Developing Interprofessional Education in Health and Social Care Courses in the United Kingdom, Occasional Paper 12

Developing Interprofessional Education in Health and Social Care Courses in the United Kingdom, Occasional Paper 12

Abstract

Journal of Interprofessional Care, 2012, 26: 161–163 q 2012 Informa UK, Ltd. ISSN 1356-1820 print/ISSN 1469-9567 online DOI: 10.3109/13561820.2012.636965 Books, Reports & Media Reviews Gender and Child Welfare in Society Bird Featherstone, Carol-Ann Hooper, Jonathan Scourfield & Julie Taylor (Eds.) Hoboken, US, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010 320 pp., £70.00 ISBN-10: 0470681861, ISBN-13: 978-0470681862 As gender is often an area where practitioners flounder for lack of support and guidance, but where they feel conscious of being under the lens of the press, this is a timely publication which examines gender issues for those working in the field of looked after children, young people and families. Brining together a collection of 11 papers, most contributors are social work academics but there are also some from social policy, nursing and education. Contributors are mainly from UK universities, but there are also contributions from Ireland, Canada and New Zealand. Led by Jonathan Scourfield, the reader is first introduced to relevant theories in a very accessible and comprehensive way. This contribution is divided into brief explanatory subsections: understanding gender relations; radical feminism; liberal feminism; an emphasis on the differences between women; poststructuralist and postmodernist feminisms; psychoanalytic approaches to gender; men’s studies; understanding childhood and family