The aim of this book is to collect a range of perspectives from biomedical research on animal stress and welfare (including human health and human stress), and to assess new approaches to conceptualizing and alleviating stress. Authorities from North America, Europe and Australi…
For 20 years Soviet psychiatric abuse dominated the agenda of the World Psychiatric Association. It ended only after the Soviet Foreign Ministry intervened. Cold War in Psychiatry tells the full story for the first time and from inside, among others on basis of extensive reports…
For 20 years Soviet psychiatric abuse dominated the agenda of the World Psychiatric Association. It ended only after the Soviet Foreign Ministry intervened. Cold War in Psychiatry tells the full story for the first time and from inside, among others on basis of extensive reports…
This series seeks to publish original cutting-edge contributions to the fields of criminology, criminal justice and penology. Volumes published so far include discussions of Foucault and `governmentality'; critical criminology; victims and criminal justice; corporate crime; comp…
Privacy is an unwieldy concept that has eluded an essentialised definition despite its centrality and importance in the body of bioethics. The compilation presented in this volume represents continuing discussions on the theme of privacy in the context of genetic information. It…
A psychoanalyst reports on the causes of drug abuse and views addicts and pushers as society's scapegoats.
A psychoanalyst reports on the causes of drug abuse and views addicts and pushers as society's scapegoats.
As the world faces increasingly disparate challenges, science is being subjected to vehement demands from society calling for transparency, openness and public participation in science policy. This book provides a framework and a vision on how to conceive, discuss and evaluate t…
Kuhn focuses on the assumptions that theories of social control make about human nature and examines a number of social and developmental theories that have emerged since Hobbes, whose social contract theory, along with Freud's psychoanalytic theory, so often provide the foundat…
