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In an era where cancer care is rapidly evolving, there is a growing recognition that healing extends beyond physical treatment to include psychological directions and spiritual wellbeing. This book "Spiritual and Positive Psychological Aspects of Cancer Treatment" is an integrative view of the role of inner factors like faith, hope, resilience, and meaning-making in improving coping, emotional balance, and overall quality of life in cancer patients and survivors.

This book combines academic wisdom on such important positive psychological concepts as mindfulness, gratitude, compassion, humour, and post-traumatic growth, as well as cultural, holistic, and integrated care. The book is intended to be used by researchers, academicians, clinicians, and students, and it bridges the gap between theory and practice and opens new directions in interdisciplinary research and patient-centred, integrated care of cancer patients.

This second edition of the highly successful handbook builds on the first by offering a comprehensive, engaging, and up-to-date treatment of developments within the field of the sociology of aging. Beyond presenting an overview and update of foundational matters like advancements in theory and methodology, this edition addresses cutting-edge topics not covered in the first edition. These encompass intersectionality, sexuality, dementia, kinless aging, online social connectedness, grandparenting, death and dying, older adults in the workplace, politics, and the criminal justice system. It also considers aging in the context of crises, highlighting how the recent COVID-19 pandemic and environmental risks intersect with age-related policy, care, and inequality. This edition also extends the handbook's global reach, featuring 13 chapters with contributing authors based outside the United States.

Including chapters from both established and emerging scholars, this handbook is the go-to reference for students, scholars, and practitioners interested in the implications of aging for individuals, families, and societies.

This open access book from the Migration and Food Security (MiFOOD) Network addresses food security, health, and wellbeing among migrants and refugees who faced heightened vulnerability during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through a blend of survey data, personal narratives, and compelling images, it illustrates the consequences of the pandemic for migrants and refugees from Afghanistan, the DRC, Ghana, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe, living in the destination countries of Canada, South Africa, Ecuador, and Qatar. The contributors focus on four themes: the food security and health implications of public health responses to COVID-19; the impact of these measures on marginalised refugees and migrants in urban settings; gender differences in accessing food and food-related programs; and key policy lessons for vulnerable populations in times of crisis. This book will be useful to academics, students, and stakeholders engaged with migrant and refugee communities, as well as policymakers seeking actionable insights. While focused on COVID-19, its insights are relevant for future public health emergencies.

The history of nursing has been dominated by scholarship which is either national in scope or largely London-centric in its focus. There has been little analysis of the developments in the nursing profession within provincial England. To redress the balance, this book seeks to provide the first history of nurses and nursing in the locality of Nottinghamshire. By taking a local history approach, this book provides a more nuanced account of how nursing developed and changed during the period 1830 to 1948. Its focus on the provincial demonstrates how the uniqueness of place supplies new insights into nursing history. For example, the book challenges the dominant narrative that nursing reform was initiated by Florence Nightingale, by showing how reform was well established in the Voluntary Hospital sector before 1860. In addition, the presence of a well-organised provincial campaign base for nurse registration in Nottinghamshire runs contrary to the traditional view that this was London-centric. Crucially, the book takes a comparative approach, situating nursing in Nottinghamshire within the context of national and international events, organisations, and movements.

In this book, scholars from various fields share their insights into the role of communication in combating the American opioid crisis. The introduction provides an overview of the development of the crisis followed by a discussion of the role of communication in fighting the crisis. Part I of the book (Chapters 2-5) addresses how the language used to frame chronic pain, opioid use disorder (OUD) and the opioid crisis by the media, healthcare professionals and the public has facilitated the formation of stigmas associated with OUD and individuals with OUD and what can be done to change it. Part II of the book (Chapters 6-8) focuses on how communication can help prevent opioid misuse. Chapters 6 and 7 discuss strategies that may be used to create effective anti-opioid campaigns. Chapter 8 explores the role that academic detailing (AD) plays in improving health care providers' compliance with the CDC's guidelines for prescribing opioids and strategies for increasing the effectiveness of AD. Part III of the book (Chapters 9-10) explains how to use communication to improve OUD treatment and support individuals with OUD. Chapter 9 highlights the importance of patient-centered communication and patient navigators to OUD treatment. Chapter 10 analyzes the self-help program for individuals with OUD utilized by Narcotics Anonymous and offers suggestions for improvement. In conclusion, this book demonstrates that communication can help end the American opioid crisis by promoting prevention, removing barriers (e.g., stigmas), and improving treatment and support for individuals with OUD. The insights offered in this book will appeal to diverse readers including students of communication, persuasion and psychology, and health science; as well as campaign designers, healthcare providers, journalists, policy makers, social workers and the general public

