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A Tale of a Man, a Worm and a Snail
Schistosomiasis is Africa's second most common parasitic disease. Less than 20 years ago, over 200 million were infected. In many high-risk areas the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative (SCI) has been helping to tackle the disease by offering treatments to millions of children. This book tells the story of a man, Alan Fenwick, who founded the SCI to control the worms and snails and so improve the lives of many burdened with the disease as well as reducing the numbers infected. Over this period SCI and the Ministries of Health and Education in 16 countries delivered over 220 million treatments. Treatment coverage of up to 75% has been achieved. Widely recognised as a cost-effective and successful intervention, SCI's knock-on effects include improving overall physical health, school attendance and future prospects for millions of people.
Law and the Brain
The past 20 years have seen unparalleled advances in neurobiology, with findings from neuroscience being used to shed light on a range of human activities - many historically the province of those in the humanities and social sciences - aesthetics, emotion, consciousness, music. Applying this new knowledge to law seems a natural development - the making, considering, and enforcing of law of course rests on mental processes. However, where some of those activities can be studied with a certain amount of academic detachment, what we discover about the brain has considerable implications for how we consider and judge those who follow or indeed flout the law - with inevitable social and politica...
Sociological Reflections on the Neurosciences
The neurosciences are more than a collection of scientific practices - they offer up various ways of thinking about mind, body and society. This title casts light on the place, role and impact of neuroscience. It reflects on the insights the neurosciences have to offer sociology.
Tailspin
In this political satire, an inventor releases the proverbial genie from the bottle by using modern technology. His creation triggers the journey of a sensible dog named Dorothy who decides to better the lives of dogs and humankind. Unconditional love and the special powers of dogs propel her adventures through obscurity to power while spoofing many popular figures in today's media. Her story peaks when she catapults our two-party political system into a real TAILSPIN.
The Jungles of Arkansas
When H. L. Mencken wrote about "the miasmatic jungles of Arkansas," he was referring to the relative obscurity and uncertain image that Arkansas has enjoyed—or suffered from—throughout its history. In these entertaining and sometimes quirky essays, Lancaster sheds light on that image by analyzing the stereotypes that have characterized the state since its very beginning.
Public Engagement and Emerging Technologies
New technologies and the science that created them have transformed our lives, posing challenges as to how technological change can be better integrated in society. Recognition of these issues has led to different ways of engaging the public in the assessment and regulation of emerging technologies. However, there has been no single approach that characterizes the relationship between publics and new technologies. This book puts the subject of publics and their engagement in emerging technologies on a robust theoretical footing. With a strong, though not exclusive, focus on genomic technologies, leading theorists and practitioners in the field provide precise and clear insights into the key issues in public participation studies, including ethics, process, and principles of knowledge distribution in democratic societies. The discussion is particularly pertinent and central to current concerns in health, technology, and public participation at a time when the reform of public and private sector health and social care services are being debated globally.
Fatal Mistakes
Fatal Mistakes is a psychological novel that deals with issues surrounding teen pregnancy. With guidance from a psychotherapist, the protagonist discovers that decisions which ignore emotions can wreak havoc in what seems to be a normal life. The plot also interweaves the stories of two minor characters that have experienced similar problems but with different outcomes.
How to Change Your Drinking
For those who want to moderate, control or eliminate alcohol drinking and for whom the standard 12-step approach of AA does not work. Supports goals of safer drinking, reduced drinking or quitting.
Mending Education
"The authors focus on how sudden and forced changes to teaching and learning created "Pandemic Positives" which can be captured and brought to scale across pre-K-adult settings"--
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