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  • How Many Children?

    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Ann Cartwright’s book Parents and Family Planning Services (1970) had become a classic in its field.Originally published in 1976, How Many Children? Dr Cartwright’s study of family size and spacing in England and Wales in 1973 is again based on detailed research and analysis, and upon interviews with the mothers and fathers of a random sample of legitimate births in England and Wales.Ann ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • General Practice Revisited

    A Second Study of Patients and Their Doctors

    Series series Routledge Revivals
    ‘This study of general practice and the attitudes of patients and general practitioners to it is the most significant book yet written about the NHS.’ This was how the reviewer in the ‘British Medical Journal’ reviewed Ann Cartwright’s earlier book Patients and their Doctors. In General Practice Revisited, originally published in 1981, Ann Cartwright and Robert Anderson compare the experiences and ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • The Dignity of Labour?

    A Study of Childbearing and Induction

    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1979, this study looks at the experience of childbearing from three viewpoints: first and foremost from that of the childbearing women; but in addition it considers the views and experiences of midwives and consultant obstetricians.It examines the proportion of induced labours and questions who is induced, when, where and why and how. Comparisons are then made between ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Medicine Takers, Prescribers and Hoarders

    Series series Routledge Revivals
    In the early 1970s, the consumption of both prescribed and non-prescribed medicines in Britain was increasing. Originally published in 1972, this book takes a look at the medicine takers and the types of medicine they take. It examines the relationship between self-medication and prescription, and describes the frequency and nature of repeat prescribing. The medicines kept in a random sample of ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Life Before Death

    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Aging
    Since death is an experience which will inevitably be common to us all, we are often surprisingly uninterested in what services are provided for those people, often the elderly and infirm, who are at risk or who are on the point of death. Originally published in 1973, this study describes the last twelve months in the lives of 785 adults. Based mainly on the reports of close relatives, it is ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Life After A Death

    A Study of the Elderly Widowed

    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Aging
    The recently widowed experience many complex problems, and an understanding of their needs and the kinds of difficulties they encounter is essential if appropriate services and help are to be mobilized. It is the old who are most likely to be widowed, and they may face this crisis at a time when they may also be adjusting to ill health and increasing infirmity, and to retirement, with its problems ... Read more

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  • Elderly People, Their Medicines, and Their Doctors

    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Aging
    In the late 1980s, an increasing proportion of all prescribed medicines went to people over 65 years of age, not only because they constituted a growing sector of the population but also because their consumption rate, unlike that of younger people was increasing. This increase was therefore a matter for widespread concern which had until now been largely speculative, as no recent national survey ... Read more

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  • Human Relations and Hospital Care

    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1964, this book describes the hospital service as it is seen by patients. It is based mainly on interviews with a random sample of patients and discusses the relationships between patients and between them and hospital doctors, nurses, and general practitioners. The best available medical care should not only be given, but the patient and his relatives should feel that this ... Read more

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  • Healing the Hidden Hurts

    Transforming Attachment and Trauma Theory into Effective Practice with Families, Children and Adults

    Healing the Hidden Hurts*: Transforming Attachment and Trauma Theory into Effective Practice with Families, Children and Adults* provides a unique collection of professional and personal responses to the challenges that arise in dealing with attachment difficulties.With contributions from social workers, adoptive parents, adoptees, psychologists, therapists, counsellors and other related ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Emotional Intelligence

    Activities for Developing You and Your Business

    Building rapport, communicating and establishing trust with people, as a line manager, as part of a department or a temporary project team, involves a fundamental set of human and business skills. And yet this set of skills is also the area where the majority of managers feel least equipped to cope. Emotional intelligence is, at its heart, all about self-awareness; an understanding of how people ... Read more

    $265.99 USD

  • Parents and Family Planning Services

    Parents and Family Planning Services focuses on parents of a sample of newborns in twelve areas of England and Wales during the 1970s. The parents were asked about their contraceptive practices, attitudes toward different methods of birth control, and opinions of-and experience with-different types of services. General practitioners, health visitors, and doctors at family planning clinics were ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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    Series series Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine
    This book takes a fresh look at community nursing history in Great Britain, examining the essentially generalist and low profile, domiciliary end of the professional nursing spectrum throughout the twentieth century. It charts the most significant changes affecting the nurse’s work on the district including compulsory registration for general nursing, changes in organization, training, conditions ... Read more

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