healthmatters issue 19
Published Autumn 1994CONTENTS
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Editorial
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News
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Column
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News
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Features
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Burnley Trust: just about managing?
Recent events in Burnley NHS Trust sound like another tale of ‘macho management’ running amok. But it’s hard to spot the good guys in this particular story, says Alan Walters
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Vocational workers or shirkers?
What’s all the fuss about performance-related pay? Edmund Heery explains the issues behind the headlines
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Treatment for media madness
People with schizophrenia have had enough of media misrepresentation. Nigel Rose reports on an innovative response
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What shall we tell the patients?
Do patients going into hospital for common surgical procedures get the information they need, when they need it? Christine Tucker and Angela Scriven find room for improvement
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Not waving but drowning
The prospects for health reform in the US have plummeted along with the political fortunes of President Clinton. Geof Rayner explains how it all went wrong for Bill’s bill
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Nothing to lose but your chains
The Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution recommends a ‘sustainable transport policy’, and the government wants people to take more exercise. So why not have a sensible cycling policy, asks Adrian Davis
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A family affair
Clive Bullock and Fozia Khalid report on attitudes to consanguineous marriages in Britain
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Cold hearts and coronaries
Campaigns to combat heart disease ask us to change the way we live our lives. Instead, they should attempt to change the world we live in, says Sonja Hunt
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When health care becomes a weapon
Melissa Jameson reports on the state of health in El Salvador, where people are struggling to rebuild their lives after 12 years of brutal civil war
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Reviews
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Contradictions in community care
Normality is Hard Work: Trade Unions and the Politics of Community Care
Mick Carpenter
Lawrence and Wishart, 1994, £14.99 -
How does your bed work?
THE HOSPITAL HIGHWAY CODE
Diana Kimpton
Pan MacMillan, 1994, £3.50 -
Disgruntled dabbling in social care
Social Care in a Mixed Economy
G Wistow, N Knapp, B Hardy and C Allen
Open University Press, 1994, £14.99 -
Making men better
The WHICH guide to Men’s Health
Steve Carroll
WHICH Books, 1994, £9.99
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Column
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But can the market deliver?
Eric the Heretic bears down on the market niche of ‘independent midwifery’
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Review
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Sick and tired no longer
HEALTHY AND WISE: THE ESSENTIAL HEALTH HANDBOOK FOR BLACK WOMEN
Melba Wilson (ed)
Virago, 1994, £6.99
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Letters
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