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A Demographic Perspective on Gender, Family and Health in Europe

This open access book examines the triangle between family, gender, and health in Europe from a demographic perspective. ...

A History of Male Psychological Disorders in Britain, 1945–1980

This book is open access under a CC BY license and explores the under-researched history of male mental illness from the ...

Acne Vulgaris / Sima Suhail Makhzom ; Yaman Al-Homsi ; Adham Frhan

Acne vulgaris is a skin condition that occurs when your hair follicles become plugged with oil and dead skin cells. It causes ...

Affirmative Aesthetics and Wilful Women Gender, Space and Mobility in Contemporary Cinema

This book adopts a fluid approach to space designed to accommodate wilful, affirmative, and imaginative perspectives of ...

Anticipating and Preparing for Emerging Skills and Jobs Key Issues, Concerns, and Prospects

This book analyzes the main drivers that are influencing the dramatic evolution of work in Asia and the Pacific and identifies ...

Assessing Race, Ethnicity and Gender in Health

Where there are patients, clients, or study participants, there are data. And when data involve personal variables of race, ...

Belly-Rippers, Surgical Innovation and the Ovariotomy Controversy

This open access book looks at the dramatic history of ovariotomy, an operation to remove ovarian tumours first practiced ...

Bodily Integrity and the Politics of Circumcision

This book explores the problem of male and female circumcision in modern society from religious, anthropological, psychological, ...

Challenges and Negotiations for Women in Higher Education

There is much ambivalence in women’s experience of the academy as teachers and students. Although today many more women ...

Child Protection in England, 1960–2000

This open access book explores how children, parents, and survivors reshaped the politics of child protection in late twentieth-century ...

Chronic Diseases and Health Care

CHRONIC DISEASES AND HEALTH CARE: New Patterns of Diabetes, Arthritis, Osteoporosis, Fibromyalgia, Low Back Pain, Cardiovascular ...

Cognitive Aspects of Bilingualism

A unique feature of this book is that chapters favor that line of cognitive linguistics which makes a clear distinction between ...

Comparative Perspectives on Work-Life Balance and Gender Equality

This book portrays men’s experiences of home alone leave and how it affects their lives and family gender roles in different ...

Comparative and Global Pedagogies : Equity, Access and Democracy in Education

This book critically examines equality, equity and democracy in education, globally as well as from various perspectives. ...

Complicities : A theory for subjectivity in the psychological humanities

The book examines how we might develop a more socially just psychological theory and practice, which is both systems work ...

Comprehensive Occlusal Concepts in Clinical Practice / Irwin M. Becker

Aims to provide a clear and thorough guide to the understanding and application of occlusal concepts in the dental practice, ...

Cultural Heritage and Human Rights

The volume addresses a deeply political aspect of heritage preservation and management as it relates to human rights. Social ...

Depression in Latinos

In this concise yet comprehensive volume, leading clinicians, researchers, and academics offer extensive research and clinical ...

Development of breast cancer therapy and gender / Deema Darkal ; Bayan Aboulebadeh ; Hasnaa Qutait

Breast cancer is a disease in which abnormal cells in the breast tissues multiply and form an invasive (or malignant) tumor. ...

Development, Sexual Cultural Practices and HIV/AIDS in Africa

This book introduces the theoretical frameworks and academic debates concerning sexual cultural practices and HIV/AIDS in ...

Total Books: 1 - 20 /141