This book explores the emotional care midwives give women to reduce distress and provide comfort. Based on research and written in accessible language, it is a useful source for students, voluntary groups, and women on their journey to motherhood.
Transnational Psychiatries
This book offers a new, transnational history of psychiatry. Through original case studies from South America, Asia, the Pacific, and Europe, it explores the global transfer of practices, revealing commonalities, contrasts, and interconnections.
These essays illustrate the power of gender stereotypes to shape how medicine is practiced and perceived. The chapters investigate gendered perceptions of healers and patients in narratives across fiction, memoir, film, new media, and visual art.
The Future of Post-Human Language
Does language delimit our mental world? Conventional views are misleading. This book provides a new way to understand the nature of learning that transcends the debate, with seminal implications for the future of how we think, feel, and do.
HIV / AIDS
This book explores how health communication is critical in lessening the spread of HIV and its devastating impacts. With no cure or vaccine, behavior change is the key to prevention, and the ideas here can spur new efforts and improve existing ones.
Diet and Exercise
This book explores the lifestyle and health choices of older British Pakistanis in Bradford, examining their dietary habits and attitudes towards physical activity. It reveals how migration and British cuisine have impacted their diet and fills an important gap.
Music
This book explores applications of music in healthcare with research from music therapy, sociology, and psychology. International authors present how music participation creates community, promotes health, and delivers patient-centred care.
Migrations
This collection of essays by international experts and New Zealand curators opens up the little-known medieval manuscripts of New Zealand to a wider audience, placing them within the international discourse of postcolonial heritage and manuscript studies.
The Legacy of William Carlos Williams
These essays examine William Carlos Williams’s continued importance to American poetry. The book highlights his impact on diverse poets and sheds light on contemporary trends by re-examining his work from the perspective of those he influenced.
This collection explores how Balkan literary and national poetics interrelate. Through innovative analysis of literature and film, it reveals a unique “mythistory”—a blend of myth and historical fact used to construct national identity.
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