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Health Care Of The Elderly - Essays In Old Age Medicine, Psychiatry And Services

~~42,39€~~ 33,91€ 20% OFF

 Originally published in 1981, this book spans medicine, psychiatry, social work and organisation of services of the elderly, written by eminent authors from several different professions.
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Care Of The Child Facing Death

~~38,41€~~ 30,73€ 20% OFF

 Originally published in 1974, and written by paediatricians, social workers, nurses and a parent who cared for her dying child, this book is concerned with pinpointing the problems which exist for parents and those involved in the care of sick children.
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Family Life Of Sick Children - A Study Of Families Coping With Chronic Childhood Disease

by Lindy Burton

~~42,39€~~ 33,91€ 20% OFF

 Originally published in 1975, this book traces the problems which arise for families coping with a chronic childhood disease â€" cystic fibrosis. The discussion of these problems is important for the families of other seriously ill or disabled children, all of whom are faced with similar implications of their situation.
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Nature Of Disease

by Lawrie Reznek

~~41,06€~~ 32,85€ 20% OFF

 Originally published in 1987, this book is about the classification of bodily conditions into diseases. It provides a full account of the concept of disease, examining the issue of whether disease status is something we discover or invent and the issue of whether disease attributions involve implicit value judgements.
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Issues In The Political Economy Of Health Care

~~46,36€~~ 37,09€ 20% OFF

 Originally published in 1984, this book attempted to fill a gap by providing a broad-ranging structural analysis of the health care sector and the political and economic forces which influence its shape and contents, both in the western world and developing countries.
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Class And Health - Research And Longitudinal Data

~~42,39€~~ 33,91€ 20% OFF

 Originally published in 1986, this book discusses issues such as social class differences in health; the effect of unemployment on health; the relationship between income and health; how much of the class differences in death rates can be explained in terms of medically recognized factors.
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Care Of The Elderly Mentally Infirm

by Barbara Gray e Bernard Isaacs

~~39,74€~~ 31,79€ 20% OFF

 Originally published in 1979, this book explains why so many people suffer behavioural changes in later life; how this affects those around them; the services that exist to assist older people and those who work with them and how such services can be profitably used.
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Innovations In The Care Of The Elderly

~~39,74€~~ 31,79€ 20% OFF

 Originally published in 1984 and concentrating on the West Midlands area of the UK, this book describes the innovations that were made and all that was involved in bringing about changes in care provision for elderly people.
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Diet-Related Diseases - The Modern Epidemic

by David L. J. Freed, Gerald A. Silverstone, Stephen Seely e Vicky Rippere

~~42,39€~~ 33,91€ 20% OFF

 Originally published in 1985, and authored by an epidemiologists, a medical immunologist, a chemist and a clinical psychologist, this books shows that unravelling the links between diet and disease is a very complex task, and while the evidence is strong in many cases, in others if is of doubtful validity.
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Experience Of Illness

by Graham Scambler, James Thompson, John Hinton, Ray Fitzpatrick e Stanton Newman

~~39,74€~~ 31,79€ 20% OFF

 Originally published in 1984, this book focuses on how patients interpret and act in response to symptoms of illness; secondly on how social and psychological factors influence the treatment process; and thirdly, on certain kinds of illness where the psychosocial perspective is of particular importance to the providers of health care.
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Sociological Theory And Medical Sociology

~~42,39€~~ 33,91€ 20% OFF

 Originally published in 1987, this book builds bridges between medical sociology and mainstream theory.
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Health, Disease And Society - A Critical Medical Geography

by Graham Moon e Kelvyn Jones

~~46,36€~~ 37,09€ 20% OFF

 Originally published in 1987 this textbook is a comprehensive introduction to the rapidly developing field of medical geography. It illustrates the ideas, methods and debates that inform contemporary approaches to the subject, demonstrating the potential of a social and environmental approach to illness and health.
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Disease And Urbanization

~~39,74€~~ 31,79€ 20% OFF

 Originally published in 1980, this book focusses attention on various aspects of disease ecology. A series of contrasts appear, between urban and rural, temperate and tropical, and affluent and poor communities.
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New Directions In Health Education - School Health Education And The Community In Western Europe And The United States

~~38,41€~~ 30,73€ 20% OFF

 Originally published in 1985, this book is a detailed study of the ways of harmonizing school and community policies, strategies and methods in health education, with examples of work achieved in most countries of Western Europe and the USA.
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Transfer Of Care - Psychiatric Deinstitutionalization And Its Aftermath

~~41,06€~~ 32,85€ 20% OFF

 Originally published in 1985, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of mental health policy and practice in the USA during the latter part of the 20th Century by focussing on 3 main themes: political-economic structures, the pitfalls of professionalism and institutional obstacles to adequate care.
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Mental Health Care And Social Policy

~~43,71€~~ 34,97€ 20% OFF

 Originally published in 1985, at a time when the previous 2 decades had witnessed dramatic changes in the US mental health system. These included the decline of the state mental hospital, the birth of the community mental health center and the expansion of psychiatric services in general hospitals.
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Conflicts In The National Health Service

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 Originally published in 1977, this book explored some of the major problems besetting the Health Service during the second half of the twentieth century. Now, as then, they offer both historical perspective on contemporary difficulties and invite debate about the future development of health services.
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Pharmaceuticals And Health Policy - International Perspectives On Provision And Control Of Medicines

~~42,39€~~ 33,91€ 20% OFF

 Originally published in 1981, this comprehensive volume is intended for medical economists, clinical pharmacologists, physicians, pharmacists and consumers, as well as planner and administrators who must determine relevant policy and legislation in the area of the provision of medicines.
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Health And Vital Statistics

by Bernard Benjamin

~~42,39€~~ 33,91€ 20% OFF

 Originally published in 1968, this book was intended to help those in health and welfare services as well as those whose policy decisions are influenced by the movement of statistical indices of health, to understand the purpose, derivation and meaning of these indices.
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India'S Historical Demography - Studies In Famine, Disease And Society

by Tim Dyson

~~46,36€~~ 37,09€ 20% OFF

 When this book was originally published in 1989 here had been virtually no studies of the countryâ€™s historical demography.
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Nutrition And Disease

~~42,39€~~ 33,91€ 20% OFF

 Originally published in 1979, this book presents a coherent body of information on the inter-relation between nutrition, health and disease in its social context.
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Cholera 1832 - The Social Response To An Epidemic

by R. J. Morris

~~42,39€~~ 33,91€ 20% OFF

 Originally published in 1976, this is the account of British societyâ€™s response to the threat of disease. It is the story of an administrative fight to exclude the disease by quarantine and to persuade commerce and working-class people to observe carefully thought-out regulations.
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Epidemiology And Health Policy

by Abraham Lilienfeld e Sol Levine

~~41,06€~~ 32,85€ 20% OFF

 Originally published in 1987, this book examines the priorities of health policy in the late 20th Century and the varied approaches or strategies to foster the prevention or control of disease.
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Disease, Medicine And Empire - Perspectives On Western Medicine And The Experience Of European Expansion

~~45,04€~~ 36,03€ 20% OFF

 Originally published in 1988, the essays in this book focus primarily on colonial medicine in the British Empire but comparative material on the experience of France and Germany is also included.
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