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  • From the Mental Patient to the Person From the Mental Patient to the Person
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    From the Mental Patient to the Person

    The aim of contemporary mental health policy is to enable people who have had a severe mental illness to lead relatively independent lives in the community, rather than be sequestered permanently in the large mental hospitals. In recent years plans to...
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  • Gold Nanoparticles in Biomedical Applications Gold Nanoparticles in Biomedical Applications
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    Gold Nanoparticles in Biomedical Applications

    Functionalized gold nanoparticles (GNPs) with controlled geometrical, optical, and surface chemistry properties are the subject of intensive studies and applications in biology and medicine. The efficiency of biomedical applications of functionalized...
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  • Patient-Specific Stem Cells Patient-Specific Stem Cells
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    Patient-Specific Stem Cells

    An in-depth overview, this book covers the generation of Pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs)and the current research in various labs on how the technology is being used to study the diseases and identify novel treatments. It addresses three main areas: (a)...
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  • The Treatment Of Infantile Paralysis (1916) The Treatment Of Infantile Paralysis (1916)
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    The Treatment Of Infantile Paralysis (1916)

    The Treatment of Infantile Paralysis is a medical book written by Robert Williamson Lovett and originally published in 1916. The book provides a comprehensive guide to the treatment of infantile paralysis, also known as polio, a disease that was...
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  • Health and Social Research in Multiethnic Societies Health and Social Research in Multiethnic Societies
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    Health and Social Research in Multiethnic Societies

    This volume presents a ready source of information on the methodological issues facing research on ethnicity, which is highly relevant to a wide variety of health, economic and social issues in modern societies. Straightforward in its approach...
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  • Introduction to the Anatomy and Physiology of Children Introduction to the Anatomy and Physiology of Children
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    Introduction to the Anatomy and Physiology of Children

    Fully updated, this new edition provides an introduction to normal, healthy physical development for all professionals who specialise in working with children. The author, an experienced nurse teacher, guides the reader through the key changes in body...
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  • Risk and Citizenship Risk and Citizenship
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    Risk and Citizenship

    Contemporary welfare provision poses serious challenges for social policy. Large and rapid changes are said to be taking place in the way we live, work and relate to each other, characterised by anxiety and insecurity.Risk and Citizenship explores how...
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  • Institutional Abuse Institutional Abuse
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    Institutional Abuse

    Institutional Abuse brings together a number of different research studies and accounts of institutional abuse from leading academics and researchers. Public enquiries and court cases concerning institutional abuse in a range of settings have generated...
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  • Representations of Death Representations of Death
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    Representations of Death

    Drawing upon a rare and highly original ethnography of contemporary mortuary practices, Representations of Death takes the reader through the medical, bureaucratic, commercial and ritual aspects of death Going behind the scenes at hospitals, funeral...
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  • Principles and Methods of Transformative Action Research Principles and Methods of Transformative Action Research
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    Principles and Methods of Transformative Action Research

    Principles and Methods of Transformative Action Research delves into both general principles and specific methods for basic steps in the action research process-asking questions, gathering and analyzing data, communicating findings, and pursuing action...
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  • Antimicrobial and Antiviral Materials Antimicrobial and Antiviral Materials
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    Antimicrobial and Antiviral Materials

    This book discusses recent developments in materials science and engineering in combating infectious diseases and explores advances in antimicrobial and antiviral materials, including properties of various polymers, metals, and ceramics and their...
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  • Born for Life Born for Life
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    Born for Life

     A nurse aide position in the local maternity annexe at the age of sixteen gave Julie a love for being with women during labour and birth and caring for mothers and their babies.Life could not have been happier until the tragic death of her own baby...
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  • Globalisation, Markets and Healthcare Policy Globalisation, Markets and Healthcare Policy
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    Globalisation, Markets and Healthcare Policy

    Although the last two decades have seen the healthcare systems of most developed countries face pressure for major reform, the impact of this reform on the relationship between empowerment, consumerism and citizen's rights has received limited research...
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  • Involving Service Users in Health and Social Care Research Involving Service Users in Health and Social Care Research
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    Involving Service Users in Health and Social Care Research

    Service user involvement in research can range from the extremes of being the subject, to being the initiator or investigator, of a research study. The activity of the professional researcher can also range from being the person undertaking the research,...
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  • Sexuality, Health and Human Rights Sexuality, Health and Human Rights
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    Sexuality, Health and Human Rights

    This new work surveys how rapid changes taking place at the start of the twenty-first century in social, cultural, political and economic domains impact on sexuality, health and human rights. The relationships between men, women and children are changing...
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  • MMR and Autism MMR and Autism
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    MMR and Autism

    The MMR controversy has been characterized by two one-sided discourses. In the medical world, the weight of opinion is overwhelmingly in favour of MMR. In the public world, the anti-MMR campaign has a much greater influence, centred on the fears of...
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  • Drug Misuse and Motherhood Drug Misuse and Motherhood
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    Drug Misuse and Motherhood

    The growing use of illicit drugs among women has become a major concern for health professionals and social services. The reluctance of drug-using women to seek help from drug agencies and to disclose their use of drugs to ante-natal, midwifery and...
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  • Sociology and Nursing Sociology and Nursing
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    Sociology and Nursing

    This introductory text provides nurses with the foundations of a sociological understanding of health issues which they should find of great help in thinking about their work and the role of their profession. It explains the key sociological theories and...
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  • Imagining Welfare Futures Imagining Welfare Futures
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    Imagining Welfare Futures

    Imagining Welfare Futures explores possible futures of welfare by considering different types of relationship between the public and the state through which social welfare may be organized beyond the millennium. By drawing on contemporary debates about...
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  • Nursing History and the Politics of Welfare Nursing History and the Politics of Welfare
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    Nursing History and the Politics of Welfare

