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New and Bestselling Health & titles Social Work 2016-2017 www.sagepub.in Health & Social Work | 2016-17 8 March 2015 The Dirty picture This is one of the first books of Furthermore, the essays bring latter chapters. From sanitation the year that deal with the tricky out the role (or lack thereof) of at the watershed level and how it and highly important subject of women in water management. empowers women, these chapters page 5A water and sanitation — and a The focus is on self-help groups describe various facets of the link welcome addition to the body of (SHGs) and the authors argue that between sanitation and women. work available to practitioners. It women in villages with watershed A more academic treatise in covers broad concepts — water programmes have six times the the chapter called ‘Women-led and sanitation and their Total Sanitation’ underlines relationship with women. A new compendium on the greater benefits women In fact, the final section of derive from sanitation than the book features papers women’s relationship with men. It argues for making the presented at the National water and sanitation exposes community-led total sanitation Conference on Women- approach women-led in the led Water Management in a series of harsh realities State of Madhya Pradesh. An November 2012. innovation in sanitation called Pan in the Van has been used The initial chapters cover for training and promoting the overall water, sanitation and savings of villages without these inclusive WASH. hygiene (WASH) ‘sector’ and the programmes. Other chapters interplay with women’s issues. Each chapter has useful end-notes take the discussion on the role The section also sets the context that provide those interested with of women in water management for the book, that is, discussions further reading. The book is a further by exploring how SHGs to achieve gendered outcomes useful compilation of fairly new catalyse leadership. 2015 • 340 pages • ` 1050 through WASH programmes rather material on women, water and Hardback (978-93-515-0065-0) than reproducing the tenets of the The impact and role of women sanitation. water sector. in sanitation is explored in the ASIAN AFFAIRS Volume 47, Issue 1, 2016 Skylab Sahu’s Gender, Sexuality response. Both States are quite health rights are discussed by and HIV/AIDS looks specifically different in that the prevalence the State only in relation to their page 4A at women’s health in India. While of HIV in Karnataka is one of the medicalisation, other factors such most of the research in this area has highest, while West Bengal is seen as economic and social rights strongly focussed on men’s health, as a low risk State, though I am are absent, making it difficult Sahu shifts the focus to women not entirely convinced about this. to tackle HIV positive women’s in her study. The book explores As recent research by the West health rights in India. Finally, in the ways in which healthcare for Bengal State AIDS the final three chapters, Sahu women has become a pivotal area details the role which civil society Prevention and Control Society of the government’s strategy. can play through the CSOs Sahu begins by noting that (civil society organisations) health, a welfare ‘need’ of Sahu’s study provides useful and NGOs both in the lives the past, has gained the insights into an area that has of these women and also status of a right. Owing to in taking political action to the culture of silence that been largely marginalised in tackle the major issue of the exists regarding sex in Indian recent scholarship State’s almost ineffectual role society, Sahu argues that so far. gathering information and has reported, West Bengal is Sahu’s study provides useful educating women about sexuality a key migrant and trafficking insights into an area that has been are quite difficult. route, placing it in an especially largely marginalised in recent 2015 • 240 pages • ` 950 Sahu’s study is based in the two vulnerable situation when it comes scholarship, and it is hoped this Hardback (978-93-515-0081-0) States of Karnataka and West to HIV/AIDS prevention. will be the beginning of some more Bengal, making a comparative region specific studies in women’s Sahu’s first chapter is an analysis of women’s vulnerability health and HIV/AIDS from a especially noteworthy chapter as to HIV/AIDS and the State’s sociocultural perspective in India. Sahu argues that while women’s Health & Social Work | 2016 / 2017 ESSENTIAL RESOURCES Contents Nursing: Bioscience .........................................................2-4 Nursing Practice .............................................................. 4-6 Contexts of Nursing ..........................................................6-7 Nursing: Adult Nursing.........................................................7 Nursing: Mental Health ........................................................8 Nursing: Personal and Professional Skills .....................8-10 Health ................................................................................. 11 Leadership, Management and Mentoring .........................12 Human Development ....................................................12-16 Social Work ...................................................................16-18 Social Work: Personal and Professional Skills ............18-20 Social Work: Mental Health ...............................................21 Social Work: Children and Families ..................................23 Social Work: Post Qualifying .............................................23 Research Methods ........................................................24-27 Reference ...........................................................................28 Study Skills ........................................................................28 Index ............................................................................. 29-31 SAGE India Health Research ..........................................................1A-2A Public Health ................................................................3A-7A Health Psychology .......................................................8A-9A Mental health ..............................................................9A-11A Social Work ......................................................................12A Nursing: Bioscience ESSENTIALS OF ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY FOR NURSING PRACTICE Jennifer Boore, Neal Cook and Andrea Shepherd University of Ulster Drawing together the best of text, video and interactive material for the complete A&P learning resource for nurses Effective, holistic nursing is impossible without a firm grasp of how the human body functions, but knowledge of the scientific theory on its own is not enough. 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