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“peta margetts”

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  • Being Peta

    Living with Leukaemia

    by Peta Margetts ...
    Being Peta provides a brave, honest firsthand account by a young person of what it's like to live with leukaemia. It is a book that will provide comfort and companionship to sufferers and their loved ones.In the world of cancer, teenagers are renowned for not articulating their feelings about living with their illness. But sixteen-year-old Peta Margetts was brave enough to do that: with a ... Read more

    $7.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • No One Cares About Crazy People

    The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America

    by Ron Powers ...
    "No doubt if everyone were to read" this personal and social history of mental illness in America "the world would change" ( New York Times Book Review ).From the centuries of torture of "lunatiks" at Bedlam Asylum to the infamous eugenics era to the follies of the anti-psychiatry movement to the current landscape in which too many families struggle alone to manage afflicted loved ones, Pulitzer ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • Rocks

    One Man's Climb From Drugs to Dreams

    by Marco Broccardo ...
    Marco Broccardo was an ordinary boy from an ordinary family. He had parents who loved him and older sisters who doted on their little brother. He had friends and he played sport at school. Schoolboy experimentation with weed quickly turned to coke and ecstasy. Drugs made him feel great. What was the harm? The trouble came when supply and demand were out of balance and a harmless joint and a couple ... Read more

    $9.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Health Rights Are Civil Rights

    Peace and Justice Activism in Los Angeles, 1963–1978

    by Jenna M. Loyd ...
    Health Rights Are Civil Rights tells the story of the important place of health in struggles for social change in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s. Jenna M. Loyd describes how Black freedom, antiwar, welfare rights, and women’s movement activists formed alliances to battle oppressive health systems and structural violence, working to establish the principle that health is a right. For a time ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Impact of Addictive Substances and Behaviours on Individual and Societal Well-being

    Edited by Peter Anderson, Robin Room, Jürgen Rehm ...
    Series series Governance Of Addictive Substances & Behaviours
    Impact of Addictive Substances and Behaviours on Individual and Societal Well-being outlines an innovative and fascinating new framework for understanding the harm that addictive substances and behaviours can cause. Taking a holistic approach and with well-being as a central tenet, it demonstrates how using different methods can lead to a more just and evidence-based approach to dealing with ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Hoping to Help

    The Promises and Pitfalls of Global Health Volunteering

    by Judith N. Lasker ...
    Series series The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
    Overseas volunteering has exploded in numbers and interest in the last couple of decades. Every year, hundreds of thousands of people travel from wealthier to poorer countries to participate in short-term volunteer programs focused on health services. Churches, universities, nonprofit service organizations, profit-making "voluntourism" companies, hospitals, and large corporations all sponsor brief ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Diet for Weight Loss: Lose Weight with Nutritious Kale Recipes, and Follow the Clean Eating Diet

    by Lanie Karp ...
    Diet for Weight Loss: Lose Weight with Nutritious Kale Recipes, and Follow the Clean Eating Diet This Diet for Weight Loss book covers recipes for a healthy weight loss with two different diet plans to choose from with the Clean Eating Diet and the Kale Recipes diet. Both diet plans serve as a type of detox diet to help cleanse the body of impurities left behind from eating junk food. The answer ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Phenomenology as Qualitative Research

    A Critical Analysis of Meaning Attribution

    by John Paley ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Research Methods
    Phenomenology originated as a novel way of doing philosophy early in the twentieth century. In the writings of Husserl and Heidegger, regarded as its founders, it was a non-empirical kind of philosophical enquiry. Although this tradition has continued in a variety of forms, ‘phenomenology’ is now also used to denote an empirical form of qualitative research (PQR), especially in health, psychology ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Culture, Ethnicity and Chronic Conditions

    A Global Synthesis

    Edited by Charles Agyemang, Ama de-Graft Aikins ...
    The global burden of chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs), such as hypertension, diabetes and cancers, and of common mental disorders such as depression and anxiety, has a disproportionate impact on the low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) of Africa, Asia and Latin America. The pattern persists in African and Asian migrant populations in European and North American countries, despite the ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Criminal Conduct and Substance Abuse Treatment for Adolescents: Pathways to Self-Discovery and Change

    The Provider′s Guide

    by Harvey B. Milkman, Kenneth W. Wanberg ...
    This Provider′s Guide introduces a comprehensive and developmentally appropriate treatment program, Pathways for Self-Discovery and Change (PSDC), which provides the specific tools necessary for improving evaluation and treatment of at-risk youth, a particularly vulnerable patient population in the justice system. Using an adolescent-focused format, this protocol identifies psychological, ... Read more

    $52.19 USD

  • The Medicalization of Cyberspace

    by Andy Miah, Emma Rich ...
    The entire infrastructure and culture of medicine is being transformed by digital technology, the Internet and mobile devices. Cyberspace is now regularly used to provide medical advice and medication, with great numbers of sufferers immersing themselves within virtual communities. What are the implications of this medicalization of cyberspace for how people make sense of health and identity?The ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Culture, Health and Sexuality

    An Introduction

    Edited by Peter Aggleton, Richard Parker, Felicity Thomas ...
    Series series Sexuality, Culture and Health
    The last twenty years have seen a growth in multi-disciplinary work in the area of sexuality, culture and health. What was once a set of specialist concerns has been steadily mainstreamed. Alongside this, a broader interest has developed in ‘social’ and 'cultural’ factors relating to sexuality and sexual health, from family planning and STI management to gender and intimate partner violence and ... Read more

    $70.99 USD