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  • Mindfulness in Surfing

    Meditations on Oceans & Blue Health

    by Sam Bleakley ...
    Series series Mindfulness series
    Mindfulness and Surfing casts a fresh perspective on this popular sport, and explores how riding the waves can be the ultimate meditation. Engaging author Sam Bleakley takes us on a soulful journey across the tideline of his personal and philosophical travels. Through lunar cycles and river surfing to the Taoism of nature, he reveals an acute awareness of what the oceans can tell us about our ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Mindful Thoughts for Surfers

    Tuning in to the tides

    by Sam Bleakley ...
    Series series Mindful Thoughts
    Mindful Thoughts for Surfers explores how meditative a life on the surfboard can be. These 25 insightful musings will inspire beginners and experts alike.The heightened attention in surfing and the meditative nature of water facilitate the perfect opportunity to practise mindfulness. Sam Bleakley is an international longboard champion and advocate for all forms of waveriding. With an interest in ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Medicine, Health and the Arts

    Approaches to the Medical Humanities

    Edited by Victoria Bates, Alan Bleakley, Sam Goodman ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in the Medical Humanities
    In recent decades, both medical humanities and medical history have emerged as rich and varied sub-disciplines. Medicine, Health and the Arts is a collection of specially commissioned essays designed to bring together different approaches to these complex fields. Written by a selection of established and emerging scholars, this volume embraces a breadth and range of methodological approaches to ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

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    How Expanding Waistlines are Changing a Nation

    by Paul French, Matthew Crabbe ...
    Series series China in the 21st Century
    China's economy has boomed, but a potentially disastrous side effect - along with pollution and a growing income gap between urban and rural regions - is the effects obesity will have on the country's fragile healthcare system. Today's overweight in China can look to a mixed future of bright economic hopes for their country, and poor and deteriorating health for themselves. From a situation 20 ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Global Health Law

    by Lawrence O. Gostin ...
    The international community has made great progress in improving global health. But staggering health inequalities between rich and poor still remain, raising fundamental questions of social justice. In a book that systematically defines the burgeoning field of global health law, Lawrence Gostin drives home the need for effective global governance for health and offers a blueprint for reform, ... Read more

    $62.09 USD

  • The End of Stigma?

    Changes in the Social Experience of Long-Term Illness

    by Gill Green ...
    This innovative book investigates the roots of contemporary experiences of stigma, throwing new light on the phenomenon by examining a variety of long-term conditions.Behaviour, lifestyle and identity are no longer the results of mass-production by social class and nation, but increasingly the quirky and unique eccentricities of the individual as consumer, reflexive citizen and free agent. But if ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Scripting Addiction

    The Politics of Therapeutic Talk and American Sobriety

    by E. Summerson Carr ...
    Gaming the language of addiction treatmentScripting Addiction takes readers into the highly ritualized world of mainstream American addiction treatment. It is a world where clinical practitioners evaluate how drug users speak about themselves and their problems, and where the ideal of "healthy" talk is explicitly promoted, carefully monitored, and identified as the primary sign of therapeutic ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Yoruba Traditional Healers of Nigeria

    by Mary Adekson ...
    Series series African Studies
    This work examines the counseling approaches and techniques used by Yoruba traditional healers of Nigeria. It also describes the functions performed by Yoruba traditional healers when they work within the Yoruba cultural milieu. The information elicited from Yoruba traditional healers through videotape and interviews was analyzed by a Nigerian woma ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage

    Valuing All Families under the Law

    by Nancy D. Polikoff, Michael Bronski ...
    Series Book 3 - Queer Ideas/Queer Action
    The debate over marriage equality for same-sex couples rages across the country. Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage boldly moves the discussion forward by focusing on the larger, more fundamental issue of marriage and the law. The root problem, asserts law professor and LGBT rights activist Nancy Polikoff, is that marriage is a bright dividing line between those relationships that legally matter ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Bedside Manners

    Play and Workbook

    by Suzanne Gordon, Lisa Hayes, Scott Reeves ...
    Series series The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
    In recent years, there has been growing awareness of the need for interprofessional cooperation in healthcare. Countless studies have shown that genuine teamwork and team intelligence are critical to patient safety. Poor communication among health care personnel is a major factor in hospital errors, even more so than the level of staff competence and experience. This is why many schools for health ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • Tackling Addiction

    Pathways to Recovery

    by George De Leon, David Best, Wendy Dawson, Brian Kidd, Tim McSweeney, Mark Gilman, Alex Stevens, Betsy Thom, Albert Zandvoort, Kuladharini ...
    The issue of 'recovery' has been increasingly prioritised by policymakers in recent years, but the meaning of the concept remains ambiguous. This edited collection brings together the thoughts and experiences of researchers, practitioners and service users from the fields of health, addiction and criminal justice and centres on current developments in addiction policy and practice.Tackling ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Health Communication

    Strategies for Developing Global Health Programs

    Edited by Do Kyun Kim, Arvind Singhal, Gary L. Kreps ...
    Series Book 5 - Health Communication
    Promotion of healthy behaviors and prevention of disease are inextricably linked to cultural understandings of health and well-being. Health communication scholarship and practice can substantially and strategically contribute to people living safer, healthier, and happier lives. This book represents a concrete step in that direction by establishing a strategic framework for guiding global and ... Read more

    $185.09 USD