Product Description: This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. Nursing practice needs to be informed by an understanding of people and the societies in which they live. This introductory text has been designed specifically to discuss those aspects of sociology which are most relevant to nursing and the health care context in which it takes place...read more

Product Description: This book presents clear and sensitive guidance for nurses and health care professionals on all aspects of dealing with patient deaths. Advice ranges from coping with your own emotions and those of relatives, to all the practical arrangements which have to be made...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Specifically for nurses, this book fulfils the need for a rigorous course text on sociology and its direct relevance to health work. It guides readers through a number of classic and contemporary sociological debates which have a specific influence on nurses' understanding of nursing, health and health care...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)