Routledge Advances in Health and Social Policy
Moralising Poverty: The ‘Undeserving’ Poor in the Public Gaze
1st Edition
By Serena Romano
July 05, 2019
Do we judge the poor? Do we fear them? Do we have a moral obligation to help those in need? The moral and social grounds of solidarity and deservedness in relation to aid for poor people are rarely steady. This is particularly true under contemporary austerity reforms, where current debates ...
The End of Physiotherapy
1st Edition
By David A. Nicholls
May 07, 2019
Physiotherapy is arriving at a critical point in its history. Since World War I, physiotherapy has been one of the largest allied health professions and the established provider of orthodox physical rehabilitation. But ageing populations of increasingly chronically ill people, a growing scepticism ...
Social Development and Social Work Perspectives on Social Protection
1st Edition
Edited
By Julie L. Drolet
August 14, 2018
Social protection is now considered a development milestone and an important tool in combating poverty. Interventions can include, for example, health insurance, public works programs, guaranteed employment schemes, or cash transfers targeting vulnerable populations groups. This innovative volume ...
Social Policies and Public Action
1st Edition
By Lavinia Bifulco
August 14, 2018
The concept of public action is a magnifying lens for shedding light on the plurality of institutional and social actors interacting in policies. Taking into account a changing social world that is redefining the State and its instruments, it is well suited for picking out transformations that have...
Domestic Violence in Diverse Contexts: A Re-examination of Gender
1st Edition
By Sarah Wendt, Lana Zannettino
January 30, 2018
Overwhelmingly, it is women who are the victims of domestic violence and this book puts women’s experiences of domestic violence at its centre, whilst acknowledging their many diverse and complex identities. Concentrating on the various forms of domestic abuse and its occurrence and manifestations...
Providing Compassionate Healthcare: Challenges in Policy and Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Sue Shea, Robin Wynyard, Christos Lionis
December 09, 2016
Despite the scope and sophistication of contemporary health care, there is increasing international concern about the perceived lack of compassion in its delivery. Citing evidence that when the basic needs of patients are attended to with kindness and understanding, recovery often takes place at a ...
Teen Pregnancy and Parenting: Rethinking the Myths and Misperceptions
1st Edition
By Keri Weed, Jody S Nicholson, Jaelyn R. Farris
November 07, 2016
Whether glamorised or stigmatised, teenage parenthood is all too often used to stand for a host of social problems, and empirical research results ignored. Identifying core controversies surrounding teen pregnancy and parenting, this book resolves misperceptions using findings from large-scale, ...
The Invisible Work of Nurses: Hospitals, Organisation and Healthcare
1st Edition
By Davina Allen
August 04, 2016
Nursing is typically understood, and understands itself, as a care-giving occupation. It is through its relationships with patients – whether these are absent, present, good, bad or indifferent – that modern day nursing is defined. Yet nursing work extends far beyond direct patient care activities....
Mental Health Services for Vulnerable Children and Young People: Supporting Children who are, or have been, in Foster Care
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Tarren-Sweeney, Arlene Vetere
September 04, 2015
More than half of children either in foster care, or adopted from care in the developed world, have a measurable need for mental health services, while up to one quarter present with complex and severe trauma- and attachment-related psychological disorders. This book outlines how services can ...
International Perspectives on Elder Abuse
1st Edition
Edited
By Amanda Phelan
April 27, 2015
Elder abuse has been increasingly recognised over the past ten years in many countries and progress has been made in both understanding and addressing the issue. This volume provides a much-needed international overview of the topic. Opening with an examination of what elder abuse is, Amanda Phelan...
Power and Welfare: Understanding Citizens' Encounters with State Welfare
1st Edition
By Nanna Mik-Meyer, Kaspar Villardsen
September 12, 2014
In the welfare provision of today, power takes both the shape of juridical sanctions and of attractive offers for self-development. When state institutions punish criminals, remove children at risk, or enforce sanctions upon welfare recipients the question of power is immediately urgent. It is less...
Health Care Reform and Globalisation: The US, China and Europe in Comparative Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Peggy Watson
January 10, 2014
In the post-Cold War, post financial crisis era, health care is an issue of critical political, personal and economic concern. In the US, plans to address a troubled health care model were met by vocal opposition. In the UK and post-communist Europe, attempts to introduce aspects of that model have...