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Living Well with HIV: A Psychological Social Medical and Personal Guide aims to empower people living with HIV worldwide to thrive while addressing the critical need to reduce HIV stigma. It integrates the latest global research and experiences of people living with HIV, so that they and their partners, friends and families can face key HIV challenges with resilience and embrace strategies for living well.

Following an effective Q&A framework, the book summarises biomedical and psychological knowledge about the condition and its treatment and provides practical guidance on how to live with HIV. People living with HIV are at the heart of the book, within the authorship team, through personal testimonies from those with lived experience in different global regions, and in the person-centred content. The book contains chapters on HIV information, living with HIV, sharing an HIV status, sex and relationships, family and friends, treatment and care, and growing older with HIV. It offers support regardless of age, income level, sexuality or gender, whilst explicitly acknowledging the impact of intersectionality and systemic social inequalities.

Designed for people living with HIV, their loved ones, and healthcare professionals, this book serves as an invaluable resource for counsellors, mental health practitioners, and health and social care workers.

Despite governmental and international funding as well as numerous publications on health systems, questions remain. Joao Costa offers new insight into health systems thinking by emphasizing the social nature of health systems. He traces health systems back to their origins in Ancient Greece and investigates their development throughout history, focusing on the notion of systems' self-reference, a constitutive feature of social systems. The study is built on Luhmann's Social Systems Theory and his outline of health as social system. Valuable for health professionals, it discusses communication as lifeblood for making health systems self-referential.

Asserts how Black artists and activists developed a disability consciousness in response to racialized disabling experiences in the early to mid-twentieth century

Black Crip Modern uncovers how early twentieth-century Black writers, artists, and activists laid the groundwork for modern disability consciousness. Under Jim Crow, Black disabled citizens were excluded from social services and medical reforms, even as racist violence, carceral surveillance, eugenic logic, and exploitative labor conditions deepened disabling experiences. Through literature, film, photography, and personal testimony, Black modernists registered these compounded injustices and articulated new ways of thinking about illness, impairment, and care.

Engaging the work of figures such as Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay, Wallace Thurman, Pauli Murray, Langston Hughes and Marita Bonner, Jess Waggoner traces how Black cultural production challenged both white supremacy and ableist ideals of progress. In their writing, Waggoner finds an early "Black crip modern" consciousness - one that rejected eugenic reform, critiqued racialized caregiving hierarchies, and envisioned collective care grounded in feminist and anti-carceral principles.

In conversation with contemporary disability justice movements, Black Crip Modern reveals how Black thinkers and artists forged a disability politics before it was formally named. By assembling these overlooked histories of Black ill and disabled life, Waggoner reframes the foundations of disability studies and insists that Black cultural production has always been central to the struggle for bodily autonomy, access, and justice.

The Next Healthcare Leader is a career guide designed to help students, early-career professionals, professionals looking to advance in their careers, and those new to the field of healthcare administration navigate their first decade in the field with purpose, confidence, and clarity. Drawing from over two decades of executive leadership and academic experience, this book delivers 50 short, actionable lessons rooted in real-world mentorship, practical insight, and a value-driven approach to building a successful healthcare leadership career.

Unlike dense textbooks or technical manuals, this book is conversational, reflective, and designed to meet readers where they are-often overwhelmed, uncertain, and searching for direction in a fast-changing industry. It speaks directly to the questions, missteps, and growth opportunities students and professionals face, helping them move from uncertainty to confidence as they explore, enter, and grow within the healthcare sector.

The book is organized in 50 self-contained lessons across five broad themes: Understanding the Landscape, Building a Career Foundation, Growing as a Professional, Leading with Intention, Shaping a Career with Purpose. Each chapter can be read independently or sequentially, making the book suitable for classroom adoption, career development programming, or individual use. The book's voice is grounded, encouraging, and honest, offering not just strategies for success, but also guidance for overcoming fear, failure, and burnout.

How longer lives, greater prosperity, and policy shifts are reshaping aging and retirement

Once considered a period of frailty and physical decline, aging and retirement have transformed into a chapter of continued vitality and growth for many Americans. Indeed, medical advancements and government policies have opened opportunities for people to live longer and healthier lives.

