Kategoria BISAC: Social Science >> Disease & Health Issues

In recent decades, America has been waging a veritable war on fat in which not just public health authorities, but every sector of society is engaged in constant -fat talk- aimed at educating, badgering, and ridiculing heavy people into shedding pounds. We hear a great deal about the dangers of fatness to the nation, but little about the dangers of today's epidemic of fat talk to individuals and society at large. The human trauma caused by the war on fat is disturbing--and it is virtually unknown. How do those who do not fit the -ideal- body type feel being the object of abuse,...

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 and education. However, the methods adopted by researchers in these disciplines have never been subject to detailed critical analysis; nor have the methods advocated by methodological writers who...

The Day We Gave Up Health. How in the world did we get so fat so fast Obesity is now well beyond acceptable limits and it continues to rise worldwide. Even children and animals are now prone to obesity. Have we become lazier in the last few decades or is it due to our growing addiction to foods. Has global obesity become a pandemic by design or by chance? Are we, as humans, in a new phase of evolution due to the consumption of a new genre of foods and substances that are entirely foreign to our bodies? Are we going to make it as a species through this new phase or wither and die? Will we,...

It is obvious that the world is caught in the process of constant, rapid and unpredictable change. Such changes are challenging the time-honoured business models that we hold, as we strive to understand the changes around us and survive.

This book offers a lens through which we search for new ways of thinking about, and working in our dynamic complex world. The search draws on the science of complex adaptive systems.

Organizations of today need a Extraordinary Leaders' who can a dance' with these changes by embracing the principles of complexity science to create highly...

This book critically explores from a comparative international perspective the role medicine plays in constructing and managing natural and social risks, including those belonging to modern medical technology and expertise. Drawing together chapters written by professional practitioners and social scientists from the UK, South America, Australia and Europe, the book offers readers an insightful and thought-provoking analysis of how modern medicine has transformed our understanding of both ourselves and the world around us, but in so doing has arguably failed to fully recognize and account...

This evidence-based text puts a human face on mental disorders, illuminating the lived experience of people with mental health difficulties and their caregivers. Systematically reviewing the qualitative research conducted on living with a mental disorder, this text coalesces a large body of knowledge and centers on those disorders that have sufficient qualitative research to synthesize, including attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, autism, intellectual disabilities, mood disorders, schizophrenia and dementia.

Supported by numerous quotes, the text explores the perspective of those...