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Why I Don't Like Sex
According to Henry Ford, thinking is the hardest work there is. In this collection of essays, the author prods the reader's mind about life events and issues and leaves them thinking.
The Asset
Pete Maddox is the new CIA station chief in Venezuela but unlike his bureaucratic predecessor, he comes from the counterterrorism black ops world of the CIA. When he uncovers a Libyan terrorist training camp hidden in the Venezuelan Amazon jungle, he uses a coup against Hugo Chavez to make his move, a bold move that enrages the administrators back at Langley. Forced to stand down and being ordered to leave the country, the CIA assets he recruited are being hunted down by the head of the secret police including the woman he loves. Maddox will risk his career and his life to save her.
Handbook on the Sociology of Health and Medicine
This timely Handbook provides an essential guide to the major topics, perspectives, and scholars in the sociology of health and medicine. Contributors prove the immense value of a sociological understanding of central health and medical concerns, including public health, the COVID-19 pandemic, and new medical technologies.
Biobanks
In recent years, a number of large population-based biobanks – genetic databases that combine genetic information derived from blood samples with personal data about environment, medical history, lifestyle or genealogy – have been set up in order to study the interface between disease, and genetic and environmental factors. Unsurprisingly, these studies have sparked a good deal of controversy and the ethical and social implications have been widely debated. Biobanks: Governance in Comparative Perspective is the first book to explore the political and governance implications of biobanks in Europe, the United States, Asia, and Australia. This book explores: the interrelated conditions needed for a biobank to be created and to exist the rise of the new bio-economy the redefinition of citizenship accompanying national biobank developments This groundbreaking book makes clear that biobanks are a phenomenon that cannot be disconnected from considerations of power, politics, and the reshaping of current practices in governance. It will be a valuable read for scholars and students of genetics, bioethics, risk, public health and the sociology of health and illness.
Health, Risk and Vulnerability
The concept of risk is one of the most suggestive terms for evoking the cultural character of our times and for defining the purpose of social research. Risk attitudes and behaviours are understood to comprise the dominant experience of culture, politics and society in our times. Health, Risk and Vulnerability investigates the personal and political dimensions of health risk that structure everyday thought and action. In this innovative book, international contributors reflect upon the meaning and significance of risk across a broad range of social and institutional contexts, exploring current issues such as: the ‘escalation of the medicalization of life’, involving the pathologization o...
Tarkine Mist
After a serious health crisis, Julius Banks wants a new life. But death stalks his every move, and troublesome reporter, Jessica Moore, is drawn deep into the deadly web of intrigue that surrounds him.
Foucault, Health and Medicine
The reception of Michel Foucault's work in the social sciences and humanities has been phenomenal. Foucault's concepts and methodology have encouraged new approaches to old problems and opened up new lines of enquiry. This book assesses the contribution of Foucault's work to research and thinking in the area of health and medicine, and shows how key researchers in the sociology of health and illness are currently engaging with his ideas. Foucault, Health and Medicine explores such important issues as: Foucault's concept of 'discourse', the critique of the 'medicalization' thesis, the analysis of the body and the self, Foucault's concept of 'bio-power' in the analysis of health education, the...
Genetic Governance
A new perspective on a topical and hotly debated subject Both editors have, individually and collaboratively, written successful books for Routledge Contributors from key international academics in public health and genetics