Written from the perspective of a retired historian, On Retirement reveals how and why retirement, aging, and longevity have emerged as prominent issues in the United States. David Horowitz assesses the factors that have shaped these discussions, from dramatic increases in life expectancy to shifting government policies. He explores how writers and entrepreneurs have seen and promoted long lives through movies, print and new media, senior housing, how-to books, and aging organizations. While popular media often enforces self-governance narratives to achieve a "successful" retirement, Daniel Horowitz examines how this success is often only accessible through expensive and time-consuming avenues. Moreover, he assesses the socioeconomic and existential challenges most Americans encounter as they age, shaping the choices available to them post-retirement.

Ultimately, Horowitz shows that popular "self-help" perspectives on longevity have failed to account for how dramatic inequalities shape American experiences with retirement. Providing an expansive look into the history of retirement and seniors' profound fears surrounding finance, health, and longevity, On Retirement examines the changing demographics that have allowed people to live longer and healthier lives and offers a critical assessment of popular retirement advice.

As the first of two companion volumes, this book provides a comprehensive collection of applied linguistics studies on health inclusivity, showcasing empirical research and methodological insights on different languages such as British Sign Language, Chinese, Danish, English, German, Japanese, and Spanish.

The volume presents studies on health inclusivity based on first-hand patient experiences and explores the representation of health and illness across scientific, institutional, and media discourses. It features a wide range of linguistic methodologies and frameworks such as qualitative discourse studies, corpus-based discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, public involvement, narrative analysis, and metaphor analysis, as applied to a variety of contexts and communities. Integrating examples of projects and campaigns that promote inclusive healthcare, the chapters discuss potential practical implications and offer recommendations for applications to Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI).

This is an essential resource for academics working in linguistics and discourse studies applied to healthcare, as well as students seeking deeper insights into how health communication, sociology, and health and social care workers can inform institutional practices and shape policy discussions, and broaden social perspectives of health inclusivity across a global scale.

This textbook provides a holistic understanding of health and wellbeing through multicultural concepts and practices in the field. It presents theoretical insights and empirical evidence from both Western and Indian perspectives to uncover various components of health and wellbeing.

This volume elucidates the nature and historical framework of psychological wellbeing, including theoretical foundations, research progress, and examples to provide a better understanding of psychological impacts on health and wellbeing. It emphasizes the need to develop cultural sensitivity to enhance health and wellbeing across cultures and how culture offers pathways to understand ill health and to develop interventions to deal with health issues appropriately. The updated literature review will provide the reader with an insight into the important role that culture plays in the maintenance and sustainability of health and wellbeing.

The use of robust pedagogical features makes this textbook an invaluable companion for students of psychology, social work, public health, and social economics. It will also serve the requirements of students of other behavioral sciences, nursing, healthcare workers, counsellors, social workers, and policymakers across a range of disciplines.

This volume offers an initial articulation of radical, ethical social work as a socially transformative response to societal divisions and polarisation.

The contributors conceptualise this interstitial space of the radical and ethical as acutely sensitive to power relations, systemic harms, and diverse epistemologies and ontologies while being relational, contextual, compassionate, and informed by oppositional consciousness and revolutionary hope. The 30 chapters are spread across three sections: Theorizing Radical, Ethical Social Work; Academic Contexts; and Practical Contexts. In disrupting assumed positions and orthodoxies and making visible tensions and contradictions in contemporary social work, this book suggests greater complexity, nuance, and possibility, whilst promoting novel, unique social work responses and dialogue.

Presenting a new politics of social work, this Handbook will motivate social work scholars, educators, practitioners, students, and policy makers towards complex, critical, relevant, transformative, socially just, decolonised, ethical social work engagement.

This book explores the critical intersection of contemporary livestock production and some of today's most urgent challenges: the spread of emerging infectious diseases, the sustainability of food systems, and the contested promises of One Health.

It provides insights that cut across disciplines and geographies, from both the social and the natural sciences, reflecting the interdisciplinary aspirations of One Health. Yet, in foregrounding especially cutting edge contributions from ecology and the social sciences, this book addresses the persistent knowledge gap from these fields, which have frequently been neglected in favor of the veterinary sciences. By including contributions from across these fields, the book broadens and critically deepen the conversation around One Health.

The book is intended for a wide interdisciplinary audience of scholars, students, and practitioners concerned with livestock production, public health, and the future of food systems.

