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  • Bereavement Care for Childbearing Women and their Families Bereavement Care for Childbearing Women and their Families
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    Bereavement Care for Childbearing Women and their Families

    For many bereaved parents, the care provided by healthcare and birth practitioners has a crucial effect on their response to a loss or death. Designed for practical application, this interactive workbook helps practitioners deliver effective bereavement...
    $97.80

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  • Managing Projects in Health and Social Care Managing Projects in Health and Social Care
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    Managing Projects in Health and Social Care

    Managing Projects in Health and Social Care is designed for anyone who is asked to manage a public services project but who lacks the experience or training to feel confident in this role. The book shows how to use project management techniques to...
    $145.46

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  • Nursing the Image Nursing the Image
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    Nursing the Image

    Ideas of 'nursing' and 'nurses' carry a powerful social charge. The image of the nurse continues to be a symbol of caring and of duty at the same time as it projects a view of femininity, 'stereotypical' in its gender relations.How has this image come to...
    $111.59

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  • Key Issues in Childhood and Youth Studies Key Issues in Childhood and Youth Studies
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    Key Issues in Childhood and Youth Studies

    Key Issues in Childhood and Youth Studies presents an informed and critical commentary on a range of key issues related to children and childhood, from birth to eighteen years. Challenging current orthodoxies within the adult world on the nature of...
    $107.58

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  • How To Do Primary Care Educational Research How To Do Primary Care Educational Research
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    How To Do Primary Care Educational Research

    Primary care is a rapidly growing academic branch of learning and developing its own body of research is the hallmark of a maturing academic discipline. This practical guide is the first designed specifically to support those planning, conducting and...
    $62.15

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  • The Maternal Experience The Maternal Experience
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    The Maternal Experience

    The Maternal Experience explores the powerful and dynamic nature of maternal ambivalence and disrupts the conventional narrative of the mother's lived experience by arguing that encounters with feelings of hatred are both universal and have the capacity...
    $372.01

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  • Just Another Day in the Retirement Home Just Another Day in the Retirement Home
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    Just Another Day in the Retirement Home

    "Just Another Day in the Retirement Home" is a memoir about an eight year journey experienced by Janet Fraser, whose aging parents were living their final years in a retirement home. It is a poignant journey of the heart, from the first...
    $25.91

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  • Untold Stories of a Paramedic Untold Stories of a Paramedic
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    Untold Stories of a Paramedic

    When you see an ambulance speeding by, lights and sirens wailing, have you ever wondered what is happening inside? Have you ever wondered what challenges paramedics face daily? What type of calls they deal with? Well, now you will find out. Luciano Nisi...
    $32.00

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    A Stoma Named Stanley

    "Upon completing my nursing degree and gaining employment, what followed was truly a humbling and horrendous learning experience. "The train wreck that was the start of her second career was far from anything she had experienced. The author, a software...
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  • Sleep and Psychosomatic Medicine Sleep and Psychosomatic Medicine
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    Sleep and Psychosomatic Medicine

    Sleep and Psychosomatic Medicine presents an overview of sleep medicine and the management of common sleep disorders seen in a wide variety of practice settings.Chapters have been written by experts in the field in order to provide physicians of a wide...
    $122.89

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  • Birthing Outside the System Birthing Outside the System
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    Birthing Outside the System

    This book investigates why women choose 'birth outside the system' and makes connections between women's right to choose where they birth and violations of human rights within maternity care systems.Choosing to birth at home can force women out of...
    $104.28

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  • Culture, Communication and Nursing Culture, Communication and Nursing
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    Culture, Communication and Nursing

    Good communication is an essential part of delivering effective nursing care.  Nursing students work in a variety of multicultural settings and therefore it is imperative that they fully understand their own cultural context and that of others...
    $96.82

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  • Play in Healthcare Play in Healthcare
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    Play in Healthcare

    The importance of play in children's health and care services, both as a form of therapy and as a distraction, is often overlooked. This unique text promotes developmentally appropriate provision within healthcare settings for children and young people...
    $121.63

