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Author: Amanda Reynolds ,
Graham Thornicroft
Publisher: Open University Press
Imprint: Open University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 23.00cm
Weight: 0.292kg
ISBN: 9780335198337
ISBN 10: 0335198333
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 16 June 1999
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: Out of print, replaced by POD
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Reviews
""...thorough...detailed...interesting."" - Health Service Journal ""This book will provide students of medical sociology, health policy and health services management with a rangeof information which is not often available in core texts but which is important for understanding the workings of contemporary health caredelivery."" - Sociology of Health & Illness ""The author has written a book which is very readable, well written, clearly organized, comprehensive, balanced in its treatment of industrial and governmental perspectives, and stuffed with interesting titbits about the pharmaceutical industry garnered from around the industrialized world."" - International Journal for Quality in Health Care
"...thorough...detailed...interesting." - Health Service Journal "This book will provide students of medical sociology, health policy and health services management with a rangeof information which is not often available in core texts but which is important for understanding the workings of contemporary health caredelivery." - Sociology of Health & Illness "The author has written a book which is very readable, well written, clearly organized, comprehensive, balanced in its treatment of industrial and governmental perspectives, and stuffed with interesting titbits about the pharmaceutical industry garnered from around the industrialized world." - International Journal for Quality in Health Care
Author Information
Amanda Reynolds is Lewisham Borough Manager within the adult service of Lewisham and Guys NHS Trust. Prior to this she worked at the Maudsley Hospital, initially as a Directorate Manager within the adult services and then as a Service Development Manager assisting with the reprovision from Warlingham Park Hospital in Croydon. She is a trained psychiatric nurse who first gained her management and project skills working in a housing department with the homeless mentally ill in a joint financed service experience. Professor Graham Thornicroft is a Consultant Psychiatrist working for the Bethlem and Maudsley NHS Trust in a Community Mental Health Team in Croydon since September 1996. For the previous five years he worked as a Consultant Psychiatrist in Camberwell, and took part in developing a wide range of Community Mental Health services. He is also Head of the Section of Community Psychiatry (PRiSM) at the Institute of Psychiatry in London, which undertakes a wide range of research in the field of mental health service evaluation, cost-effectiveness, needs and outcome assessment, and psychiatric epidemiology.
