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international analysis of impact of epidemic diseases on western society and culture from the bubonic plague to HIV/AIDS and experience of SARS and swine flu, infectious disease and its impact on society, development of public health measures, role of medical ethics, genre of plague literature, social reactions of mass hysteria and violence, rise of the germ theory of disease, development of tropical medicine,comparison of social, cultural and historical impact of major infectious diseases, emerging and re-emerging diseases
 

medicine from a cross-cultural perspective focusing on the human as opposed to biological, various kinds of medical practice as cultural systems, Particular emphasis on Western (bio-medicine, how biomedicine constructs disease health body and mind, how it articulates with other institutions national and international: readings

interdisciplinary project to create databank of re-usable e-learning resources shared between disciplines & across institutions, supporting staff & students to embrace technological change: parsons' sick role, doctor/patient relations, social class, Black report & inequalities in health, Gender and health, Social Capital, Gender and health, Medicalisation, Death

Approaches to Managing Health Services Organizations, Culture, Politics, and Community: Living Public Health in Nigeria, Entertainment Education for Behavior Change, Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases, Global Tobacco Control, Impact of Pandemic Influenza on Public Health, International Nutrition, Malariology, Population Change and Public Health, Radiation Terror, Training Methods and Continuing Education for Health Workers, Tropical Environmental Health, Urban Health in Developing Countries, Water Sanitation Needs in Complex Humanitarian Emergencies

review of psychological research and practice aimed at understanding and explaining autistic spectrum disorders and helping people who have them, problems of identification and diagnosis, theoretical research into causes, evaluation of selected therapeutic approaches, diversity of perspectives, testimony of people with autism and their families, as well as on more formal sources of evidence

how our image of normality affects the way we as a society define such conditions, how important it is to integrate the different psychological accounts of dyslexia to provide a full explanation of potential causes and strategies for remediation

focuses on families with members who are substance abusers, and the ways in which these families function, explores the methods and resources available for helping such families

variety of cases of interest to health professionals, include managing obesity, arthritis and exercise, using a team approach to help older adults with complex medical problems

repository of lectures on global health and prevention designed to improve the teaching of prevention: Basic Concepts, Principles & Methods, Clinical Epidemiology, Environmental, Family, Children and Women, Injury, Molecular Epidemiology, Occupational, Military, Cardiovascular Disease, Cancer, Diabetes, Human-Animal Interaction, Infectious Disease, Public, Global, Rehabilitation