The Patient in the Family diagnoses the ways in which the worlds of home and hospital misunderstand each other. The authors explore how medicine, through its new reproductive technologies, is altering the structure of families, how families can participate more fully in medical decision-making, and [...]
Caring for a loved one who is terminally ill can be tremendously stressful under any circumstances. If that person has a degenerative and dementing disease such as Alzheimer's, and is unable to participate in decisions regarding his or her care, the stress is that much greater. When it comes to maki[...]
The social practice of forming, shaping, expressing, contesting, and maintaining personal identities makes human interaction, and therefore society, possible. Our identities give us our sense of how we are supposed to act and how we may or must treat others, so how we hold each other in our identiti[...]
Denne boken handler om de rammene som helsefagarbeideren må forholde seg til i arbeidssituasjonen for å utøve yrket sitt på en faglig forsvarlig måte. Elevene må ha kjennskap til hvordan helse- og sosialsektoren er organisert og til grunnleggende helse- og sosiallovgivning. Ikke minst er det v[...]