Series Information An interactive approach to learning, this series provides everything a student needs for Foundation studies across healthcare disciplines. Written by an appropriate specialist in a non-technical style. Key features of the text demonstrate how theory has a practical application, as well as testing student's knowledge.

Sociology and its applications are key components of the core foundation program taught to various nursing students on degree and diploma courses.

Offers an account of ethical issues affecting nurses and other health care practitioners. This book offers an approach with focus on ethical issues that might be encountered by health practitioners in training, in practice and in management. It discusses the role of moral theory and gives practical models for ethical decision-making.

Discusses those aspects of sociology which are relevant to nursing and the health care context in which it takes place. This book provides an introduction to sociological themes and ideas. It is intended for those students who take nursing and health sciences courses, and social sciences modules.

Looks at leadership, using a conversational style and enhanced with the use of cartoons. This book shows that leadership for nurses is not a distant academic concept, but something everyone has within them. It is grounded in theory and makes use of learning aids.

Offers students and health practitioners with the foundations of a sociological understanding of health issues. This book covers sociology, health, science, power, medicalisation, madness happiness, sex, violence and death.

Theories about risk and society are specifically related to issues of health and illness and more specifically to aspects of health care and nursing practice, such as violence against nurses, and techniques of risk assessment and risk management.

Examines the main approaches to understanding dementia and the main principles and ideologies of care. This book provides clarity on the gap between the utopian aspirations of care and the reality of care. It opens up a series of questions about knowledge and treatment of dementia.

Addresses the complex interactions between health, illness and culture by setting out anthropological theory, and integrating this with the practice of healthcare using real-life examples and case histories.

An insightful examination of the sociology surrounding major long term conditions, this is the final volume in the successful Sociology in Nursing Practice series. Demonstrating a high level of scholarship, it makes excellent use of current research to illuminate the social context of long term conditions and the patient's experience.

Nursing and health care workers are typically associated with healing and relieving pain. This work investigates the experience of patients in pain and of the professionals who inflict pain in the context of medically prescribed treatments. It explores meanings and perceptions of pain, the nature of patients' and providers' embodied experience.

Offers information on multiple aspects of normal birth, proposing approaches and paradigms for research and practice.

What are the limits of medical power? How has sociology helped to make sense of illness, disease, choice and risk? What are the challenges to medical practice? This text provides lecturers and students with an analysis of the key questions in medicine and society. It opens with an account of the context of health and illness.

This work aims to assist the nursing profession's clear desire to ensure that its members are equipped to meet the health care needs of minority ethnic communities by offering perspectives and insights from sociological theory and empirical research.

Informs, instructs, and inspires nurse leaders and other health administrators to reach for what might be, rather than succumbing to what already is. This work describes administration and management that is informed by human dimensions of caring, and approaches to change than quick-fix, economic take overs.

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This is the first book to approach the concept of suffering from the perspective of nurses. The concept is of central importance in the growing field of palliative care and has special meaning for nurses who are intimately involved in caring for people experiencing serious illness or nearing the end of life.

Offers students and health practitioners with the foundations of a sociological understanding of health issues. This book covers sociology, health, science, power, medicalisation, madness happiness, sex, violence and death.

Introduces the theories, concepts, and issues that are needed to equip students with an understanding of the issues confronting health sociology.

Nursing students will find this book both pertinent and helpful when faced with decisions of conscience. Perrin and McGhee (both teach at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire) incorporate vivid examples to illustrate the situations that they describe where nurses face conflicts of interest; questionable policy; unethical or illegal