healthmatters issue 7
Published Summer 1991CONTENTS
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Editorial
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Letters
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News
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Features
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From here to perversity?
The new NHS is founded on the government’s belief in the efficiency of the market. Steve Harrison explains why too much ‘economic rationality’ may be bad for your health
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Contract culture
Jane Lethbridge examines the uncertain future of community health in a world where the contract is all
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Consultation: turning a deaf ear to the public
If the goal is a more participatory and democratic health service, then last year’s ‘consultation’ on the first wave of NHS trusts was a step in the wrong direction, says Christine Hogg
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Let the woman decide
Abortion on request is still the goal, says Jane Roe
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Untangling the reforms
The changes in the health service have produced a muddle of roles, says Chris Fewtrell. What is needed now is a clear vision of the way forward
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Aids: the world’s women bear the burden
The consequences of HIV infection of women are devastating, says Sue Lucas — and not only for women themselves, but for a generation of children, infected or not
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Life on the outside
Has the policy of closing the big psychiatric institutions led to poverty, homelessness and misery for former patients? Dylan Tomlinson sifts the myth from the reality
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Residential care: a private takeover?
The provision of residential care in the community has undergone a profound transformation, says the Radical Statistics Health Group
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The cost of ‘winning’
How can a destroyed nation cope with the human casualties of war? Steve Iliffe reports
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Dealing war and madness
Mandy Garner reports on the scars of war you can’t see
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Trading in destruction
Military technology is causing death, disease and human misery around the world — without a single shot being fired. Janet Williamson reports on the dead end economy
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Reviews
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Live cheap, die cheap
STRONG MEDICINE
Paul Menzel
OUP, 1990 -
Left behind by the right
SOCIALISM AND THE NHS: FABIAN ESSAYS IN HEALTH CARE
ed John Carrier & Ian Kendall
Avebury, 1990 -
Policy, but not politics
THE DYNAMICS OF BRITISH HEALTH POLICY
Stephen Harrison, David Hunter and Christopher Pollitt
Unwin Hyman, 1990, £10.95
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