| Description |
xiii, 258 pages ; 22 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
1. Thinking sociologically -- 2. Learning to be a nurse -- 3. Nurses at work -- 4. Nursing theory and practice -- 5. Becoming a patient and the experience of illness -- 6. Serious and terminal illness -- 7. The social context of mental health -- 8. Social inequality, health and health care -- 9. Medicine: prominent and powerful -- 10. Nursing: dynamic and developing -- 11. Nurses as agents of social change |
| Summary |
This book brings together a substantial body of theoretical and applied research work from the discipline of sociology that has direct relevance for nursing practice, education, management and research. It presumes no prior knowledge and the content is broad |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 220-248 |
| Audience |
Tertiary students |
| Subject |
Nursing -- Social aspects -- Australia.
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Social medicine -- Australia.
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Sociology -- Australia.
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Nursing -- Social aspects.
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Sociology.
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Sociology, Medical.
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Nursing.
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Sociology.
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| SUBJECT |
Australia. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001315 |
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Australia. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001315 |
| Genre/Form |
Nurses Instruction.
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| Author |
Sharman, Evelyn.
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Speedy, Sandra.
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| ISBN |
0732945216 |
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0732945224 (paperback) |
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