Published January, 2023
By Meagan S. Allen
Publisher: Macmillan Education (Palgrave Macmillan)
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This book examines the Franciscan alchemist Roger Bacon's (1220-1292) interest in the role of alchemy in medicine, and how this interest connected with the thirteenth-century milieu in which he was writing.

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Published January, 2023
By Alessandra Piontelli
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Published January, 2023
By Jane Freebody
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This open access book demonstrates that, while occupation has been used to treat the mentally disordered since the early nineteenth century, approaches to its use have varied across different countries and in different time periods.

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Published December, 2022
By Pierre-Yves Donze
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This book offers an analysis of the dynamics of the global medical device (medtech) industry from the 1960s until the present, using the approaches of business history and industry studies.

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Published December, 2022
By Charlene Elliott and Josh Greenberg
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This book explores the unique contribution that critical communication studies can bring to our understanding of health.

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Published December, 2022
By Jurgen Grotz and Ruth Leonard
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This book provides a comprehensive overview of the latest theory and practice for volunteer involvement. Offering exercises and examples from practice, it introduces concepts for understanding volunteers' agency and for critically assessing ways in which those who seek to involve volunteers can respond to rapidly changing environments.

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Published December, 2022
By Lisa Kemmerer
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While explicitly set against a backdrop of sexism in social justice activism more generally, this book exposes causes, pervasiveness, harms, and possible directions for change with regard to sexism and male privilege in the animal activist movement.

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Published December, 2022
By Peter Marton
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This book draws attention to the non-biological-political, economic, societal and cultural-variables shaping both the emergence and persistence of the COVID-19 pandemic and the global response to it, with a particular focus on political decisionmakers' role in the domestic and international politics surrounding the process of the pandemic.

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Published December, 2022
By John Miller and Ruth Hawthorn
Publisher: Macmillan Education (Palgrave Macmillan)
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Although it is often described as an essentially conservative form, detective fiction can unsettle the binary of human and animal to intersect with developing concerns in animal studies: animal agency, the ethical complexities of human/animal interaction, the politics and literary aesthetics of violence, and animal metaphor.

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Published December, 2022
By Claudia Egher
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This open access book explores how expertise about bipolar disorder is performed on American and French digital platforms by combining insights from STS, medical sociology and media studies.

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