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What a Lesbian Looks Like by National Lesbian and Gay Survey
RRP: $42.88$37.71The National Lesbian and Gay Survey is a mass observation project set up in 1985 to record the experience of lesbians and gay men. Since that time, lesbian and gay volunteers have provided accounts on a wide range of issues pertinent to lesbian and gay... -
Professionalism, Boundaries and the Workplace by Nigel Malin
RRP: $91.63$79.89Professionalism, Boundaries and the Workplace is a practical text that examines a range of sensitive issues concerned with managing and maintaining professional boundaries between worker and client. It uses experiences from probation, social work, the... -
The Health Care Handbook: A Clear and Concise Guide to the United States Health Care System by Elisabeth Thames Askin
RRP: $72.13$42.57Described in the New York Times as "an astonishingly clear 'user's manual' that explains our health care system and the policies that will change it," The Health Care Handbook, by Drs. Elisabeth Askin and Nathan Moore, offers a practical, neutral, and... -
Untangling the Maternity Crisis by Nadine Edwards
RRP: $72.13$63.43Arguing that contemporary maternity services provide a toxic environment both in which to practise and to give birth, this book looks at how we can change this. Its aim is promoting the best possible experiences of childbearing, and confident,... -
Communication and Clinical Effectiveness in Rehabilitation by Frances Reynolds 9780750656658
$67.33Incorporating a patient-focused perspective on communication and health care, this new title for physical and occupational therapists and students provides practical strategies for effective communication with both colleagues and patients. Written in a... -
Revolutionary Doctors: How Venezuela and Cuba are Changing the World's Conception of Health Care by Steve Brouwer 9781583672396
$24.55Revolutionary Doctors gives readers a first-hand account of Venezuela's innovative and inspiring program of community health care, designed to serve-and largely carried out by-the poor themselves. Drawing on long-term participant observations as well as... -
Youth Policy and Social Inclusion: Critical Debates with Young People by Monica Barry 9780415319041 [USED COPY]
RRP: $91.63$4.23Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Youth Policy and Social Inclusion: Critical Debates with Young People by Monica Barry 9780415319041
RRP: $91.63$79.89Taking a holistic and multidisciplinary approach this book identifies and analyzes the factors which promote or discourage social inclusion of young people in today's society. It critically examines the discriminatory attitudes towards young people, and... -
Evidence-Based Patient Handling: Techniques and Equipment by Pat Alexander
RRP: $62.38$55.24Providing care and treatment for patients usually requires moving and handling activities associated with high rates of back injuries. The personal and financial cost of back pain and injuries to health staff means there is an urgent need to improve... -
The Little Book of Doctors' Rules by Clifton K Meador MD
RRP: $27.28$18.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780757004933Author Clifton K. MeadorFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Square One PublishersPublisher Square One Publishers -
Building Strategic Skills for Better Health: A Primer for Public Health Professionals by Michael R. Fraser 9780197744604
RRP: $37.03$36.04While academic programs prepare public health graduates for the technical challenges of practice, many professionals new to the field also need training in the cross-cutting strategic skills required for successful leadership and management of health... -
Self-Analysis by Karen Horney
RRP: $95.53$83.19First Published in 1999. Psychoanalysis first developed as a method of therapy in the strict medical sense. Freud had discovered that certain circumscribed disorders that have no discernible organic basis-such as hysterical convulsions, phobias,... -
Contemporary Mental Health: Theory, Policy and Practice by Barbara Fawcett 9780415328463
RRP: $37.03$32.90The authors explore theoretical developments and policy and practice initiatives in the complex and changing area of mental health services. They examine the tensions, dilemmas and opportunities now operating, including those relating to gender and... -
Traumatic Brain Injury Rehabilitation: The Lefaivre Rainbow Effect by Christine Lefaivre
RRP: $204.75$177.96The Lefaivre Rainbow Effect is a groundbreaking treatment for those suffering from a traumatic brain injury (TBI). This strategy is different from most others because it is individually designed for each client and focuses on the cognitive retraining of... -
Leadership Lessons from a Global Health Crisis: From the Pandemic to the Climate Emergency by Jo Nurse 9781032010038
RRP: $89.68$78.25This book explores the key learning concepts for global leadership in the face of modern international health crises and argues the need for fundamental reform to governance paradigms, within the global security sphere and policymaking circles. Beginning... -
Providing Support to Young People: A Guide to Interviewing in Helping Relationships by Hazel L. Reid 9780415419604 [USED COPY]
RRP: $70.18$5.38Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Providing Support to Young People: A Guide to Interviewing in Helping Relationships by Hazel L. Reid
RRP: $70.18$61.80This is an invaluable guide to making the most of helping relationships. It concentrates on the practicalities and explores how to structure the help practitioners give to young people.Including case studies, reflective exercises, and dialogue examples... -
Eliminating Gender-Based Violence by Ann Taket
RRP: $72.13$63.43While promoting access to resources and systems of support for those affected by gender-based violence is absolutely crucial, this new book focuses attention on the important question of how communities can take action to prevent violence and abuse... -
Handbook of Neurosurgery, Neurology, and Spinal Medicine for Nurses and Advanced Practice Health Professionals by Michael Wang
RRP: $130.63$115.89This practical handbook allows nurses, advanced practice nurses, physician assistants, and allied health professionals practicing in the fields of neurosurgery, neurology, and spinal care to quickly review essentials while in the work environment. It... -
An Introduction to Global Health Delivery: Practice, Equity, Human Rights by Joia Mukherjee
RRP: $89.68$86.85In the last two decades, the rise of global health studies at universities across the world reflects the interest of a growing generation of students motivated to be involved in progressive global change. Grassroots advocacy for health equity and strong... -
