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“peter selby”

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  • Idol Unmasked: A Faith Perspective on Money

    by Peter Selby ...
    The financial crisis of 2007/8 was predicted by former bishop Peter Selby in his seminal book Grace and Mortgage, which offered a compelling theological case for the cancellation of debt. Yet most of the responses and proposed remedies to the current crisis involve debt of one sort another. Where is the voice of faith in today’s critical debates? An Idol Unmasked offers a brilliant new critique of ... Read more

    $10.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Voluntary Assisted Dying

    An International Perspective on End of Life Choices for Cancer Patients

    Edited by Ruth E Board, Peter Selby ...
    This is a clear, balanced overview of international experience with Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD). It draws on medical literature, government reports, and official data from around the world to help inform public and professional discussion. It updates work conducted and published in 2020 in the book End of Life Choices for Cancer Patients.More than 280 million people live in countries where some ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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    Edited by Diana Guzys, Rhonda Brown, Elizabeth Halcomb, Dean Whitehead ...
    Community and primary health care nursing is a rapidly growing field. Founded on the social model of health, the primary health care approach explores how social, environmental, economic and political factors affect the health of the individual and communities, and the role of nurses and other health care practitioners in facilitating an equitable and collaborative health care process. An ... Read more

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  • Oxford Textbook of Public Health Palliative Care

    Edited by Julian Abel, Allan Kellehear ...
    Series series Oxford Textbooks in Palliative Medicine
    Death, dying, loss, and care giving are not just medical issues, but societal ones. Palliative care has become increasingly professionalised, focused around symptom science. With this emphasis on minimizing the harms of physical, psychological, and spiritual stress, there has been a loss of how cultures and communities look after their dying, with the wider social experience of death often ... Read more

    $112.49 USD

  • Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity

    Research and public policy

    by Thomas F. Babor, Sally Casswell, Kathryn Graham, Taisia Huckle, Michael Livingston, Robin Room, Ingeborg Rossow, Bundit Sornpaisarn, Esa Österberg, Jürgen Rehm ...
    Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity is a collaborative effort by an international group of addiction scientists to improve the linkages between addiction science and alcohol policy. It presents, in a comprehensive, practical, and readily accessible form, the accumulated scientific knowledge on alcohol research that has a direct relevance to the development of alcohol policy on local, national, and ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Drug Policy and the Public Good

    by Thomas Babor, Jonathan Caulkins, Benedikt Fischer, David Foxcroft, Keith Humphreys, Isidore Obot, Peter Reuter, Robin Room, Ingeborg Rossow, John Strang, María Elena Medina-Mora, Jürgen Rehm ...
    Illegal psychoactive substances and illicit prescription drugs are currently used on a daily basis all over the world. Affecting public health and social welfare, illicit drug use is linked to disease, disability, and social problems. Faced with an increase in usage, national and global policymakers are turning to addiction science for guidance on how to create evidence-based drug policy. Drug ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

  • Sex Work, Health, and Human Rights

    Global Inequities, Challenges, and Opportunities for Action

    Edited by Shira M. Goldenberg, Ruth Morgan Thomas, Anna Forbes, Stefan Baral ...
    This open access book provides a comprehensive overview of the health inequities and human rights issues faced by sex workers globally across diverse contexts, and outlines evidence-based strategies and best practices.Sex workers face severe health and social inequities, largely as the result of structural factors including punitive and criminalized legal environments, stigma, and social and ... Read more

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  • Supporting People with Alcohol and Drug Problems

    Making a Difference

    by Sarah Galvani ...
    Series series Social Work in Practice
    Social workers and other social care professionals regularly face the challenges of working with people with alcohol and other drug problems. Yet many receive little, if any, training for working with these issues. As substance use and its social impact on communities and families rises up the political agenda, this book offers a timely support for social workers and other social care staff ... Read more

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  • Dementia and Human Rights

    by Suzanne Cahill ...
    The time has come to further challenge biomedical and clinical thinking about dementia, which has for so long underpinned policy and practice. Framing dementia as a disability, this book takes a rights-based approach to expand the debate.Applying a social constructionist lens, it builds on earlier critical perspectives by bringing together concepts including disability, social inclusion, ... Read more

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  • Contexts of Contemporary Nursing

    by T. Jenkinson, G.R. Williamson, Tracey Proctor-Childs ...
    Series series Transforming Nursing Practice Series
    A wide variety of factors impact on the scope of nursing practice, including government policies, organisational structures, the media, education, future healthcare directions and service users themselves. It is an NMC requirement that nurses understand these factors in order to deliver quality care. This book provides a clear and practical introduction to these contexts for the new nursing ... Read more

    $69.29 USD

  • International Perspectives on Public Health and Palliative Care

    Edited by Libby Sallnow, Suresh Kumar, Allan Kellehear ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Public Health
    Public health approaches to palliative care have been growing in policy importance and practice acceptance. This innovative volume explores the major concepts, practice examples, and practice guidelines for this new approach.The goal of ‘comprehensive care’ – seamless support for patients as they transition between home based care and inpatient services – relies on the principles of health ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • The Sedated Society

    The Causes and Harms of our Psychiatric Drug Epidemic

    Edited by James Davies ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This edited volume provides an answer to a rising public health concern: what drives the over prescription of psychiatric medication epidemic? Over 15% of the UK public takes a psychiatric medication on any given day, and the numbers are only set to increase. Placing this figure alongside the emerging clinical and scientific data revealing their poor outcomes and the harms these medications often ... Read more

    $71.99 USD