Medical / Allied Health Services

Nursing the Image: Media, Culture and Professional Identity

by Julia Hallam

Ideas of 'nursing' and 'nurses' carry a powerful social charge. The image of the nurse continues to be a symbol of caring and of duty at the same time as it projects a view of femininity, 'stereotypical' in...

Prescribing Mental Health Medication: The Practitioner's Guide

by Christopher M. Doran

Prescribing Mental Health Medication is a text for nursing and medical practitioners who are learning how to diagnose and treat mental disorders with medication. Skills-based, it focuses on the following key...

Quality of Life: Concept, Policy and Practice

by David Phillips

Quality of life is one of the most important issues facing the world today and is central to the development of social policy.

This innovative book discusses this crucial topic, assessing the criteria for judging...

Studying the Organisation and Delivery of Health Services: A Reader

by Pauline Allen & Nick Black

Research into the delivery and organisation of health care is a vital component in the improvement of health services. A wide range of disciplines and methods needs to be deployed to address research questions...

Mental Health Issues and the Media: An Introduction for Health Professionals

by Gary Morris

Mental Health Issues and the Media provides students and professionals in nursing and allied professions, in psychiatry, psychology and related disciplines, with a theoretically grounded introduction to the...

The New Sugar Busters!(r) Shopper's Guide

by H. Leighton Steward

SUGAR BUSTERS!® forever changed the way Americans eat, offering a delicious new approach to diet and health. The SUGAR BUSTERS!® Shopper’s Guide soon followed–and made finding SUGAR BUSTERS!®-friendly...

Skills in Neighbourhood Work

by Paul Henderson & David N. Thomas

Skills in Neighbourhood Work is a practice textbook. It explains the skills, knowledge and techniques needed by community workers and other practitioners to work effectively in and with communities.

While the...

The Health and Care Revolution

by Kevin Dean and Muttukrishnan Rajarajan

The healthcare sector is facing a series of challenges that could seem insurmountable - an increase in demand caused by the ageing population in western, developed countries; the corresponding reduction in the...

Technology and Medical Practice: Blood, Guts and Machines

by Johnson & Berner

The advanced technologies being used in diagnosis and care within modern medicine, whilst supporting and making medical practices possible, may also conflict with established traditions of medicine and care....

Biomaterials Science: An Introduction to Materials in Medicine

by Buddy D. Ratner, Allan S. Hoffman & Frederick J. Schoen

• The most comprehensive textbook on the principles and applications of all classes of biomaterials
• Edited by four of the leaders in the biomaterials field today and fully endorsed and supported by the Society...

Biomedical Optical Phase Microscopy and Nanoscopy

by Natan T. Shaked, Zeev Zalevsky & Lisa L Satterwhite

Written by leading optical phase microscopy experts, this book is a comprehensive reference to phase microscopy and nanoscopy techniques for biomedical applications, including differential interference contrast...

Occupational Therapy Across Cultural Boundaries: Theory, Practice and Professional Development

by Susan Cook Merrill

This fascinating book examines the concept of culture from a unique perspective--that of individual occupational therapists who have worked in environments very different from those in which they were educated...

Graduate Theological Education and the Human Experience of Disability

by Robert C Anderson

Create pathways in theological education and congregational practice for people with disabilities!

Graduate Theological Education and the Human Experience of Disability examines graduate schools of theology...

Homelessness in America: Perspectives, Characterizations, and Considerations for Occupational Therapy

by Kathleen Swenso Miller, Georgiana L Herzberg & Sharon A Ray

Learn how to better address the needs of the homeless

The causes of homelessness are complex and varied. Homelessness in America provides an overview of the state of research on the homeless population from an...

Poverty, Welfare and the Disciplinary State

by Chris Jones & Tony Novak

A forward-looking appraisal of the welfare state which examines issues such as poverty in Britain, demonisation of the poor in areas of social policy and other related topics.

Sociology for Social Workers and Probation Officers

by Viviene E. Cree

How does a social work student make the connection between sociological knowledge and day-to-day social work procedures? Sociology for Social Workers provides an introduction to sociological ideas and research...

International Perspectives on Disability Services: The Same But Different

by Francis K.O. Yuen

Learn how to include multiculturalism in disability-related social work!

International Perspectives on Disability Services: The Same but Different presents different cultural and societal contexts on services...

Approaches to Measuring Human Behavior in the Social Environment

by William R. Nugent

Make the best use of measurement approaches that gauge social behavior

Here is a state-of-the-art examination of various approaches to measuring and assessing client functioning and specific aspects of clients’...

Maltreatment of Patients in Nursing Homes: There Is No Safe Place

by Diana Harris & Harold G Koenig

“Abuse, although often not detected or reported, existed in every facility we surveyed. It is a serious problem.”

Old, weak, and often cognitively impaired, nursing home patients can be easy targets for physical,...

Biomedical Organizations: A Worldwide Guide to Position Documents

by Dale Stirling

Determine what organizations have issued position statements on a specific subject!

A position document establishes the view of an organization based on its knowledge on the subject at that specific time. Biomedical...