Nursing Sociology Books

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1. Practice-based Evidence for Healthcare: Clinical mindlines

   By John Gabbay, Andrée le May

   This book challenges the evidence-based practice movement to re-think its assumptions. Firmly rooted in real practice while drawing lucidly on a great breadth of theoretical frameworks, it examines afresh how clinicians use knowledge. Evidence-based practice has recently become a key part of the...

   November 2010 | 978-0-415-48669-9 | Paperback (Routledge)

2. Anger Management: A Practical Guide, 2nd Edition

   By Adrian Faupel, Elizabeth Herrick, Peter M Sharp

   All schools and many parents have to cope with children and young people who have difficulties managing their anger. This practical guide will: Increase your understanding of anger Offer you a range of practical management interventions Reduce the stress...

   November 2010 | 978-0-415-58071-7 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   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....

   July 2009 | 978-0-415-46044-6 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Life After Cancer in Adolescence and Young Adulthood: The Experience of Survivorship

   By Anne Grinyer

   Adolescence and young adulthood is often a difficult enough time without serious illness. However, research has shown that cancer, and surviving cancer, at this age presents distinctive problems medically, socially and psychologically. This important work offers a glimpse into a previously...

   April 2009 | 978-0-415-47703-1 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Sociology and Health: An Introduction, 2nd Edition

   By Peter Morrall

   This lively, introductory text provides students and health practitioners with the foundations of a sociological understanding of health issues. Written for anyone who is interested in health and disease in contemporary global society, this book engages the reader to act upon their occupational and...

   February 2009 | 978-0-415-41563-7 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Reconstructing Motherhood and Disability in the Age of "Perfect" Babies

   By Gail Landsman

   Examining mothers of newly diagnosed disabled children within the context of new reproductive technologies and the discourse of choice, this book uses anthropology and disability studies to revise the concept of "normal" and to establish a social environment in which the expression of full lives...

   2008 | 978-0-415-91789-6 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Emotional Labour in Health Care: The unmanaged heart of nursing

   By Catherine Theodosius

   Do nurses still care? In today’s inflexible, fast-paced and more accountable workplace where biomedical and clinical models dominate health care practice, is there room for emotional labour? Based on original empirical research, this book delves into personal accounts of nurses' emotion...

   2008 | 978-0-415-40954-4 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   The Logic of Care: Health and the Problem of Patient Choice

   By Annemarie Mol

   What is good care? In this innovative and compelling book, Annemarie Mol argues that good care has little to do with 'patient choice' and, therefore, creating more opportunities for patient choice will not improve health care. Although it is possible to treat people who seek professional help as...

   2008 | 978-0-415-45343-1 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Inventing Disease and Pushing Pills: Pharmaceutical Companies and the Medicalisation of Normal Life

   By Jörg Blech

   This is a highly accessible and reassuring account of how the pharmaceutical industry is redefining health, making it a state that is almost impossible to achieve. Many normal life processes – states as natural as birth, ageing, sexuality, unhappiness and death – are systematically being...

   2006 | 978-0-415-39071-2 | Paperback (Routledge)
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    Mainstreaming Midwives: The Politics of Change

    Edited by Robbie Davis-Floyd, Christine Barbara Johnson

    Providing insights into midwifery, a team of reputable contributors describe the development of nurse- and direct-entry midwifery in the United States, including the creation of two new direct-entry certifications, the Certified Midwife and the Certified Professional Midwife, and examine the...

    2006 | 978-0-415-93151-9 | Paperback (Routledge)