Routledge Studies in Health and Social Welfare
Stakeholders and Ethics in Healthcare: Ethical Accountability for Organizations
1st Edition
By Lisa A. Martinelli
May 27, 2024
This ground-breaking book uses organizational ethics and stakeholder theory to explore the ethical accountability of leadership in healthcare organizations to their distinct vulnerable stakeholder communities. The book begins with a discussion of the moral agency of healthcare organizations and ...
Peer Research in Health and Social Development: International Perspectives on Participatory Research
1st Edition
Edited
By Stephen Bell, Peter Aggleton, Ally Gibson
May 31, 2023
Peer research is increasingly used in international academic, policy and practice environments. It engages members of a group or social network as trusted members of a research team working in communities and settings they are familiar with. Critics, however, point to methodological concerns with ...
The Ethics of Care: Moral Knowledge, Communication, and the Art of Caregiving
1st Edition
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By Alan Blum, Stuart Murray
August 27, 2019
Beginning with a focus on the ethical foundations of caregiving in health and expanding towards problems of ethics and justice implicated in a range of issues, this book develops and expands the notion of care itself and its connection to practice. Organised around the themes of culture as a ...
Participation in Health and Welfare Services: Professional Concepts and Lived Experience
1st Edition
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By Arne H. Eide, Staffan Josephsson, Kjersti Vik
February 05, 2019
Today, healthy ageing and active, meaningful lives are core values and aims for international and national health policies. Health services are challenged to ensure that the recipients of their services are active participants in their own care and beyond. Participation allows patients to become ...
Philosophies and Practices of Emancipatory Nursing: Social Justice as Praxis
1st Edition
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By Paula N. Kagan, Marlaine C. Smith, Peggy L. Chinn
December 20, 2016
*** Awarded First Place in the 2015 AJN Book of the Year Award in two categories - "History and Public Policy" and "Professional Issues" *** This anthology presents the philosophical and practice perspectives of nurse scholars whose works center on promoting nursing research, practice, and ...
Comprehensive Care for HIV/AIDS: Community-Based Strategies
1st Edition
By Teresa L. Scheid
November 16, 2016
A comprehensive health care system consists of services that are coordinated and integrated along the full continuum of care. For HIV patients, this includes physical health care, infectious disease management, crisis care, mental health care, substance abuse counseling, and social support services...
Social Housing in Transition Countries
1st Edition
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By József Hegedüs, Martin Lux, Nóra Teller
July 03, 2014
This volume intends to fill the gap in the range of publications about the post-transition social housing policy developments in Central and Eastern Europe by delivering critical evaluations about the past two decades of developments in selected countries’ social housing sectors, and showing what ...
Children with Gender Identity Disorder: A Clinical, Ethical, and Legal Analysis
1st Edition
By Simona Giordano
June 19, 2014
How should we understand transgenderism, especially as it affects children and adolescents? Psychiatric manuals include transgenderism among mental illnesses (Gender Identity Disorder). Such inclusion is relatively recent, and even the words transsexual and transgender were coined only a few ...
The Transformation of Contemporary Health Care: The Market, the Laboratory, and the Forum
1st Edition
By Tiago Moreira
June 02, 2014
The past three decades have seen enormous changes in the organisation of health care. This book explores the role of knowledge production and technology on these transformations, focusing on the market (attempts to embed principles of economic rationality and efficient use of resources in the ...
Transnational Social Support
1st Edition
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By Adrienne Chambon, Wolfgang Schröer, Cornelia Schweppe
September 20, 2013
In the context of ever-increasing globalization, transnational systems of support have emerged in response to the needs of transnational families, labour forces, and the communities within which they are located. This volume will be the first to systematically address transnational support ...
Perspectives on Care at Home for Older People
1st Edition
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By Christine Ceci, Kristín Björnsdóttir, Mary Ellen Purkis
May 23, 2013
Demographic and epidemiological changes mean that frail older people have come to be seen as an expensive problem for health care systems. The challenge for professionals and policy-makers is to find ways to respond to the coming crisis by delivering high-quality care in the home. This collection ...
Biopolitics and the 'Obesity Epidemic': Governing Bodies
1st Edition
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By Jan Wright, Valerie Harwood
December 10, 2012
Biopolitics and the ‘Obesity Epidemic’ is the first edited collection of critical perspectives on the 'obesity epidemic.' The volume provides a comprehensive discussion of current issues in the critical analysis of health, obesity and society, and the impact of obesity discourses on different ...