Preamble: ‘Look at me’ -- 1 Healthy Volunteering: The Concept of Volunteering in Phase I Clinical drug trials in the UK -- 2 Risk, Rewards and Rational Consent in Healthy Volunteering -- 3 Risk, Motivation and Decision Making in Everyday life: A Phenomenological Approach -- 4 Who takes part in clinical drug trials? -- 5 ‘Context is Everything’: - The Reality of Becoming a Human Guinea P…
1. Introduction -- 2. The landscape of elderly care and the proliferation of struggles -- 3. Theorizing elderly care -- 4. Silences that matter -- 5. Regulating care – and struggles about regulation -- 6. Conclusion: A new analytics for (elderly) care.This book provides a critical engagement with the intensified struggles to be found within elderly care provision. Various social and political…
Introduction: Human Dignity: Establishing Worth and Seeking Solutions -- Special Problems -- Chapter 1. Dignity and the Internet -- Chapter 2. Human Dignity in a World of Changing Climate -- Chapter 3. Dignity and Disability -- Chapter 4. Globalization and Human Rights -- Chapter 5. Fourth-Age Dignity -- Chapter 6. Dignity before the European Court of Human Rights -- Women and Children Issues -…
1. Introduction: Change and Continuity.- 2. UK Drug Policy -- 3. Local Impacts of Policy.- 4. The International Context.- 5. The Battle of Ideas -- 6. The Battle of Interests.- 7. Evidence and Policy.- 8. Politics and Drugs Policy in Britain.- 9. Conclusion: Conflict Resolution?.This book explores the complexities of drugs policy in Britain, contradicting the over simplified repres…
Introduction -- From “Blind Susan” to Incidents in the Life of a Blind Girl: How Mary L. Day Disabled Domesticity -- Crossing the Threshold: Disability and Modernist Housing -- The Largest Occupational Group of All the Disabled: Homemakers with Disabilities and Vocational Rehabilitation in Postwar America -- Rethinking the American Dream Home: The Disability Rights Movement and the Cult…
Introduction -- Socialist Medicine and Theories of Informal Payments -- Institutional Changes and the Power of Chinese Medical Professionals -- Health Reform and the Rise of Informal Payments after 1978 -- Transactions of Red Packets in the Hospital -- Rein in Red Packets -- Conclusion.This text addresses the key issue of informal payments, or ‘red packets’, in the Chinese Healthcare system…
1. Introduction -- Part I. Making Scientific and Medical Truths -- 2. Alzheimer’s in the Making -- 3. The Pharmaceuticalized Prostate -- 4. New Puberty; New Trans: Children, Pharmaceuticals and Politics -- Part II. Creating Subjectivities for “Patients” in Advertising -- 5. Prescribing Relational Subjectivities -- 6. You Will Protect Your Daughter, Right? -- Part III. Different HPV Vaccin…
Preface; José Casanova -- Part 1: Basics of Diffused Religion -- 1. The Theory of Diffused Religion -- 2. Socialization and Diffused Religion -- 3. Values and Global Society -- 4. Diffused Secular Religiosity -- 5. World Diffused Religions -- Part 2: Diffused Religion In Practice -- 6. Religion and Politics: A Peculiar Case -- 7. Religion and Values -- 8. Diffused Values -- 9. From Invisible R…
Introduction -- Precarity within Digital Media -- Precarity through Digital media.The book deals with precarity within the digital age and focuses on media change and social insecurity. Change arising from digital developments takes place on micro-, meso- and meta-levels and have always social implications. Concepts such as Social Media, eHealth and Digital Capitalism, Informational Capitalism …
1. Coffee and Death -- 2. Baby Boomers and the Death Café -- 3. Habermas’ Theory of Communicative Action and the Colonization of the Lifeworld -- 4. Death Café Communicative Action -- 5. Death Sentiments and Death Themes -- 6. Enhancing Habermas with Erich Fromm and Kurt Wolff -- 7. Enhancing Habermas with Ray Oldenburg -- 8. Decolonizing the Lifeworld.This sociological work examines the ph…