Social Construction of Community Nursing

ANNE KELLY is Lecturer in Primary Health Care and Public Health at the University of Wales, Swansea. She specialises in the management and implementation of preventive care.ANTHEA SYMONDS is Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Wales, Swansea, and with the Open University. She specialises in aspects of health policy with a special interest in the gendered nature of the care professions and their socio-historical development.

• PART 1: IntroductionThe Construction of Community NursingThe Welfare State, Social Democracy and the Nation's HealthConstructing Communities; Policies and CulturesPART 2: Concepts of Community NursingConstructions of Community Nursing RolesThe Front Line; Community Nursing, Policies of Community and GovernmentalityRe-Constructing an Image for the 21st Century.

'This book should be a core text on any community nursing degree program and highly recommended to any practitioner who is trying to come to terms with the rapid rate of change in primary healthcare...offer a challenging analysis of what the place and purpose of community nursing has been and might be in the new NHS.' - Dr Claire Goodman, JCN Book Reviews