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  • Health and Deprivation

    Inequality and the North

    by Peter Townsend, Peter Phillimore, Alastair Beattie ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Inequality
    When originally published in 1988, this book presented new evidence of inequalities in health found among communities in different areas of the North of England. It relates this evidence to long-term trends taking place in patterns of health in Britain as a whole and explores how far health inequalities can be explained by variations in material deprivation. The book provides a detailed ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

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  • The Welfare State We're In

    by James Bartholomew ...
    The welfare state is one of Britain's crowning achievements. Or is it? In this seminal book, now studied in universities in Britain and elsewhere, James Bartholomew advances the sacrilegious argument that, however well meaning its founders, the welfare state has done more harm than good. He argues that far from being the socialist utopia the post-war generation dreamed of, the welfare state has ... Read more

    $12.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Education in Scotland

    Policy and Practice from Pre-School to Secondary

    Edited by Margaret M Clark, Pamela Munn ...
    Education in Scotland is markedly different from what happens in the rest of the UK - with a different National Curriculum, school boards to oversee school management and a General Teaching Council which has been in existence since 1965. Whilst there are many examples of successful and innovative practice in Scotland, the system is quite often not recognised as different by writers who talk about ... Read more

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  • Law, Ethics and Professional Issues for Nursing

    A Reflective and Portfolio-Building Approach

    by Herman Wheeler ...
    This comprehensive new textbook covers core ethical and legal content for pre-registration nursing students. It provides readers with a sound understanding of the interrelationships between the NMC's code of conduct, standards and competencies, ethics and relevant sections of the English legal system.The only truly integrated text in the field, it opens with overviews of law and nursing, and ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Law for Nurses and Midwives - E-Book

    by Patricia J Staunton, Mary Chiarella ...
    This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. Nursing & the Law is the best known and most established health law textbook in Australia. The only law text written specifically for nurses, the 6th edition has been fully revised and updated, and includes and discusses current statutes and legislation for every state and territory. It retains many of ... Read more

    $77.39 USD

  • Fundamental Aspects of Legal, Ethical and Professional Issues in Nursing 2nd Edition

    by Sally Carvalho ...
    Series Book 19 - Fundamental Aspects of Nursing
    This popular title from the Fundamental Aspects of Nursing series has been revised and updated to reflect the advances in the field. Vital reading for all student nurses to help them develop an understanding of the myriad of dilemmas in professional practice and ensure they meet professional standards. This book will outline the implications and application of the relevant recent legislation that ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Safeguarding Adults and the Law

    by Michael Mandelstam ...
    The safeguarding of vulnerable adults continues to increase in importance. Safeguarding Adults and the Law, now in its second edition, sets this complex area of work within an extensive legal framework and provides many useful pointers for practitioners and students.The book covers, for example, Department of Health guidelines, human rights, the regulation of health and social care providers, the ... Read more

    $68.09 USD

  • Unequal Health

    The Scandal of Our Times

    by Danny Dorling ...
    Health inequalities are the most important inequalities of all. In the US and the UK these inequalities have now reached an extent not seen for over a century. Most people's health is much better now than then, but the gaps in life expectancy between regions, between cities, and between neighbourhoods within cities now surpass the worst measures over the last hundred years. In almost all other ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • Ageing in Australia

    Challenges and Opportunities

    Edited by Kate O’Loughlin, Colette Browning, Hal Kendig ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This stimulating volume examines the many faces of Australia’s ageing population, the social and health issues they contend with, and the steps being taken—and many that should be taken—to help ensure a more positive and productive later life. Individual and societal ageing are conceptualized as developmental in nature, socially diverse, and marked by daily life challenges stemming from the ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Understanding Disability Policy

    by Alan Roulstone, Simon Prideaux ...
    Series series Understanding Welfare: Social Issues, Policy and Practice
    In an era of scarce social resources the question of the changing social policy constructions and responses to disabled people has become increasingly important. Paradoxically, some disabled people are realising new freedoms and choices never before envisioned, whilst others are prey to major retractions in public services and aggressive attempts to redefine who counts as 'genuinely disabled' ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Law and Ethics in Nursing and Healthcare

    An Introduction

    by Graham Avery ...
    Now in its second edition, Law and Ethics in Nursing and Healthcare: An Introduction continues to provide all the information nursing and healthcare students need to know about ‘what is legal’ and ‘how to decide what is right’ in order to practise safely and ethically. Graham Avery focuses directly on the vital areas – such as negligence, consent, confidentiality, and professional conduct – with a ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • How We Treat the Sick

    Neglect and Abuse in Our Health Services

    by Michael Mandelstam ...
    No official statistics are kept for the number of hospital patients, in particular older people, who are subjected to neglect and abuse. That is, left malnourished and dehydrated, in pain, allowed to develop agonising and fatal pressure sores, not taken to the toilet, left to lie in their own bodily waste, cared for in a filthy environment and at risk of infection, ignored, allowed to fall over ... Read more

    $36.89 USD