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by Peter Piot
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Peter Piot, founding executive director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), recounts his experience as a clinician, scientist, and activist fighting the disease from its earliest manifestation to today. The AIDS pandemic was not only catastrophic to the health of millions worldwide...
Biosecurity Interventions
Global Health and Security in Question
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2008
In recent years, new disease threats-such as SARS, avian flu, mad cow disease, and drug-resistant strains of malaria and tuberculosis-have garnered media attention and galvanized political response. Proposals for new approaches to "securing health" against these threats have come not only...
Virus Alert
Security, Governmentality, and the AIDS Pandemic
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
Bound up with the human cost of HIV/AIDS is the critical issue of its impact on national and international security, yet attempts to assess the pandemic's complex risk fail to recognize the political dangers of construing the disease as a security threat. The securitization of HIV/AIDS not only affects...
AIDS as an International Political Issue
A Selection from AIDS Between Science and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Peter Piot, founding executive director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), reports on the influence of civil society in international relations and traditional partisan divides. AIDS thrust health into national and international politics where, he argues, it rightly belongs....
by Sonia Austrian
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2005
Written for social workers by a social worker, Mental Disorders, Medications, and Clinical Social Work discusses the etiology, epidemiology, assessment, and intervention planning for common mental disorders. Looking at disorders from an ecosystems perspective, Austrian goes beyond a linear classification...
Transgender 101
A Simple Guide to a Complex Issue
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Written by a social worker, popular educator, and member of the transgender community, this well-rounded resource combines an accessible portrait of transgenderism with a rich history of transgender life and its unique experiences of discrimination. Chapters introduce transgenderism and its psychological,...
by David Hodge
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
Spirituality often plays a critical role in health and wellness, yet few have explored in detail the process through which practitioners can identify and use clients' spiritual strengths to their mutual advantage. To address this gap, this practice-oriented text equips helping professionals with the...
Neither Ghost nor Machine
The Emergence and Nature of Selves
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
If the universe is aimless, how do selves and aims emerge? Why do living beings have aims when inanimate things do not? Current science encourages us to reject the ghost-in-the-machine explanation—that something called spirit, soul, mind, or will was somehow breathed into matter—and instead accept...
by David Celani
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
W. R. D. Fairbairn (1889-1964) challenged the dominance of Freud's drive theory with a psychoanalytic theory based on the internalization of human relationships. Fairbairn assumed that the unconscious develops in childhood and contains dissociated memories of parental neglect, insensitivity, and outright...
Sexual Orientation and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Sexual Science and Clinical Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2008
This book bridges psychoanalytic thought and sexual science. It brings sexuality back to the center of psychoanalysis and shows how important it is for students of human sexuality to understand motives that are often irrational and unconscious. The authors present a new perspective about male and...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Rethinking the category of aesthetics in light of recent developments in literary theory and social criticism, the contributors to this volume showcase the interpretive possibilities available to those who bring politics, culture, ideology, and conceptions of identity into their critiques. Essays...
Perversion for Profit
The Politics of Pornography and the Rise of the New Right
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2010
While America is not alone in its ambivalence toward sex and its depictions, the preferences of the nation swing sharply between toleration and censure. This pattern has grown even more pronounced since the 1960s, with the emergence of the New Right and its attack on the "floodtide of filth"...
Dying to Forget
Oil, Power, Palestine, and the Foundations of U.S. Policy in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Irene L. Gendzier presents incontrovertible evidence that oil politics played a significant role in the founding of Israel, the policy then adopted by the United States toward Palestinians, and subsequent U.S. involvement in the region. Consulting declassified U.S. government sources, as well as papers...
Palestinian Identity
The Construction of Modern National Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2009
This foundational text now features a new introduction by Rashid Khalidi reflecting on the significance of his work over the past decade and its relationship to the struggle for Palestinian nationhood. Khalidi also casts an eye to the future, noting the strength of Palestinian identity and social...