healthmatters issue 39
Special issue: Mental health
Published Winter 1999/00CONTENTS
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Editorial
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News
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Columns
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News from nowhere
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Look back in wonder
New Labour will learn nothing about running health services if it ignores its socialist history, warns Charles Webster
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Interview
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Opposition guaranteed
As New Labour’s modernisation of the NHS falters, what big ideas do the Conservatives have in store? Shadow health minister Liam Fox spoke exclusively to healthmatters
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Features
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Policies in need of treatment
Instead of playing on popular stereotypes of mental illness, New Labour should promote a right to adequate treatment, says Cliff Prior
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All the lonely people
Mind has published the results of the largest ever UK inquiry into social exclusion and mental health. It found that people with mental ill-health are excluded from virtually every aspect of society – but it also found potentially successful ways of promoting inclusion. Sara Dunn reports
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The need for understanding
Mental health services may feel overwhelmed by the needs of refugees and asylum seekers – but there are opportunities to develop a more holistic approach to care, argues Charles Watters
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Joined-up thinking
The division in psychiatry between care and control is being legally formalised by New Labour. Phil Thomas and Joanna Moncrieff explain why the coercive medical model should be rejected
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Light at the end of the tunnel?
Fifteen years after a congress dedicated to the rights of people with mental illnesses, Mo Hutchison looks at how much progress has been made towards meeting its demands
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The customer isn’t right
Applying consumerist principles to healthcare and promoting individual patient’s rights risks increasing inequalities in health and undermining the NHS, argues Christine Hogg
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Reviews
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Breeding discontent
BRAVE NEW NHS? The impact of the new genetics on the health service
Jo Lenaghan
IPPR, 1998, £7.50 -
Academic interests
RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES IN PRIMARY CARE
Yvonne Carter & Cathryn Thomas
Radcliffe Medical Press, 1999, £18.95 -
Why experience counts
FEMALE FORMS: Experiencing and understanding disability
Carol Thomas
Open University Press 1999, £16.99 -
Beware the juggernaut, my son
THE WHISTLEBLOWER’S HANDBOOK: How to be an effective resister
Brian Martin
Jon Carpenter, £10.00 -
Sound, but safe
INFORMATION FOR EVIDENCE-BASED CARE
Ruth Roberts
Radcliffe Medical Press, 1999, £17.95 -
On the net yet? You bet!
USING THE INTERNET IN HEALTHCARE
Stuart Tyrrell
Radcliffe Medical Press, 1999, £17.95 -
Middle of the field
RURAL HEALTH CARE
J Cox & I Mungall (eds)
Radcliffe Medical Press, 1999, £22.50 -
Take care
TAKING ACTION TO SUPPORT CARERS
Penny Banks & Colin Cheeseman
Kings Fund, 1999, £9.95 -
Challenging exclusion
HEALTH AND EXCLUSION: policy and practice in health provision
Michael Purdy & David Banks (eds)
Routledge, 1999, £16.99 -
Fairly well done welfare
OXFORD HANDBOOK OF PATIENT’S WELFARE: a doctors’ guide to benefits and services
Adam Sandell
Oxford University Press, 1998, £18.95 -
Promoting the healing arts
THE ARTS IN HEALTHCARE: learning from experience
Duncan Haldane & Susan Loppert (eds)
King’s Fund, 1999, £12.95 -
IT doesn’t add up
RETHINKING IT AND HEALTH
Jo Lenaghan (ed)
IPPR, 1998, £7.50
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Letters
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