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A comprehensive textbook providing a complete overview of the
multifaceted nature of public health practice. It explores all
aspects of public health from communities and wider society, child
development and early relationships, inequalities in health,
safeguarding, the rapidly changing nature of society and the
significance of culture, equality and diversity. The book takes a
life-span approach and makes direct links to the UK health and
social care context and has been written for an interprofessional
audience. It will be essential reading for health and social care
students including nurses and midwives, allied health care
professionals, social care workers, qualified health and social
care practitioners and anyone who plays a role in understanding,
promoting, and protecting public health. Key features:
Comprehensive, wide-ranging coverage Addresses the realities of
public health in a globalised world Applied to the UK four nation
context but also considers the global dimension of public health
practice
Novelist, travel writer, and essayist Helen Hunt Jackson
(1830-1885) was one of the most successful authors and most
passionate intellects of her day. Ralph Waldo Emerson also regarded
her as one of America's greatest poets. Today Jackson is best
remembered for "Ramona, " a romantic novel set in the rural
Southern Californian Indian and "Californio" communities of her
day. "Ramona, " continuously in print for over a century, has
become a cultural icon, but Jackson's prolific career left us with
much more, notably her achievements as a prose writer and her work
as an early activist on behalf of Native Americans. This
long-overdue biography of Jackson's remarkable life and times
reintroduces a distinguished figure in American letters and
restores Helen Hunt Jackson to her rightful place in history.
Discussing much new material, Kate Phillips makes extensive use of
Jackson's unpublished private correspondence. She takes us from
Jackson's early years in rural New England to her later pioneer
days in Colorado and to her adventerous travels in Europe and
Southern California. The book also gives the first in-depth
discussions of Jackson's writing in every genre, her beliefs about
race and religion, and the significance of her chronic illnesses.
Phillips also discusses Jackson's intimate relationships--with her
two husbands, her mentor Thomas Wentworth Higginson, the famed
actress Charlotte Cushman, and the poet Emily Dickinson. Phillips
concludes with a re-evaluation of "Ramona, "discussing the novel as
the earliest example of the California dystopian tradition in its
portrayal of a state on the road to self-destruction, a tradition
carried further by writers like Nathanael West and Joan Didion.
In this gripping biography, Phillips offers fascinating glimpses of
how social context both shaped and inspired Jackson's thinking,
highlighting the inextricable presence of gender, race, and class
in American literary history and culture and opening a new window
onto the nineteenth century.
A comprehensive textbook providing a complete overview of the
multifaceted nature of public health practice. It explores all
aspects of public health from communities and wider society, child
development and early relationships, inequalities in health,
safeguarding, the rapidly changing nature of society and the
significance of culture, equality and diversity. The book takes a
life-span approach and makes direct links to the UK health and
social care context and has been written for an interprofessional
audience. It will be essential reading for health and social care
students including nurses and midwives, allied health care
professionals, social care workers, qualified health and social
care practitioners and anyone who plays a role in understanding,
promoting, and protecting public health. Key features:
Comprehensive, wide-ranging coverage Addresses the realities of
public health in a globalised world Applied to the UK four nation
context but also considers the global dimension of public health
practice
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