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What do memories, raincoats, and snakes have in common? They have all been used as metaphors for vaccines by people with vastly different views and communicative goals. This book explores how, why, and with what consequences metaphors shape vaccine communication across diverse voices, including scientists, politicians, parents, and celebrity anti-vaxxers, and contexts, from popular science books and social media to government press conferences and public health campaigns.

Drawing examples from the UK, Italy, Pakistan, Australia, and the USA, each chapter examines specific communication types, revealing how metaphors achieve varied goals. For example, the COVID-19 vaccine development has been described as "safe as a restaurant serving multiple courses simultaneously". In contrast, others have used metaphors to fuel conspiracy theories, portraying vaccines as weapons in a sinister battle against ordinary people. The book demonstrates that metaphors are central and inescapable in vaccine discourse, equally powerful for pro-vaccination explanation and reassurance as for anti-vaccination obfuscation and fearmongering. Overall, the book shows how the use of metaphor constitutes both a challenge and an opportunity for promoting vaccines as a public health intervention.

This text is the first comprehensive account of vaccine metaphors drawing from diverse sources, contexts, and countries, examining both pro- and anti-vaccination perspectives. It is written in an accessible style for anyone interested in understanding how language shapes our perceptions of vaccines and public health. This is vital reading for students and researchers of language and health communication, applied linguistics, medical humanities, discourse analysis and metaphor studies.

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.

This groundbreaking, interdisciplinary collection is one of the first scholarly books in the world to address the impacts of Covid-19 restrictions on the Global South.

Bringing together health and social scientists from around the world--including many leading figures from Global-South countries such as Angola, Bolivia, Colombia, India, Kenya, and Nigeria--the book shows how, in low- and middle-income countries in particular, Covid responses often exacerbate problems and inequalities around education, gender, socioeconomics, and politics and political economics. They negatively and disproportionately affect routine medical treatments; vaccination programmes; access to maternity and neo-natal care; child learning and socialization; women's caring responsibilities; gender-based socioeconomic differences; and rates of domestic violence, all while accelerating existing trends towards political authoritarianism and damaging democratic processes.

In offering in-depth perspectives on all these problems, this book ultimately challenges practitioners to include Southern perspectives in future emergency response-planning, and it develops both global and multidisciplinary paradigms to guide them in their efforts.

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.

What if hierarchy and bureaucracy had no place in health care? What if health knowledge were truly open to all? What if health were something we could organise freely, collectively and as equals?

When we think about health, we often do so under certain constraints shaped by structures of power. Anarchism and Health invites us to imagine otherwise. It explores how our understanding of health can shift when we challenge and subvert the influence of the State, capitalism, racism, colonialism, imperialism, genderism, transphobia and other intertwined forms of domination.

Covering key debates on the organisation of health care systems as well as issues such as abortion, DIY health and mutual aid during the COVID-19 pandemic, this book deepens the connection between anarchist thought and health. It demonstrates how we should act now, in the deeply imperfect present, so we can care for one another and work towards these ideals.

Drawing on examples from across the Global North and opening pathways for further research worldwide, Anarchism and Health is an essential resource for academics, practitioners and anyone questioning how we might build a more equal and liberated form of health.

This book offers an ethnographic analysis of nationalist thought, centralized power, and modes of governance in (post- )pandemic Mongolian political and cultural contexts. By reframing the unity often associated with descriptive 'groupist' thought in terms of claims and objects of concern within a wider political imaginary, this book provides a new conceptual framework for understanding nationalist thought beyond the strictly ideological.

By approaching nationalism as a structure of ideas formed within a wider affective imaginary of human groupings and attachments, the book draws attention to the diversity such claims can take. Through the lens of nationalism as a narrative, the book explores how claims and objects of concern- such as the notion of a national 'people' or ethnicity- interact with processes of ideational authorship, messaging, and reception. It examines how affect is enacted as part of ideational encounters, relocating it from an ontological or subconscious force to a historically situated and authored outcome of human engagement. Drawing on rich ethnographic insights from across the Mongolian region, the book presents a novel methodology for theorizing nationalism that emphasizes objects of concern and ethnographic particularities.

Pandemic Nationalism in Inner Asia is designed for scholars, researchers, and students in anthropology, political science, sociology, and Asian studies. It will also appeal to those interested in nationalism, governance, and the cultural impacts of pandemics. Broad subject areas include ethnography, nationalism studies, affect theory, and Inner Asian studies.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Central Asian Survey.

Adrienne Byrt explores the experiences of mothers of premature infants through a feminist lens to bring to light the gendered demands they face
within Australian hospitals.

The book provides sociological insights and recommendations for the delivery of trauma-informed care that resists the reproduction of gendered demands on new parents. Exploring the multidimensional aspects of patriarchal motherhood across individual, interactional, and institutional domains, the book shares rich accounts of mothers' emotional and social challenges during the extended hospitalisation of their infants. This provides readers with an enhanced understanding of the gendered demands placed on these mothers and the gaps in the provision of trauma-informed support during hospitalisation.