Medical Critical Theory introduces an interdisciplinary framework for understanding how illness experience and social suffering intersect in late modern societies. Drawing on critical theory, medical phenomenology, phenomenological psychopathology, and social epidemiology, Domonkos Sik examines how structural distortions shape mental health and physical illness, and how these insights can inform emancipatory praxis.

The book argues that contemporary critical theory has lost touch with pressing social pathologies, while phenomenological approaches remain overly individualistic. It bridges these gaps by synthesizing phenomenological accounts of illness with Frankfurt School traditions, offering a grounded and practical concept of social pathology informed by phenomenological perspectives on lived experience.

Through detailed case studies of psychosis, depression, asthma, hypertension, and lung cancer, the book demonstrates how hostile, instrumentalizing, and disruptive intersubjectivities affect health outcomes. It also proposes practical strategies for mental health activism and social change, including medico-social forms of solidarity, illness communities, and a reworked Stoic ethic to counter activist fatigue.

This volume will appeal to scholars and researchers in critical theory, philosophy, medical humanities, medical sociology, and disability studies, as well as those interested in the phenomenology of illness, mental health policy, and the politics of medicalization.

This Open Access book argues for a more prominent position on political and policy agendas for European population ageing. In the coming two decades, ageing populations will put significant pressure on pension systems, budgets, and economies in the European Union. Increasingly close integration between EU member states through political ties, trade and a common currency, means ageing in one country will have a direct impact on other member states. The book sketches four potential risks with cross-border implications: economic stagnation within the EU, high national debts and divergence, upward pressure on inflation, and socio-political tension within and between member states. In the report European Aging in Focus. Dealing with Pension and Budgetary Risks, the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR) outlines three policy directions to anticipate and mitigate these risks: anticipate an ageing European Union and prepare society for it; steer at the EU level towards ageing-resilient socio-economic and pension policies; and protect at the national level against potential negative consequences of European ageing. While this book has a specific focus on the position of the Netherlands within an ageing Europe, it is of interest to policy makers and researchers across Europe interested in population ageing, associated pension and budgetary risks, and particularly in potential effects of these risks across national borders.

This book explores the intricate relationship between age and online communication, offering a comprehensive analysis of how aging influences consumer responses to digital information. As the global population ages, understanding these dynamics is crucial for marketers and researchers alike. Covering key concepts such as older consumers' trust in online reviews, their purchasing preferences, and their responses to corporate sustainability messages, the book adds a novel perspective to a field dominated by research into younger consumers. Through empirical studies, the authors provide actionable insights for communication specialists, highlighting the importance of tailoring strategies to different age groups. This book is a must-read for those seeking to enhance their understanding of consumer behavior in the digital age.

This volume provides an essential analysis of older adults and representations of ageing in Asia. The collection focuses on increasing age disparities in many Asian societies, the ways in which they are represented historically and into the new millennium in Asian and global multimedia, and the effects such changes have on the societies in which they are taking place. Featuring texts and visual content from and about the Asian diaspora, Bangladesh, China, Japan, Malaysia, South Korea, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam, Volume I of this collection pays particular attention to the manifest ways in which age and national concerns and directives are linked, to the social and economic effects for super-ageing societies, to gender considerations in the representation of older adults, and to the ramifications of changing perceptions of ageing and older adults for future generations. How have traditional perceptions and contemporary transitions been represented, encouraged, or resisted in the multiple platforms of media, from film, literature, and digital streaming services to gaming, graphic fiction, news websites, print media, and advertising? Individually and collectively, these essays examine current perceptions of older adults in an Asian context and the directions that these may take into the 21st century.

