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  • Healthcare Management

    by Kieran Walshe, Judith Smith ...
    A comprehensive, research-based introduction to healthcare management, covering healthcare systems, services, organisations and management. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Medical Education

    A History in 100 Images

    by Kieran Walsh ...
    This fascinating guide to medical education introduces the reader to the historical development of this important subject through 100 powerful images from the prestigious Wellcome Library Collection that highlight key figures in the field and innovations that have taken place, not just in the recent past but over the centuries. The readable text th ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • The Development of Child Protection Law and Policy

    Children, Risk and Modernities

    by Kieran Walsh ...
    Series series Studies in Citizenship, Human Rights and the Law
    This book examines how child protection law has been shaped by the transition to late modernity and how it copes with the ever-changing concept of risk.The book traces the evolution of the contemporary child protection system through historical changes, assessing the factors that have influenced the development of legal responses to abuse over a 130-year period. It does so by focussing on the ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Medical Education

    A Dictionary of Quotations

    by Kieran Walsh ...
    Today's students are tomorrow's doctors. The quality of education they receive is vitally important to the successful future of healthcare. Medical education as a discipline has a long history and has developed enormously in the past decade with the emergence of evidence-based teaching techniques, outcomes based curricula and assessment methods that are valid and reliable - however it will never ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Cost Effectiveness in Medical Education

    by Kieran Walsh ...
    With economic winter facing many healthcare and health education budgets, the high costs of medical education are bringing it under close scrutiny. However, the costs of not providing high quality medical education - not least human costs in morbidity and mortality from medical error - are also high, presenting medical educators, funding managers, policy makers and economists with an unenviable ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Remote and Rural Dementia Care

    Policy, Research and Practice

    by Nancy McAdam, Jessica Chiovitte, Kristen Jacklin, Gary Naglie, Andy Hyde, Mark Rapoport, Fiona Marshall, Ben Hicks, Kieran Walsh, Eamon O'Shea, Margit Höfler, Stefanie Auer, Andrew Kirk, Norma Stewart, Megan O’Connell, Julie Kosteniuk, Kari Midtbø Kristiansen, Øyvind Kirkevold, Hilary Davis, Margaret Winbolt, Michael Bauer, Clare Wilding, Irene Blackberry, Sharon Grant ...
    As the number of people affected by dementia continues to rise, this is the first in-depth examination of related services dedicated to the unique demands of remote and rural settings.Contributors from the UK, Australia, North America and Europe explore the experiences and requirements of those living with dementia and those caring for them in personal and professional capacities in challenging ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Connecting Knowledge and Performance in Public Services

    From Knowing to Doing

    Edited by Kieran Walshe, Gill Harvey, Pauline Jas ...
    The performance of public services is now more closely scrutinised than ever before. Every teacher, doctor, social worker or probation officer knows that behind them stands a restless army of overseers, equipped with a panoply of league tables, star ratings, user opinion surveys, performance indicators and the like with which to judge them. This increased scrutiny and performance measurement has ... Read more

    $133.99 CAD

  • Ageing through Austerity

    Critical Perspectives from Ireland

    Edited by Kieran Walsh, Gemma M. Carney, Áine Ní Léime ...
    Demographic ageing is identified as a global challenge with significant social policy implications. This book explores these implications, with a particular focus on the pressures and prospects for ageing societies in the context of austerity.The book presents a carefully crafted study of ageing in Ireland, one of the countries hardest hit by the Eurozone financial crisis. Providing a close, ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • Rural Gerontology

    Towards Critical Perspectives on Rural Ageing

    Edited by Mark Skinner, Rachel Winterton, Kieran Walsh ...
    Series series Perspectives on Rural Policy and Planning
    This book provides the first foundation of knowledge about the intellectual traditions, contemporary scope and future prospects for the interdisciplinary field of rural gerontology.With a focus on rural regions, small towns and villages, which have the highest rates of population ageing worldwide, Rural Gerontology is aimed at understanding what it means for rural people, communities and ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Upstart

    by Ed Walsh, Kieran Fagan ...
    Ed Walsh returned to Ireland in 1970 to blunder into setting up an institute of education. He found a decaying mansion on a riverside site, gathered talented young people and secured funding from the World Bank and European Investment Bank to build what became the University of Limerick. Along the way, Ed made powerful enemies as he challenged official cant, traditional academics and clerical ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dying, Bereavement and the Healing Arts

    by Yvonne Yi-Wood Mak, Haifa Al Sanousi, Ashley Barnes, Sandra Bertman, Hilary Elfick, Sue Eckstein, Bobbie Farsides, Mark Cobb, Judy Clinton, Ted Bowman, Sinead Donnelly, Mitzi Blennerhassett, Lindsay Buckell, Kate D'Lima, Mike White, Rogan Wolf, River Wolton, Kieran Walsh, Kaichiro Tamba, Monica Suswin, Steve Seagull, Lesley Schatzberger, Paul Schatzberger, Oliver Samuel, Julie Sanders, Sheelagh Gallagher, John Graham-Pole, Nigel Hartley, David Head, Diana Greenman, Robert Hamberger, Tim Metcalf, Frans Meulenberg, Chris Rawlence, Filipa Pereira-Stubbs, Tim Jeeves, Christopher Johns, Amy Kuebelbeck, Corine Koppenol, Giles Legood, Anna Lidzey, Christina Mason ...
    Dying, Bereavement and the Healing Arts describes a range of successful programmes pioneered by artists, writers, nurses, musicians, therapists, social workers, and chaplains in palliative care settings. These range from simple painting and writing activities to organized communal activities like writing and performing a play.The arts are shown to offer a means to reflect on memories, hopes, fears ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Social Exclusion in Later Life

    Interdisciplinary and Policy Perspectives

    Edited by Kieran Walsh, Thomas Scharf, Sofie Van Regenmortel, Anna Wanka ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Drawing on interdisciplinary, cross-national perspectives, this open access book contributes to the development of a coherent scientific discourse on social exclusion of older people. The book considers five domains of exclusion (services; economic; social relations; civic and socio-cultural; and community and spatial domains), with three chapters dedicated to analysing different dimensions of ... Read more

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