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D/C: Dis/color- Just Care

Just Care is Akemi Nishida's thoughtful examination of care injustice and social justice enabled through care. The current neoliberal political economy has turned care into a business opportunity for the healthcare industrial complex and a mechanism of social oppression and control. Nishida analyzes the challenges people negotiate whether they are situated as caregivers, receivers, or …

Who Cares

A ground-breaking rethink of caregiving in our society, by writer, activist and former policy advisor Emily Kenway. Around the world, millions of people are quietly caring for long-term unwell, elderly or disabled loved ones; one-in-eight people in the UK and a sixth of the total US population, with comparable proportions across the globe. For many, …

Nursing Homeless Men

Presents profiles of a hostel in Glasgow and a comparative hostel, to make assessments and referrals and to evaluate their effect. These objectives were successfully met along with secondary objectives to discover insights into the residents' experiences and lifestyles, and their interaction with health and nursing services. Research in Nursing Series The main objectives of …

Wound Care

A guide to wound care, specifically written for community nurses. An overview of the function of the skin and phases of wound healing are examined prior to looking at the relationship between wound healing and the patients' health and lifestyle. Case studies are included. The day-to-day responsibility for wound management is a role usually undertaken …

Canterbury Public Health Series- Principles and Practice of Health Promotion and Public Health

Principles and Practice of Health Promotion and Public Health brings together the disciplines and fields of study that inform the work of promoting health into one book and provides many examples of practice.

A Time of Light and Shadow

An inspiring travel adventure memoir that explores a young woman’s quest to live life on the front lines of conflict zones during the 1970s. In 1975, a time of new freedom for women, Ella Harvey lived in Paris, worked as a nurse in war-torn Lebanon, and fell in love in Istanbul. Jostled between cultures, between …

Blood Pressure Log Book

Livro de registro de glicose de diabetes

Effective Practices in Human Services

Physical Activity and Health

Physical Activity and Health explains clearly, systematically and in detail the relationships between physical activity, health and disease, and examines the benefits of exercise in the prevention and treatment of a wide range of important conditions. Now in a fully updated and revised edition, and still the most complete and engaging textbook on this important …