A valuable book for scholars and academics in the sociology of families, motherhood studies and feminist theory, the book will also be of interest to health professionals working in neonatal intensive care units and special care nurseries.

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.

This innovative book, written by an author with borderline experiences of her own, explores the lived experience known as "borderline personality disorder". It draws on neuroqueer approaches and feminist new materialist philosophy to highlight the potential of the unstable knowledges produced in the borderland.

Resisting either embracing the clinical definition of borderline personality disorder or rejecting the diagnosis as a misogynistic construct, this book focuses on the ontological aspects of borderline experience, exploring unstable and indeterminate thoughts, feelings, perceptions, and selves. It illuminates how paying attention to these unique ways of seeing and knowing can provide alternatives to the "cruel optimism" of medicalised ways of knowing BPD and challenge the harmful dualistic thinking that reinforces them.

Demonstrating how we might understand borderline experience as a diagnostic, philosophical, or mystical mode for knowing self and world through unique orientations in time, space, and reality, this book is an important contribution to the medical and health humanities and critical mental health. It simultaneously provides a fresh new way of thinking about the borderline and offers new critical perspectives and interventions for the wider landscapes of disability studies, medical humanities, and justice-oriented disciplines.

It will be of use to a range of disciplines and professions with an interest in mental health, including healthcare, psychology, sociology, philosophy, anthropology, and disability studies.

This edited work builds on contemporary empirical research concerning the central role social competence plays in wellbeing in autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Building Social Connections in Autism begins with an introduction rooted in development and explores optimal developmental processes and those of individuals with ASD.

A creative mixture of contributions from basic researchers, psychoanalytic therapists, and individuals with autism who share their subjective experience and do research in the field provides for a unique perspective. It explores the adverse subjective outcomes of these processes in individuals with ASD and expands upon the importance of social connection and includes contributions focused on psychotherapeutic interventions to build social competency and caring connections.

Clinicians, researchers, trainees, and students will benefit from this text that covers the importance of social competency in individuals with ASD with psychotherapeutic technique and research.

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.

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.

This guide is an essential companion for nurses who are new to a career in higher education.

Supporting the transition from clinical practice to education, it draws on research and real-world experiences to explore the key issues and make the most of your new career. The first section of the book explores the broader context of nurse education, the academic cycle and the nuances of practice education. The second section explores key personal development skills, such as teaching, assessment strategies and student support. Offering insights, activities and tips from experts in the field, this book will help you negotiate the journey from clinical expert through novice educator to the emergence of a new identity as a competent nurse academic.

This is an invaluable text for all nurses new to working in higher education.

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.

Now in its third edition, this popular textbook equips health care professionals with the tools to navigate legal and ethical challenges effectively.

Grounded in the four principles of biomedical ethics - autonomy, non-maleficence, beneficence and justice - and aligned with the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Codes of Ethics and Codes of Conduct, it provides a clear framework for analysing and approaching complex ethical and legal issues in professional practice.

New to this edition:
- Contributions from a diverse team of new and established co-authors
- Two brand-new chapters on dispensing and prescribing medications and independent practice
- Expanded coverage on rural practice, cultural safety and Indigenous perspectives
- Comprehensive updates to reflect changes in law, including human rights legislation and revised professional codes

Packed with practical learning tools, this book is an essential resource for students and practitioners, offering a clear decision-making framework to help you act with confidence.

Cities are designed for order, but lived through improvisation. Contemporary cities are increasingly designed for control, efficiency, and safety, yet everyday urban life continues to exceed these intentions. This book explores how temporary appropriation-the spontaneous and informal use of public space-reveals how people actively shape their environments in ways that support health, diversity, and social interaction.

Bringing together urban design, public health, and social theory, the book advances the concept of temporary appropriation as a fundamental mechanism through which urban life is produced and negotiated. Through international case studies and interdisciplinary analysis, it demonstrates how everyday practices such as play, social gathering, and informal adaptation contribute to physical, mental, and social wellbeing. Moving beyond conventional approaches to placemaking and design, the book introduces the notion of performative healthscapes, showing how health is not simply provided by infrastructure, but emerges through lived spatial practices. It also critically addresses issues of regulation, inclusion, and embodied diversity, highlighting the uneven capacity to appropriate space across different groups.

This book will be of interest to scholars and students in urban design, planning, and urban health, as well as practitioners and policymakers concerned with creating more inclusive and adaptable public spaces.

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.

Presenting insightful and stimulating contributions from leading global experts, chapters examine pressing issues such as ageism, loneliness, homelessness, dementia, substance use problems, sexuality and gender and end-of-life care. They also consider practice across settings, from case work, integrated care and residential services to community engagement, family support, digital technologies and social work education.

This Handbook is an essential resource for scholars, students and practitioners across the fields of social work, social policy and sociology keen to understand the challenges and opportunities of contemporary ageing.

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.

Using a child-centred approach, the book explores the wider impacts of poverty on children as it limits opportunities and affects their relationships. Bessell introduces the 'Material-Opportunity-Relational Framework', a rights-based system for understanding, assessing and responding to child poverty. Later chapters analyse the field through an ecological lens, presenting the concept of the socio-ecosphere to shift focus away from individuals to the structures of inequality that fail to support those in need. This book argues that we can end child poverty, but to do so we must transform existing systems.

