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Reshaping Food Systems to improve Nutrition and Health in the Eastern Mediterranean Region

Ayoub Al-Jawaldeh
Alexa Meyer

This detailed and comprehensive study examines nutrition and health in the World Health Organization (WHO) Eastern Mediterranean Region, presenting the six game-changing food systems actions proposed by the WHO and the progress of their implementation in the region.

Health
Philosophy

Chance Encounters: A Bioethics for a Damaged Planet

Kristien Hens
Christina Stadlbauer
Bart H.M. Vandeput

In this rigorous and necessary book, Kristien Hens brings together bioethics and the philosophy of biology to argue that it is ethically necessary for scientific research to include a place for the philosopher. As well as ethical, their role is conceptual: they can improve the quality and coherence of scientific research by ensuring that particular concepts are used consistently and thoughtfully across interdisciplinary projects. Hens argues that chance and uncertainty play a central part in bioethics, but that these qualities can be in tension with the attempt to establish a given theory as scientific knowledge: in describing organisms and practices, in a sense we create the world. Hens contends that this is necessarily an ethical activity.

Health

A Complete Guide to Maggot Therapy: Clinical Practice, Therapeutic Principles, Production, Distribution, and Ethics

Frank Stadler

Since the revival of maggot therapy in Western wound care approximately thirty years ago, there has been no comprehensive synthesis of what is known about its clinical practice, supply chain management, and social dimensions. This edited volume fills the information vacuum and, importantly, makes the current state of knowledge freely accessible. It is the first to provide sound, evidence-based information and guidance covering the entire supply chain from production to treatment.

Economics, Politics and Sociology
Health
Philosophy

Towards an Ethics of Autism: A Philosophical Exploration

Kristien Hens

What does it mean to say that someone is autistic? Dynamics of Autism is an exploration of this question and many more.

Biography
European Studies
European Studies: English and Irish Studies
Health
Women and Gender Studies

Margery Spring Rice: Pioneer of Women’s Health in the Early Twentieth Century

Lucy Pollard

This book vividly presents the story of Margery Spring Rice, an instrumental figure in the movements of women’s health and family planning in the first half of the twentieth century. Margery Spring Rice, née Garrett, was born into a family of formidable female trailblazers – niece of physician and suffragist Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, and of Millicent Fawcett, a leading suffragist and campaigner for equal rights for women. Margery Spring Rice continued this legacy with her co-founding of the North Kensington birth control clinic in 1924, three years after Marie Stopes founded the first clinic in Britain.

Health

Non-communicable Disease Prevention: Best Buys, Wasted Buys and Contestable Buys

Wanrudee Isaranuwatchai
Rachel A. Archer
Yot Teerawattananon
Anthony J. Culyer

Created by an international consortium of experts, this informative and accessible book provides practical guidelines, key learning points, and dynamic, real-world case studies to aid NCD program managers, policy officers and decision-makers in low- and middle-income countries, so that they can assess interventions for the prevention and control of NCDs.

Economics, Politics and Sociology
Health

Undocumented Migrants and Healthcare: Eight Stories from Switzerland

Marianne Jossen

This urgent study uses a grounded theory approach to explore the ways in which undocumented migrants are included in or excluded from healthcare in a Swiss region. Marianne Jossen explores the ways migrants try to obtain healthcare on their own, with the help of NGOs or via insurance, and how they cope if they fail, whether by using risky strategies to access healthcare or leaving serious health issues untreated. Jossen shows that even for those who succeed, inclusion remains partial and fraught with risks.

Health
Law
Law: Intellectual Property

Intellectual Property and Public Health in the Developing World

Monirul Azam

Across the world, developing countries are attempting to balance the international standards of intellectual property concerning pharmaceutical patents against the urgent need for accessible and affordable medicines. In this timely and necessary book, Monirul Azam examines the attempts of several developing countries to walk this fine line.