TY  - BOOK
AU  - Birchenall,Mary
AU  - Birchenall,Peter
TI  - Sociology as applied to nursing and health care
U1  - 306.461 21
PY  - 1998///
CY  - London
PB  - Baillière Tindall, 
KW  - Social medicine
N1  - Includes bibliographies and index; Section 1: Introducing the Sociology of Health Care -- Studying Sociology in Nursing -- Sociology and Everyday Life -- Society and the Individual : Gender, Race and Age -- Introducing Theory in Sociology. Section 2 : Inequalities in Health -- Poverty in Health Care -- Disadvantaged Groups in Health Care -- The Social Interpretation of Deviance. Section 3: The Social Context of Nursing -- Nurses, Clients and Power -- Professional and Educational Directions. Section 4 : Health Policy in Relation to Nursing -- The Changing Shape of the National Health Service -- Caring in a Mixed Economy -- Section 5 : Sociological Perspectives in Nursing -- Nursing and Social Theory. Glossary
N2  - Discusses those aspects of sociology which are most relevant to nursing and the health care context in which it takes place
ER  -