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  • Philosophies and Practices of Emancipatory Nursing Philosophies and Practices of Emancipatory Nursing
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    Philosophies and Practices of Emancipatory Nursing

    This anthology presents the philosophical and practice perspectives of nurse scholars whose works center on promoting praxis approaches to nursing research, practice, and education, meaning that their work lies within frameworks of social justice...
    $413.95

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  • Health and Health Promotion in Prisons Health and Health Promotion in Prisons
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    Health and Health Promotion in Prisons

    The impact of the United Nations "Healthy Prisons" initiative has highlighted the importance of health and health promotion in incarcerated populations. This invaluable book discusses the many health and medical issues that arise or are introduced into...
    $388.08

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  • Nursing Children and Young People with ADHD Nursing Children and Young People with ADHD
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    Nursing Children and Young People with ADHD

    ADHD is one of the most commonly diagnosed behavioural disorders in children and young people. It is a complex and contested condition, with potential causes and treatments in biological, psychological and social domains. This is the first comprehensive...
    $232.85

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  • Prioritising Child Health Prioritising Child Health
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    Prioritising Child Health

    Prioritisation exists throughout healthcare. Difficult and controversial decisions are frequently made at national, local and service level, as well as on an individual basis. However, attention has generally been focused away from the practitioners and...
    $232.85

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  • Refugee Children Refugee Children
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    Refugee Children

    The last twenty years have seen unprecedented numbers of refugee children entering Western countries. Many of these children will have experienced the atrocities of war and issues concerning their care and treatment are high on the agenda of research...
    $375.76

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  • Medical Physics During the COVID-19 Pandemic Medical Physics During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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    Medical Physics During the COVID-19 Pandemic

    Spreading to every corner of the Earth, the COVID-19 virus has had an unparalleled impact on all aspects of our lives. This book explores in detail how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected clinical practice, education, and research in medical physics, and...
    $137.94

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  • Somaesthetics and the Philosophy of Culture Somaesthetics and the Philosophy of Culture
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    Somaesthetics and the Philosophy of Culture

    "I regard Higuchi's book as particularly valuable because it highlights dimensions of somaesthetics that have not been sufficiently explored. I refer not only to the various traditional Japanese somatic disciplines whose somaesthetics aspects Higuchi...
    $372.01

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  • Motherhood after Incarceration Motherhood after Incarceration
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    Motherhood after Incarceration

    Motherhood after Incarceration: Community Reintegration for Mothers in the Criminal Legal System explores the relationships of women with their children immediately after periods of incarceration. The analysis draws on in-depth interviews with 39 women...
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  • From Therapeutic Relationships to Transitional Care From Therapeutic Relationships to Transitional Care
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    From Therapeutic Relationships to Transitional Care

    This text provides a foundational understanding of therapeutic relationships and the transitional discharge model (TDM), a person-centered, evidence-based model that supports a smooth transition from hospital to community for people with mental...
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    Leadership in the Life Sciences

    The healthcare professionals who save and extend our lives are helpless without the medicines and technologies that have revolutionised medical care. But the industry that invents, makes and provides these indispensable tools is transforming under the...
    $90.29

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  • The Psychology of Sports Injury
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    The Psychology of Sports Injury

    The Psychology of Sports Injury: From Risk to Retirement provides a critical overview of the psychology of sports injury, covering the 5Rs of sports injury: risk, response, rehabilitation, return to sport and retirement. Drawing on a range of expert...
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    Journeys in Narrative Inquiry

    Organized around a metaphor of an academic journey, D. Jean Clandinin offers published tracings of an unfolding journey over 40 years that, at its outset, appeared to focus only on questions of epistemology. However, the book illuminates how that...
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    Spectral Multi-Detector Computed Tomography (sMDCT)

    X-ray computed tomography (CT) has been one of the most popular diagnostic imaging modalities for decades in the clinic for saving patients' life or improving their quality of life. This book is an introductory "one-stop shop" for technological and...
    $284.59

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  • Gendered Moods Gendered Moods
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    Gendered Moods