Anorexic Bodies: A Feminist and Sociological Perspective on Anorexia Nervosa by Morag MacSween
RRP: $62.38$55.24This book explores the ways in which anorexic women use their eating to control their bodies. It argues that the female body in modern Western culture is understood as open and accessible and female appetite as dangerous and voracious. Anorexia attempts... -
The Healthcare Quality Book: Vision, Strategy, and Tools, Fourth Edition by David Nash
RRP: $224.25$203.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640550537Author David B. NashFormat HardbackPage Count 560Imprint Health Administration PressPublisher Health Administration PressWeight(grams) 1102g -
From Detached Concern to Empathy: Humanizing Medical Practice by Jodi Halpern 9780199768707
RRP: $95.53$66.28Physicians recognize the importance of patients' emotions in healing yet believe their own emotional responses represent lapses in objectivity. Patients complain that physicians are too detached. Halpern argues that by empathizing with patients, rather... -
Modern Hospice Design: The Architecture of Palliative and Social Care by Ken Worpole 9781032308135
RRP: $64.33$56.86The new edition of this acclaimed book comprehensively updates its timely advocacy of the need for good quality palliative care, today more necessary than ever. Rooted in the social history of the care of the elderly and terminally ill, Modern Hospice... -
Anthropology and Public Health: Bridging Differences in Culture and Society by Robert A. Hahn 9780195374643
$113.22Many serious public health problems confront the world in the new millennium. Anthropology and Public Health examines the critical role of anthropology in four crucial public health domains: (1) anthropological understandings of public health problems... -
Destroying Sanctuary: The Crisis in Human Service Delivery Systems by Sandra L. Bloom 9780195374803
$118.46For the last thirty years, the nation's mental health and social service systems have been under relentless assault, with dramatically rising costs and the fragmentation of service delivery rendering them incapable of ensuring the safety, security, and... -
Managing Diversity & Inequality in Health Care: Six Steps to Effective Management Series by Carol Baxter 9780702025204
$56.78This volume focuses specifically on the importance of managing diversity in todays health services. It examines what is meant by managing diversity and outlines the nature of current inequalities in the UK, and their implications for health care... -
The Public/Private Sector Mix in Healthcare Delivery: A Comparative Study by Howard Palley
RRP: $156.00$142.47This volume examines the public/private sector mix in a variety of national healthcare systems and their interface with the goals of health equity and quality of healthcare. By examining the mix of public and private sector funding of healthcare services... -
Black Health: The Social, Political, and Cultural Determinants of Black People's Health by Keisha Ray 9780197620274
RRP: $50.68$42.88Why do American Black people generally have worse health than American White people? To answer this question, Black Health dispels any notion that Black people have inferior bodies that are inherently susceptible to disease. This is simply false racial... -
International Analysis Poverty by Townsend 9780745013756
RRP: $204.75$195.88First published in 1993. The scientific and political debate about poverty has been changing fast -with dramatic implications for intellectual interpretation and action by governments- and the intention in publishing this volume is to contribute to that... -
Art And The Creative Unconscious: Four Essays by Erich Neumann 9780415868778
RRP: $95.53$83.19This is Volume VI of twelve in the Analytical Psychology Series. Originally published in 1959, this is a collection of four essays on art and the creative unconscious, three of which are translations ofBook InformationISBN 9780415868778Author Erich... -
How We Do Harm: A Doctor Breaks Ranks About Being Sick in America by Otis Webb Brawley 9781250015761
RRP: $37.03$23.97Dr. Otis Brawley is the chief medical and scientific officer of the American Cancer Society, an oncologist with a dazzling clinical, research, and policy career. In "How We Do Harm" he exposes the underbelly of healthcare today - the under... -
Getting Ready for your Nursing Degree: the studySMART guide to learning at university by Victoria Boyd 9780273750895 [USED COPY]
RRP: $68.23$6.26Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Getting Ready for your Nursing Degree: the studySMART guide to learning at university by Victoria Boyd
RRP: $68.23$66.07More and more people are considering a career in nursing or healthcare, but the thought of undertaking an academic degree at university can be intimidating. Whether you are moving straight from school or college or have been away from education for some... -
Supersizing Urban America: How Inner Cities Got Fast Food with Government Help by Chin Jou
RRP: $46.80$39.23More than one third of adults in the United States are obese. The CDC estimates that there are over 112,000 obesity-related deaths annually, and for years now, the government has waged a very public war on the problem. Former Surgeon General Richard... -
Intellectual Disability and Being Human: A Care Ethics Model by Chrissie Rogers
RRP: $87.73$76.60Intellectual disability is often overlooked within mainstream disability studies, and theories developed about disability and physical impairment may not always be appropriate when thinking about intellectual (or learning) disability.This pioneering... -
The NHS Experience: The 'Snakes and Ladders' Guide for Patients and Professionals by Hilary Cass
RRP: $72.13$63.43The NHS Experience is an accessible and engaging guide for all those journeying through the NHS, whether as patients, carers or professionals. It draws on the experience of staff and families at Great Ormond Street Hospital to provide good practice... -
Human Resource Management In Health Care by L. Fleming Fallon, Jr. 9781449688837
$199.70This practical, hands-on book introduces human resources to those who are preparing to work in any area of health care or health service. Written for practitioners and students in all disciplines related to health, it covers important topics such as... -
Death, Gender and Ethnicity by David Field 9780415146791 [USED COPY]
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Death, Gender and Ethnicity by David Field
RRP: $91.63$79.89Death, Gender and Ethnicity examines the ways in which gender and ethnicity shape the experiences of dying and bereavement, taking as its focus the diversity of ways through which the universal event of death is encountered. It brings together accounts...