phenomenon. It has developed into a profitable industry that supplies a range of recreational activities to its customers, and is a significant way of collecting money from players to distribute to companies, state budgets, and other beneficiaries. Many of these are civil society organizations, using the money for producing services in sports, culture, ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • New Governance of Addictive Substances and Behaviours

    by Peter Anderson, Fleur Braddick, Patricia J. Conrod, Antoni Gual, Matilda Hellman, Silvia Matrai, David Miller, David Nutt, Jillian Reynolds, Tamyko Ysa, Jürgen Rehm ...
    Series series Governance of Addictive Substances and Behaviours Series
    Addictions have increased markedly in contemporary societies over the past decades. As well as widely acknowledged issues surrounding illegal substance addictions, there are increasing numbers of problems related to behavioural addictions such as the use of legal substances such as antidepressants and amphetamines. These addictions are concerning for a range of public policy fields, not least, ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Concepts of Addictive Substances and Behaviours across Time and Place

    Edited by Matilda Hellman, Virginia Berridge, Karen Duke, Alex Mold ...
    Series series Governance of Addictive Substances and Behaviours Series
    Concepts of Addictive Substances and Behaviours across Time and Place presents fascinating new historical and social scientific research examining the temporal and spatial variations in the ways that addiction problems are understood and addressed in European societies. The book illustrates the changing and versatile nature of language use, of stakeholders concepts and ideas, and of the popular, ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

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    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

  • Of Two Minds

    An Anthropologist Looks at American Psychiatry

    by T.M. Luhrmann ...
    In this groundbreaking book, Tanya Luhrmann -- among the most admired of young American anthropologists -- brings her acute intelligence and her sophisticated powers of observation to bear on the world of psychiatry. On the basis of extensive interviews with patients and doctors, as well as day-to-day investigative fieldwork in residency programs, private psychiatric hospitals, and state hospitals ... Read more

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  • Epidemic Illusions

    On the Coloniality of Global Public Health

    by Eugene T Richardson ...
    A physician-anthropologist explores how public health practices--from epidemiological modeling to outbreak containment--help perpetuate global inequities.In Epidemic Illusions, Eugene Richardson, a physician and an anthropologist, contends that public health practices--from epidemiological modeling and outbreak containment to Big Data and causal inference--play an essential role in perpetuating a ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Bipolar Expeditions

    Mania and Depression in American Culture

    by Emily Martin ...
    Manic behavior holds an undeniable fascination in American culture today. It fuels the plots of best-selling novels and the imagery of MTV videos, is acknowledged as the driving force for successful entrepreneurs like Ted Turner, and is celebrated as the source of the creativity of artists like Vincent Van Gogh and movie stars like Robin Williams. Bipolar Expeditions seeks to understand mania's ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • Education Policies in the 21st Century

    Comparative Perspectives

    Edited by Birol Akgün, Yusuf Alpaydın ...
    Series series Maarif Global Education Series
    This open access book explores the agenda of education policies in the 21st century. In the first part of the book, education is handled from a historical and political framework, and the effects of the change of states and policies on education are examined. In the second part, the effects of changes in the economy on education policies and economies’ demands from educational institutions are ... Read more

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  • Rethinking Psychiatry

    by Arthur Kleinman ...
    In this book, Kleinman proposes an international view of mental illness and mental care.Arthur Kleinman, M.D., examines how the prevalence and nature of disorders vary in different cultures, how clinicians make their diagnoses, and how they heal, and the educational and practical implications of a true understanding of the interplay between biology and culture. ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Political Journalism in Comparative Perspective

    by Erik Albæk, Arjen van Dalen, Nael Jebril, Claes H. de Vreese ...
    Series series Communication, Society and Politics
    Political journalism is often under fire. Conventional wisdom and much scholarly research suggest that journalists are cynics and political pundits. Political news is void of substance and overly focused on strategy and persons. Citizens do not learn from the news, are politically cynical, and are dissatisfied with the media. This book challenges these assumptions, which are often based on single ... Read more

    $28.69 USD