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9781847870810

Understanding Health and Social Care : An Introductory Reader

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  • ISBN13:

    9781847870810

  • ISBN10:

    1847870813

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2008-06-06
  • Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd

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The new edition of the best-selling reader Understanding Health and Social Care (previously edited by Maragraet Allot and Martin Robb) combines classic works with newly-commissioned material, offering readers unparalleled coverage of the key issues in health and social care. The breadth of material encompasses voices of service users, professional and lay carers, as well as academics and researchers. This Second Edition is organised into four new sections, each with a part introduction pulling together the main themes: " People focuses on those who use and provide health and social care services. " Places looks at where care is given " Approaches considers different ways through which care takes places " Ideas focuses on the ideas and policies that underpin care provision Full of real practice scenarios and examples, the book successfully makes the links between theory and practice, and will be an essential resource for all students studying at undergraduate level across the wide spectrum of health and social care.

Table of Contents

People
Anthology
'Kate': The Constant Rediscovery of a Poem
Racist Abuse Ruined My Life
Portering
The Insider Researcher
Carers And Professionals: The Carer's Viewpoint
Women and Men Talking about Poverty
Users' Experiences of Direct Payments
Places
Anthology
The Family Life of Old People
Estates
Independent Living, Politics and Policy in the United Kingdom
A Social Model Account
Losing Your Home
Total Institutions
Bedroom Abuse
The Internet in Everyday Life
Approaches
Joanna Bornat
Jocelyn Lawler - Anthology
Body Care Learning to Do for Others
The Case of the British NHS Procedures and the Professional
The Role of the Health Care Assistant Patient Safety Quality of Care
Risk Culture and Nursing in the NHS Working on the Front Line
How the Internet Affects Patients' Experience of Cancer
Patients' Experiences of Accessing their On-Line Electronic Patient Records in Primary Care
Positive Action
Ideas
Anthology
An Introduction to the Beveridge Report
From Care to Citizenship?
Ethics And Evidence-Based Medicine
The New Right
The Slow Birth of New Labour Britain
Who Cares in England and Wales? The Positive Care Law
The Health and Welfare Legacy
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