Thank you Jane
I will buy this book as an additional gift for my
husband Brian Salter is an old friend & colleague of
his & he was always very controversial so it will be
an interesting read. Ill let you know.
bw val
--- Jane sandall <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> FYI New book
>
>
> The new politics of medicine
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>
>
> Propelled by Bristol Royal Infirmary, Alder Hey and
> the Harold Shipman case,
> a new politics of medicine is emerging from the
> changing relationship
> between medicine, society and the state. It is
> characterised by informed
> health consumers, an interventionist state and a
> mobilised medical
> profession. With the media now its constant
> companion, medicine has been
> abruptly politicised by a range of novel pressures.
> Yet the continuities of
> its re-energised institutions remain intact and with
> them the sustaining
> realities of medical power.
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>
>
> In his new book Brian Salter probes beneath the
> surface of political
> rhetoric and policy statements to identify the power
> struggles that are
> shaping the new politics of medicine. Drawing on a
> wide range of sources,
> he examines in detail the numerous domains of the
> medical empire, the
> profession's changing relationship with patients,
> managers and politicians,
> and its ability to move seamlessly across the
> political divide of public and
> private medicine.
>
>
>
> Brian Salter
> Professor of Health Services Research
> Institute of Health
> The Yorkon Building
> University of East Anglia
> Norwich NR4 7TJ
> United Kingdom
> Tel 01603 593365
> e-mail [log in to unmask]
> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> Dr Jane Sandall
> Professor of Midwifery and Women's Health
> Women & Family Health Research Group,
> King's College, Waterloo Bridge Wing,
> Franklin-Wilkins Building,
> 150 Stamford Street,
> London, SE1 9NH
> Tel: 020 7848 3605
> Fax: 020 7848 3764
> e-mail:[log in to unmask]
> http://www.kcl.ac.uk/nursing/research/women.html
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with regards val hesketh
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