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Living with Mental Disorder
Insights from Qualitative Research
Häftad, 2018
502 kr
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This evidence-based text puts a human face on mental disorders, illuminating the lived experience of people with mental health difficulties and their caregivers. Systematically reviewing the qualitative research conducted on living with a mental disorder, this text coalesces a large body of …
Social Theory and Nursing
Häftad, 2019
757 kr
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Despite noteworthy exceptions, nursing’s literature largely disregards the ways in which social and sociological theory permeates, guides and shapes research, education, and practice. Likewise, social theory’s ability to position nursing within wider structures of healthcare and educational …
Partiality and Justice in Nursing Care
Häftad, 2019
735 kr
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Partiality and Justice in Nursing Care examines the conflicting normative claims of partiality and impartiality in nursing care, looking in depth at how to reconcile reasonable concerns for one particular patient with equally important concerns for the maximisation of health-related welfare for all …
New Ethic of 'Older'
Subjectivity, surgery, and self-stylization
Häftad, 2019
689 kr
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Through its themes of subjectivity, surgery, and self-stylization this book critically examines the cultural constraints and incitements that shape the practice of cosmetic surgery by older people. The book problematizes anti-ageing discourses to provide a nuanced descriptive, ethical, and …
Digital Technologies and Generational Identity
ICT Usage Across the Life Course
Av Sakari Taipale, Terhi-Anna Wilska m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
710 kr
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The short lifetime of digital technologies means that generational identities are difficult to establish around any particular technologies let alone around more far-reaching socio-technological ‘revolutions’. Examining the consumption and use of digital technologies throughout the stages of human …
Negotiating Ageing
Cultural Adaptation to the Prospect of a Long Life
Av Simon Biggs
Häftad, 2019
844 kr
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The world is growing older and this is a historically unprecedented phenomenon. Negotiating such change, personally, socially and for governments and international organisations requires an act of cultural adaptation. Two key questions arise: What is the purpose of a long life? and How do we adapt …
Loss, Dying and Bereavement in the Criminal Justice System
Av Sue Read, Sotirios Santatzoglou m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
594 kr
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Life is characterised by movement, change and development, including transitions, losses and grief. People experiencing loss must learn to accommodate it and, sometimes, relearn new roles. Whether the offender is accommodating general loss (such as transition), the loss of others or facing their …
Professional Identity in the Caring Professions
Meaning, Measurement and Mastery
Inbunden, 2020
2818 kr
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Professional identity is a central topic in all courses of professional training and educators must decide what kind of identity they hope their students will develop, as well as think about how they can recruit for, facilitate and assess this development. This unique book explores professional …
Trade Union Strategies against Healthcare Marketization
Opportunity Structures and Local-Level Determinants
Inbunden, 2021
2578 kr
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Marketization in the healthcare sector affects the quality and delivery of care, as well as healthcare workers’ working conditions. Based on a comparison of England and Germany, along with an in-depth case study looking at New York, USA, this volume examines how trade unions respond to …
Leadership at the Intersection of Gender and Race in Healthcare and Science
Case Studies and Tools
Av Danielle Laraque-Arena, Lauren Germain m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
2578 kr
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This book takes a case study approach to explore leadership narratives of women in healthcare and science, paying attention to the intersection of gender, identity, and race in each story.Putting forward a new vision and pathway inclusive of the lived experiences and contributions of women …
Professional Identity in the Caring Professions
Meaning, Measurement and Mastery
Häftad, 2023
665 kr
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Professional identity is a central topic in all courses of professional training and educators must decide what kind of identity they hope their students will develop, as well as think about how they can recruit for, facilitate and assess this development. This unique book explores professional …
Turning Troubles into Problems
Clientization in Human Services
Av Jaber F. Gubrium, Margaretha Järvinen
Inbunden, 2013
2512 kr
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Human service professionals deal with a wide range of problems, from child abuse, parenting issues, and elderly care, to addictions, mental illness, sexual assault, unemployment, and criminality. These must be constructed as problems for professionals to appropriately respond to them. Human service …
Story of Nursing in British Mental Hospitals
Echoes from the Corridors
Inbunden, 2016
2578 kr
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From their beginnings as the asylum attendants of the 19th century, mental health nurses have come a long way. This comprehensive volume is the first book in over twenty years to explore the history of mental health nursing, and during this period the landscape has transformed as the large …
Living with Mental Disorder
Insights from Qualitative Research
Inbunden, 2016
1517 kr
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This evidence-based text puts a human face on mental disorders, illuminating the lived experience of people with mental health difficulties and their caregivers. Systematically reviewing the qualitative research conducted on living with a mental disorder, this text coalesces a large body of …
Partiality and Justice in Nursing Care
Inbunden, 2017
2504 kr
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Partiality and Justice in Nursing Care examines the conflicting normative claims of partiality and impartiality in nursing care, looking in depth at how to reconcile reasonable concerns for one particular patient with equally important concerns for the maximisation of health-related welfare for all …
Trade Union Strategies against Healthcare Marketization
Opportunity Structures and Local-Level Determinants
