Published August, 2020
By Heather Richardson and Gillian Chowns
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This book describes the practice of social work in supporting people at the end of life; it considers the nature and experience of living and dying in contemporary society; and it asks how social workers can best support people who are dying or bereaved.

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Published August, 2020
By Sylvie Fainzang
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Based on fieldwork conducted in France, this book examines the material, cognitive, symbolic and social dimensions of the recourse to self-medication, considering the motivations and practices of the subjects and what these reveal about their relationship with the medical institution, while addressing the question of open access to medicines. A

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Published August, 2020
By Christopher Alan Lewis
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This book provides a selection of contemporary research on the development and examination of psychometric measures for the assessment of mental health, religion and culture. This book was originally published as two special issues of Mental Health, Religion & Culture.

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Published August, 2020
By Ami Rokach
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Focusing on intimate relationships, between couples and between parents and their children, this book explores themes including the influence of parental relationships on children, adolescents, and college students; how humour may influence and improve relationships; how children's loneliness may be affected by their relationship with their pare

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Published August, 2020
By Claudia Lang
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This book examines depression as a widely diagnosed and treated common mental disorder in India and offers a significant ethnographic study of the application of a traditional Indian medical system (Ayurveda) to the very modern problem of depression. Based on over a year of fieldwork, it investigates the Ayurvedic response to the burden of depressi

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Published August, 2020
By Ahmed Ragab
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This book investigates the early and foundational writings on prophetic medicine and related pietistic writings on health and disease produced during the Islamic Classical Age.

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Published August, 2020
By Heather Conway
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This book focuses on the substantive laws around disposal of the recently deceased and associated issues around their post-mortem fate. The book looks primarily at the laws and related policy issues in England and Wales but also offers a comparative approach, drawing heavily on material from other comparable common law jurisdictions including Au

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Published August, 2020
By Dikaios Sakellariou and Gareth M. Thomas
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What does the everyday reality of being disabled mean for those involved? Bringing together a range of qualitative methodologies, interviews and ethnographies in a global context, this collection highlights the mundane interactions and everyday occurrences in the lives of people with disabilities across the life-course. It will provi

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Published August, 2020
By June Sadd, Hugh McLaughlin, Joe Duffy, Brendan McKeever and Joseph Duffy
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This book provides an international perspective on the development of service user and carer involvement in social work education, reporting on examples from eight countries. This book was originally published as a special issue of Social Work Education.

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Published August, 2020
By Juan Eduardo Bonnin
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This ground breaking research, collected over five years of fieldwork, focuses on the relationships between diversity and inequality in access to mental healthcare through the discourse practices, tactics and strategies deployed by patients and healthcare professionals.

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