Urban Policy in Britain: The City, the State and the Market

Government attempts to regenerate Britain's cities have taken a variety of overt and covert forms since 1945. This comprehensive and clearly written text provides a theoretical framework within which to understand urban policy and assesses the evolution of Conservative approaches to the revitalisation of urban areas under Thatcher and Major. Key legislation is reviewed and major consideration is given to the impact on urban policy of New Right principles, such as reliance on 'the market'.

Atkinson, Rob

Moon, Graham

History

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Palgrave HE UK

General practice as developed in the UK National Health Service has few parallels. Moreover, it has been the subject of substantial reform over the past decade.This book synthesises and presents recent research and policy development in the NHS, focusing particularly on general practice and primary care. From a health policy context, it assesses the diverse impacts of health care reforms on general practice and examines the future challenges facing primary health care in a dynamic policy environment.

Policy and Place: General Medical Practice in the UK

Medical Books

Administration & Medicine Economics

Red Globe Press

The Afterlives of the Psychiatric Asylum: Recycling Concepts, Sites and Memories (Geographies of Health Series)

Kearns, Robin

Reference

Routledge

Society and Health

A concise introduction to the central issues concerning health and health care in contemporary society, Society and Health is written for all health professionals undergoing basic training. It explains social science concepts and theories and shows their relevance to work in health settings.Each chapter is short and focused on key learning points. 'concept boxes' highlight the main themes and facilitate revision exercises and activities enable students to apply knowledge to practice assumes no previous knowledge ideal for common foundation programmeguided further reading

Society and Health: An Introduction to Social Science for Health Professionals

Gillespie, Rosemary

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Health, Disease and Society (Routledge Library Editions: Health, Disease and Society)

Jones, Kelvyn

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Originally published in 1987 this textbook is a comprehensive introduction to the rapidly developing field of medical geography. It illustrates the ideas, methods and debates that inform contemporary approaches to the subject, demonstrating the potential of a social and environmental approach to illness and health.

This Companion provides a comprehensive account of health and medical geography and approaches the major themes and key topics from a variety of angles. 
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<li>Offers a unique breadth of topics relating to both health and medical geography</li> <li>Includes contributions from a range of scholars from rising stars to established, internationally renowned authors</li> <li>Provides an up-to-date review of the state of the sub-discipline</li> <li>Thematically organized sections offer detailed accounts of specific issues and combine general overviews of the current literature with case study material</li> <li>Chapters cover topics at the cutting edge of the sub-discipline, including emerging and re-emerging diseases, the politics of disease, mental and emotional health, landscapes of despair, and the geography of care</li> </ul>

A Companion to Health and Medical Geography

Science & Math

BROWN, TIM

McLafferty, Sara

Earth Sciences

Wiley/Blackwell

The last 40 years has seen a significant shift from state commitment to asylum-based mental health care to a mixed economy of care in a variety of locations. In the wake of this deinstitutionalisation, attention to date has focussed on users and providers of care. The consequences for the idea and fabric of the psychiatric asylum have remained 'stones unturned'. This book address an enduring yet under-examined question: what has become of the asylum? Focussing on the 'recycling' of both the idea of the psychiatric asylum and its sites, buildings and landscapes, this book makes theoretical connections to current trends in mental health care and to ideas in cultural/urban geography. The process of closing asylums and how asylums have survived in specific contexts and markets is assessed and consideration given to the enduring attraction of asylum and its repackaging as well as to retained mental health uses on former asylum sites, new uses on former sites, and interpretations of the derelict psychiatric asylum. The key questions examined are the challenges posed in seeking new uses for former asylums, the extent to which re-use can transcend stigma yet sustain memory and how location is critical in shaping the future of asylum and asylum sites.

Smoking Geographies: Space, Place and Tobacco (RGS-IBG Book Series)

Smoking Geographies provides a research-led assessment of the impact of geographical factors on smoking. The contributors uncover how geography can show us not only why people smoke but also broader issues of tobacco control, providing deeper clarity on how smoking and tobacco is ‘governed’. <ul>
<li>The text centres on one of the most important public health issues worldwide, and a major determinant of preventable mortality and morbidity in developed and developing countries</li> <li>Records the outcomes of a long-term research collaboration that brings a geographical lens to smoking behaviour</li> <li>Uncovers how geography can play a part in understanding not only why people smoke but also broader issues of tobacco control</li> <li>Provides a deeper understanding of how smoking and tobacco is ‘governed’, regarding where people may smoke, but also more subtle governance as a climate is produced in which smoking becomes ‘denormalised’</li> <li>Brings both quantitative and qualitative perspectives to bear on this major source of mortality and morbidity</li> </ul>

Thompson, Lee

Barnett, Ross

Pearce, Jamie

Twigg, Liz

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