Despair is one of the most substantial health concerns of the twenty-first century, as the number of suffering persons around the globe rises exponentially. This book contends that widespread despair is a direct product of disconnections which are facilitated by crises of care across our societies. We develop and apply the care disconnection framework to explain how humans are dependent across their lives, how responsibilities emerge from specific relationships grounded in dependency, and how psychological attachments support need fulfillment. More importantly, the framework reveals how despair ensues from disruptions in these processes. Using insights from philosophical, psychological, sociological, and neuroscientific work on the subject of despair, this book provides an interdisciplinary analysis of connection across the crises of our time - the polarization of our political communities, the instability of economic opportunities and resources, the steady collapse of natural environments, the migration to addictive technology for social interaction, the insecurity of faith and spirituality across generations and places, and the deficiencies of modern mental health care systems. Caring With Despair is a restorative project in the face of crises: a way of identifying disruptions, rebuilding connections, and pointing towards conditions of shared flourishing. To care with despair requires an honest acknowledgment of what has been broken, a steady reconstitution of what has been lost, and a persistent development of the relational arrangements which make a good life possible for more persons in more places. To this end, this book extends an invitation to examine despair as a disorder of our social systems and our ability to connect, rather than as the private dysfunction of suffering individuals.

This volume examines the role of faith-based organizations in providing social support within secular welfare states, with a particular focus on Western Catholic-majority countries. Drawing from historical and contemporary perspectives, the book explores the tensions and synergies between religiously inspired solidarity practices and secular welfare regimes. By addressing these dynamics through an interdisciplinary lens, the volume offers fresh insights into how religious solidarity adapts and persists in post-secular, ethnically and culturally diverse, and crisis-affected societies.

Details how the research backing the increasing number of medical products that Americans rely upon has been impacted by widespread industry influence and public policy failure.

Industry controls the agenda and conduct for the vast majority of medical research in the U.S., biasing the information available to doctors, patients, and policymakers so that they disproportionately reflect the interests of pharmaceutical and medical device companies. While it is important for a stable society that the general public trusts the institutions which guard their health, it is vital that such institutions are worthy of trust. Thus, this book examines the current state of medical knowledge to determine the question facing Americans: should we trust our medical and public health institutions?

Unreliable exposes how pharmaceutical and medical device companies have impacted the American healthcare system, making doctors and patients alike rely on untrustworthy information. This influence involves opaqueness and poor practices in clinical trials, financial ties to key medical institutions, and the regulatory capture of the FDA. This book provides concrete, specific policy solutions to empower Americans to trust public health and medical institutions.

Chapters assess current and historical overt and covert racism in healthcare, going beyond individual prejudice to examine how discrimination is built into organisational frameworks, health research and market regulations. Employing empirical, theoretical and practice-oriented research, contributors cover diverse fields such as elder care, sexual health services and pharmaceutical regulation. They also consider emergent debates around anticolonial work in education and community engagement. In documenting and interrogating racism in health, this Handbook contributes towards the development of a sustainable anti-racist and decolonial practice.

The Handbook of Racism, Ethnicity and Health is a key resource for scholars and students across the social sciences, especially critical health studies and critical race studies. By illustrating how racism takes place in care, educational and market settings the Handbook is of interest for healthcare policy makers and practitioners.

This timely volume explores the close relationship television has always had with the National Health Service. Taking a chronological approach to examine the multiple ways in which TV has presented the NHS since the 1950s, the chapters delve into key moments in television history and how they reflect and shape our view of public health.

These chapters span the key moments in television history that deal with this subject in many forms, from the 1960s soap opera to the 1970s hospital comedy, to the cosy 'NHS as heritage' offered by Call the Midwife, via the melodrama of shows like Casualty and the gothic hospital dramas of Jed Mercurio. Beginning with the early dramatisations of the NHS wards, which reflected storylines that combined romance, illness, and sometimes death, the book then shows how, over the years, the depiction of NHS doctors, nurses, and other staff as heroic and romantic has been countered with dramatisations of the impact of austerity cuts, hospital mergers, and competition from the private sector.

This book will interest students and scholars of television and media studies, the history of television, the medical humanities, cultural studies, gender studies, and the growing area of narrative medicine.

