Stories
- Article
Race, religion and the Black Madonna
Mystery and controversy surround the dark-skinned religious icon who represents the Virgin Mary throughout the Catholic world.
- Article
WhatsApp aunties and the spread of fake news
The advantages of WhatApp chat groups – especially as a cost-free way of keeping in touch with family around the world – make them fertile ground for the spread of bogus medical advice. Writer Rianna Walcott explores how to encourage ‘aunties’ in the community to question the truth of unattributed health hoaxes.
- Book extract
How stories bring us together
Elif Shafak considers how hard it is to be heard in our divided world, but how listening can nurture wisdom, connection and empathy.
- Article
Is it really OK to not be OK?
Our mental healthcare system is still the poor relation of services that treat physical illness, and the pandemic has shone a spotlight on this situation. Campaigner James Downs argues for fundamental change.
Catalogue
- Books
Dignity on the ward : towards dignity, acting on the lessons from hospital experiences of black and minority ethnic older people / Policy Research Institute on Ageing and Ethnicity.
Policy Research Institute on Ageing and Ethnicity.Date: 2001- Books
Ethnicity, older people and palliative care : a joint publication from The Policy Research Institute on Aging and Ethnicity and The National Council for Palliative Care / [author: Yasmin Gunaratnam].
Gunaratnam, Yasmin.Date: 2006- Ephemera
PALCOPE : palliative care, older people & ethnicity : stories that matter / PRIAE.
Policy Research Institute on Ageing and Ethnicity.Date: [2010?]- Books
- Online
Professional identities : policy and practice in business and bureaucracy / edited by Shirley Ardener and Fiona Moore.
Date: 2007- Books
Black and minority ethnic elders in the UK : health and social care research findings.
Policy Research Institute on Ageing and EthnicityDate: [2005]