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Books Received

Books Received H.J. Wright, D.M. Macadam: Clinical Thinking Australian situation for use in the teaching and Practice, Diagnosis and Decision in Patient process. Care (Churchill Livingtone Medical Text The chapters on epidemiology, the family and high risk situations will prove to be useful Edinburgh 1979). to students and teachers alike, since the This book is designed, according to the information provided is very up to date. The authors, primarily as an introduction to chapter dealing with records and nursing is very clinical medicine for the medical undergraduate good. It stresses how essential it is for encountering patients for the first time, but community health nurses to document their also as a stimulus to those who wish to look work. Some excellent examples are included to critically at their clinical practice. It is a illustrate the use of the SOAP (subjective, refreshing and thoughtful volume which objective, assessment, plan) recording incorporates recent insights into the structure methodology. One chapter is devoted to the and process of medical decision making. The role of the school nurse and one wonders what authors are members of the Department of has happened to the other health team Community Medicine and General Practice at members in the discussion presented. the University of Leeds, and they have The book concludes with an examination successfully managed to marry epidemiological occupational health problems and a segment on concepts with more traditional approaches to basic human needs. A summary or concluding clinical practice. The subject matter ranges chapter to pull the disparate parts of the work widely and includes issues such as consultation, together would have been valuable. In the contrasts between hospital and community summary, the book will be an asset for any practice, the “probability” notion in diagnosis, teacher of community health nursing and a the origins of illness, clinical records, valuable reference book for those health counselling, medication and the evaluation of workers wishing to obtain better understanding treatment. It is attractively presented in of the role of the community health nurse. digestible chapters. D.S. R.M.D. Erica M. Bates and Paul R. Wilson: Mental Carol H. Weiss (ed.): Using Social Research in Disorder or Madness? (University of Public Policy Making. (D.C. Heath Lexington, Queensland Press Brisbane 1979). Mass. 1977.) Glin Bennett: Patients and their Doctors (Bailliere Tindall London 1979). In recent issues of Community Health Joseph H. Berke: I Haven’t Had to Go Mad Studies Furler (1II:l) and Powells (III:2) have Here. The psychotic’s journey from dealt with problems of research and policy dependence to autonomy. (Penguin Books making in the particular case of health service. London 1979). This volume of essays traverses the general Jan Blanpain: National Health Insurance and problems of research and policy making It Health Resources. The European brings under one roof as fair a view of its field Experience. (Harvard University Press as is available at present. The examples are Cambridge, Mass. 1978). mostly American but the editor argues that Winifred M. Castle: Statistics in Operation most researchers dealing with most (Churchill Livingstone New York 1979). governments will experience the same B.S. Hetzel (ed.): Basic Health Care in problems. Developing Countries. An Epidemiological The three sections deal with the perspective (Oxford University Press/IEA fundamental problems of turning social 1978). research into policy decisions; with specific Douglas E. Hough: The Market for Human research-government encounters; and with Blood (Lexington Books 1978). studies of research-in-use. The last section M. Jeanne Peterson: The Medical Profession in might have been trimmed without much loss of Mid-Victorian London (University of impact but the editor’s own defence (and that California Press Berkeley, Calif. 197 8). of researchers in policy areas) is provided by Andrew T. Scull: Museums of Madness. The one of her contributors who recalls the slogan Social Organization of Insanity in 19th in the American wild west saloon: “Don’t shoot Century England. (Allen Lane London the piano player; he’s doing the best he can’. 1979). David Wilkin: Caring for the Mentally N.H. Handicapped Child (Croom Helm London 1979). VOLUME 111, NUMBER 3,1979 COMMLlNITYHEA L THSTUDIES http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health Wiley

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"Copyright © 1979 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company"
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1326-0200
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1753-6405
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10.1111/j.1753-6405.1979.tb00259.x
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Abstract

H.J. Wright, D.M. Macadam: Clinical Thinking Australian situation for use in the teaching and Practice, Diagnosis and Decision in Patient process. Care (Churchill Livingtone Medical Text The chapters on epidemiology, the family and high risk situations will prove to be useful Edinburgh 1979). to students and teachers alike, since the This book is designed, according to the information provided is very up to date. The authors, primarily as an introduction to chapter dealing with records and nursing is very clinical medicine for the medical undergraduate good. It stresses how essential it is for encountering patients for the first time, but community health nurses to document their also as a stimulus to those who wish to look work. Some excellent examples are included to critically at their clinical practice. It is a illustrate the use of the SOAP (subjective, refreshing and thoughtful volume which objective, assessment, plan) recording incorporates recent insights into the structure methodology. One chapter is devoted to the and process of medical decision making. The role of the school nurse and one wonders what authors are members of the Department of has happened to the other health team Community Medicine and General Practice at members in the discussion presented. the University of Leeds, and they have The book concludes with an examination successfully managed to marry epidemiological occupational health problems and a segment on concepts with more traditional approaches to basic human needs. A summary or concluding clinical practice. The subject matter ranges chapter to pull the disparate parts of the work widely and includes issues such as consultation, together would have been valuable. In the contrasts between hospital and community summary, the book will be an asset for any practice, the “probability” notion in diagnosis, teacher of community health nursing and a the origins of illness, clinical records, valuable reference book for those health counselling, medication and the evaluation of workers wishing to obtain better understanding treatment. It is attractively presented in of the role of the community health nurse. digestible chapters. D.S. R.M.D. Erica M. Bates and Paul R. Wilson: Mental Carol H. Weiss (ed.): Using Social Research in Disorder or Madness? (University of Public Policy Making. (D.C. Heath Lexington, Queensland Press Brisbane 1979). Mass. 1977.) Glin Bennett: Patients and their Doctors (Bailliere Tindall London 1979). In recent issues of Community Health Joseph H. Berke: I Haven’t Had to Go Mad Studies Furler (1II:l) and Powells (III:2) have Here. The psychotic’s journey from dealt with problems of research and policy dependence to autonomy. (Penguin Books making in the particular case of health service. London 1979). This volume of essays traverses the general Jan Blanpain: National Health Insurance and problems of research and policy making It Health Resources. The European brings under one roof as fair a view of its field Experience. (Harvard University Press as is available at present. The examples are Cambridge, Mass. 1978). mostly American but the editor argues that Winifred M. Castle: Statistics in Operation most researchers dealing with most (Churchill Livingstone New York 1979). governments will experience the same B.S. Hetzel (ed.): Basic Health Care in problems. Developing Countries. An Epidemiological The three sections deal with the perspective (Oxford University Press/IEA fundamental problems of turning social 1978). research into policy decisions; with specific Douglas E. Hough: The Market for Human research-government encounters; and with Blood (Lexington Books 1978). studies of research-in-use. The last section M. Jeanne Peterson: The Medical Profession in might have been trimmed without much loss of Mid-Victorian London (University of impact but the editor’s own defence (and that California Press Berkeley, Calif. 197 8). of researchers in policy areas) is provided by Andrew T. Scull: Museums of Madness. The one of her contributors who recalls the slogan Social Organization of Insanity in 19th in the American wild west saloon: “Don’t shoot Century England. (Allen Lane London the piano player; he’s doing the best he can’. 1979). David Wilkin: Caring for the Mentally N.H. Handicapped Child (Croom Helm London 1979). VOLUME 111, NUMBER 3,1979 COMMLlNITYHEA L THSTUDIES

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Published: Oct 1, 1979

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