Challenge of Sexuality in Health Care (eBook)

Hazel Heath, Isabel White (Autoren)

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2008 | 1. Auflage
296 Seiten
Wiley (Verlag)
978-0-470-77740-4 (ISBN)

Infos

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the range of issues and concerns related to sexuality and health care. It describes the normal processes and issues which arise at different stages in a person's life connected with sexuality, and goes on to describe the particular issues and concerns that arise when there is illness, disfigurement, physical or mental disability. The Challenge of Sexuality in Health Care will provide qualified nurses, students, and health care professionals with the confidence to encourage patients to raise any concerns they might have.

Autor

Hazel Heath is a freelance consultant. Isabel White is a lecturer practitioner in cancer care at City University, London.

Inhalt

Contributors.

PART ONE: SEXUALITY - CONCEPT, CONTEXT AND
INFLUENCES.

Introduction (Isabel White and Hazel Heath).

1. Before the Sexual Revolution (Hazel Heath and Elizabeth
Grigg).

2. The Sexual Revolution (Hazel Heath).

3. Post HIV/AIDS: Emergence of a New Morality (Elizabeth
Grigg).

4. Nursing as a Sexualised Occupation (Isabel White).

5. Nurses, the Body and Body Work (Hazel Heath and Brendan
McCormack).

PART TWO: SEXUALITY THROUGH THE LIFESPAN.

6. Sexuality in Childhood and Adolescence (Amanda Keighley).

7. Sexuality and People With a Learning Disability (Amanda
Keighley).

8. Sexuality, Fertility and Reproductive Health (Philippa Sully
and Barbara Walters).

9. Sexuality and Later Life (Hazel Heath).

10. Sexuality and People who are Dying (Elizabeth Searle).

PART THREE: SEXUALITY IN HEALTH AND ILLNESS.

11. Sexuality and People with Mental Health Needs (Martin
Ward).

12. Sexuality and People Affected by Sexually Transmitted
Inffections (Elizabeth Grigg).

13. Sexuality and People with Acute Illness (Danny Kelly).

14. Sexuality and People with Disability or Chronic Illness
(Carole Webster and Hazel Heath).

15. Sexuality Expression for People with Disfigurement (Helen
Roberts).

PART FOUR: CURRENT APPROACHES AND FUTURE
DEVELOPMENTS.

16. Facilitating Sexual Expression: Challenges for Contemporary
Practice (Isabel White).

17. Addressing the Challenges: Agendas for Education, Research
and Practice Development (Isabel White and Hazel Heath).

Appendix 1. Useful Addresses and Contacts.

Index.

Rezensionen

"...this book is informative, comprehensive, contemporary, and
authoritative in scope and content. It is scholarly yet accessible,
from students to practising nurses to faculty."

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.5.2008
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege ► Pflegemanagement / Qualität / Recht
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
• Schlagworte: General Clinical Nursing • Klinische Krankenpflege • Krankenpflege • nursing
• ISBN-10: 0-470-77740-0 / 0470777400
• ISBN-13: 978-0-470-77740-4 / 9780470777404