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Product Description: Since its publication, Sociology for Nurses has become a leading textbook in the field and an invaluable companion for students wishing to understand how sociology can help nursing practice. This thoroughly revised and updated new edition maintains its commitment to providing jargon-free explanations of sociological theories and evidence to show how studying sociology can be useful in all branches of professional nursing practice...read more

Product Description: This book draws together a range of both classic and newly commissioned pieces on the multidisciplinary study of death and dying. Organized into five parts, the book begins with a general exploration of the meaning of death, before moving on to consider caring at the end-of-life...read more

Product Description: This anthology offers a unique collection of personal accounts of death, dying, and bereavement. It examines representations of death, dying, and bereavement in fiction, poetry, the media and the internet, as well as exploring visual representations of death and dying.

A collection of classic and contemporary readings in the sociology of health, this book will stimulate debate, reflexive practice and critical thinking in applied sociology.

Product Description: Policy and Practice in Promoting Public Health offers an up-to-date analysis of the key policy and practice issues involved in promoting public health-from local and community levels, to international settings. The book equips readers with a sound understanding of the policy process, and has a critical edge that encourages readers to reflect on how those involved in multidisciplinary public health can use and influence policy in order to inform practice...read more

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Provides a selection of writing that reflects, extends, and challenges thinking in the field of multi-disciplinary public health. This book helps develop readers' understanding of the topical, dynamic and challenging field of public health, offering: an overview of the development of public health; and, an exploration of the trends.