Health Care Delivery category: 1556 books
Child Protection and Family Support
Tensions, Contradictions and Possibilities
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2002
First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Representations of Death
A Social Psychological Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Drawing upon a rare and highly original ethnography of contemporary mortuary practices, Representations of Death takes the reader through the medical, bureaucratic, commercial and ritual aspects of death Going behind the scenes at hospitals, funeral parlours, crematoria and cemeteries, as well as...
by Graham Scambler
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2005
In examining the social and psychological aspects of epilepsy, the author takes not only the perspectives of individuals and their families, but also popular conceptions of the disorder. The result is an illuminating account of the social reality of epilepsy that demonstrates the distinctive contribution that the social sciences can play in understanding illness.
Torticollis
Differential Diagnosis, Assessment and Treatment, Surgical Management and Bracing
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Torticollis: Differential Diagnosis, Assessment and Treatment, Surgical Management and Bracing fulfills a need, long overdue. To provide pediatric physicians, orthopedists, surgeons, physical therapists, occupational therapists, and family physicians with a systematic approach to the assessment and...
Diagnosis in Social Work
New Imperatives
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
How can you make necessary professional judgments without being judgmental?
Assessment and diagnostic skills are essential professional tools for the social worker, but all too often they are neglected or downplayed. Diagnosis in Social Work argues for the reinstatement of social diagnosis...
Schistosomiasis Control in China
Diagnostics and Control Strategies Leading to Success
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Schistosomiasis is one of the most prevalent parasitic diseases worldwide and continues to be a public health concern in many countries. China made huge progress in the control of Schistosomiasis japonica, aiming at the elimination of the disease from many previously endemic areas. This book presents...
Professions and the Public Interest
Medical Power, Altruism and Alternative Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2005
The importance and influence of professions in public life has grown increasingly over the twentieth century but the question of whether they subordinate their own self-interests to the public interest has yet to be adequately researched within a major sociological perspective. In Professions and...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Biological Psychology is the study of psychological processes in terms of biological functions. A major obstacle to understanding dialogue in the field has always been its terminology which is drawn from a variety of non-psychological sources such as clinical medicine, psychiatry and neuroscience,...
Cooperative Reference
Social Interaction in the Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Expert advice for more effective teamwork in the library!
Cooperative Reference: Social Interaction in the Workplace addresses the need for reference librarians to work together to keep the system running smoothly. This book explores the various means of developing social professionalism, collaborating...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
This fully updated new edition of Ethical Issues in Youth Work presents a comprehensive overview and discussion of a range of ethical challenges facing youth workers in their everyday practice.
The first part offers a clear outline of the nature of professional ethics, relevant ethical theories...
Criminal Conversations
An Anthology of the Work of Tony Parker
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2005
This anthology, selected by Tony Parker shortly before his death in 1996, provides the very essence of his quite distinctive contribution to criminology. In it he speaks intimately to all kinds of people including offenders, inadequates, professional criminals, sex offenders, frauds and false pretence...
Wednesday's Child
Research into Women's Experience of Neglect and Abuse in Childhood and Adult Depression
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
As many as one in four women have suffered severe neglect or abuse in childhood. This doubles the likelihood of their suffering clinical depression in adult life. Based on twenty years of systematic research,Wednesday's Child examines why neglect and abuse occur and demonstrates how such negative...
The Child's Discovery of Death
A study in child psychology
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Routledge is now re-issuing this prestigious series of 204 volumes originally published between 1910 and 1965. The titles include works by key figures such asC.G. Jung, Sigmund Freud, Jean Piaget, Otto Rank, James Hillman, Erich Fromm, Karen Horney and Susan Isaacs. Each volume is available on its...
Remaking the Body
Rehabilitation and Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
In Remaking the Body, Wendy Seymour interviews men and women who have suffered profound bodily paralysis, and explores how they deal with their appearance, relationships, sexuality, incontinence and sport. She finds that even major impairment hasn't annihilated these people's experience of an embodied...