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  • The Social Organisation of Health Visitor Training

    by Robert Dingwall ...
    Robert Dingwall's classic and original study of the training of health visitors (public health nurses) in the UK is now available in a convenient ebook edition, featuring linked notes, all tables from the print edition, linked subject index, and active Contents. This book has not been easily available in print for many years but has long been regarded as an important contribution to the study of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Protection of Children (Second Edition): State Intervention and Family Life

    by Robert Dingwall ...
    This classic study of law and social work in action (by Robert Dingwall, John Eekelaar and Topsy Murray) is based on the most extensive investigation of child abuse and neglect ever carried out in Great Britain. The authors followed the course of numerous cases from the first detection of ill-treatment to the resolution (or otherwise) of the problem. Famous for coining the much-used (and ... Read more

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  • The Sociology of the Professions: Lawyers, Doctors and Others

    by Robert Dingwall ...
    Robert Dingwall and Philip Lewis's renowned compilation of diverse studies—written by internationally recognized theorists and empirical researchers into the sociology of the professions—was groundbreaking when first published in 1983 and has influenced scholars, practitioners, and professionals since. Not limited to one occupation or field, as are most such works, this collection examines across ... Read more

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  • Quality and Regulation in Health Care

    International Experiences

    Edited by Robert Dingwall, Paul Fenn ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1992, Quality and Regulation in Health Care employs socio-legal ideas concerning regulation to examine the methods used to influence the quality of health care in the US, UK, and Western Europe. Throughout the Western world, health care systems, both public and private, are grappling with the problems of assuring quality while containing costs. On the one hand, governments and ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Qualitative Research Methods for Nurses

    by Robert Dingwall, Karen Staniland ...
    Covering the entire research process – from understanding theory to writing up your project – this book provides you with an easy-to-follow introduction to qualitative methods in nursing and healthcare.It offers straightforward guidance on key issues such as ethics and equips you with practical tools for approaching steps like searching and reviewing the literature. It also:Provides a clear ... Read more

    $54.89 USD

  • Pandemics and Emerging Infectious Diseases

    The Sociological Agenda

    Edited by Robert Dingwall, Lily M. Hoffman, Karen Staniland ...
    Series series Sociology of Health and Illness Monographs
    Infectious disease pandemics are a rising threat in our globalizing world. This agenda-setting collection provides international analysis of the pressing sociological concerns they confront us with, from cross-border coordination of public health governance to geopolitical issues of development and social equity.Focuses on vital sociological issues raised by resurgent disease pandemicsDetailed ... Read more

    $33.00 USD

  • Health and Safety in a Changing World

    Edited by Robert Dingwall, Shelley Frost ...
    When health and safety regulatory frameworks took their present form in the 1970s, they were seen as a triumph of welfare state intervention. Since then, as heavy industry has declined and office and retail employment have expanded, new ways of working have radically altered the context of health and safety policy. Many people have come to see health and safety interventions as an obstacle to ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The SAGE Handbook of Research Management

    Edited by Robert Dingwall, Mary Byrne McDonnell ...
    The Handbook of Research Management is a unique tool for the newly promoted research leader. Larger-scale projects are becoming more common throughout the social sciences and humanities, housed in centres, institutes and programmes. Talented researchers find themselves faced with new challenges to act as managers and leaders rather than as individual scholars. They are responsible for the careers ... Read more

    $118.79 USD

  • The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Methods in Health Research

    Edited by Ivy Bourgeault, Robert Dingwall, Ray de Vries ...
    The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Methods in Health Research is a comprehensive and authoritative source on qualitative research methods.The Handbook compiles accessible yet vigorous academic contributions by respected academics from the fast-growing field of qualitative methods in health research and consists of:- A series of case studies in the ways in which qualitative methods have contributed ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Aspects of Illness

    by Robert Dingwall ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2001. With critical observations on past approaches to this issue and the proposal of alternative lines of inquiry, this book is concerned with the attempts made by sociologists (and to a lesser extent, doctors) to account for patterns of social conduct that are observably associated with periods of illness. The author argues that medical sociologists have ... Read more

    $99.99 USD

  • Howard S. Becker

    Sociology and Music in the Chicago School

    by Jean Peneff ...
    Translated by Robert Dingwall ...
    Who is Howard S. Becker? This book traces his career, examining his work and contributions to the field of sociology. Themes covered include Becker’s theoretical conceptualizations, approaches, teaching style, and positioning in the intellectual milieu. Translated from French by sociologist Robert Dingwall, the English edition benefits from an editorial introduction and additional referencing, as ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Prospects for the National Health

    Edited by Paul Atkinson, Robert Dingwall, Anne Murcott ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    The British National Health Service celebrated its thirtieth birthday in 1978. A Royal Commission was set up to consider the role of the National Health Service, and it is the debates that surrounded this Royal Commission that form the basis for the twelve topics covered by this book.The economic difficulties that the country was facing when this book was published in 1979 highlighted the widely ... Read more

    $66.99 USD