An Introduction to Global Community Health Psychology: Applications at the Intersection of Health Psychology and Public Health is a groundbreaking textbook that bridges public health and psychological science, synthesizing theory, research, and practice from a truly global perspective. Moving beyond Western-centric approaches, it incorporates diverse cultural contexts, indigenous knowledge systems, and international case studies.

Adopting a socioecological framework, this book prioritizes cultural humility, contextual sensitivity, and equity throughout its examination of health challenges. Core domains include health promotion, behavior change, health disparities, mental health, addiction, chronic disease management, and emerging areas such as artificial intelligence, digital health, and the psychological impacts of climate change and pandemics.

As a foundational text for community health psychology, it provides students, practitioners, and policymakers with theoretical foundations, empirical evidence, practical applications, and ethical guidance to address complex global health challenges.

Reproductive Boundaries examines the shifting boundaries of prenatal care in Switzerland, focusing on the Pregnancy Support Center's innovative psychosocial model. By redefining the territory of care, the Center extends its reach beyond the medical domain, exemplifying the reproductivization of life, the increasing organization of various life aspects through a reproductive lens. The book explores how this approach challenges traditional borders between medical and psychosocial care, offering an alternative to Switzerland's heavily medicalized reproductive care. Through ethnographic insights into reproductive talk, it reveals how psychosocial advisors shift the boundaries of reproductive care, balancing support with broader state goals of reproductive governance. Set against Switzerland's history of stratified reproductive policies, the study critically examines how psychosocial care reshapes the landscape of pregnancy, raising questions about surveillance and evolving gender roles. This thought-provoking work invites readers to reconsider the limits and possibilities of care in a fragmented society.

This book is also freely available online as an open access digital edition.

Translating the Language of the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Primer is an essential primer for translators, offering a comprehensive exploration of the terminology and language that shaped the global response to an unprecedented crisis. Divided into three insightful chapters, the book delves into the linguistic and technological dimensions of the pandemic.

The first chapter, The outbreak, explores key pandemic terms like shelter-in-place, the new normal, and flattening the curve, reflecting societal events during the crisis. The second chapter, Migration online, examines the pandemic's impact on education and the arts, highlighting their transition to virtual platforms. The third chapter, Fire of genius, fuel of survival-inspired by Abraham Lincoln's Lecture on Discoveries and Inventions-showcases global innovations that mitigated the pandemic's effects and analyzes the vaccine rollout, covering its successes and challenges. The book includes an English-French glossary of 1,500 pandemic-related terms, covering scientific and everyday language, along with appendices listing patents and links to virtual performances. A detailed index ensures easy navigation of topics. This comprehensive resource serves as both a primer for translators on the language that defined the COVID-19 pandemic and a reader-friendly presentation of international mitigation technologies and innovations.

This book provides a research-supported retrospective analysis with enduring relevance and features a bilingual compendium of pandemic terminology with potential for expansion into additional languages. It is an invaluable resource for translators, linguists, and researchers seeking to understand the intersection of language, technology, and human resilience during one of the most challenging periods in modern history.

Health care workers are burned out. Health care leaders know that workers are burned out but do not yet have the right tools to fix the problem. Called to Care? argues that we can mitigate burnout by examining what is most meaningful about health care work. Using interviews and observation of a wide range of health care workers, Cain shows that workers who care for our most vulnerable adults find their work to be meaningful when they are able to connect to the work and make progress on something that matters. In most cases, these meaningful experiences are also consistent with better care for patients. And yet organizational practices, policy environments, and cultural meanings get in the way of meaningful work, creating burnout. But it doesn't have to be this way. Called to Care? illustrates that workplaces can and should align meaningful work experiences with quality care for patients.

Emotional intelligence is a critical skill set that enhances therapeutic relationships, fosters resilience, and improves patient outcomes. This practical book introduces the latest research and links it to health and social care practice, equipping readers with the tools needed to navigate the emotional complexities of care.

Health and social care practitioners frequently engage with individuals in distress, requiring them to interpret nonverbal cues, manage challenging behaviours, and respond with empathy. These abilities, all rooted in emotional intelligence, are essential for fostering meaningful therapeutic relationships and improving patient outcomes. Providing a blend of theory, research, and real-world applications, this book introduces the concept of emotional intelligence and explores how it can support effective communication, clinical decision-making, crisis de-escalation, and trauma-informed care. With contributions from leading experts, it integrates evidence-based strategies, reflective exercises, and case studies to support the cultivation of self-awareness, empathy, and resilience.

