| Description |
xi, 212 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. Tracing continuity and diversity in health and exclusion / Michael Purdy and David Banks -- 2. Poor health, poor health care: the experiences of low-income households with children / Clare Blackburn -- 3. Whose business? Social welfare and managerial calculation / John Clarke -- 4. The health of which nation? Health, social regulation and the new consensus / Michael Purdy -- 5. Exclusion in maternity care: midwives and mothers / Mavis Kirkham -- 6. Social exclusion and madness: the complicity of psychiatric medicine and nursing / Peter Alan Morrall -- 7. 'You can go home today, Mrs. Jones': surgeons' and patients' negotiations over discharge / Nick J. Fox -- 8. Empowerment and health: a community development approach to health promotion / Sue Davies -- 9. Older people and health services: the challenge of empowerment / Alan Walker -- 10. Informational health networks: health care organisation in the information age / Brian D. Loader |
| Summary |
"In addition to documenting examples of exclusion in the health services, the book discusses the impact of poverty on the health of low-income households with children; the contribution of health promotion strategies to maintaining exclusion and marginalisation; exclusion in maternity care; the social exclusion of those with mental health problems and the role of doctors and nurses in this process; the silencing of the patient's voice in medical encounters; and the exclusion experienced by older people using health services. Other themes covered include resistance to exclusion through strategies of empowerment and the challenges to professional autonomy and power mounted by 'managerialism'." "Health and Exclusion challenges New Labour's 'third way' and emphasises the wider framework for understanding exclusion in a health care context. It is essential reading for health professionals and students of social policy and sociology."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Also available online via the World Wide Web, by subscription to netLibrary |
| Subject |
Discrimination in medical care -- Great Britain.
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Health services accessibility -- Great Britain.
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Social medicine -- Great Britain.
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Medical care -- Utilization -- Great Britain.
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Poor -- Medical care -- Great Britain.
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Health Services Accessibility.
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Delivery of Health Care -- statistics & numerical data.
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| SUBJECT |
United Kingdom. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006113 |
| Author |
Banks, David, 1956-
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Purdy, Michael, 1953-
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NetLibrary, Inc.
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| LC no. |
98051639 |
| ISBN |
0415180163 |
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0415180171 (paperback) |
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