healthmatters issue 36
Special issue: Genetics
Published Spring 1999CONTENTS
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Editorial
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News
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Column
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News
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Column
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Community care: older than the NHS
Whatever today’s politicians seem to think, community care has been around a lot longer than they have, says Charles Webster
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Features
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All talk, no action?
David Wainwright warns that without some template for how to go about commissioning, primary care groups risk substituting developing the commissioning mechanism for the activity itself
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Wrong end of the stick
The Food Standards Agency will be flawed by a focus on food retailers rather than producers, argues David Kilcoyne
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The world is hungry for justice, not genetics
Claims that genetically modified foods will help eradicate famine are bogus says Sarah Sexton, who examines the links between corporate greed and human hunger
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If you tolerate this, your children will be next
Whatever geneticists good intentions, the application of their research could result in eugenic policies against disabled people, argues Bill Albert
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It’s life, but not as we know it
If advocates of human genetic engineering are not checked, says David King, ‘enhancement’ of human beings will become a reality, with unknown consequences
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The future has arrived
Advances in genetic science have not been accompanied by parallel advances in planning the new patterns of health care delivery genetics will demand. Joanne Lenaghan says we must start immediately
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Reviews
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Not forgetting the forgetful
MANAGING ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE IN PRIMARY CARE
Henry Brodaty
Science Press, 1998 -
Three wheels on my bandwagon
QUALITY, EVIDENCE AND EFFECTIVENESS IN HEALTH PROMOTION
Davies JK and MacDonald G
Routledge, 1998, £15.00 -
Clear thinking on mental health
THE SOCIAL NATURE OF MENTAL ILLNESS
Len Bowers
Routledge, 1998, £50.00
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Column
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A job in the city
Katy Gardner finds life as an inner city GP has been transformed by becoming an employee
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Reviews
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Growing beyond good intentions
DEMENTIA RECONSIDERED: the person comes first
Tom Kitwood
Open University Press, 1997, £14.99
CULTURE, RELIGION AND CHILDBEARING IN A MULTIRACIAL SOCIETY: a handbook for health professionals
Judith Schott & Alix Henley
Butterworth Heinmann, 1996, £19.99 -
Soundbites and scholarship
GENERAL PRACTICE UNDER THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE 1948-97
Loudon I, Horder J & Webster C (eds)
Clarendon Press, 1998, £45.00
THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE NHS: your questions answered
Norman Vetter
Radcliffe, 1998 -
Everybody is some body
THE BODY IN EVERYDAY LIFE
Nettleton S and Watson J (eds)
Routledge, 1998, £15.99 -
Whose NHS is it anyway?
MANAGING PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT IN HEALTHCARE PURCHASING
Carol Lupton, Stephen Peckham and Pat Taylor
Open University Press, 1998, £16.99 -
Does health matter to men?
MEN’S HEALTH MATTERS: the complete A-Z of male health
Nikki Bradford
Vermilion, 1995, £9.99
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Letters
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Column