Illuminating and forward-thinking, Understanding Child Poverty is a vital read for scholars and students of social policy, sociology, childhood and youth studies, and inequality. The book's practical frameworks will also greatly benefit policy-makers, social workers, child poverty activists and other professionals working with children.

This accessible and thought-provoking book offers a critical exploration of global health philanthropy, blending personal narrative with a rigorous examination of the field's challenges and opportunities. Grounded in the authors' decades of experience, Crossroads in Global Health reflects on the transformative power of medicine, the complexities of global health engagement, and the enduring human impulse to alleviate suffering. The authors examine the tension between short-term relief and durable system change, and show how reframing global health as a marketplace, powered by data, analytics, and AI, can better match resources to need and turn goodwill into measurable impact.

Key Features:

? Explores the history, evolution, and critiques of global health, with a focus on discrete philanthropic medical missions.

? Examines the landscape of global health needs and resources, shaped by logistics, incentives, and institutional structures.

? Reflects on the authors' personal journeys in global health, offering insights into the challenges and lessons learned from decades of experience.

? Proposes innovative approaches to harnessing data and technology to create a more efficient and accountable marketplace for global health philanthropy.

? Balances the importance of systemic solutions with the moral imperative of immediate care, emphasizing the enduring value of direct human connection in medicine.

Building on the authors' previous works, including the World Compendium of Healthcare Facilities and Nonprofit Organizations, this book is an essential resource for medical practitioners, academics, and professionals in the non-profit, public, and private sectors. It offers a compelling call to action for those seeking to make a meaningful impact in global health, while honoring the profound responsibility and transformative potential of the medical profession.

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.

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.

This book fills an existing gap in the history of the foundations and early developments of disability studies through analyzing the life and work of Steven J. Taylor, founder and chair of the first formal Disability Studies Program at Syracuse University, but who had already been teaching disability studies since the early 1980s "before it had a name."

Organized around the key themes of Deconstructing/Rethinking Disability; Incarceration and Deinstitutionalization; Disability Policy; and Disability Studies, each section has contributions from leading US-based and international scholars. The authors represent a range of disciplines in disability studies and related fields, reflecting on their work in the context of, and in relation to, the scholarship of Steve Taylor, discussing the relevance of his work for their own scholarship as well as the field of disability research in general.

An important contribution to the field of disability studies, it grounds the vibrant and rapidly developing field of disability studies in its historical context, exploring the social and cultural environment which led to the establishment of this robust interdisciplinary field while also detailing how these early conceptualizations have set the stage for more critical theorizations of disability in sociology, education, social policy, and other fields.

This book explores the intersection of AI and social work, offering a groundbreaking look at how AI technologies are transforming the field. It analyses AI's role in streamlining administration and supporting decisions, while navigating privacy concerns in this human-centred profession.

Organized in five comprehensive parts, this edited collection brings together diverse international perspectives on the integration of AI in social work. Part One establishes foundational knowledge about AI technologies and their intersection with social work values. Following this, Parts Two and Three explore practical applications and the delicate balance between technological efficiency and human judgment. In Part Four, contributors address critical ethical considerations including privacy, bias, and social justice. Finally, Part Five focuses on social work careers skills through education and training while bridging digital divides across diverse communities. Through case studies and real-world examples, readers gain valuable insights into how AI can be used to complement and strengthen the work of social workers, and see a roadmap for navigating this intersection of technology and human care. This will allow them to implement AI for applications in case management, predictive analytics, mental health support, and resource allocation.

This book is essential reading for social work professionals and students who will soon be moving into the field. Its comprehensive framework for understanding how AI can be ethically and effectively used in social work practice will also benefit mental health counsellors, allied health workers, and clinical psychologists and enable them to navigate the increasing influence and applications of AI.

Digital Health Discourse offers a comprehensive overview of how health and illness are talked about, represented, and negotiated across contemporary digital platforms. Bringing together linguistic, discourse-analytical, and multimodal perspectives, it explores a wide range of digital contexts-including health query interfaces, online support groups, websites, social media, mobile health apps, and patient feedback systems-to reveal how digital technologies shape notions of health knowledge, expertise, responsibility, and care in the digital age.

The textbook foregrounds the role of platform affordances, participation, and design in structuring interaction, while attending closely to broader social forces such as medicalization, commercialization, neoliberalism, and inequality. By combining theoretical discussion with rich, detailed examples from existing research, it equips readers with the conceptual tools needed to critically analyze digital health communication and understand how everyday online interactions not only reflect but continually shape and reshape contemporary health practices.

Through detailed case studies, the book demonstrates how to conduct discourse analyses of interactions that use language and other visual resources, involving both health experts and non-professionals, including those with lived experience. Readers are invited to complete practical tasks designed to inspire their own research into the ever-expanding domains of digital health communication. Essential for researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of language and health, health communication, and discourse analysis.