Häftad, 2023
710 kr
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Marketization in the healthcare sector affects the quality and delivery of care, as well as healthcare workers’ working conditions. Based on a comparison of England and Germany, along with an in-depth case study looking at New York, USA, this volume examines how trade unions respond to …
Leadership at the Intersection of Gender and Race in Healthcare and Science
Case Studies and Tools
Av Danielle Laraque-Arena, Lauren Germain m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
665 kr
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This book takes a case study approach to explore leadership narratives of women in healthcare and science, paying attention to the intersection of gender, identity, and race in each story.Putting forward a new vision and pathway inclusive of the lived experiences and contributions of women …
Men and Loss
New Perspectives on Bereavement, Grief and Masculinity
Inbunden, 2024
2190 kr
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This important book draws together new research and theories about bereavement, on the one hand, and men and masculinities on the other, to increase our understanding of men’s experience of loss and contribute towards improving support services for men following bereavement.Bereavement and loss are …
Exploring End of Life Experience
Facing Death
Inbunden, 2023
2578 kr
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The groundbreaking contribution made by this unique book draws on the experiences recorded by five people who are facing death – Jenny Diski, Philip Gould, Christopher Hitchens, Michael Mayne and Cory Taylor.Analysing the key themes that emerge from a psychodynamic perspective, the book describes …
Exploring End of Life Experience
Facing Death
Häftad, 2025
650 kr
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The groundbreaking contribution made by this unique book draws on the experiences recorded by five people who are facing death – Jenny Diski, Philip Gould, Christopher Hitchens, Michael Mayne and Cory Taylor.Analysing the key themes that emerge from a psychodynamic perspective, the book describes …
Understanding the Grief and Loss Experiences of Carers
Research, Practitioner and Personal Perspectives
Inbunden, 2024
2190 kr
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This book draws on recent research and cutting-edge ideas about bereavement and carers’ experiences across the life course to explore carers’ experience of loss and discuss their specific needs prior and or following the death of those they care for.Whether care provided is related to a long term …
Understanding the Grief and Loss Experiences of Carers
Research, Practitioner and Personal Perspectives
Häftad, 2026
725 kr
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This book draws on recent research and cutting-edge ideas about bereavement and carers’ experiences across the life course to explore carers’ experience of loss and discuss their specific needs prior and or following the death of those they care for.Whether care provided is related to a long term …
Empowerment
A Critique
Häftad, 2023
725 kr
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‘Empowerment’ is a term in widespread use today and one that is often considered to be a self-evident good. Here, McLaughlin explores its emergence in the 1960s through to its rise in the 1990s and ubiquity in present day discourse and interrogates its social status, paying particular attention to …
Marketisation, Ethics and Healthcare
Policy, Practice and Moral Formation
Av Therese Feiler, Joshua Hordern m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
704 kr
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How does the market affect and redefine healthcare? The marketisation of Western healthcare systems has now proceeded well into its fourth decade. But the nature and meaning of the phenomenon has become increasingly opaque amidst changing discourses, policies and institutional structures. Moreover, …
Culturally Competent Spiritual Care during Health Disasters and Emergencies
Developments in the Era of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
Av Irena Papadopoulos, Runa Lazzarino m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
2578 kr
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This innovative book draws together a wide range of multidisciplinary research to illuminate how the helping professions can provide person-centred spiritual care to their patients in a health emergency, making use of new digital technologies alongside more established modes of care.Drawing on …
Men and Loss
New Perspectives on Bereavement, Grief and Masculinity
Häftad, 2026
725 kr
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This important book draws together new research and theories about bereavement, on the one hand, and men and masculinities on the other, to increase our understanding of men’s experience of loss and contribute towards improving support services to men following bereavement.Bereavement and loss are …
Social Theory and Nursing
Inbunden, 2016
2578 kr
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Despite noteworthy exceptions, nursing’s literature largely disregards the ways in which social and sociological theory permeates, guides and shapes research, education, and practice. Likewise, social theory’s ability to position nursing within wider structures of healthcare and educational …
Digital Technologies and Generational Identity
ICT Usage Across the Life Course
Av Sakari Taipale, Terhi-Anna Wilska m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
2578 kr
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The short lifetime of digital technologies means that generational identities are difficult to establish around any particular technologies let alone around more far-reaching socio-technological ‘revolutions’. Examining the consumption and use of digital technologies throughout the stages of human …
Exploring Evidence-based Practice
Debates and Challenges in Nursing
Häftad, 2017
919 kr
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Despite sustained debate and progress the evolving thing that is evidence based nursing or practice (EBP) continues to dangle a variety of conceptual and practical loose threads. Moreover, when we think about what is being asked of students and registered or licenced practitioners in terms of EBP, …
Loss, Dying and Bereavement in the Criminal Justice System
Av Sue Read, Sotirios Santatzoglou m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
2303 kr
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Life is characterised by movement, change and development, including transitions, losses and grief. People experiencing loss must learn to accommodate it and, sometimes, relearn new roles. Whether the offender is accommodating general loss (such as transition), the loss of others or facing their …
