Medical / Allied Health Services

Interprofessional Collaboration: From Policy to Practice in Health and Social Care

by Audrey Leathard

Interprofessional collaboration in the health and social care services has become a commanding force, spear-headed by the Government's modernisation programme to improve partnership.

Interprofessional Collaboration...

Class Struggle and Social Welfare

by Michael Lavalette & Gerry Mooney

For too long the collective struggles of the oppressed over welfare provision and welfare settlement have been ignored, yet such struggles punctuate recent British history. By presenting a series of case-studies...

Counseling Pregnancy, Politics, and Biomedicine: Empowering Discernment

by Patricia Elyse Terrell

Examine the impact and importance reproduction and genetics have on religious values

Counseling Pregnancy, Politics, and Biomedicine: Empowering Discernment explains the mystery of the God-human relationship...

Vestibular Processing Dysfunction in Children

by Kenneth J Ottenbacher & Margaret A Short Degraft

This collection of chapters is intended to help expand, organize, and enhance understanding of the scientific and clinical relevance of vestibular-related research. Articles present a well-developed body of...

Elder Abuse and Mistreatment

by Joanna Mellor & Patricia Brownell

Provide the most effective service possible to help victims of this growing social problem

Elder Abuse and Mistreatment is a comprehensive overview of current policy issues, new practice models, and up-to-date...

Prevention of Intimate Partner Violence

by Sandra Stith

Stop intimate partner violence before it starts

Intimate partner violence touches everyone. With more than 1 million cases reported each year, this pervasive social problem has devastating effects on victims,...

Homelessness, Health Care and Welfare Provision

by Kevin Fischer & Dr John Collins

Homelessness, Health Care and Welfare Provision is the first known publication in which service providers examine the particular difficulties encountered by homeless people in gaining access to healthcare, both...

Politics of Mental Health in Italy

by Michael Donnelly

In 1978 Italy passed a deeply radical law closing all its mental health hospitals. This was the culmination of the growth and development of a very strong anti-psychiatry movement which had sprung up in the...

Regulating Womanhood

by Carol Smart

This collection of original essays looks at a topic of growing interest and debate in feminist and historical circles: the social regulation of women through law during the 19th and 20th centuries, and the resistance...

Problem-Based Learning in a Health Sciences Curriculum

by Christine Alavi

Problem-based learning places the student at the centre of a process which integrates what is learned in a lecture with what the student actually experiences in practice. The authors of this book use their experience...

Rethinking Prostitution: Purchasing Sex in the 1990s

by Graham Scambler

The growth of AIDS has focused renewed attention on the institution of prostitution. In contrast to the moral panic reaction of some sectors of society, very different initiatives are being displayed by other...

Social Action with Children and Families: A Community Development Approach to Child and Family Welfare

by Crescy Cannan & Chris Warren

Meeting the needs of children at the same time as promoting family life is more than a question of resources: it needs a culture change in social services: a rediscovery and a modernization of the social action...

Food, Health and Identity

by Pat Caplan

By addressing the issue of food and eating in Britain today this collection considers the ways in which food habits are changing and shows how social and personal identities and perceptions of health risk influence...

Family and Community Life of Older People: Social Networks and Social Support in Three Urban Areas

by Miriam Bernard, Jim Ogg & Judith and Phillips

Family life has changed rapidly over te past fifty years and the number of people living longer increases year on year Family and Community Life of Older People revisits three areas (Bethnal Green in London,...

Reproductive Genetics, Gender and the Body

by Elizabeth Ettorre

This book is all about reproductive genetics, a sociological concept developed to define the use of DNA-based technologies in the medical management and supervision of reproduction and pregnant women. In a searching...

A Handbook for Action Research in Health and Social Care

by Carol Munn-Giddings & Richard Winter

Action research is a form of research closely linked to practice which can readily be undertaken by practitioners and service users. This handbook offers a comprehensive guide to action research as a strategy...

Social Work and Social Care

by Lester Parrott

Social Work and Social Care has been revised and updated to take into account the profound changes that have occurred in social work over the past two years, in particular the extensive legislative changes to...

Commissioning and Purchasing

by Terry Bamford

This essential guide to commissioning and purchasing in social care provides case studies, guidelines, and checklists to help readers to assess need, develop care plans and select suppliers of care. It clearly...

Reflections on Community Psychiatric Nursing

by Tony Gillam

Reflections on Community Psychiatric Nursing provides new insights into many aspects of the CPN's work. Written by a practising CPN , this is a lively and easy-to-read introduction to the key debates in community...

New Qualitative Methodologies in Health and Social Care Research

by Frances Rapport

This edited volume brings together innovative contributions from a range of health and social care professionals and research scientists who are interested in introducing new approaches to qualitative research...