healthmatters issue 11
Published Summer 1992CONTENTS
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Editorial
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News
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Features
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Belfast’s battle over Brook
In Ulster the arrival of contraception advice for young people has met with a storm of protest. Lindsay McClintock reports
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Will we still recognise the NHS in 1997?
With the election of a fourth Conservative government, Britain has now voted for the NHS reforms. Paul Martin calls on supporters of the health service to face up to the new political realities of the nineties
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Sorry — no work today, nurse…
There are already signs that health care workers could become deskilled in the new NHS, warns Malcolm Wing
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A burden of abuse
Why do so many young women become homeless? Mandana Hendessi reports on the disturbing results of a recent survey
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Public health in decline
Has public health medicine really moved centre-stage in the wake of the NHS reforms? Charles Webster consults the historical record — and charts the slow decline of the public health function
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Interview
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Features
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The Danish talking cure
I doesn’t take a referendum to get the Danes involved in shaping national policy on health. David Seedhouse reports on a model of participation from which the UK would do well to learn
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Whose bodies? Whose choice?
Our accepted ideas about parenthood have been overturned by the new reproductive technologies. Yet the ethical debate of recent years has been narrowly technical, and ignored the central position of women, says Patricia Spallone
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A growing health service?
What’s really happening to spending on the health service? Is the government right to claim the NHS never had it so good — or is it being statistical with the truth? The Radical Statistics Health Group investigates
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Central America: going back to their roots
Five hundred years after they were invaded by the conquistadors, the people of Central America are having to rediscover the medicines of their ancestors, explains Frank Chalmers
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Reviews
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Treatments for foreign bodies
MEDICINE AND CULTURE: NOTIONS OF HEALTH AND SICKNESS
Lynn Payer
Gollancz, 1990, £4.99 -
No more invisible men
DOING FEMINIST RESEARCH
ed Helen Roberts
Routledge, 1990
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Columns
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Who killed the NHS?
Eric the Heretic points the finger of guilt
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From heartsink to hope
Rosa Hudson finds a change of attitude is necessary before healing can begin
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Letters
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Column