    Tranquillisers are prescribed to almost twice as many women as men yet little research has been has been carried out on the gendered character of drug use. A much needed introduction to a neglected area of study.
    $62.78

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  • Jungian Psychotherapy with Medical Professionals Jungian Psychotherapy with Medical Professionals
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    Jungian Psychotherapy with Medical Professionals

    Jungian Psychotherapy with Medical Professionals guides therapists, clinicians, and healthcare workers through the transformative healing process of Jungian psychology, demonstrating how the new spirit of medicine will originate from the relationship...
    $349.89

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  • Trauma and Birth Trauma and Birth
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    Trauma and Birth

    Our book aims to provide those working in the maternity services, including those in general practices, with an understanding of what it means to be on the receiving end of care. Together with a description of various types of traumatic birth, we explain...
    $86.89

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  • Medicines Management Medicines Management
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    Medicines Management

    Medicines Management: A Problem-Based Approach uses patient scenarios to explore pharmacology and medicines management. The book provides the pharmacological background, and examines the other factors, which enable nurses to provide care...
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  • Dental Biomechanics Dental Biomechanics
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    Dental Biomechanics

    Dental Biomechanics provides a comprehensive, timely, and wide-reaching survey of the relevant aspects of biomechanical investigation within the dental field. Leading the reader through the mechanical analysis of dental problems in dental implants,...
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  • The Age of the Inquiry The Age of the Inquiry
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    The Age of the Inquiry

    The plethora of inquiry reports published in the fields of health and welfare in the 1990s covered the full range of user groups, individuals and institutions. What similarities or differences were there between these inquiries? How effective were they...
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  • Working with Substance Misusers Working with Substance Misusers
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    Working with Substance Misusers

    Working with Substance Misusers is a practical handbook for students and those who work with people who misuse drugs or alcohol. Written by experienced teachers and clinicians, the book introduces:* the substances themselves* theories relevant to...
    $491.57

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  • Class Struggle and Social Welfare Class Struggle and Social Welfare
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    Class Struggle and Social Welfare

    For too long the collective struggles of the oppressed over welfare provision and welfare settlement have been ignored, yet such struggles punctuate recent British history. By presenting a series of case-studies of episodes of collective action from the...
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  • Caring for People in Pain Caring for People in Pain
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    Caring for People in Pain

    An excellent introduction for nurses to all aspects of pain and its management. Topics examined are relevant to all areas of health care practice and include:*types of pain*the experience of pain, including psycho-social factors*interventions...
    $105.32

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  • Growing up with Parents who have Learning Difficulties Growing up with Parents who have Learning Difficulties
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    Growing up with Parents who have Learning Difficulties

    Growing up with Parents who have Learning Difficulties uses a life-story approach to present new evidence about how children from such families manage the transition to adulthood, and about the longer-term outcomes of such an upbringing. It offers a view...
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  • Rethinking Prostitution Rethinking Prostitution
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    Rethinking Prostitution

    The growth of AIDS has focused renewed attention on the institution of prostitution. In contrast to the moral panic reaction of some sectors of society, very different initiatives are being displayed by other groups in relation to the need to scrutinize...
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  • Punishing Violence Punishing Violence
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    Punishing Violence

    It is a common perception that violent crime is on the increase and social surveys record a growing fear of victimisation among the public. Yet not all violence is criminalised, and much criminal violence still goes unreported. Punishing Violence...
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  • Jurisprudence as Ideology Jurisprudence as Ideology
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    Jurisprudence as Ideology

    In Jurisprudence as Ideology, Valerie Kerruish asks how it is that people who are put down, let down and kept down by law can be thought to have a general political obligation to obey it. She engages with contemporary issues in socialist, feminist and...
    $129.16

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  • The Needs of Children The Needs of Children
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    The Needs of Children

    'A compelling book' - Observer '...an exceptionally clear and comprehensive synthesis of current research findings made readily comprehensible to both parents and teachers' - Dr M Levy in the Foreword to the French edition Mia Kellmer Pringle was...
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