Published December, 2014
By Sophie Harman, Garrett Wallace Brown, Amy Barnes, Garrett Brown, G. Brown and S. Harman
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
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Drawing on qualitative research with African actors and global health institutions, the authors explore the politics of how performance funding modalities and participation are used to shape health reform in African countries as well as the role of African actors, global policy elites and international donors within these processes.

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Published November, 2014
By Erika Mansnerus and E. Mansnerus
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This book analyses the development and use of mathematical models in public health research and policy. By introducing a life cycle metaphor, the author provides a unique perspective on how mathematical modelling techniques have increased our understanding of the governance of infectious risks in society.

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Published November, 2014
By C. Chasi
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Even though sub-Saharan Africa is the region most affected by HIV/AIDS in the world, no new theories have been discovered, and questions about life and death are ignored. This book uses certain selected communication practices to offer the foundations of an African theory of communication, applicable to the crisis of HIV/AIDS.

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Published August, 2014
By Samuel Taylor-Alexander
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Drawing together interview material, medical publications, and first-hand accounts, this book shows that what is being remade in the burgeoning medical field of face transplantation is not only the lives of patients, but also the very ways that state institutions, surgeons, and families make sense of rights, claims for inclusion, and life itself.

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Published March, 2014
By Stijn Vanheule and S. Vanheule
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This book critically evaluates the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5). Through analysis of the history of psychiatric diagnosis and of the handbook itself, it argues that the DSM-5 has a narrow biomedical approach to mental disorders, and proposes a new contextualizing model of mental health symptoms.

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Published March, 2014
By Jolene M. Sanders and J. Sanders
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This book looks at a sample of female drug addicts seeking recovery in Narcotics Anonymous (NA). Through working the Twelve Steps and by attending women-only groups, these women are able to confront the double standard that makes recovery from addiction especially difficult.

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Published January, 2014
By Daria Kuss, M. Griffiths and D. Kuss
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
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Current knowledge about effective internet addiction treatment is limited. This book explores how 20 international internet addiction therapy experts experience the presenting problem of internet addiction in psychotherapy.

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Published January, 2014
By Amy Barnes, A. Barnes, G. Brown and S. Harman
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
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Drawing on qualitative research with African actors and global health institutions, the authors explore the politics of how performance funding modalities and participation are used to shape health reform in African countries as well as the role of African actors, global policy elites and international donors within these processes.

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Published January, 2014
By Erika Mansnerus and E. Mansnerus
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
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This book analyses the development and use of mathematical models in public health research and policy. By introducing a life cycle metaphor, the author provides a unique perspective on how mathematical modelling techniques have increased our understanding of the governance of infectious risks in society.

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Published January, 2014
By M. Gupta, Pushkar and Madhavi Gupta
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India's health failures remain visible and pronounced despite high rates of economic growth since the 1980s and more than six decades of democratic rule.

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