Taking Care

Taking Care

H M-H. organised the Bristol regional conference. presentation at Bristol WfjQ was a conference of 40 representatives of the various social agencies in Bristol Cou dea' with children "at risk"; such as the Children's Department, the Juvenile V0|u' the Probation Department, Child Guidance Clinics, Approved Schools, beD'ntary Agencies, the Education, Maternity and Child Welfare and Housing I>rofa...

Taking care of business.

From healing to taking care

Disease is an absolute evil, the sick human being is an absolute good. As doctors we are used to fighting disease to save the patient. But when disease and patient coincide, the picture changes. We must cure symptoms, prevent complications, reduce effects, but at same time we must help the family to accept their child. It is necessary to modify the approach moving from healing to caring. Caring...

Taking care of invisible technology

Received: 9 August 2005 Revised: 26 September 2005 Accepted: 28 September 2005 Scholars with any significant experience in the field of organisational change know that the subject cannot be reduced to a single chapter in an introductory book on organisation or even to an entire work on management. Moreover, those who adopt a social studies perspective in relation to information and communicatio...

Taking care of the caretakers.

orking with cancer patients for a number of years, I have met many caretakers. They have been husbands and wives, daughW ters and sons, neighbors and friends. Although it is not original with me, the concept that people are made patients by the disease of others is worthy of our attention as therapists. My cancer work served to acquaint me with the long hours, the often unacknowledged duties, t...