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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2009Caring for someone with a long-term illness
by John Costello
Caring for someone with a long-term illness is the first book in the Support for Friends and Family series from Manchester University Press. Caring for, or being close to someone who cares for a person with a long-term illness can be very difficult, and not knowing how to help can be frustrating. The book is designed to help friends, family and carers understand the practical and personal issues that face carers; providing useful suggestions on how to understand the carer's role and ways to make the experience easier for the carer and those around them. This is less of a how to do book and more a selection of chapters giving advice on things to say, things to do, and where to look for advice and practical help when needed. Carers and their friends and family will find this book an invaluable resource on how to act (or simply give peace and quiet) in the most welcome and appropriate way.
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The ArtsMarch 2026Surrealist women artists and mental illness
by Jenny Anger
Female mental illness has been a prominent and complicated theme in surrealist cultural traditions, including the idealization of women with mental illness in works such as André Breton's Nadja (1928). Art historians have examined this tendency before, but to date there has been no comprehensive study of the lived reality of women surrealist artists with mental illness. How did women's experience and their work intersect with this romanticized vision? Was the masculine dream of feminized, "mad" genius prohibitive or productive for these women artists? After establishing the ideological field within which these women worked, the book turns to case studies of well-known and some lesser-known artists, including Ángeles Santos, Leonora Carrington, Dora Maar, Claude Cahun, Frida Kahlo, Meret Oppenheim, Sonja Sekula, and Unica Zürn. This collection of essays contains a wide range of responses, revealing surrealism's generative as well as restrictive force.
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Business, Economics & LawJune 2020Violence against women's health in international law
by Sara De Vido, Jean D'Aspremont, Iain Scobbie
The book explores the relationship between violence against women on the one hand, and the rights to health and to reproductive health on the other. It argues that the violation of the right to health is a consequence of violence (horizontal dimension) as much as State health policies (vertical dimension) might be a cause of - or create the conditions for - violence against women. It significantly contributes to the feminist and international human rights legal scholarship by conceptualizing a new ground-breaking notion, violence against women's health (VAWH), using the Hippocratic paradigm as approach. The book is divided into 5 chapters: the introduction; the Anamnesis examining around 70 decisions of domestic, regional and international judicial or quasi-judicial bodies; the Diagnosis, unravelling the innovative notion at the core of the book; the Treatment, containing a re-conceptualisation of States' obligations in countering VAWH; and the Prognosis as conclusions.