    A quiet revolution has been sweeping through the writing of nursing history over the last decade, transforming it into a robust and reflective area of scholarship. Nursing History and the Politics of Welfare highlights the significant contribution that...
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  • Social Action with Children and Families Social Action with Children and Families
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    Social Action with Children and Families

    Meeting the needs of children at the same time as promoting family life is more than a question of resources: it needs a culture change in social services: a rediscovery and a modernization of the social action and community development traditions in...
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  • Social Theory, Social Change and Social Work Social Theory, Social Change and Social Work
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    Social Theory, Social Change and Social Work

    Social Theory, Social Change and Social Work has two inter-related themes. First to account for and analyse current changes in social work and secondly, to assess how far recent developments in social theory can contribute to their interpretation...
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  • Professions and the Public Interest Professions and the Public Interest
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    Professions and the Public Interest

    The importance and influence of professions in public life has grown increasingly over the twentieth century but the question of whether they subordinate their own self-interests to the public interest has yet to be adequately researched within a major...
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  • The Politics of Nursing Knowledge The Politics of Nursing Knowledge
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    The Politics of Nursing Knowledge

    The Politics of Nursing Knowledge puts into context the historical factors which have shaped and sometimes limited the development of nurse education. Anne Marie Rafferty makes a critical reappraisal of Florence Nightingale's vision of nursing and looks...
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  • Nursing and Social Change Nursing and Social Change
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    Nursing and Social Change

    Nursing and Social Change is essential reading for nurses who wish to understand how their profession had developed from its earliest beginnings to the present day. Now in its third edition the book has been completely revised to take into account the...
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  • Watching Police, Watching Communities Watching Police, Watching Communities
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    Watching Police, Watching Communities

    From the early 80s community policing has been held up as a new commitment to the ideals of service and the rejection of coercive policing styles. The idea was to encourage a partnership between the public and police in which community needs would be met...
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  • When Race Counts When Race Counts
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    When Race Counts

    When Race Counts investigates the use of race-conscious practices in social policy in Britain and America. It questions the distinction between affirmative action and preferential treatment, and evaluates the effectiveness of a range of education and...
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  • Young, Female and Black Young, Female and Black
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    Young, Female and Black

    Young black women bear all the hallmarks of a fundamentally unequal society. They do well at school, contribute to society, are good efficient workers yet, as a group they consistently fail to secure the economic status and occupational prestige they...
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  • Common Conditions in Gynaecology Common Conditions in Gynaecology
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    Common Conditions in Gynaecology

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  • Nanochemistry Nanochemistry
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    Nanochemistry

    This book encompasses the fundamental concepts of Nanochemistry that involve the self-assemblage of nanostructures, surface stabilization, and functionalization of nanoparticles.
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  • The Psychopharmacologists 3 The Psychopharmacologists 3
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    The Psychopharmacologists 3

    The Psychopharmacologists 3 completes a trio of interview-based books about the process of therapeutic innovation in clinical psychiatry. David Healy's method is to interview key individuals involved in the discovery and deployment of drugs that have...
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  • Organisational Behaviour in Health Care Organisational Behaviour in Health Care
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    Organisational Behaviour in Health Care

    Foreword; R.Stewart Introduction; A.Mark & S.Dopson Managing, Organising and Performing in Healthcare: What Do We Know and How Can We Learn?; S.Dawson Organisational Development: from a Reactive to a Proactive Process; P.Spurgeon Methodology & Marketing:...
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  • A Treatise On Optics (1853) A Treatise On Optics (1853)
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    A Treatise On Optics (1853)

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...
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  • Mainstreaming Equality in the European Union Mainstreaming Equality in the European Union
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    Mainstreaming Equality in the European Union

    Mainstreaming Equality in the European Union provides a critical overview and evaluation of the potential role of the EU in perpetuating or breaking down gender segregation in the EU labour force. Teresa Rees draws upon feminist theoretical frameworks in...
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  • Reconstructing Womanhood, Reconstructing Feminism Reconstructing Womanhood, Reconstructing Feminism
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    Reconstructing Womanhood, Reconstructing Feminism

    Reconstructing Womanhood, Reconstructing Feminism is the first British feminist anthology to examine concepts of womanhood and feminism within the context of `race' and ethnicity. Challenging contemporary feminist theory, the book highlights ways in...
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  • Nursing in Primary Health Care Nursing in Primary Health Care
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    Nursing in Primary Health Care

    The role and scope of nursing in primary health care is continually evolving as a result of changes in society. This book explores current issues from the perspective of nursing, showing how policy informs practice. The topics covered include: * health...
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  • Limited Responsibilities Limited Responsibilities
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    Limited Responsibilities

    Limited Responsibilities explores the interaction between the criminal justice system and the wider concerns of political and social institutions, including the welfare state, social work and forensic psychiatry. Using the key concept of...
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  • Breaking Out Again Breaking Out Again
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    Breaking Out Again

    Breaking Out is one of the classics of feminist sociology. In this new edition Liz Stanley and Sue Wise review the main developments in feminist thinking on research issues since the book first appeared.
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  • Women's Health Matters Women's Health Matters
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    Women's Health Matters

    Women's Health Matters, like its sister volume Women's Health Counts, is an invaluable practical guide to doing feminist research on women's health. Written by experienced researchers and practitioners, these lively accounts of research work range from...
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  • Women, Violence and Social Change Women, Violence and Social Change
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    Women, Violence and Social Change

    Women, Violence and Social Change demonstrates how refuges and shelters stand as the core of the battered women's movement, providing a basis for pragmatic support, political action and radical renewal. From this base movements in Britain and the United...
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