General Medicine Books

New and Published Books

1. Handbook of the Sociology of Medical Education

   Edited by Caragh Brosnan, Bryan S. Turner

   The Handbook of the Sociology of Medical Education provides a contemporary introduction to this classic area of sociology by examining the social origin and implications of the epistemological, organizational and demographic challenges facing medical education in the twenty-first century....

   Published March 30th 2012 by Routledge
2. HIV/AIDS, Health and the Media in China

   Imagined Immunity Through Racialized Disease

   By Johanna Hood

   Series: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series

   Approximately 90% of urban HIV/AIDS education in China occurs indirectly through non-specialist media reports. Many of these reports use images of extreme suffering and poverty to communicate an understanding of who gets HIV, why and how. This book explores an important aspect of how HIV/AIDS is...

   Published January 31st 2011 by Routledge
3. Innovations in Hospital Architecture

   By Stephen Verderber

   This indispensable reference book captures key recent developments in the rapidly evolving field of sustainable hospital architecture. Today’s architects must provide hospitals which enable high quality care for diverse patient populations in carbon neutral care settings, and this book succinctly...

   Published March 31st 2010 by Routledge
4. Managing in Health and Social Care

   2nd Edition

   By Vivien Martin, Julie Charlesworth, Euan Henderson

   Managing in Health and Social Care is about developing skills to manage and improve health and social care services. The focus throughout is on the role that a manager can play in ensuring effective delivery of high-quality services. Examples from social care and health settings are used to...

   Published February 21st 2010 by Routledge
5. Health, Economic Development and Household Poverty

   From Understanding to Action

   Edited by Sara Bennett, Lucy Gilson, Anne Mills

   Series: Routledge International Studies in Health Economics

   Accessible and edited by authors based at a top institution, this book provides readers with an excellent summary in an easy-to-read style of this burgeoning field of research. In this volume Bennett, Gilson and Mills have gathered together essays written by academics and experts in the fields of...

   Published October 1st 2009 by Routledge
6. Managing for Health

   Edited by David J. Hunter

   Series: Routledge Health Management

   Expertly mixing theory with practice, this text makes a unique and important contribution to the area of health management. Through examples and case studies drawn from across Europe, Managing for Health explores the management challenge in public health policy and offers pointers to equip...

   Published February 26th 2007 by Routledge
7. Evidence-Based Medicine

   In its Place

   Edited by Ivar Sonbo Kristiansen, Gavin Mooney

   Series: Routledge International Studies in Health Economics

   Evidence based medicine is defined as the conscientious explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients. This superb collection takes a critical view of this concept and examines the economic implications of its imposition....

   Published May 17th 2006 by Routledge
8. The New NHS

   A Guide

   By Alison Talbot-Smith, Allyson M. Pollock

   Dr Alison Talbot-Smith, an experienced doctor and researcher, and Professor Allyson M. Pollock, one of the UKs leading authorities on the NHS, give a lucid and incisive account of the new NHS – which has emerged from a far-reaching programme of market-oriented changes. Providing an authoritative...

   Published April 12th 2006 by Routledge
9. Innovations in Hospice Architecture

   By Stephen F Verderber, Ben J. Refuerzo

   Providing much-needed focus on hospice projects in the context of unprecedented rates of societal ageing, this new reference book presents an overview of major recent developments in this rapidly evolving building type. The authors present an overview of the historical origins of the...

   Published January 17th 2006 by Taylor & Francis
10. Performance Management in Healthcare

    Improving Patient Outcomes, An Integrated Approach

    Edited by Jan Walburg, Helen Bevan, John Wilderspin, Karin Lemmens

    Series: Routledge Health Management

    This important new text demonstrates a step-by-step approach to understanding and improving performance management in healthcare organizations. It discusses the relevance of performance management to disease management and the professional development of the discipline, debates topical issues...

    Published December 21st 2005 by Routledge