Text| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Standard Loan | Moylish Library Main Collection | 613 HEL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 39002100308726 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
`[T]he text would be excellent reading for students, those working with students, and newly qualified healthcare professionals in all disciplines... It provides a strong message to healthcare professionals to keep their view of healthcare broad, patient-centred, and encompassing other professions′ - Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics
No single area of study, or any individual, can claim to have the answers to even the basic questions which surround human health. Trying to understand the nature of health requires insights from many different perspectives. Working for Health is a unique reader which draws together contributions from many of the disciplines which have traditionally laid claims to knowledge about health and combines them with more personal accounts.
Contributions to Working for Health have been carefully selected to reflect the diversity and pluralism in understanding `health′ and in delivering health care, making this an ideal text for students and practitioners in many fields including, health studies, nursing, social work, allied health professions and the voluntary sector. It is also a set book for The Open University course K203 Working for Health.
Published in association with the Open University.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Part 1 Theory And Ideology
- The Past, the Present and the Future
- Images of Health
- From Clinical Gaze to Regime of Total Health
- The Limitations of Evidence
- Postmodern Illness
- Ivan Illich and the Pursuit of Health
- Part 2 Social Patterns Of Health
- A Social View of Health and Disease
- Social Status, Inequality and Health
- Economics and Equity in Distribution of Scarce Health Care Resources
- The Politics of Women's Health
- Setting a Global Agenda
- Part 3 Public Health Issues
- Health Public Policy
- Rethinking Environment and Health
- Globalization of International Health
- Health Impact Assessment
- Young People, Transport and Environment Risk
- Perceptions and Responses
- The Health and Social Impact of Participation in the Arts
- Prevention May Be More Expensive than Cure
- Is Research into Ethnicity and Health Racist, Unsound, or Important Science?
- Part 4 The Human Side Of Health
- My Body Is My Art
- User Involvement and Participation in the NHS
- A Personal Perspective
- Quality Comes Home
- Masculinity and the Redundant Male
- Explaining the Increasing Incarceration of Young Men
- Social Economic and Political Context of Parenting
- Communicating the Implications of Genetic Disease
- The Physiology of Stressful Life Experiences
- Part 5 Caring And Curing
- Understanding Chronic Illness
- Caring, Curing and Coping
- Sexuality, the Body and Nursing
- Swimming in the Sea of Ethics and Values
- Stories and Childbirth
- Research in Holistic Medicine
- The Use of Medicines Bought in Pharmacies and Other Retail Outlets
- Private Medicine
- Part 6 Looking To The Future
- Pharmacogenomics
- Towards the Millennium of Cybermedicine
- Working Whole Systems
- Future Health Scenarios and Public Policy