The Impact of Social Injustice on Nutrition
An excerpt from Social Injustice and Public Health.
Utilizing the Body to Address Emotions: Integrative Body-Mind-Spirit Social Work
An excerpt from Integrative Body-Mind-Spirit Social Work.
Pediatric Research Contraints
When is it okay to include a child in a medical research study?
Silencing the Self Theory
An excerpt from Silencing the Self Across Cultures: Depression and Gender in the Social World.
The Origins of the Fundamentalist Mindset
The Fundamentalist Mindset sheds light on the psychology of fundamentalism, with a particular focus on those who become extremists and fanatics. The collection is edited by Charles B. Strozier, a Professor of History at John Jay College, CUNY, and a practicing psychoanalyst, David M. Terman, Director of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, James W. Jones, a Professor of Religion and adjunct Professor of Clinical Psychology at Rutgers University and Katharine A. Boyd a doctoral student at John Jay College, CUNY.
Dietary Blindness: The Many Ways We Cannot See
An excerpt from Blindspots: The May Ways We Cannont See.
Panic, Hysteria and Tight Corsets
Goodwin and Guze’s Psychiatric Diagnosis gives us a historical background to panic disorders and hysteria.
How To Fight Obesity
Leslie Martin looks at how we should tackle America’s obesity problem.
Health-care Reform is Making a Comeback
Elvin Lim looks at health-care reform.
Medicine and The Bible
An excerpt from The Oxford Companion to the Bible.
On Sleep and Beauty
Is there really such a thing as beauty sleep?
Bioethics and Healthcare
An excerpt from Worst Case Bioethics.
On Nurses and Doctors
An excerpt from Ethics in Nursing.
The Many Legacies of Aids
An excerpt from Erotic City.
The Arsenic Century: The Case of the Poisoned Partridges
A short extract from James C. Whorton’s The Arsenic Century: How Victorian Britain was Poisoned at Home, Work, and Play.
Alcohol: The World’s Oldest Recreational Drug
An excerpt from Drugs: A Very Short Introduction by Prof. Les Iversen, the new chairman of the UK’s Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs.