These essays on health and illness from a sociological perspective, look at health and health models within social and political contexts. They are divided into theoretical and general issues, inequalities in health care, health and aspects of life-course, mental health and alcoholism.

Audit is an essential activity for all psychiatrists. This book helps ease the audit process by offering tried and tested recipes for conducting audits in clinical services. All audits have been undertaken by the authors who give practical advice for carrying them out in day to day practice. Useful for both consultants and trainees.

This book examines the nature of service design and service thinking in healthcare and hospital management.

This innovative book analyses the evolving nature of leadership, exploring an ever-increasing range of theoretical concepts and applying these to practices within healthcare organisations.