This introductory text provides nurses with the foundations of a sociological understanding of health issues which they should find of great help in thinking about their work and the role of their profession. It explains the key sociological theories and debates with humour and imagination in a way which will encourage an inquisitive and reflective approach on the part of any student who engages with the text.

This lively, introductory text provides students and health practitioners with the foundations of a sociological understanding of health issues. Written for anyone who is interested in health and disease in contemporary global society, this book engages the reader to act upon their occupational and moral responsibilities.

It explains the key sociological theories and debates with humour and imagination in a way that will encourage an inquisitive and reflective approach on the part of any student who engages with the text. With individual chapters covering sociology, health, science,...

This work examines the current status of mental-health nursing and the role that this discipline plays in society. Following a review of the literature relating to the status of nursing in general, and mental-health nursing in particular, the author draws on sociological theory of the professions, and the findings of his own research into mental-health nurses working in the community. He concludes that, as a distinct occupational group, nurses must let go of the unobtainable goal of professionalization and seek an alternative future.

Murder is the most malevolent of acts by humans. Not only does the slaying of a man, woman or child destroy a life, but it ravages the lives of all thoses associated with the person who has been killed, and forments the collective angst of the community. But the mad who kill are placed in a different socio-legal category to that of normal murderes. Those regarded as insane, either at the time of their improbity or after the event, are propelled into a distinct and discreditable stratum of deviancy. They are unreasonably dangerous. These miscreants are construed as double-trouble - mad and...

Mental health has become a global issue. Throughout both the developed and developing worlds, the treatment and care of the mentally disordered, and the need to improve the mental health of all citizens, has become a major political and professional concern.

Human psychological and physical well-being is damaged and destroyed when people are deliberately killed by other people. There are millions of primary and secondary victims of murder throughout the world, and human society as a whole is a tertiary victim of murder. Despite this, people are often fascinated and engrossed by stories of homicide and killers. This book provides a fascinating exploration of murder, providing an insight into what leads people to kill and what effect this has on society as a whole. This book is organized into five chapters that each answer a specific question on...

This lively, introductory text provides nurses with the foundations of a sociological understanding of health issues that they will find of great help in thinking about their work and the role of their profession. It explains the key sociological theories and debates with humour and imagination in a away that will encourage an inquisitive and reflective approach on the part of any student who engages with the text.

This book is an introduction to the uncertainties and incongruities about madness. It is aimed at all of those who are curious about this subject whether out of general inquisitiveness or because it is part of a formal course of study.

Using case studies of real people in order to explain, humanise, and bring to life the subject, Peter Morrall critically analyses how madness has been and is understood, or perhaps misunderstood. By contrasting past and present people who have been perceived as mad and/or perceive themselves as mad, Morrall presents core ideas about madness...