Understanding health and social care : an introductory reader / edited by Margaret Allot and Martin Robb, in association with the Open University.

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This introductory text provides a wide-ranging collection of key readings in the field of health and social care.

The book features classic readings alongside articles reflecting the most recent theoretical and empirical work. Cutting across the conventional divide between health care and social care, the Reader sets out to link policy to practice in a tangible way, juxtaposing the voices of a range of carers and service users with insights from academic debate and research.

The Reader is divided into five sections focusing on: the experience of caring or being cared for; the environment in which care takes place; the ways in which care has been conceptualized; issues of abuse in care settings; and the political context of care.

Understanding Health and Social Care is the course reader for The Open University′s level one undergraduate course in health and social care (K100).

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Introduction
• Part 1 Accounts of Care and Caring
• Introduction
• Anthology
• Voices from the Institutions
• The Insider Researcher
• A 'Tangled Web' of Emotions
• Caring in Families
• A Case Study
• Snowballs and Acorns
• Medicine by Impact
• Nursing Practice and the Lived Experience of Illness
• Part 2 Where Care Takes Place
• Introduction
• The Persistent Image
• Total Institutions
• Losing Your Home
• The Physical World
• Black Perspectives on Residential Care - Black Perspectives Sub-Group
• The Shifting Concept of Community
• Part 3 Models of Care: Challenge and Change
• Introduction
• Striking Balances
• Living with Parkinson's Disease
• The New Obstetrics
• Science or Social Control?
• Listening and Life History Work
• Approaches to Reminiscence
• From Group Meeting to Therapeutic Group
• Housing Primary Health Care in the Community
• Creating a Space for Absent Voices
• Disabled Women's Experience of Receiving Assistance with Daily Living Activities
• Carers and Professionals
• The Carer's Viewpoint
• 'He's Our Child and We Shall Always Love Him'
• The Parents' Response
• The Cloak of Professionalism
• Principles of Empowerment
• Part 4 When Care Goes Wrong
• Introduction
• Towards an Explanation of the Corruption of Care
• Bedroom Abuse
• The Hidden Work in a Nursing Home
• Body Care and Learning To Do for Others
• Child Protection - Dartington Social Research Unit (HMSO)
• Messages from Research
• Elder Abuse and the Policing of Community Care
• Part 5 Contexts Of Care: Policies and Politics
• Introduction
• Becoming Consumers of Community Care
• Households within the Mixed Economy of Welfare
• The Medical/Social Boundary
• Working on the Front-Line
• Risk Culture and Nursing in the New NHS
• Learning Disabilities
• A Service in Jeopardy
• Evaluating Market Principles in Health Care
• Principles of Reform
• Alternative Futures