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World Mental Health Casebook
Using real cases based in the South Pacific, Asia, South and Latin America and Europe, this volume sets out examples of community-based interventions that have succeeded by implementing outreach to the families and community to identify those in need, reliable and adequate drug supplies, treatment interventions, healthy psychosocial environments. This book will interest mental health professionals, international public health workers, global program administrators, and clinicians and healthcare workers.
Contested Spaces: Abortion Clinics, Women's Shelters and Hospitals
In this book, Lori Brown examines the relationship between space, defined physically, legally and legislatively, and how these factors directly impact the spaces of abortion. It analyzes how various political entities shape the physical landscapes of inclusion and exclusion to reproductive healthcare access, and questions what architecture's responsibilities are in respect to this spatial conflict. Employing writing, drawing and mapping methodologies, this interdisciplinary project explores restrictions and legislatures which directly influence abortion policy in the US, Mexico and Canada. It questions how these legal rulings produce spatial complexities and why architecture isn't more cultu...
Gender, Development and Health
Articles included here focus on understandings of reproductive health; integrating gender issues into infectious disease prevention; the impact of HIV/AIDS on women; working with communities to promote health and on the monitoring and evaluation of health projects from a gender perspective.
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Toxic Sexual Politics
"Toxic Sexual Politics uses historical and contemporary evidence to show how the U.S. science of toxicology is a tool designed by and for the chemical industry, suggesting that public health will never win the industry's game. What if, instead, the science of toxicants explicitly confronted chemical corporate power, building from queer feminist, anti-ableist, and anti-racist movements for environmental and reproductive justice?"--
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Feminist Global Health Security
Global health security, focused on short-term response efforts, fails to consider the differential impacts of outbreaks on women. Feminist Global Health Security highlights the ways in which women are disadvantaged by global health security policy, through engagement with feminist international relations concepts of visibility, social and stratified reproduction, intersectionality, and structural violence. Wenham ultimately asks, what would global health policy look like if it were to take gender seriously, and how would this impact global disease control?
Postabortion Care
Describes operations research studies on postabortion care conducted in Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East, and looks at ethical issues of conducting such research. Describes improvements that could be made to services without significant investment of additional resources, and suggests efforts to adapt training of providers to local norms. Huntington, based in New Delhi, is a senior program associate with the Population Council and is associate director of the Frontiers in Reproductive Health Project; Piet-Pelon is an independent consultant in reproductive health and family planning. The book is available for free. It is not indexed. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Criminology
Connections among theory, research, and practice are the heart and soul of criminology. This book offers a comprehensive and balanced introduction to criminology, demonstrating the value of understanding the relationships between criminological theory, research, and practice in the study of crime and criminal behavior. Utilising a range of case studies and thought-provoking features, it encourages students to think critically and provides a foundation for understanding criminology as a systematic, theoretically grounded science. It includes: A comprehensive overview of crime in American society, including the nature and meaning of crime and American criminal law as well as the scientific stu...
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