The blossoming of sexual subcultures in the last hundred years has seen the development of a vast new sexual terminology. And as academic research has grasped the challenge of understanding sexuality in the modern world, it has generated its own analytical vocabulary to accompany it.

This text examines sexual health from a range of perspectives. Issues examined include: politics and sexual relations; culture and ethnicity; midwifery and child health; mental health; paediatrics; purchasers and providers; sexuality and terminal care; and ethics and law.

This researched and practical book is an excellent resource for nurses and other health care professionals.

Integrates theoretical insights into sexuality, sexual health and ageing and includes research findings from studies conducted with older people and the professionals that work with them. This book is suitable for students, researchers, practitioner and policymakers working within gerontology, sociology, psychology, and social work.

In the shadow of the pandemic, how do we make a healthcare system that is affordable, effective and fair?

A unique insight into how and why medicine can go wrong: combines Daniel Kahneman with Atul Gawande to explain the science behind our health

Offers an introduction to the key issues, perspectives and debates within the field of medical sociology. This book helps readers understand how sociological approaches are crucial to understanding the impact that health and illness have on the behaviour, attitudes, beliefs, and practices, of an increasingly health-aware population.

Sociology and its applications are key components of the core foundation programme taught to all nursing students on degree and diploma courses.

With over 20,000 entries, this reference has been edited for clear and concise definitions of medical terms. Each entry includes prefixes, suffixes and combining forms to show how terms are constructed. It is intended for medical students, physiotherapy students and related medical personnel.

The story of pain and suffering since the eighteenth century. Prize-winning historian Joanna Bourke charts how our understanding of pain (and how to cope with it) has changed completely over the last three centuries.

Do you need assess patients' lifestyle behaviours and provide guidance on how to change them? This survival guide gives you the tools, questions, guides and figures to do this using psychological theory within a nursing framework.

Ensuring the prevention and management of infection is a critical aspect of nursing. With this pocket-sized reference book you have instant access to all the most important policies and procedures.

Nutrition and hydration is a fundamental part of patient care and something nurses encounter on a daily basis. This user-friendly reference guide will help you quickly and accurately access your patient's nutritional and hydration needs and confidently care for them.

Gillian White draws on her experiences and proposes that multi-professional health care teams should talk about spirituality in challenging but safe environments to develop shared understanding of it, and to increase their confidence about integrating spiritual care into their daily practise.

The beautifully written, evocative memoir of a palliative care doctor.

One of the most remarkable memoirs ever written. The diary of Jean-Dominique Bauby who, with his left eyelid (the only surviving muscle after a massive stroke) dictated a remarkable book about his experiences locked inside his body. A masterpiece and a bestseller in France.

An incisive analysis and fascinating history of modern medicine's flawed relationship with diagnosis, and a clarion call to our medical establishment to do better.