healthmatters issue 12
Published Autumn 1992CONTENTS
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Editorial
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News
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Features
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Part of the problem, not the solution
The inquiry into abuses at Ashworth has provoked calls for reform of the special hospitals. But the only way to avoid yet another scandal of abuse is to close the hospitals down, says David Pilgrim
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A campaign for real security
Two respected anti-war groups have merged. Andrew Haines explains why the new campaign, MEDACT, is urgently needed
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Massage is the message
A movement is underway to take massage into the community. Frank Chalmers sheds his inhibitions and investigates
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Home thoughts from abroad
With the NHS reforms hardly bedded down, the health debate has already turned to Europe and the US. Steve Iliffe surveys the lessons to be learned from experience elsewhere
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Bandaged up by the nursing bureaucracy
Nurses should be well trained, then allowed to get on with the job, says Barry Clifton. But instead they are being overwhelmed by bureaucracy
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What do people want?
Gaining ‘consumer’ views in the new NHS is not simply a technical issue, says Safder Mohammed
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Capital planning or market chaos?
What is the future for London’s NHS afteer Tomlinson? Can — or should — the great London teaching hospitals survive? Paul Martin analyses the background to the latest crisis in the NHS
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A need for more foreign exchange
International Health Exchange links health workers in Britain with the projects in developing countries that need their skills. Isobel McConnan explains
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25 years on: one woman’s story
In the year that the 1967 Abortion Act marks its twenty-fifth anniversary, a young Muslim woman turns to the NHS for an abortion. Here, she tells her story to Philippa Cooper
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After the wall came down
Reunification has proved a mixed blessing for healthcare in Germany, reports Uli Freudenstein
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Columns
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Art for heartache
Helping people to rediscover their talents can be a strong medicine, says Rosa Hudson
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In sickness, not health
A health service is the last thing we need, says Eric the Heretic
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Reviews
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Carry on delivering
BIRTH WITHOUT DOCTORS: CONVERSATIONS WITH TRADITIONAL MIDWIVES
Jacqueline Vincent-Priya
Earthscan Publications, 1991, £7.95 -
Mother’s ruin
GHOST PAINS
Jane Severance
Sheba Press, 1992, £6.99 -
Ethics in caring
ETHICS IN NURSING: THE CARING RELATIONSHIP
Verena Tschudin
Butterworth Heinemann, 1992 -
Buddy, can you paradigm?
PLANNED MARKETS AND PUBLIC COMPETITION: STRATEGIC REFORM IN NORTHERN EUROPEAN HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS
Richard B Saltman And Casten Von Otter
Open University Press, 1992 -
Down among the users
AIDS, DRUGS AND SEXUAL RISK: LIVES IN THE BALANCE
Neil McKeganey and Marion Bond
Open University Press, 1992 -
Gene blues
GENERATION GAMES: GENETIC ENGINEERING AND THE FUTURE FOR OUR LIVES
Pat Spallone
Women’s Press, 1992, £7.95
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Letters
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