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Social work, health, and equality / Eileen McLeod and Paul Bywaters.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McLeod, Eileen.
- Bywaters Mcleod Staff, Corporate Author.
- Series:
- State of welfare.
- The state of welfare
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Preventive health services--Great Britain.
- Preventive health services.
- Health services accessibility--Great Britain.
- Health services accessibility.
- Right to health--Great Britain.
- Right to health.
- Social medicine--Great Britain.
- Social medicine.
- Medical social work--Great Britain.
- Medical social work.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 216 p.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- What impact can social work make on inequalities in health? Social Work, Health and Equality opens up a new direction in the practice and theory of social work. Focussing on the profound human suffering which arises from social inequalities in health, it: * shows how social work can make a significant contribution to creating more equal experiences of health and illness * describes the major shifts in conceptualisation, practice and organisation necessary to bring about change. The authors explore these questions in relation to four key aspects of health; health maintenance, illness at home, hospitalisation, and facing death. Grounding the text in everyday lived experience, they show how social work must change its discourse and its practice if it is to respond effectively to the challenges of its new role in tackling health issues.
- Contents:
- 1. Inequalities in health : a social work issue
- 2. Inequalities in health : oppression in bodily form
- 3. Health creation and maintenance
- 4. Ill health at home
- 5. Ill health and hospitalisation
- 6. Facing death
- 7. Developing a political presence.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-203) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-71032-1
- 1-134-71033-X
- 1-280-06483-8
- 9786610064830
- 0-203-27167-X
- 0-203-06953-6
- 9780203069530
- OCLC:
- 181783789
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