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Social relationships have been repeatedly linked to health outcomes and even length of life, although how these effects occur remains a mystery. This volume puts forth emotion as a critical mediator of the social relationship-health nexus and presents findings from leading experts on how social emotions effect health outcomes.

This volume presents the ethical implications of risk information as related to genetics and other health data for policy decisions at clinical, research and societal levels. Ethical, Social and Psychological Impacts of Genomic Risk Communication examines the introduction of new types of health risk information based on faster, cheaper and larger sets of genetic or genomic analysis. Synthesizing the results of a five-year interdisciplinary project, it explores the unsolved ethical and social q...

First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This volume concentrates on research information on the beneficial effects of nitrates and their fate in the environment. Adopting an integrated approach it covers the agricultural, environmental and medical aspects of this emotive topic. In addition, there is an extensive description of the biochemistry of nitrates in plants, animals and humans including the positive aspects as well as the hazards.

Negative Horizon is Paul Virilio's most original and unified exploration of the key themes and ideas running through his work and thought. Provocatively and forcefully written, it sets out Virilio's theory of dromoscopy: a means of apprehending speed and its pivotal - and potentially destructive - role in contemporary global society. Applying this theory to Western political and military history, Virilio exposes a compulsion to accelerate, and the rise of a politics of time - encapsulated in the...

The monographs in this document provide information on chemical identity, properties, use, pharmacokinetics, metabolism, tissue residues and their depletion, and analytical methods for the following substances: Carbadox, Deltamethrin, Dicyclanil, Flumequine, Imidocarb dipropionate and Neomycin. The monographs of this volume must be considered in context of the full report of the meeting, which will be published in the WHO technical report series. This publication is intended for regulatory autho...

Do cell phones cause brain cancer? Does BPA threaten our health? How safe are certain dietary supplements, especially those containing exotic herbs or small amounts of toxic substances? Is the HPV vaccine safe? We depend on science and medicine as never before, yet there is widespread misinformation and confusion, amplified by the media, regarding what influences our health. In Getting Risk Right, Geoffrey C. Kabat shows how science works-and sometimes doesn't-and what separates these two very d...

The Harvard Medical School Guide to Men's Health assembles into a single volume a quarter-century's worth of hard-won knowledge about men's health -- knowledge that men need to lead longer, healthier lives. More than twenty-five years ago, researchers at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health began what have become the largest aggregate studies ever of men's health. Tracking 96,000 American men over decades, these studies provide the ultimate resource on what keeps men...

The last twenty years have seen a great upsurge of interest in the role of community health workers (CHWs) as an essential element in the provision of primary health care throughout the developing world. Tanzania has supported a programme of primary care involving CHWs since 1969. This book, based upon extensive surveys and interviews carried out by the authors in the period 1980-83, details the successes and shortcomings of the programme, and the way the lessons learned will be applied in the f...