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9780750627382

Classic Texts in Health Care

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  • ISBN13:

    9780750627382

  • ISBN10:

    0750627387

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1998-06-08
  • Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann Medical
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Summary

Classic texts from the last fifty years have been brought together to present this unique collection of excerpts in one accessible volume. The editors would like this volume to be 'a window into the world of health research' for nursing and allied health students and professionals and it is hoped that readers will be tempted to delve further and explore many of the original papers and books.

Table of Contents

Health: some fundamental issues
Kelman - The social nature of the definition problem in health
McKeown - The role of medicine: dream, mirage, or nemesis
Strong - epidemic psychology: a model
Calnan: Health and illness: the lay perspective
Blaxter - health and lifestyles
Goffman - assylums
Professions
Hughes - the making of a physician
Melia - learning and working: the occupational socialization of nurses
Schon - the reflective practitioner: how professionals think in action
Etzioni - the semi-professions and their organization
Oakley - the importance of being a nurse
Armstrong - the fabrication of nurse-patient relationships
How far have we come? or fifty years of the National Health Service
Abel-Smith - health care before the National Health
Widgery - that National Health: a radical perspective
Titmuss - the gift relationship
Doyal - the political economy of health
Gillon - justice and allocation of medical resources
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