Xlibris - A short treatise on a common sense framework for health care reform

Researching Cultural Differences in Health

Practice Issues in Sexuality and Learning Disabilities

Observing Organisations

Medicines Management: A Nursing Perspective

Medicines Management: A Problem-Based Approach uses patient scenarios to explore pharmacology and medicines management.

The Good Doctor: What Patients Want

Drawing upon real accounts of negligence, incompetence, and distrust, this book seeks to identify the key competencies of a good doctor, the ways in which medical care fails, and the roadblocks to ensuring that every licensed doctor is capable.

Along the Continuum of Care

Along the Continuum of Care creates a mind shift for the case manager in the new paradigm to be effective "agents of change" and "resource connectors". The urgent need to improve health outcomes is resulting in moment-to-moment changes in the world of case management.

The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice

The Body Multiple is an extraordinary ethnography of an ordinary disease. Drawing on fieldwork in a Dutch university hospital, Annemarie Mol looks at the day-to-day diagnosis and treatment of atherosclerosis.

The Anatomy of Bereavement: A Handbook for the Caring Professions

First published in 1985. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Lone Parent Families: Gender, Class and State

Appropriate as supplemental reading for courses in Social Policy and Social Studies that examine the role of parenting in society. The subject of lone mothers is a controversial and highly topical social and political issue.

Thriving in Unpredictable Times

In creating this book we have sought to bring to health care a number of ideas under the heading of agility. The ideas have their roots in many different areas; different worlds that have devised ways of dealing with situations and circumstances.

How Organisations Measure Success: The Use of Performance Indicators in Government

Throughout the 1980s the British Civil Service devoted much time and energy developing indicators to measure the performance of government.

Encyclopedia of AIDS: A Social, Political, Cultural, and Scientific Record of the HIV Epidemic

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

In Search of Medicine's Moral Compass

In an age where uncertainty rules the day, Dr. Rob Tenery has given us a book that explains how health care has evolved into a $2.

The Paradox of Hope: Journeys through a Clinical Borderland

Grounded in intimate moments of family life in and out of hospitals, this book explores the hope that inspires us to try to create lives worth living, even when no cure is in sight.

HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT FOR EMERGING NATIONS

SUMMARY Every nation should determine the future and the goals of public health inn protecting its population. As Western nations such as tobacco companies of the United States, Britain and others, are improving their gross national products, they are instead exporting a major public health burden to the Emerging nations….

The Handbook of Separation and Divorce

There are few people whose lives are unaffected by marriage breakdown. Yet how many are well informed about the divorce process and/or appreciate the wide powers the court has to redistribute property and income after divorce?

Homelessness, Health Care and Welfare Provision

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 in Britain and the US.

Human Behavior in the Social Environment: Interweaving the Inner and Outer Worlds

Human Behavior in the Social Environment: Interweaving the Inner and Outer Worlds is an essential human behavior textbook for social work students.

AIDS as a Gender Issue: Psychosocial Perspectives

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Research Handbook for Health Care Professionals

The Research Handbook for Health Care Professionals is the essential guide to the entire research process for students and practitioners alike.

Hyping Health Risks

The media constantly bombard us with news of health hazards lurking in our everyday lives, but many of these hazards turn out to have been greatly overblown. According to author and epidemiologist Geoffrey C.

Making Social Work News

First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Analysing Social Work Communication: Discourse in Practice

With communication and relationships at the core of social work, this book reveals the way it is foremost a practice that becomes reality in dialogue, illuminating some of the profession's key dilemmas.

Couples, Conflict and Change: Social Work with Marital Relationships

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Revolutionary Doctors: How Venezuela and Cuba Are Changing the Worlds Conception of Health Care

Revolutionary Doctors gives readers a first-hand account of Venezuela's innovative and inspiring program of community healthcare, designed to serve-and largely carried out by-the poor themselves.

The aWAKE Project, Second Edition: Uniting Against the African AIDS Crisis

""Today, this very day, 5,500 Africans will die of AIDS. If this isn't emergency, what is?

Culture, Values and Ethics in Social Work: Embracing Diversity

This groundbreaking book examines the ways in which questions of culture and diversity impact on the values and ethics of social work.

Overdiagnosed: Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health

Using Technology in Human Services Education: Going the Distance

Make the most of what today's technology has to offer in human services education! Distance education presents special challenges to social work education.

Basic Social Policy and Planning: Strategies and Practice Methods

In Basic Social Policy and Planning, Burch presents a generic process for professional intervention and social work leadership that is required of those who desire to achieve improvements in the lives of those they serve.

Home Health Care for Children Who are Technology Dependent

As technology grows more sophisticated, more and more children will receive therapies such as apnea monitoring, dialysis, and prolonged IV therapy at home on an ongoing basis.

Cancer in a Cold Climate: The Shafting of St Luke's Hospital

We are working towards developing one of the most advanced networks of radiation oncology in the world' National Cancer Control Programme press office But in a revealing chapter entitled Big business: behind the plan to close St Luke's, health analyst and contributor, Marie O'Connor, says: 'Cancer sufferers will soon be treated like commodities, sold off, in effect, to the lowest bidder'. This is the backdrop to Cancer in a Cold Climate, a book about the struggle to save St Luke's Hospital, a beacon of medical care and spiritual sustenance for cancer sufferers and their families for over half a century in Ireland.

Education, Disordered Eating and Obesity Discourse: Fat Fabrications

This book investigates how 'body centred talk' around weight, fat, food and exercise is recycled in schools, enters educational processes, and impacts on the identities and health of young people.

Perioperative Drill-Based Crisis Management

It is essential that medical professionals in the operating room regularly undertake emergency drills. This unique book takes what can be an onerous task for leaders and operating room physicians, and makes it easy.

Making Healthcare Care: Managing via Simple Guiding Principles

A volume in I.S.

Mothers Surviving Child Sexual Abuse

Despite increased recognition of the high incidence of child sexual abuse, little attention has so far been paid to the women on whom children primarily depend for care adn protection - their mothers.

Community-Based Programs and Policies: Contributions to Social Policy Development in Health Care and Health Care-Related Services

This collection is focused on the provision of community-based programs and activities in health and related long-term care services that have contributed, or may in the future contribute, to social policy development.

Physical Environments and Aging: Critical Contributions of M. Powell Lawton to Theory and Practice

A tribute and guide to M. Powell Lawton's groundbreaking work!

Appreciative Healthcare Practice: A guide to compassionate, person-centred care

Written by a leading healthcare academic and an accredited international business coach, this book takes a new approach to one of the most crucial issues in healthcare how to care for patients appreciatively, responsively and compassionately.

Families and Communities Responding to AIDS

All over the world, families and communities are key providers of care and support. This is particularly true in relation to serious illnesses such as HIV and AIDS.