Challenging Medicine (Hardcover, 2nd edition)

Modern medicine is a powerful institution. With the help of highly developed drugs and surgical techniques, it promises to relieve suffering, improve the quality of life and extend the life-span. Conversely, it is expensive for the governments, insurance companies and individuals who pay for it and sometimes appears to be insensitive to the needs of those for whom it provides. And while recent restructuring of health care delivery services has provided medical practitioners with new challenges, there has been very little consideration of the range of pressures that they now face.
"Challenging Medicine" offers a lively re-appraisal of the current changes to the health service and analyses their effects on the status and practice of health professionals. It also provides original debate on the challenges posed from within medicine from nurses and managers and alternative practitioners, and from outside by self-help groups, the women's movement and the media.
Edited and written by experienced medical sociologists, "Challenging Medicine "will continue to provide a text for medical sociology students and for health care professionals in training and in practice.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	2006
First published:	2006
Editors:	David Kelleher • Jonathan Gabe • Gareth Williams
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	224
Edition:	2nd edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-38953-2
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > General
LSN:	0-415-38953-4
Barcode:	9780415389532

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