Health Care Delivery category: 1556 books
The Body Multiple
Ontology in Medical Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2003
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. A patient information leaflet might describe atherosclerosis as the gradual obstruction of...
Youth Work Process, Product and Practice
Creating an authentic curriculum in work with young people
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
Youth Work Process and Practice provides an overview of the central concerns in youth work today, exploring what youth work actually consists in and developing an authentic theoretical framework for practice.
This accessible textbook places the role of the curriculum and idea of practice as...
The New Handbook of Children's Rights
Comparative Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2001
The new edition of this well established handbook provides up-to-date information on a topic of increasing importance across a range of disciplines and practices. It covers:* the debate concerning children's rights and developments in rights provision over the last twenty years* the impact of recent British legislation on children's rights in key a
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Under the weight of apparently growing consumer affluence, globalisation and post-modern social theory, many have proclaimed the declining significance of social class and place to young people’s lives – and for social science. Drawing upon new, empirically grounded, theoretically innovative studies,...
Social Work
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
What are the key ideas that underpin social work practice?
This inspiring Reader brings together some of the most significant ideas which have informed social work practice over the last forty years. Exploring these fundamental ideas, the book includes commentaries that allow the reader to...
How Organisations Measure Success
The Use of Performance Indicators in Government
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2002
Throughout the 1980s the British Civil Service devoted much time and energy developing indicators to measure the performance of government. Never before had so much stress been placed on accountability and performance; a trend which will be reinforced as government continues to devolve activities...
by Neil Bateman
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
Practising Welfare Rights aims to improve awareness among people working in social work and advice agencies about the skills required for effective welfare rights work, and offers guidance for managers and other professionals about how to develop a welfare rights service.
Written by a well-known...
by Piaget, Jean
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Piaget, Jean
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Interdependence and Uncertainty
A study of the building industry
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences.
This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have...
by Thomas E. Yingling
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Thomas Yingling was a rising star in American studies, a leading figure in gay and lesbian studies, and a prominent theorist of AIDS and cultural politics when he died in 1992. AIDS and the National Body is a brilliant excursion into the mind and heart of Yingling, author of the critically acclaimed...
Is Anyone Listening?
Accountability and Women Survivors of Domestic Violence
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Domestic violence is in the public eye as never before, but how often are abused women consulted or involved in the new services and policies? This book investigates, and reveals that the voices of survivors of domestic violence are often simply not heard; silenced, the women themselves become invisible.
Is...
Birthing a Mother
The Surrogate Body and the Pregnant Self
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2010
Birthing a Mother is the first ethnography to probe the intimate experience of gestational surrogate motherhood. In this beautifully written and insightful book, Elly Teman shows how surrogates and intended mothers carefully negotiate their cooperative endeavor. Drawing on anthropological fieldwork...
A Minyan of Women
Family Dynamics, Jewish Identity and Psychotherapy Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This book explores the diverse manner in which family dynamics shaped Jewish identities in ways that were unique and directly connected to their experiences within their families of origin. Highlighted is the diversity of experience of ethnic identity within members of a group of women who are similar...