Dufour Editions
Health policy and practice in Ireland.
Designed for students taking a sociological approach to health care, this collection of articles describes the development of Irish health care services and how different concepts about disease and different institutions impact them. Essays first take a macro perspective, describing the health service overall, the management of mental illness, the sociological evolution of Irish health policy, making competition fair for health insurance, and inequalities of health and health care. They describe the nursing role, including the work of the public health nurse, the doctor-patient relationship, including the changing role of the family doctor and the present and future roles of the patient, intellectual disability, physical disability, and lay health beliefs and practices in such areas as breastfeeding and lifestyle. First published by University College Dublin Press, 2006. (Annotation ©2006 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