Focusing on the role of emotional intelligence in both patient care and practitioner well-being, this book empowers readers to harness emotional intelligence as a transformative force in their practice and career growth. It is an essential resource for students and professionals across mental health, nursing, social work, and allied health.

Tells the history of St. Vincent's Hospital and the transformative impact of Catholic health care in New York City.

St. Vincent's Hospital began with a simple, but radical mission: to care for all those in need regardless of race, creed, or financial means. For more than 160 years, the hospital carried out that work, serving notables and the nameless alike, from impoverished immigrants and those stricken by devastating nineteenth-century epidemics to AIDS patients and the victims of the attacks of 9/11.

A Monument of Charity provides the first comprehensive history of this remarkable institution, from its humble beginnings in 1849 to its abrupt closure in 2010. Located in the heart of Greenwich Village, St. Vincent's earned distinction not only for the quality of its medical programs, but also for its unwavering dedication to the poor. The hospital was a testament to the vision and labor of the Sisters of Charity, who founded, staffed, and administered the hospital with remarkable skill and devotion.

This captivating account documents St. Vincent's growth into one of the largest and most prominent Catholic medical centers in the United States, as well as its struggles to sustain its religious mission within the ever-changing and increasingly competitive medical marketplace. A Monument to Charity highlights the immense contributions of Catholic sisters to health care in the United States as well as the enduring legacy of all those who worked alongside them to care for the sick and alleviate suffering.

We are living in a period of global volatility in which intersecting crises are combining with devastating impacts for people already living in and near poverty. This book carefully examines the dynamics of these crises and challenges us to find new ways forward for policies and programming that more effectively meet the needs of the world's most vulnerable populations.

The book highlights lived experiences of those who are impacted most by poverty amidst intersecting crises-namely climate-related disasters, violent conflict and economic instability- drawing on the author's 15 years of experience in sub-Saharan Africa and South and Southeast Asia. It examines chronic poverty amidst intersecting crises, highlighting how new impoverishment may emerge, and even surprisingly how some people manage to escape or remain out of poverty in these contexts. It offers a multi-scalar, dynamic investigation of poverty and intersecting crises to identify ways forward for policies and programming.

It is an essential read for practitioners working on poverty and inequality reduction in low- and middle-income countries, as well as for researchers and students of global development, environmental and peace studies, and economics, public policy, and sociology more broadly.

This book clarifies the differing roles of informed consent in healthcare as well as the guidelines, rules, and laws governing consent. The growing use of AI in health care has led to open questions about disclosure to the public as well as to healthcare consumers. There is no universal right to know whether or how AI is used in health care. The traditional right to informed consent requires disclosure of information, often based on what a reasonable person would use to make healthcare decisions, such as the risk of debilitating side effects. The system of informed consent as disclosure, understanding, and acquiescence as commonly used in patient care differs from the informed consent to release one's data, which is governed by a web of privacy laws. Furthermore, disclosure of the role of AI in drug discovery or in medical records brings different concerns for which the traditional patient-centered informed consent is insufficient or inapplicable. It may be ethically satisfactory to disclose the use of AI for the sake of transparency when the use of AI is unlikely to be considered in the healthcare consumer's decision making. By providing a simple explainer of medical AI, a brief history of informed consent, and arguments for the use of informed consent and against it, this book recommends using informed consent in health care, especially when a clinician is likely to unduly rely on an AI tool that poses risk. This book explores what healthcare consumers and the public should know and why. It is of interest to scholars and professionals navigating the growing use of AI in healthcare.

This is the first book to examine the rising use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Big Data in military and humanitarian healthcare, including the use of AI for diagnostic assistants, robotic surgery, and the general practice of medicine itself. Although AI and Big Data may simplify and improve a wide range of healthcare processes and procedures in very difficult situations, their use also raises a number of significant ethical challenges and dilemmas. These challenges are addressed for the first time in the contributions of this book, which derive from a wide-ranging and interdisciplinary forum on the topic held at Jongny, Switzerland in June 2024. The resulting volume offers the first and most authoritative examination of the use of AI for military and humanitarian healthcare. It also addresses resulting questions about leadership, values, and fundamental epistemological questions concerning AI. This volume is of interest to healthcare professionals, officers in the military, humanitarian aid workers, researchers, policymakers, and advanced students in the fields of medical ethics, military ethics, artificial intelligence, and the ethics of technology.

