healthmatters issue 9
Published Winter 1991CONTENTS
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Editorial
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News
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Features
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A law of diminishing returns
The new ‘honest’ NHS is setting explicit limits on services. But is it legal? Peter Old gives his verdict
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A manifesto for sexual health
The last decade saw issues of sexuality, reproduction and parenting become fierce ideological battlefields. What we need for the nineties, say Doreen Massey, is a new sense of purpose and a pragmatic approach to promoting sexual health
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Dangerous, disorderly and deviant — or just disabled?
Policy towards people with a learning disability has been marked by deep ambivalence. David Barker looks back on the ‘colonies’ for the ‘mentally defective’
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Equal quality people
No longer will people with learning disabilities allow others to speak for them. They have found a voice. Co-workers from Advocacy in Action explain
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Operating in the public interest?
How should the doctors — and other professions of health care — be accountable to the public they serve? Meg Stacey, previously a lay member of the GMC, examines the modern role of this ‘gentlemans’ club’
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Safe as houses?
Bad housing is still with us, says Nigel Parkes-Rolfe, and it’s still causing ill health
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Constitutional reform?
Constitutional reform? Genetic engineering holds out a promise of prevention or cure for all sorts of diseases — even ones you never dreamed were hereditary. Patricia Spallone reports on the big business gene machine
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Partnership in good health
Mercy Jeyasingham reports on Black users’ experiences of acute health services — and finds much to put right
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Going though shock
Can electroconvulsive therapy for depression be justified? Mary Bell gives a personal account
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Reviews
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Driven to an early end
HEALTH ON THE MOVE: POLICIES FOR HEALTH PROMOTING TRANSPORT
Transport and Health Study Group/Public Health Alliance, 1991, £5.00 -
A more able label required
HALLAS’ CARING FOR PEOPLE WITH MENTAL HANDICAPS
ed WI Fraser, RC MacGillivray and Ann M Green,
Butterworth-Heinemann, 1991 -
A tale of tribes and tribulations
CULTURE, HEALTH AND ILLNESS
Cecil Helman
Wright, 1991 -
Crises of overconsumption
FOOD FOR WEALTH OR HEALTH?
Robin Jenkins
Socialist Health Association, 1991, £3.50
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Letters
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