healthmatters issue 31
Published Autumn 1997CONTENTS
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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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Things can only get better?
Labour are still insisting they can cut waiting lists — but how likely is it? The Radical Statistics Health Group has the facts
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Those magical mystery zones
Health Action Zones are being hyped as a key element of the government’s plan to remove competition and promote collaboration in the NHS. But what are they? David Glasman reports
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Voting for a healthier Scotland?
Will the creation of a Scottish parliament do anything for health north of the border? John Yorston is optimistic
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No patent, no cure?
Britain’s support for a draft European directive allowing genetic patents should cause concern, says Sarah Sexton
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When home is where the hurt is
Domestic violence is a major threat to the health of women and children — and it’s time for a national strategy to address it, argues Annie Moelwyn-Hughes
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Into the arms of the NHS
Many people would be shocked if NHS health authorities, trusts and medical charities invested money in arms-exporting companies. But they do — and disinvestment is long overdue, says Ray Hemmings
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Column
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Eugenic sterilisation: Europe’s shame
Eugenic ideas were promoted across much of Europe during the 1920s and 1930s, with forcible sterilisation of the ‘unfit’ a constant demand of the eugenicists. Charles Webster reports on a troubled period in our history
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Feature
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We know what we are talking about
Too often children are seen and not heard, but here young reporters from the Children’s Express news agency in Newcastle give their impressions of a recent conference on inequalities in young people’s health
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Column
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A bridge game too far
Michelle Hanson and Mother are waiting in for the Grim Reaper to call
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Feature
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Not mad – just sick and tired
Waking up in intensive care is enough to drive anyone crazy — as Joel Richman found out
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Reviews
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Workable wisdom
HEALTH AND ILLNESS IN A CHANGING SOCIETY
Michael Bury
Routledge, 1997, £14.99 -
A need for community
IDENTIFYING LOCAL HEALTH NEEDS: new community based approaches
Paul Burton and Lyn Harrison (eds)
Policy Press, 1996, £13.95 -
Lessons for everywhere
SPEAKING OUT: a report by West Bowling Community Health Action Project
Community health concerns in West Bowling, Bradford, 1997 -
Sit straight and read!
THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO GOOD POSTURE AT WORK
Andrew Wilson
Vermilion, London, 1996, £8.99 -
Evidently effective
EVIDENCE-BASED AND COST-EFFECTIVE MEDICINE FOR THE UNINITIATED
Tony Lockett
Radcliffe Medical Press, 1997 -
Stories from the trenches
WHO CARES? TRUE STORIES OF THE NHS REFORMS
Peter Bruggen
Jon Carpenter Publishing, 1997, £12.00 -
At home or in a home?
RE-EVALUATING RESIDENTIAL CARE
Peace S, Kellaher L, Willcocks D
Open University Press, 1997, £14.99 -
Fact & fiction
HEALTH PROMOTION: philosophy, prejudice and practice
David Seedhouse
John Wiley, 1997, £14.99
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Letters
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