This book explores justice as both a philosophical concept and a measurable social indicator for evaluating quality of life. It offers an original framework that integrates ethical theory with empirical applications in public policy, especially in sectors such as health, education, and the environment.

Rooted in the rich traditions of moral and political philosophy, the book redefines justice as a central dimension of human well-being-one that can be both conceptually coherent and practically assessed. Through a critical engagement with classical thinkers, contemporary theories, and applied case studies, the book presents a justice-centered alternative to existing models based on utility, capabilities, or economic welfare. Each chapter bridges abstract principles with real-world implications, offering insights into how justice can be integrated into policy design, performance evaluation, and development agendas. The author challenges the prevailing fragmentation between normative theory and social indicators, proposing a unifying approach that enriches both. This book is essential reading for scholars in philosophy, sociology, development studies, and public policy, as well as for practitioners interested in embedding ethical considerations into social measurement and decision-making. By foregrounding justice as both an end and a means, this book opens new pathways toward a more equitable and reflective approach to quality of life.

This book will be of interest to scholars and researchers focusing on the intersections of gender, work, the economy, poverty, and rurality, particularly in western Africa.

This book systematically constructs a complete knowledge system for the design of aging-friendly services. It begins with an analysis of global aging trends, examining the challenges and opportunities faced today, clarifying the necessity and strategic significance of designing for the elderly, and providing detailed interpretations of relevant policies, regulations, and data security requirements. At the theoretical level, the book delves into the physiological and psychological characteristics of the elderly population, including physical function decline, cognitive ability changes, and psychological needs characteristics, providing a scientific basis for design practice. It also emphasizes key principles such as universal design and barrier-free design, highlighting the humanistic care and ethical considerations in design. In terms of practical application, the book offers systematic methods for user needs research, as well as specific implementation plans for interface design and interaction optimization. It pays special attention to key elements such as visual presentation and operational procedures, effectively enhancing the user experience for elderly users. Finally, the book prospectively explores the application prospects of intelligent technology in aging-friendly services, including innovative solutions such as the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence, pointing out the direction for the intelligent development of aging-friendly services. The book combines theory with practice, providing comprehensive guidance for building a humanized and intelligent aging-friendly service system.

Experiences of not understanding and not being understood during interactions are a pervasive aspect of life for many deaf people, so ensuring understanding becomes a moral imperative in deaf worlds and part of deaf ontologies. Through a series of linked applied linguistics studies regarding the primacy of text, signing songs, the mediation practices of deaf interpreters and Caribbean deaf epistemologies of language and understanding, this book outlines theoretical and methodological approaches to analyzing deaf people's experiences of understanding and being understood. These are grounded in a Continental philosophy of language and qualitative methods including autoethnography, interpretative interviews and phenomenology. The book explores issues surrounding linguistic and semiotic repertoires; access and affordances; orientation, sociality and power; and mediated communication. Ultimately, it reveals both the workings of epistemic injustice related to deaf signers and ways of understanding and being understood that extend beyond named languages.

A sweeping analysis uncovers the causes of-and solutions to-one of the most daunting public health challenges facing the world today: antibiotic resistance exploding in India.

The discovery of antibiotics was one of the most significant medical breakthroughs of the twentieth century, dramatically increasing human lifespans. Yet today, with antibiotic-resistant superbugs implicated in as many deaths as HIV/AIDS and malaria combined, the limits of these miracle drugs have become alarmingly clear.

At ground zero of the growing crisis is India, one of the world's largest consumers of antibiotics and a powerhouse in pharmaceutical manufacturing. In A World of Resistance, Assa Doron and Alex Broom draw on years of fieldwork in hospitals, in pharmacies, and on factory farms to examine the enormous social and environmental costs of overreliance on antibiotics. They show how an overtaxed healthcare system with limited oversight, widespread use of antibiotics in industrial agriculture, and the incessant dumping of pharmaceutical waste into waterways have created the ideal conditions for antibiotic-resistant microbes to grow.

As resistance spreads across India and beyond, Doron and Broom argue that the solution isn't to restrict access to antibiotics but to embrace forms of health education, indigenous practices, and policies grounded in social solidarity. Only then, the authors contend, is it possible to turn the page on India's precarious relationship with antibiotics and to address resistance globally-before it is too late.