1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910465190503321

Autore

Mandelstam Michael <1956->

Titolo

Quick guide to community care practice and the law [[electronic resource] /] / Michael Mandelstam

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Philadelphia, : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2010

ISBN

1-283-90499-3

0-85700-373-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (196 p.)

Collana

Quick Guides Social & Health Care Law & Practice

Disciplina

344.4103/16

344.410313

Soggetti

Community health services - Law and legislation - Great Britain

Public welfare - Law and legislation - Great Britain

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

FRONT COVER; Quick Guide to Community Care Practice and the Law; Contents; PREFACE; 1. Introduction; 2. How community care law and practice works; 3. When things go wrong; 4. Getting a community care assessment and getting services; 5. Community care services: care homes; 6. Community care services: help in people's own homes; 7. Informal carers; 8. Direct payments: giving people money; 9. Personalisation and safeguarding adults; 10. Asylum and immigration; 11. Ordinary residence; 12. Home adaptations; 13. The National Health Service; 14. NHS continuing health care

15. Mental capacity, human rights, and disability discrimination Chapter 16 Health and safety at work legislation, and the law of negligence; INDEX; back cover

Sommario/riassunto

This short guide cuts through the confusing mass of legislation to provide a concise and jargon-free explanation of current community care practice and the law. It is an essential resource for busy practitioners at all levels as well as managers in both the statutory and voluntary sectors, and policy-makers in local authorities and the NHS.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910785155503321

Titolo

Nationalisms and politics in Turkey : political Islam, Kemalism, and the Kurdish issue / / edited by Marlies Casier and Joost Jongerden

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon [England] ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-93867-2

1-282-78138-3

9786612781384

0-203-84706-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (242 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in Middle Eastern politics ; ; 26

Altri autori (Persone)

CasierMarlies

JongerdenJoost

Disciplina

320.5409561

Soggetti

Kurds - Turkey - Social conditions

Nationalism - Turkey

Islam and politics - Turkey

Turkey Politics and government 1980-

Turkey Ethnic relations Political aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I: Political Islam and Turkey's Secularist-Nationalist Project; 1 Turkey's present ancien régime and the Justice and Development Party; 2 Democratization, clashing narratives, and 'Twin Tolerations' between Islamic-Conservative and Pro-Secular Actors; 3 'Nationalist' reconstructions in the light of disappearing borders; Part II: Facing the Kurdish issue; 4 The Kurdish question in Turkey: Denial to recognition; 5 Turgut Özal and the Kurdish question

6 The Justice and Development Party and the Kurdish questionPart III: Challenging the state; 7 Born from the Left: The making of the PKK; 8 The PKK in the 2000s: Continuity through breaks?; Part IV: Calling upon Turkey: Agents of long-distance nationalism; 9 Constructing communities in the Turkish diaspora: A quest for politics; 10 Bringing



the organization back in: Pro-Kurdish protest in Europe; 11 The Politics of solidarity: The Kurdish question in the European Parliament; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines some of the most pressing issues facing the Turkish political establishment, in particular the issues of political Islam, and Kurdish and Turkish nationalisms. The authors explore the rationales of the main political actors in Turkey in order to increase our understanding of the ongoing debates over the secularist character of the Turkish Republic and over Turkey's longstanding Kurdish issue.Original contributions from respected scholars in the field of Turkish and Kurdish studies provide us with many insights into the social and political fabric of Turkey, explori