Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This volume examines the ways in which people engage with therapeutic practices, such as life coaching, mindfulness, complementary and alternative medicine, sex and relationship counselling, spiritual healing and self-tracking. It investigates how human and non-human actors, systems of thought and practice are assembled and interwoven in therapeutic engagements, and traces the situated, material and political dimensions of these engagements. By focusing on lived experiences through ethnographically informed case studies, the book elucidates the diverse forms, meanings and embodied effects of therapeutic engagements in different settings, as well as their potential for both oppressive and subversive social change. In this way, Assembling Therapeutics contributes to our understanding of multiple modes of healing, self-knowledge and power in contemporary societies.

Psychology, Applied --- Self-help techniques --- Self-care, Health --- Therapeutics --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / General --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General --- Social aspects. --- Medical treatment --- Therapy --- Treatment of diseases --- Treatments for diseases --- Clinical medicine --- Health care, Self --- Health self-care --- Medical self-care --- Self-care, Medical --- Self health care --- Self-help, Health --- Care of the sick --- Health --- Health behavior --- Holistic medicine --- Medical care --- Medicine, Popular --- Self-change techniques --- Self-directed change --- Life skills --- Applied psychology --- Psychagogy --- Psychology, Practical --- Social psychotechnics --- Psychology --- Self-help techniques. --- Applied psychology. --- Self-care, Health.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

From self-help books and nootropics, to self-tracking and home health tests, to the tinkering with technology and biological particles - biohacking brings biology, medicine, and the material foundation of life into the sphere of »do-it-yourself«. This trend has the potential to fundamentally change people's relationship with their bodies and biology but it also creates new cultural narratives of responsibility, authority, and differentiation. Covering a broad range of examples, this book explores practices and representations of biohacking in popular culture, discussing their ambiguous position between empowerment and requirement, promise and prescription.

Culture; Representation; Biology; Medicine; Biocultures; Biohacking; Biotechnology; Cultural Narratives; DIY; America; Body; Biopolitics; American Studies; Life Sciences; Cultural Studies --- America. --- American Studies. --- Biocultures. --- Biohacking. --- Biology. --- Biopolitics. --- Biotechnology. --- Body. --- Cultural Narratives. --- Cultural Studies. --- DIY. --- Life Sciences. --- Medicine. --- Representation. --- Self-care, Health. --- Health care, Self --- Health self-care --- Medical self-care --- Self-care, Medical --- Self health care --- Self-help, Health --- Care of the sick --- Health --- Health behavior --- Holistic medicine --- Medical care --- Medicine, Popular --- Culture --- Representation --- Biology --- Medicine --- Biocultures --- Biohacking --- Biotechnology --- Cultural Narratives --- DIY --- America --- Body --- Biopolitics --- American Studies --- Life Sciences --- Cultural Studies

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This open access book addresses the multiple health dimensions posed by the COVID-19 pandemic in India and other countries including nine in Asia, five in Sub-Saharan Africa, and New Zealand. It explores the impact of the pandemic on mental health, sexual and reproductive health and rights, health financing, self-care, and vaccine development and distribution. The contributing authors discuss its impact on vulnerable populations, including interstate migrants and female sex workers. The significant role of media and communications, rapid dissemination of information in social media, and its impact during the COVID-19 pandemic era are discussed. It closes with lessons learned from the experiences of countries that have contained the pandemic. With contributions from experts from around the world, this book presents solutions of problems that relate to COVID-19. It is a valuable resource appealing to a wide readership across the social sciences and the humanities. Readers include governments, academicians, researchers, policy-makers, program implementers, as well as lay persons.

Sociology --- Clinical psychology --- Sexual and Reproductive Health --- Covid 19 Pandemic --- Role of Media and Communication --- Impact on Health Services --- Self-care and COVID-19 --- COVID-19 Vaccine Development --- Open Access

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Covering a range of topics, the book makes a significant contribution not only to understanding trauma in journalism practice but also to pedagogy by providing needed resources for journalism educators. The five sections in the book advance knowledge in the field of journalism education, providing teaching strategies.

Bradley --- education --- Elizabeth --- Emergency --- Emma --- Emma Heywood --- emotional load --- Fourth --- Heywood --- Howard --- Journalism --- journalism --- Journalism as the Fourth Emergency Service --- Lisa --- Lisa Bradley --- moral injury --- resilience --- Resilience --- self-care --- Service --- stressors --- Trauma --- Trauma and Resilience --- trauma training

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This open access book addresses self-care on sexual and reproductive health and rights and HIV prevention and treatment in the most marginalized and vulnerable communities. Case studies and personal narratives are used to share their perspectives and experiences, sources of information for self-care products, motivations for self-care, and challenges and outcomes. Self-care provides the way to reach the last mile in achieving universal health coverage and the Sustainable Development Goals. Issues related to stigma, discrimination and violence among these communities are highlighted. Changes in policies and programs to improve their sexual and reproductive health, education and employment are discussed. The last chapter in the book examines how the agenda on self-care can be advanced in the years ahead. The audience for this publication includes health professionals, researchers, those managing health institutions and service providers.

Gender studies, gender groups --- Public health & preventive medicine --- Reproductive medicine --- Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights --- Self-care Practices --- Universal Health Coverage --- Marginalized and Vulnerable Communities --- Self-initiated Care --- HIV and AIDS --- Sustainable Development Goals --- Condom Use Practices --- LGBTQIA+ --- Open Access --- Health. --- Sex. --- Public health. --- Reproductive health. --- Gender and Health. --- Public Health. --- Gender Studies. --- Reproductive Medicine. --- Human reproduction --- Human reproductive health --- Human reproductive medicine --- Health --- Community health --- Health services --- Hygiene, Public --- Hygiene, Social --- Public health services --- Public hygiene --- Social hygiene --- Human services --- Biosecurity --- Health literacy --- Medicine, Preventive --- National health services --- Sanitation --- Gender (Sex) --- Human beings --- Human sexuality --- Sex (Gender) --- Sexual behavior --- Sexual practices --- Sexuality --- Sexology --- Personal health --- Wellness --- Medicine --- Physiology --- Diseases --- Holistic medicine --- Hygiene --- Well-being --- Health aspects --- Reproductive health --- Self-care, Health --- Sexual health