Health and exclusion : policy and practice in health provision / edited by Michael Purdy and David Banks.

London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.

xi, 212 pages ; 23 cm

Tracing continuity and diversity in health and exclusion / Michael Purdy and David Banks -- Poor health, poor health care : the experiences of low-income households with children / Clare Blackburn -- Whose business? social welfare and managerial calculation / John Clarke -- The health of which nation? health, social regulation and the new consensus / Michael Purdy -- Exclusion in maternity care : midwives and mothers / Mavis Kirkham -- Social exclusion and madness : the complicity of psychiatric medicine and nursing / Peter Alan Morrall -- 'You can go home today, Mrs Jones' : surgeons' and patients' negotiations over discharge / Nick J. Fox -- Empowerment and health : a community development approach to health promotion / Sue Davies -- Older people and health services : the challenge of empowerment / Alan Walker -- Informational health networks : health care organisation in the information age / Brian D. Loader

Includes bibliographic references and indexes