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Complementary and Alternative Medicine Containing and Expanding Therapeutic Possibilities

Complementary and Alternative Medicine Containing and Expanding Therapeutic Possibilities

Complementary and Alternative Medicine is a sociological investigation of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in contemporary society and an exploration of the forces throughout the globe across different institutions and within different therapeutic spaces that constrain or foster alternative medicine. Drawing on 30 years of research the book identifies the trends in the use of CAM and explores the scientific political and social challenges that CAM faces in relation to orthodox medicine. The author examines the varieties of CAM practices and how they manifest in different institutional spaces – including public inquiries the orthodox medical practitioner’s consulting room medical journals and the homes of those who use CAM. It also compares unorthodox practices in different geo-political settings namely the global north and the global south. This book is valuable reading for higher-level undergraduate and postgraduate social science students including those in psychology sociology anthropology health sciences and related disciplines. It is relevant for courses in medical sociology medical anthropology and social science and health and a broader audience interested in contemporary health issues controversies and alternative medicine. | Complementary and Alternative Medicine Containing and Expanding Therapeutic Possibilities

GBP 38.99
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Deep Excavations in Soil

Deep Excavations in Soil

The book describes the theory and current practices for design of earth lateral support for deep excavations in soil. It addresses basic principles of soil mechanics and explains how these principles are embodied in design methods including hand calculations. It then introduces the use of numerical methods including the fundamental “beam on springs” models and then more sophisticated computer programmes which can model soil as a continuum in two or three dimensions. Constitutive relationships are introduced that are in use for representing the behaviour of soil including a strain hardening model and a Cam Clay model including groundwater flow and coupled consolidation. These methods are illustrated by reference to practical applications and case histories from the author’s direct experience and some of the pitfalls that can occur are discussed. Theory and design are strongly tied to construction practice with emphasis on monitoring the retaining structures and movement of surrounding ground and structures in the context of safety and the Observational Method. Examples are presented for conventional “Bottom-up” and “Top-down” sequences along with hybrid sequences giving tips on how to optimise the design and effect economies of cost and time for construction. It is written for practising geotechnical civil and structural engineers and especially for senior and MSc students.

GBP 42.99
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Nuclear Playground

Nuclear Playground

In the late 1980s it was felt that World War III could start in the Pacific. Long regarded by the USA as an American lake the Pacific was now a focus of competition between the superpowers. The USSR whose nuclear-arms navy was limited to their north Pacific ports now had a major new naval base at Cam Ranh Bay in Vietnam. In response to this new threat the Americans were planning more urgently for nuclear war in the Pacific adding to their own mighty arsenal in the region and taunting the Soviets with aggressive surveillance and military exercises. The Soviets did the same. For 40 years Pacific Islanders have had cause to resent the use of their ocean as a nuclear playground: of the five nuclear powers three – the USA USSR and China – launched missiles into the Pacific for text purposes; two – the USA and Britain – exploded nuclear devices there but had stopped; and one France continued to test nuclear bombs in one of its colonies. Pacific Islanders now have cause to fear that the ocean is becoming a nuclear battleground. Originally published in 1987 this book tells the story of the nuclear men in the Pacific and of those people they ‘displaced’ and irradiated. It is also about what these people and their governments had begun to do in response. The nuclear issue had transformed the political landscape of Micronesia and the South Pacific in the 1980s loosening the US grip and making the French increasingly unpopular. The people of these remote communities largely forgotten or considered dispensable had a nuclear past made for them. Now they want to make their own future.

GBP 29.99
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