Understanding Health and Social Care: An Introductory Reader (Published in association with The Open University) (Paperback)

The new edition of the best-selling reader Understanding Health and Social Care (previously edited by Margaret Allott and Martin Robb) combines classic works with newly commissioned material, offering students 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 sections, each with a part introduction pulling together the main themes: People focuses on those who use and provide health and social care services; Places focuses on where care takes place; Approaches considers different ways through which care takes places; Ideas focuses on the ideas and policies that underpin care provision. Full of real practice scenarios and examples, the book successfully makes the link between theory and practice. Table of Contents: 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, Karen Escott, Linda Grant, Elaine Batty 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 Jocelyn 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, Alison Chapple, Carol Dumelow, Julie Evans, Suman Prinjha and Linda Rozmovits / How the Internet Affects Patients' Experience of Cancer Cecilia Pyper, Justin Amery, Marion Watson and Claire Crook / Patients' Experiences of Accessing their On-Line 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