Power and communication in healthcare
Chapter 8. Power and communication in healthcare Martin Johnson KEY CONCEPTS ▪ Nurses are weak in relation to medicine ▪ Patients often fail to exploit their power ▪ Goals of…
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Healthcare policy and organizational change
Chapter 7. Healthcare policy and organizational change Gillian Olumide and Hannah Cooke KEY CONCEPTS ▪ Political beliefs and welfare ▪ The development of the welfare state ▪ The development of…
Thinking sociologically about religion and health
Chapter 3. Thinking sociologically about religion and health Hannah Cooke KEY CONCEPTS ▪ Secularization ▪ Theodicy: explaining suffering ▪ Church, sect and cult ▪ ‘New age’ beliefs and fundamentalism ▪…
Inequalities and health disadvantage
Chapter 6. Inequalities and health disadvantage Ronnie Moore KEY CONCEPTS ▪ Linking poverty and health ▪ Linking inequality and health ▪ Behavioural and materialist explanations for health inequalities ▪ Social…
Thinking sociologically about families and health
Chapter 2. Thinking sociologically about families and health Lyn Gardner KEY CONCEPTS ▪ Defining families ▪ Diversity of family forms ▪ Historical perspectives ▪ Feminist critiques of families ▪ Family…
Work, professionalism and organizational life
Chapter 4. Work, professionalism and organizational life Hannah Cooke KEY CONCEPTS ▪ The changing division of labour ▪ Bureaucracies and markets. ▪ Total institutions ▪ Taylorism and Fordism ▪ Professionalism…
Introduction
Chapter 1. Introduction Hannah Cooke and Susan Philpin KEY CONCEPTS ▪ Why do nurses study sociology? ▪ The idea of the ‘sociological imagination’ ▪ How do sociologists work? ▪ Society…
Social class, poverty and health
Chapter 5. Social class, poverty and health Ronnie Moore KEY CONCEPTS ▪ An historical review of social divisions ▪ Poverty and definitions of poverty ▪ The changing nature of social…
25. Orthopedic and Neurovascular Trauma
CHAPTER 25. Orthopedic and Neurovascular Trauma Mary Jo Cerepani Musculoskeletal injury is one of the most common types of trauma seen in the emergency department (ED) and is a significant…
31. Cardiovascular Emergencies
CHAPTER 31. Cardiovascular Emergencies Darleen A. Williams The American Heart Association (AHA) estimates that in 2004 there were 15,800,000 Americans age 20 and older with some form of coronary heart…
