Chapter 8 AI in Medicine

AI promises major benefits for healthcare. But along with the benefits come risks. Not so much the risk of powerful super-intelligent machines taking over, but the risk of structural injustices, biases, and inequalities being perpetuated in a system that cannot be challenged because nobody actually knows how the algorithms work. Or, the risk that there might be no doctor or nurse present to hol…

Contemporary Challenges in Postnatal Care

This chapter is a perspective literature review of published policy and literature regarding psychosocial screening and assessment in the postnatal period. The postnatal period is considered from birth until 6 weeks postpartum. This chapter focuses on the postnatal period, although some resources discussed are for women perinatally

Consensus on Environmentally Sustainable Oral Healthcare

including clinical professionals and industry, acknowledges the shared responsibility to deliver products and interventions that improve oral health in a more sustainable manner. To deliver this, the community is working in alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Chapter The Pursuit of Happiness: a Reflection on the Calling Construct

This brief chapter arises from reflections on the research studies relating to the Calling construct, carry out by colleagues from the University of Padua. Basically this is a reasoning on the implications of which we should (as academics) always keep in mind when we are called to think about career paths for students, and how it could be important to help students to develop a Calling, putting…

Chapter The power of photovoice AI support provides voicing opportunities fo…

Industrial / commercial art & design

Chapter The food delivery industry and its lack of care in gender equality T…

Industrial / commercial art & design

Chapter 5 Doing adult safeguarding with service users and carers

Chapters 1, 3 and 5 are available Open Access under CC-BY licence. Safeguarding adults at risk of abuse or neglect is a core area of social work practice but knowledge of how social workers make adult safeguarding decisions is limited. Applying recent sociological and ethnographic research to this area for the first time, this book considers how adult safeguarding practice is developing, with a…

Chapter 5 Ageism in applying digital technology in healthcare Implications f…

Digital technology is perceived as a solution to meet the ‘challenges’ of ageing and promote independent and healthy ageing. This approach, often driven by policy makers, is leading to the vast development of a so-called ‘Age-tech’ market, mainly focused on healthcare technologies. Despite the potential positive outcomes, adoption and actual use of digital healthcare technologies are of…

Chapter 4 The mechanisms of social care reform

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Chapter 4 Compassion in primary and community healthcare

Compassion is an attribute of a person’s affective understanding, which aims to enable, so far as possible, shared experiences of the world’s ills and some alleviation of those ills’ effects. Such an attribute is thus of great value within healthcare institutions such as general practices and other primary and community healthcare settings. It may characterise the people who participate i…