Health Care Delivery category: 1556 books
Bodies, Commodities, and Biotechnologies
Death, Mourning, and Scientific Desire in the Realm of Human Organ Transfer
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2006
In the United States today, the human body defines a lucrative site of reusable parts, ranging from whole organs to minuscule and even microscopic tissues. Although the medical practices that enable the transfer of parts from one body to another most certainly relieve suffering and extend lives, they...
by Elizabeth Ettorre
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
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 analysis, Elizabeth Ettorre uncovers the hidden social processes involved in the development...
Vaccines and Your Child
Separating Fact from Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2011
Paul A. Offit and Charlotte A. Moser answer questions about the science and safety of modern vaccines. In straightforward prose, they explain how vaccines work, how they are made, and how they are tested. Most important, they separate the real risks of vaccines from feared but unfounded risks.
Offit...
Child Welfare in the Legal Setting
A Critical and Interpretive Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Explore legal issues that often hinder the work of child welfare practitioners!
Child Welfare in the Legal Setting: A Critical and Interpretive Perspective is a revolutionary study of the child welfare system that is essential for practitioners, educators, and students interested in public...
Working with Men
Feminism and Social Work
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
One of feminism's key contributions to improving social work practice has been to expose the gender-blindness which has characterized social work policy and literature.
Working with Men extends and diversifies this contribution by presenting a controversial collection of essays written by feminists...
by Maritza Montero
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Improve decision-making skills for community organizations and their leaders-from a participatory perspective!
This book will show you how (and why) participatory communities come into being and what they can accomplish, regardless of the current political climate. It also examines leadership-and...
by PhD, Melissa Farley
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2004
Prostitution, Trafficking, and Traumatic Stress offers the reader an analysis of prostitution and trafficking as organized interpersonal violence. Even in academia, law, and public health, prostitution is often misunderstood as sex work. The book’s 32 contributors offer clinical examples, analysis, and original research that cou
Welcome to Biscuit Land
A Year in the Life of Touretteshero
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2012
A witty, yet stirring firsthand account of dealing with the daily difficulties of Tourette's Syndrome--a neurological disorder characterized by physical and verbal tics--Jess Thom shares a year of her life, detailing the entire spectrum of her experiences. From arm and leg tics that can occasionally...
by David F Gillespie
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
The phenomenon of burnout first became the subject of public attention in the mid-1970s. This landmark volume is one of the first devoted exclusively to theoretical and empirical work on burnout. Each valuable chapter represents the state of the art in social services research on burnout. Burnout...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Over the past 25 years, developing coordinated responses to intimate partner violence and sexual violence has improved both perpetrator accountability, and victim safety and self-determination. However, preventing intimate partner violence and sexual violence from occurring is beyond the ability of...
The Power of Connection
Recent Developments in Relational-Cultural Theory
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Relational-Cultural theory (RCT) proposes that all people grow through and toward relationships throughout the lifespan. RCT challenges prevailing theories that depict the "separate self" as the hallmark of maturity. Rather than movement toward autonomy and separation, RCT suggests we develop...
Groupwork With Women/Groupwork With Men
An Overview of Gender Issues in Social Groupwork Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
This important book focuses on the subject of gender as a factor to be considered in forming and managing groups in social work practice.
Practice and Research in Social Work
Postmodern Feminist Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2005
Although postmodernist theory has been related to and explored in sociology and social policy, this book is amongst the first to apply the theories to social work, and relate them to current debates. Contributors come from the UK, Australia, South Africa and Canada and many have professional experience...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
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