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Understanding Health and Social Care
An Introductory Reader

Second Edition


June 2008 | 296 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
The new edition of the best-selling reader Understanding Health and Social Care combines classic works with newly commissioned material, offering readers unparalleled coverage of the key issues in health and social care. The breadth of material encompasses voices of service users, professional and lay carers, as well as academics and researchers.

This Second Edition is organised into four new parts, each with a part introduction pulling together the main themes:

" Part 1: People focuses on those who use and provide health and social care services

" Part 2: Places focuses on where care takes place

" Part 3: Approaches considers different ways through which care takes places

" Part 4: Ideas focuses on the ideas and policies that underpin care provision

Full of real practice scenarios and examples, the book successfully makes the links between theory and practice, and will be an essential resource for all students studying at undergraduate level across the wide spectrum of health and social care.


 
PART ONE: PEOPLE
Ken Blakemore and Joanna Bornat
Anthology
Joanna Bornat
'Kate': The Constant Rediscovery of a Poem
Rosie Purves
Racist Abuse Ruined My Life
Polly Toynbee
Portering
Howard Mitchell
The Insider-Researcher
Annie Bibbings
Carers and Professionals: The Carer's Viewpoint
Sue Yeandle et al
Women and Men Talking about Poverty
Tim Stainton and Steve Boyce
Users' Experiences of Direct Payments
 
PART TWO: PLACES
Dorothy Atkinson and Sheila Peace
Anthology
Peter Townsend
The Family Life of Old People
Lynsey Hanley
Estates
Colin Barnes
Independent Living, Politics and Policy in the United Kingdom
A Social-Model Account

 
Alison Norman
Losing Your Home
K Jones and A J Fowles
Total Institutions
Geraldine Lee-Treweek
Bedroom Abuse
Maria Bakardjieva
The Internet in Everyday Life
 
PART THREE: APPROACHES
Joanna Bornat
Anthology
Jocalyn Lawler
Body Care and Learning to Do for Others
Rebecca Lawton and Dianne Parker
Procedures and the Professional
The Case of the British NHS

 
Hugh P Mckenna, Felicity Hasson and Sinead Keeney
Patient Safety and Quality of Care
The Role of the Health-Care Assistant

 
Ellen Allandale
Working on the Front Line
Risk Culture and Nursing in the NHS

 
Sue Ziebland et al
How the Internet Affects Patients' Experience of Cancer
Cecilia Pyper et al
Patients' Experiences of Accessing Their Online Electronic Patient Records in Primary Care
Vijay K P Patel
Positive Action
 
PART FOUR: IDEAS
Julia Johnson and Andy Northedge
Anthology
J Jacobs
An Introduction to the Beveridge Report
Jan Walmsley
From Care to Citizenship?
Ian Kerridge, Michael Lowe and David Henry
Ethics and Evidence-Based Medicine
Vic George and Paul Wilding
The New Right
David Coates
The Slow Birth of New Labour Britain
Mary Shaw and Danny Dorling
Who Cares in England and Wales? The Positive Care Law
Howard Glennerster
The Health and Welfare Legacy

a good overall guide to the nature of health and social care

Ms Anne Ritchie
Social Policy and Social Work, Paisley University
April 15, 2011

Well laid out and comfortably readable

Miss Marion Aylott
Faculty of Health & Social Care, University of the West of England, Bristol
January 12, 2011

A helpful and informative background text.

Mr Paul McCreary
Nursing, Thames Valley University
November 22, 2010

Excellent accessible background

Ms Catherine Boswell
Cardiff School of Health Sciences, University of Wales Institute, Cardiff
July 19, 2010

Great intro reader with lots of useful service user side narratives

Mrs Sally Hayes
Faculty of Health, Leeds Metropolitan University
July 19, 2010

This book is well structured and well presented; it will be most useful for any student new to the realm of Health & Social Care

Ms Julie Burton
Psychology , Lincoln University
June 10, 2010

Excellent introductory text for health and social care

Krishna Regmi
Public Health and Health Promotion, Thames Valley University
October 28, 2009

Particularly useful with regard to service user experiences in relation to the social work degree. Also useful for level 6 learners as it will extend their understanding of other professions.

Mrs Liz Lefroy
Social Work , The North East Wales Institute of Higher Education
October 8, 2009
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Sample Materials & Chapters

Introduction PDF