The chapters illustrate how older people negotiate urban change, highlighting inequalities which can limit access to the benefits of urban neighbourhoods, and demonstrate how individuals employ strategies of resistance to overcome challenges. The book makes the case for a new generation of community studies focusing on the impact of changing lifestyles at local as well as at societal levels.

Rethinking Community is a vital resource for scholars and students in the social sciences and related disciplines, including sociology, social gerontology, geography, social anthropology and urban studies. Professionals in urban planning and architecture alongside voluntary and third sector workers in social policy and social work will also benefit from its many practical insights.

Opening with a stocktake of the institutional and organizational architecture of healthcare systems across the EU member states, the Handbook provides a thorough analysis of the Europeanisation of healthcare - its instruments, governance structures and outcomes. The volume reaches well beyond European public policy to engage with the legal, economic, philosophical and societal dimensions of EU health policymaking. Contributors trace the historical development of EU health policy, including the ongoing debates around the 2028-2034 multi-annual financial framework, and offer a multidisciplinary and forward-looking perspective on topics such as pharmaceuticals, digital health and the transformative role of AI in healthcare.

Students and scholars of health policy and economics, European public policy, European integration, legal studies and medicine will find in this Handbook a uniquely comprehensive resource. It is equally essential reading for health policymakers and healthcare professionals seeking a deeper understanding of the regulatory forces shaping their work.

Advancing a new social science-based approach to the welfare state, this book puts forward a systematic understanding of public procurement that brings together perspectives from legal, public administration, sociological, and policy studies.

Public Procurement and the Welfare State offers fresh insight into an important, complex, and interconnected activity of the welfare state and proposes a framework for exploring, understanding, and analysing this important area of state activity. Detailing the multi-faceted nature of public procurement processes that are essential for safeguarding vital services, constructing and maintaining infrastructure, and supplying the public sector, E.K. Sarter examines public procurement as a technical tool for safeguarding the availability of goods, works, and services, a social and political act, a policy tool, and a space for negotiation. This volume showcases the multi-faceted nature of public procurement and highlights the importance of decision-making processes and power relations that underly and for shape public spending decisions and processes, and thereby outcomes.

Offering a timely and holistic framework for understanding public spending that can be put in the service of equality, this is essential reading for students and scholars of sociology, political science, welfare state studies, public and social policy, public administration, economic justice, social innovation, and feminist economics.

Examining poverty, inequality, and marginalization across diverse global contexts, this volume provides evidence-based analysis of COVID-19's profound impact on economic, political, and social structures worldwide, offering critical insights into post-pandemic recovery strategies.

Through ten comprehensive case studies spanning Asia, Africa, Latin America, and North America, contributors explore pressing issues including maternal health inequities through caste lenses in India, protective environments for street children in the Democratic Republic of Congo, resilience among homeless Filipino youth, marginalized communities in Southern African cities, poverty trajectories in Ghana, digital divides in Peru, diaspora consolidation among Haitian-Americans in New York, indigenous empowerment in Indonesia, and social amelioration programs in the Philippines. Each chapter delivers actionable recommendations grounded in local realities while addressing global challenges of rising inequality, social unrest, and economic disruption. The volume demonstrates how COVID-19 has exacerbated existing disparities while revealing pathways toward more equitable recovery.

This book is essential reading for policymakers, social work practitioners, development professionals, researchers, and students seeking to understand and address poverty, inequality, and marginalization in the post-pandemic era. Directly aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals-particularly SDG 1 (No Poverty), SDG 2 (Zero Hunger), and SDG 10 (Reduced Inequalities)-the content serves undergraduate and postgraduate courses in social work, social welfare, social development, sociology, public health, and related disciplines, as well as specialized courses and electives on SDGs offered globally.

What is 'good' healthcare? Can we define and deliver it, or will we simply make things better for some people and worse for others?

Bringing together the fields of philosophy and healthcare, this open access book provides a much needed framework for understanding and navigating the conceptual and ethical issues at the heart of healthcare improvement.

This accessible text reveals the contribution philosophy can make to the provision of quality healthcare, combining theory and practice with a wide range of case studies, such as urban poverty screening in US primary care and UK concerns to underpin anti-racist practice.

