This textbook presents epidemiology in a practical manner, contextualized with discussions of theory and ethics, so that students and professionals from all academic backgrounds may develop a deep appreciation for how to conduct and interpret epidemiological research. Readers wi…
Ancestral songs -- Natural/supernatural : African American hoodoo narratives of sickness and healing / Yvonne Chireau -- Holistic health and healing : "environmental racism and ecological justice" / Dwight N. Hopkins -- Health and healing across the diaspora -- Bodies in time an…
Shows practices by which people give and receive good or bad news, how they come to realize the news and their new world, how they suppress or express their emotions, and how they construct social relationships through the sharing of news. Also reveals the implications of the st…
This book reports on a theoretical and empirical study of spiritual care as a profession in health care, particularly from the angle of quality care. Theoretically the central issues in spiritual care are analysed: quality care, medicalisation and contingency as its limit, the f…
In 1983, the first patient classification system to be used on a national basis, the Diagnosis Relate Groups (DRGs), was adopted as part of the Prospective Payment System in the United States. This system caught the attention of health policy makers in other countries, and a num…
In 1983, the first patient classification system to be used on a national basis, the Diagnosis Relate Groups (DRGs), was adopted as part of the Prospective Payment System in the United States. This system caught the attention of health policy makers in other countries, and a num…
Each chapter in this book focuses on one or more performances that clinical practitioners must achieve with some regularity. It explores ways - communication and literary theory, ethnography, and discourse analysis - to express what practitioners do in clinics and hospitals.
Older People and Community Care sets social and health care practice with older people firmly in the context of the new community care arrangements and the consequent organizational trends towards a market culture. However, it also questions the relative lack of attention given …
