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Sexuality and Disability
This text aims to increase awareness and knowledge of the issues concerning disability and sexuality. It addresses important topics and emphasises physical problems and their associated psychological consequences.
Effective Management of Bladder and Bowel Problems in Children
Under normal circumstances, a child will gain control of his or her bladder and bowels by the age of four. If this does not happen, the child's social, mental and physical health can be affected. Health professionals have a duty of care to enable continence problems to be overcome as far as possible. This book explains how this can be done.
Sex, Intimacy and Living with Life-Shortening Conditions
This multi-disciplinary and inclusive collection brings together theoretically informed and empirically focused research on sex, intimacy and reproduction in relation to young people and adults with life-shortening conditions. Advances in healthcare mean that increasing numbers of young people with life-shortening conditions are transitioning into adulthood. Issues such as sex and intimacy, dating and relationships, fertility and having children are increasingly relevant to them and to the people that support them, including families, carers, practitioners and professional education, health and social care agencies. This three-part book explores the relevance and significance of this field, ...
Prison Nursing
The benefit of having skilled nurses working in prisons has beennoted in a recent report from the Chief Inspector of Prisons (HomeOffice 1998). This report recommended that the organisation ofhealth care in prisons be made the responsibility of the NHS. This is the first book aimed specifically at nurses working inprisons. There is a specific set of skills needed to be a prisonnurse. The environment is radically different to other areas ofpractice and the nurse-patient relationship and its boundaries areof paramount importance This book is written by nursing experts in this field andincludes chapters on women's health, ethnic and cultural issues,educational demands, the legal and political settings, prisonculture, and suicide.
Ethical Issues in Nursing
This is the first book to take nursing ethics beyond stock 'moral concepts' to a critical examination of the fundamental assumptions underlying the very nature of nursing. It takes as its point of departure the difficulties nurses experience practising within the confines of a bioethical model of health and illness and a hierarchical, technocratic health care system. The contributors go on to deal openly and honestly with controversial issues faced by nurses, such as euthanasia and HIV.
Seamus Heaney and the Adequacy of Poetry
Seamus Heaney's prose poetics return repeatedly to the adequacy of poetry, its ameliorative, restorative response to the violence of public historical life. It is a curiously equivocal ideal, and as such most clearly demonstrates the intellectual origins, the humanist character, and the inherent strains of these poetics, the work of one of the world's leading poet-critics of the last thirty years. Seamus Heaney and the Adequacy of Poetry is the first study of the development of Heaney's thought and its central theme. Eschewing the tendency of Heaney critics to endorse or expand on the poet's poetics in largely adulatory terms, it draws on archival as well as print sources to trace the emergi...
Living with Spina Bifida
It is the most common complex birth defect. Spina bifida affects approximately one out of every 1,000 children born in the United States. In this comprehensive guide, Dr. Adrian Sandler offers a wealth of useful information on the medical, developmental, and psychological aspects of this condition. Accurate, accessible, and up-to-date, Living with Spina Bifida is written especially for families and professionals who care for children, adolescents, and adults with spina bifida. This edition contains a new preface by the author, addressing recent developments in research and treatment, as well as an updated list of spina bifida associations.
Disability in Pregnancy and Childbirth E-Book
This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. A first in Midwifery publishing! No other book advises midwives on the special needs of mothers with disabilities. Although an increasing number of women with disabilities are having children, the needs of this minority group are not always being effectively met. Disability in Pregnancy and Childbirth provides essential practical information to healthcare professionals working with this group. The first book on maternity care for women with additional or alternative needs A practical resource for all working with pregnant women and mothers Reflects the lived experiences of women with disabilities Written by experts in the field Holistic content Looks at professional attitudes as well as the woman's needs