Throughout, the authors advocate 'pragmatic pluralism', emphasizing compassion, social justice and practical wisdom alongside techniques, measures and outcomes. Across public policy, bioethics, healthcare management, social sciences and beyond, it is a must-read for students, scholars and
practitioners alike.

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The Social Security Handbook: Overview of Social Security Programs provides information about Social Security programs and services, and identifies rights and obligations under the Social Security laws. This completely updated Handbook, organized by section number, is a readable, easy-to-understand reference for comprehending complex Social Security programs and services and contains information on several topics relevant to Social Security policies:

?How Social Security programs are administered
?Who is and isn't covered under retirement, survivors, disability, and hospital insurance programs
?Who is responsible for submitting the necessary evidence to support a claim
?How claims are processed by the Social Security office
?What Social Security benefits are owed to you
?How to obtain information about your rights under Social Security policy

The Handbook is designed to help users understand the gray areas of the Social Security Act, and to provide critical information about rights and obligations under Social Security laws.

The Handbook outlines how to:
?Protect your benefits and avoid benefit loss;
?Monitor government agencies and get information about policy changes that will affect your benefits;
?Make the most of hospital and Medicare coverage;
?Determine the amount of benefits that are subject to federal income taxes;
?Check Social Security earnings and benefits; and
?Get up-to-date news about future Social Security programs and services.

Healthcare has always involved travel, with people journeying to places traditionally known for healing or to seek out specialist medical expertise that may not be available more locally. More recently, medical tourism has grown at an unprecedented pace, often driven by commercial interests. When something goes wrong far from home, however, the consequences can be severe.

This groundbreaking book challenges the status quo of medical tourism, shifting the focus from competition and volume to what truly matters: value, safety and accountability. It explores the realities of cross-border care, from the motivations behind patient travel to the complex web of facilitators, insurers and providers that shape the journey. With a critical eye, it addresses the recurring challenges of incomplete information, unclear responsibilities, poor follow-up and avoidable harm and will educate, inform, guide and inspire stakeholders to integrate sustainable practices in medical tourism.

Key Features:

? Explains why patients travel to gain faster access, cultural comfort and services unavailable at home.

? Uncovers the hidden complexities including coordination gaps, ethical dilemmas and environmental costs of cross-border care.

? Explores the role of technology and how digital tools can enhance safety-or create new risks.

? Provides a roadmap for the future with practical tools and measurable indicators to ensure care is safe, sustainable and trustworthy.

Written for clinicians, managers, facilitators, insurers, policymakers and patients, this book provides actionable insights, emphasizing environmentally friendly practices, ethical considerations and high-quality patient care needed to transform medical tourism into transnational healthcare that prioritizes outcomes over promises.

The Routledge International Handbook of Disability Studies and the New Digital Society offers important new perspectives on the digitization of society in relation to disability.

Featuring the work of leading researchers from around the world, the book explores digitization and disability in a wide range of contexts, including schools, healthcare settings, public transport and working life, as well as across different forms of e-government, e-learning and e-business. It examines digitization in everyday life, including digital products such as smart phones, computer games and social media, and explores key themes such as artificial intelligence, the digitization of welfare and social services, overprotection and risk, and universal design and co-creation for better digital solutions. At the heart of the book is a focus on accessibility to digital technology as well as consideration of The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).

This handbook will be of interest to all scholars of disability studies, health and social care, nursing, teaching, sociology, and science and technology studies.

In a far-reaching analysis, Headey shows that almost all Western governments pay at least lip service to the idea that enhancing well-being is a desirable goal for policy. They issue annual reports that include measures of life satisfaction and well-being, and they have all endorsed some policies and programs, such as working from home, subsidies for community groups and sports clubs, that are plainly intended to increase individual and family well-being. Analysing evidence from economists and psychologists on the causes of life satisfaction and drawing on longitudinal studies, Headey highlights policies and programs for positive intervention in family and social policy, health, mental health, working life and job satisfaction. The book also discusses the political feasibility of an array of national and international approaches, contextualising their impact on positive change and advocating for targeted, effective political strategies.

