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Unequal Partners
Marian Harri
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Description for Unequal Partners
Paperback. Users of social and health care services play an increasingly significant part within systems of local governance. This report examines the strategies user groups adopt to seek their objectives, and explores issues relating to notions of consumerism and citizenship. It should be read by anyone involved in health and social care policy and practice. Num Pages: 120 pages, 2tabs. BIC Classification: JFFG; JPR; JPWD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 204.
Self-organised user groups of social and health care services are playing an increasingly significant part within systems of local governance. Based on detailed empirical work looking at the user and 'official' perspective, this report includes studies of user groups and officials in two policy areas - mental health and disability. The authors examine both the strategies user groups adopt to seek their objectives, and explore conceptual issues relating to notions of consumerism and citizenship. Unequal partners thus contributes to our understanding of the role of user self-organisation in empowering people as consumers, and in enabling excluded people to become 'active' citizens. The ... Read more
Self-organised user groups of social and health care services are playing an increasingly significant part within systems of local governance. Based on detailed empirical work looking at the user and 'official' perspective, this report includes studies of user groups and officials in two policy areas - mental health and disability. The authors examine both the strategies user groups adopt to seek their objectives, and explore conceptual issues relating to notions of consumerism and citizenship. Unequal partners thus contributes to our understanding of the role of user self-organisation in empowering people as consumers, and in enabling excluded people to become 'active' citizens. The ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Policy Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
120
Condition
New
Number of Pages
120
Place of Publication
Bristol, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781861340566
SKU
V9781861340566
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
About Marian Harri
Marian Barnes is Emeritus Professor of Social Policy, University of Brighton. She is author of many publications on care, participation, ageing and mental health. Stephen Harrison is based in the Nuffield Institute of Health at the University of Leeds Maggie Mort is Professor in the Sociology of Science, Technology & Medicine at Lancaster University. Polly Shardlow is a forensic ... Read more
Reviews for Unequal Partners
"... could provoke some very uncomfortable reflection in the education and training field." Social Work Education