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Over the last forty years, there have been numerous attempts to critique the theory and practice of mental health care. Taking its lead from anti-psychiatry, Critical Perspectives on Mental Health seeks to explore and evaluate the claims of mainstream mental health ideologies and to establish what implications the critiques of these perspectives have for practice. This text will be essential reading for students and those working in the social work and mental health care professions. Using the British mental health services as a case study, this book critically reviews the various social, political and intellectual developments which have shaped psychiatric practice and the delivery of mental health services.

Antipsychiatry --- Psychiatry --- Philosophy --- gezondheidszorgbeleid (gezondheidszorghervorming, gezondheidszorgsysteem) --- geestelijke gezondheid (geestelijke gezondheidszorg, geestesziekte) --- psychiatrie --- Groot-Brittannië --- politique des soins de santé (réforme des soins de santé, système des soins de santé) --- santé mentale (soins de santé mentale, maladie mentale) --- Grande Bretagne --- Medicine and psychology --- Mental health --- Psychology, Pathological --- Anti-psychiatry

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Are advanced industrialized countries converging on a market response to reform their systems of social protection? By comparing the health care reform experiences of Britain, Germany, and the United States in the 1990s, Susan Giaimo explores how countries pursue diverse policy responses and how such variations reflect distinctive institutions, actors, and reform politics in each country. In Britain, the Thatcher government's plan to inject a market into the state-administered national health service resulted in a circumscribed experiment orchestrated from above. In Germany, the Kohl government sought to repair defects in the corporatist arrangement with doctors and insurers, thus limiting the market experiment and designing it to enhance the solidarity of the national health insurance system. In the United States, private market actors foiled Clinton's bid to expand the federal government's role in the private health care system through managed competition and national insurance. But market reform continued, albeit led by private employers and with government officials playing a reactive role. Actors and institutions surrounding the existing health care settlement in each country created particular reform politics that either militated against or fostered the deployment of competition. The finding that major transformations are occurring in private as well as public systems of social protection suggests that studies of social policy change expand their focus beyond statutory welfare state programs. The book will interest political scientists and policymakers concerned with welfare state reform in advanced industrial societies, social scientists interested in the changing balance among state, market, and societal interests in governance, and health policy researchers, health policymakers, and health care professionals.

Health care reform --- Medical policy --- Duitsland --- gezondheidseconomie (gezondheidszorgeconomie) --- gezondheidszorgbeleid (gezondheidszorghervorming, gezondheidszorgsysteem) --- Groot-Brittannië --- Verenigde Staten --- verzorgingsstaat --- ziektekostenverzekering (sociale zekerheid, mutualiteit, ziekenfonds, zorgverzekeraar) --- Allemagne --- économie de la santé (économie des soins de santé) --- politique des soins de santé (réforme des soins de santé, système des soins de santé) --- Grande Bretagne --- Etats Unis --- État-providence --- assurance maladie (sécurité sociale, mutualité)

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For much of the developed world, health care for a surging elderly population looms as one of the most daunting problems of the coming decade. In this book, contributors from diverse disciplinary backgrounds and countries discuss resource allocation for the elderly and debate plans for the years ahead. Essays focus on five general issues: the meaning of old age, the goals of medicine and health care for the elderly, the balance between the needs of the young and old, the pressures of other social priorities, and the role of families, especially the burden on women, in long-term care. In consideration of the difficult moral and practical issues involved, the editors conclude the volume with a special report containing policy recommendations from representatives of eight countries (the United States, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United Kingdom). This important volume will be of interest to policymakers and a broad spectrum of health care professionals, as well as to anyone interested in the fate of the elderly or in coming health care challenges.

Older people --- bejaardenzorg (ouderenzorg) --- gezondheidszorgbeleid (gezondheidszorghervorming, gezondheidszorgsysteem) --- gezondheidszorg --- ouderdom --- vergrijzing (veroudering van de bevolking) --- Aged --- Aging people --- Elderly people --- Old people --- Older adults --- Older persons --- Senior citizens --- Seniors (Older people) --- Age groups --- Persons --- Gerontocracy --- Gerontology --- Old age --- Medical care&delete& --- Government policy --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Social aspects --- assistance aux personnes âgées --- politique des soins de santé (réforme des soins de santé, système des soins de santé) --- soins de santé --- vieillesse --- viellissement de la population (viellissement démographique) --- Medical care --- Medical Care --- Medical

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This volume draws together essays from leading scholars on the challenges that arise for health, law, policy and ethics at the intersections of health, rights and globalization. The papers in this volume address global issues in public health, globalization and bioethics, and globalization and biotechnology. This volume will be invaluable to all those interested in global issues in health.

Medical law --- Hygiene. Public health. Protection --- World health. --- Globalization. --- Bioethics. --- Public health --- International cooperation. --- globalisering (mondialisering, wereldeconomie) --- volksgezondheid --- gezondheidszorgbeleid (gezondheidszorghervorming, gezondheidszorgsysteem) --- mensenrechten (rechten van de mens) --- bio-ethiek (medische, biomedische ethiek, bio-ethische aspecten) --- globalisation (mondialisation, économie mondiale) --- santé publique --- politique des soins de santé (réforme des soins de santé, système des soins de santé) --- droits de l'homme --- bioéthique (éthique médicale, biomédicale, aspects bioéthiques) --- Bioethics --- Globalization --- World health --- Global health --- International health --- Medical geography --- International agencies --- Medical assistance --- Public health laws, International --- Global cities --- Globalisation --- Internationalization --- International relations --- Anti-globalization movement --- Biology --- Biomedical ethics --- Life sciences --- Life sciences ethics --- Science --- International cooperation --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Public health - International cooperation. --- Droit médical

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This book takes the conversation between bioethics and health policy to a new level. Moving beyond principles and normative frameworks, bioethicists writing in the volume consider the actual policy problems faced by health care systems, while policy-makers reflect on the moral values inherent in both the process and content of health policy. The result is a vigorous dialogue with some of the nation's leading experts at the interface of ethics and health policy. the book provides a history of the values implicit in U.S. health policy, a discussion of the federal and state roles in policy making, an ethical examination of the social goals expressed through various policies, an analysis of the role of public opinion in the creation of health policy, and an exploration of the value of the private sector in health policy. In addition, the authors examine some of the major ethical controversies in health policy, such as the challenge of balancing ethical concerns with economic realities, the need to allocate scarce health resources, the call for heightened accountability, and the impact of various policies on vulnerable populations.The book concludes with an examination of the ethical issues in health services research, including the threats to privacy that arise in such research. To a greater extent than any previous volume, it establishes a strong connection between the disciplines of medical ethics and health policy.

Medical policy --- Medical policy. --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- gezondheidszorg --- gezondheidszorgbeleid (gezondheidszorghervorming, gezondheidszorgsysteem) --- bio-ethiek (medische, biomedische ethiek, bio-ethische aspecten) --- ethiek (ethische aspecten) --- Verenigde Staten --- soins de santé --- politique des soins de santé (réforme des soins de santé, système des soins de santé) --- bioéthique (éthique médicale, biomédicale, aspects bioéthiques) --- ethique (aspects ethiques) --- Etats Unis --- Health care policy --- Health policy --- Medical care --- Medicine and state --- Policy, Medical --- Public health --- Public health policy --- State and medicine --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Government policy --- Science and state --- Social policy