Public Policy for Well-Being is an invaluable resource for scholars and students of the welfare state, social policy, public policy, sociology, political theory and political economy. Social scientists and policy-makers will be interested in its timely suggestions for long-term public policy improvements.

This book develops a fresh approach to understanding social care, by using feminist social reproduction theory to critically assess the undervaluing of waged and unwaged caring labour in homes and communities.

Part One makes the case for why the feminist social reproduction approach offers a dynamic and compelling intellectual framework for exploring adult social care in theoretical and historical terms. Feminist social reproduction theory analyses the paradox that caregiving, in sustaining human lives, is both essential for and continually subordinated to capitalist accumulation. The book explores how this core contradiction has shaped the history of adult social care in homes and communities in the UK, from the post-World War Two welfare settlement to the present day Part Two comprises a case study of adult social care in a southern English region during the pandemic of 2020-2021focusing on caregiving infrastructures across households, communities and home care occupations. It provides detailed insights into how carers, volunteers and home care workers experienced the contradiction of being simultaneously essential to the sustenance and survival of the older and disabled people they cared for, and yet also poorly compensated, invisibilised and taken for granted.

The book will be of interest to scholars and students working on care, social reproduction and feminist theory, from across sociology, social anthropology, social policy, social work, human geography and history.

Drawing upon actual case studies, this book introduces readers to how everyday interactions in the clinic can foster trust and impact diagnoses and reveals how often-overlooked communication processes fundamentally shape healthcare delivery and outcomes.

The book treats communication not as a box to be checked or a skill to be mastered, but as a force that shapes provider and patient identities, a broker of relationships, and a central and pervasive presence in all systems of care. It explores topics such as end-of-life communication, physician burnout, professional hierarchies within healthcare teams, and AI in healthcare. It also integrates examples that extend beyond a U.S. framework, accounting for how different healthcare and political systems impact patient care. Each chapter is written in plain language and invites readers to think critically about what true patient-centered care looks like today.

This book is tailored to both undergraduate and graduate medical humanities, health communication, medical sociology, and bioethics courses and a broad audience of healthcare professionals-from nursing students, to attending physicians, to technicians and support staff.

Online resources include links to readings, outside resources, and video components. They are available online at www.routledge.com/9781041102779.

Worker Voices and Psychological Health: Pressures in the Modern Workplace brings together research-based evidence with worker testimonies to show how modern working life shapes psychological wellbeing.

The book begins with a selective history of work and a clear explanation of wellbeing that integrates hedonic (feeling good) and eudaimonic (meaning and purpose) perspectives. It goes on to trace how work has changed, clarifying what psychological wellbeing really means, and showing how job demands, autonomy, resources and support shape stress, work-life balance and work performance. First-person accounts from a diverse range of job holders, including those in senior management, administrative roles, skilled trades, caring and service work, operatives, and elementary occupations, reveal the everyday pressures and practical conditions that help workers cope, recover and thrive. Looking ahead to a future AI-enabled economy, the book concludes by considering those jobs that may be at risk, and those that are likely to evolve and flourish.

Grounded in the words of real workers and connecting psychosocial factors with the day-to-day realities of working life, the book will appeal to anyone interested in the contemporary workplace, including students of organisational psychology, health psychology, occupational health, mental health and human resource management, as well as professionals in these fields.

As the global population ages, the demand for long-term care (LTC) for older adults is increasing rapidly, presenting significant challenges for health and social care systems worldwide.

This book examines existing care systems for older adults worldwide, focusing on the unique challenges faced and potential solutions and policy reforms which could be implemented, particularly with regard to improving or maintaining their physical and mental health. This text offers a comprehensive exploration of diverse LTC approaches across 15 countries and regions. This essential resource examines critical issues such as workforce shortages, funding mechanisms, governance structures, and the integration of health and social care. Highlighting innovative solutions like community-based care models, technological advancements, and rights-based frameworks, the book provides evidence-based recommendations for designing sustainable, equitable, and person-centred care systems.

With contributions from leading experts, this handbook is an invaluable guide for policymakers, practitioners, and researchers navigating the complexities of long-term care in an ageing world. This is an unmissable resource for those who are interested in addressing the multifaceted crises facing care for older people worldwide.