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  • Health Professionals and Patient and Public Involvement in Healthcare

    by Danielle Hitch, Rosalie A. Boyce, Jonathan Gabe, Joana Almeida, Junji Kayukawa, Guido Giarelli, Takuya Matsushige, Nelson Barros, Pamela Siegel, Elaine Marasca Garcia da Costa, Renata Carnevale, Mohammad Akram, William C. Cockerham ...
    Series series Sociology of Health Professions
    Across the globe, patients are no longer passive recipients of care — they are active participants, decision-makers and collaborators.This timely volume explores the evolving landscape of patient and public involvement (PPI) in healthcare, focusing on its intersection with the healthcare professions. Drawing on international perspectives, the book examines how patients and professionals navigate ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • Professions

    A Key Idea for Business and Society

    by Mike Saks ...
    Series series Key Ideas in Business and Management
    Professions and professionalism have played an integral part in business and society. In this book, Mike Saks provides a thorough overview of this field through an analysis of a range of professions, including, amongst others, accountants, doctors and lawyers.The book offers a critical analysis of such privileged occupational groups in modern societies. Anticipating a positive if changing role for ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • National Health Services of Western Europe

    Challenges, Reforms and Future Perspectives

    Edited by Guido Giarelli, Mike Saks ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Health and Social Welfare
    This book draws on research within neo-Weberian and neo-institutionalist perspectives to critically analyse National Health Services (NHSs) in Western Europe. Exploring the challenges posed by neo-liberal policies, it also looks at the impact of the role of the state, the medical profession, the public and the medical–industrial complex in their development.Bringing together a top-line range of ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Responsible Leadership

    Essential to the Achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals

    Edited by Mike Saks ...
    With a range of well-respected voices from across the business, political, third sector and research spectrum, this important book provides an accessible insight into responsible leadership. It represents the most comprehensive and informed work on responsible leadership linked to the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) produced to date.This carefully edited volume, based on a ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Support Workers and the Health Professions in International Perspective

    The Invisible Providers of Health Care

    by Miwako Hosoda, Raisa Deber, Whitney Berta, Adrian Rohit Dass, Audrey Laporte, Nelson Barros, Joana Almeida, Mirko Noordegraaf, Elisabeth Olin, Anna Dunér, Andreas Liljegren, Susan Nancarrow, Judith Allsop, Mike Dent, Janet M Lum, Paul Williams, Katherine Zagrodney ...
    Series series Sociology of Health Professions
    Health care support workers (HSWs) play a fundamental role in international health care systems, and yet they remain largely invisible. Despite this, the number of HSWs is growing fast as governments strive to combat illness and address social care issues in a world of finite resources.This original collection analyses the global experience of HSWs in the UK, Japan, Australia, Brazil, Canada, ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Professions and the Public Interest

    Medical Power, Altruism and Alternative Medicine

    by Mike Saks ...
    The importance and influence of professions in public life has grown increasingly over the twentieth century but the question of whether they subordinate their own self-interests to the public interest has yet to be adequately researched within a major sociological perspective. In Professions and the Public Interest Mike Saks develops a theoretical and methodological framework for assessing ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Researching Health

    Qualitative, Quantitative and Mixed Methods

    Edited by Mike Saks, Judith Allsop ...
    Saks and Allsop′s Researching Health offers a comprehensive introduction to research methods for health care students and practitioners. The new third edition includes important theoretical updates, and further international content, with contributors from the UK, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Portugal, Canada, and Spain, covering a number of specialisms and providing perspectives on core topics ... Read more

    $73.79 USD

  • The Professions, State and the Market

    Medicine in Britain, the United States and Russia

    by Mike Saks ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management
    This unique book enhances our understanding of the links between professions, the state and the market – and their implications for the public in terms of professional practice. In so doing, the book adopts a neo-Weberian perspective, in which professions are seen as a form of exclusionary social closure based on legal boundaries established by the state.To illustrate the overarching theme, the ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Developing Research in Primary Care

    by Mike Saks, Martin Williams, Beverley Hancock ...
    The rapid development of NHS trusts is making unprecendented demands on those responsible for strategic planning and management for which many are unprepared. This manual is based upon the experience of those who have faced the questions and found the answers. It is intended for all those involved in Trust management. The questions are not all board-level strategic questions; some are quite ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Professional Health Regulation in the Public Interest

    International Perspectives

    by Sumit Kane, Fiona Pacey, Nelson Barros, Joana Almeida, Adalsteinn Brown, Judith Allsop, William R. Roche, Rubén Flores, Richard B. Saltman, Michael Calnan, Marie Bismark, Jennifer Moore, Jennifer Morris, Stephanie D Short, Ruth Horowitz, Kathryn Jones, Karsten Vrangbaek, Patrick Brown ...
    Series series Sociology of Health Professions
    There are significant variations in how healthcare systems and health professionals are regulated globally. One feature that they increasingly have in common is an emphasis on the value of including members of the public in quality assurance processes. While many argue that this will help better serve the public interest, others question how far the changing regulatory reform agenda is still ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Professions and Professional Service Firms

    Private and Public Sector Enterprises in the Global Economy

    Edited by Mike Saks, Daniel Muzio ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
    Professions are increasingly linked with enterprise at a number of interrelated levels. By considering the relationship of professions to the enterprise contexts in which they work, this book reveals the dilemmas posed to professional groups, and the opportunities and constraints that can arise in their organisational frameworks.Addressing both private and public sectors, this collection explores ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Professions and Metaphors

    Understanding professions in society

    Edited by Andreas Liljegren, Mike Saks ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society
    Professions and Metaphors: Understanding Professions in Society explores the way that two traditions have contributed to our understanding of both theory and society over recent decades. In the first tradition, the growing literature on metaphors has helped to guide thinking, providing insights into such phenomena as the study of organizations. In the second, there has been an increased interest ... Read more

    $62.99 USD