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First published in 1975, Opening the Door is a survey of policies
and problems in services for the mentally handicapped. It describes
the improvements which have taken place since 1969, when the
inquiry into conditions of patients at Ely hospital in South Wales
stimulated public concern into the quality of life of many mentally
handicapped people in hospital. The authors discuss the continuing
gap between the idea – as laid down in the 1971 Government White
Paper, Better Services for the Mentally Handicapped, which set out
a blueprint for development in the 1980s that was to make the
antithesis of ‘hospital’ or ‘community’ obsolete – and
the reality. The study is based on detailed work in one Region by a
team of staff and postgraduate students in the Department of Social
Administration and Social Work at the University of York. The
survey covers hospital provisions, with special attention to
nursing attitudes and to problems of the ‘back wards,’ the
relationship between hospitals and their surrounding communities,
and the development of local authority social work and residential
care services. This book will be of interest to students of social
administration, social policy and health.
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
"First Published in 1998, Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company."
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Issues in Social Policy
Kathleen Jones, John Brown, Jonathan Bradshaw
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R2,702
Discovery Miles 27 020
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First published in 1978, Issues in Social Policy is designed as a
basic textbook for social administration students in universities,
polytechnics and similar institutions, and for students in allied
fields such as medicine, nursing and public administration. What is
meant when we talk of ‘equality’ and ‘equity’ as social
goals? Do the two conflict? What are the social needs and the
social resources which our society tries to reconcile? Is voluntary
social service any more than a frill tacked on an expanding
statutory empire – or perhaps a way of cutting public
expenditure? Is there a conflict between universalist and
selectivist social policies? What is the impact of deviancy theory
on social policy? Is the growing professionalisation of social work
in the true interests of clients? These are some of the questions
which form the material of the book. The authors see the
development of social policy as central to the development of a
more just society, and the academic study of issues in social
policy as crucial to clear thinking and effective action.
First published in 1972, A History of the Mental Health Services is
a revised and abridged version of both Lunacy, Law and Conscience
and Mental Health and Social Policy, rewriting the material from
the end of the Second World War to the passing of the Mental Health
Act 1959, and adding a new section which runs from 1959 to the
Social Services Act 1970. The story starts with the first
legislative mention of the 'furiously and dangerously mad' as a
class for whom some treatment should be provided, traces the
development of reform and experiment in the nineteenth century, and
the creation of the asylum system, and ends in the age of Goffman
and Laing and Szasz with the virtual disappearance of the system.
The book will be of interest to students of mental health,
sociology, social policy, health policy and law.
First published in 1984, Ideas on Institution is a review of the
major English-language literature of the past two decades on the
experience of living in institutions - hospitals, mental hospitals,
prisons. The survey opens with a consideration of the writings of
Erving Goffman, Michael Foucault, and Thomas Szasz. They shattered
the liberal consensus that the purpose of imprisonment was to
reform. Instead, their work argued that the purpose of prisons and
mental hospitals was social control, and that prisons created
criminals, and mental facilities created mental illness. Part II
looks at four British studies : Russell Barton's Institutional
Neurosis which suggested the existence of a new disease entity;
Peter Townsend's The Last Refuge, a study of old people in
residential care; The Morrisses' Pentonville, a study of a London
prison which became a classic in criminology; and Sans Everything,
a symposium which paved the way for a series of official hospital
enquiries in the 1970s. Part III examines David Rothman's two
historical studies on how and why the U.S. constructed
institutions, and how and why reform movements failed; N.N.
Kittrie's The Right to be Different, a wide-ranging attack on the
compulsory treatment of a variety of 'deviants', including the
mentally ill, juvenile delinquents and drug abusers; Cohen and
Taylor's Psychological survival, a disturbing analysis of the lives
of long-term prisoners in a maximum security wing; Zimbardo's
Stanford Prison Experiment on the malignant effects of prison
conditions on the personalities of both prisoners and their guards;
and King and Elliott's study of Albany Prison, showing how a
promising therapeutic experiment went wrong. This book will be of
interest to students of history, gerontology, sociology, social
policy, penology, psychology and political science.
First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
First published in 1998. This is Volume IV, of seven in the
Sociology of Mental Health series. Written in 1962, this study
looks at of what mental hospitals actually do, what problems they
face, how they use their resources, and how their efficiency can be
assessed. We begin in Part I by briefly describing the provision of
mental hospitals in England and Wales, and analysing current trends
in hospital and community care, together with the arguments for and
against the retention of the mental hospital.
In this new anthology, the editors of the widely acclaimed The
Political Interests of Gender (1988) make a compelling case for
reconstructing feminist theory in critical-realist terms, fostering
more robust, multi-dimensional approaches to analyses of the
political interests of gender. Leading gender studies' scholars
utilise different research traditions to investigate topics
including human rights, women's movements, gendered labour markets,
international monetary policy, equality policy, and queer politics.
This unique anthology includes theoretical and empirical work,
illustrating how to build bridges between materialist and
discursive theoretical frameworks for understanding the politics of
gender. It will be a trend-setting text for advanced gender studies
political science, and sociology courses, as well as for
professionals in these fields. -- .
Weaving together intimate details from Katherine Mansfield's
letters and journals with the writings of her friends and
acquaintances, Kathleen Jones creates a captivating drama of this
fragile yet feisty author: her life, loves and passion for writing.
The story takes us beyond Mansfield's death in 1923 to explore the
life of her husband, John Middleton Murry - and his relationship
with three further wives - as he manipulated the posthumous
publication of Mansfield's unpublished work. In this vivid
portrayal of one of the world's foremost short story writers, the
first new biography for a quarter of a century, Kathleen Jones
crafts an intriguing narrative of Katherine Mansfield's
relationships, illnesses and creativity.
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Crossing the Wild (Paperback)
Nicola Jackson; Jacci Bulman, Kathleen Jones
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R213
R178
Discovery Miles 1 780
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