Health & Society

This title was first published in 2002: Examining the impact of organizational development on improving quality and efficiency in health care, this international volume explores how structural and procedural changes must be matched by the development of human resources if improvements in health care..

Participation allows patients to become less dependent on healthcare providers, increasing their control over their own treatment and health. This book examines the concept of participation, as well as the different meanings it takes on in the context of health and welfare services. The contribution..

This reflective work develops a constructive alternative to the principle of primacy of patient welfare and advocates for an ethics of virtue that respects the physician as a moral equal. It is of interest to students and academics in medicine, ethics, medical humanities and health management...

Personal Safety for Health Care Workers..

This book explores the challenging issues associated with CAM in the context of the social, political and cultural influences that shape people's health...

This book considers the applications of persuasion frameworks and reviews the major developments in communication topics within activity-related contexts. International experts offer theoretical overviews, agendas for future research and insights into contemporary research and practical implications..

This anthology presents the philosophical and practice perspectives of nurse scholars whose works center on promoting praxis approaches to nursing research, practice, and education, meaning that their work lies within frameworks of social justice and critical theories. Chapters bridge critical theor..

This anthology presents the philosophical and practice perspectives of nurse scholars whose works center on promoting praxis approaches to nursing research, practice, and education, meaning that their work lies within frameworks of social justice and critical theories. Chapters bridge critical theor..

This title was first published in 2001. Addressing a range of key theoretical and practical issues, this volume is the latest in an important series proceeding from the Annual Conference on the Promotion of Mental Health. It will be essential reading for policy makers, researchers and practitioners ..

This volume tackles conflicts in the provider-patient relationship; uses the psychosomatic as a lens for theorizing the self in culture; and examines the metaphorical potential of the psychosomatic in fictional narrative. Taking an interdisciplinary and international approach, it is aimed at scholar..

This book uses the rich narratives of the recovery journeys of Chinese mental health service users in the UK – a perceived ‘hard-to-reach group’ and largely invisible in mental health literature – to illustrate the myriad ways that social inequalities such as class, ethnicity and gender contribute t..

First published in 1998, this book analyzes reproductive health and infectious disease within the social and economic context of the Middle East, where significant cultural and political obstacles to progress remain...