REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this aticle:
National Health Insurance and the Medical Profession in Britain, 1913–1939 By NORMAN R. EDER.
Issues in Social Policy By KATHLEEN JONES, JOHN BROWN AND JONATHAN BRADSHAW
Youth Unemployment and State Intervention By TERESA L. REES & PAUL ATKINSON (EDS).
Urban Economic Development: New Roles and Relationships BY KEN YOUNG & CHARLIE MASON (EDS)
Inner City Policy: A Partnership with the Voluntary Sector BY GWYNDAF WILLIAMS
The Prerogative of Asylumdom: Social, Cultural and Administrative Aspects of the Institutional Treatment of the Insane in Nineteenth-Century Britain By D. J. MELLETT
The Crisis of the Old Poor Law in England 1795–1834 By PETER DUNKLEY
The Politics of Town Planning By GORDON CHERRY
The Future of Council Housing By JOHN ENGLISH (ed.)
Social Work 2000: The Future of Social Work in a Changing Society By RONALD G. WALTON
The Sociology of the Professions: Lawyers, Doctors and Others By ROBERT DINGWALL AND PHILIP LEWIS (EDS.)
The Home Office: Perspectives on Policy and Administration
Housing for the Elderly: Planning and Policy Formulation in Western Europe and North America By LEONARD HEUMANN AND DUNCAN BOLDY
Housing Policy and Practice By PETER MALPASS AND ALAN MURIE.
Special Transport Services for Elderly and Disabled People By J. M. BAILEY AND A. D. LAYZELL
Health Care Policy: A Political Economy Approach By THEODORE R. MARMOR AND JON B. CHRISTIANSON.
Contemporary Education Policy By JOHN AHIER AND MICHAEL FLUDE (EDS.)     

REVIEW ARTICLES

Book review in this Articles:
Negotiating Family Responsibilities By JANET FINCH & JENNIFER MASON
Ageing and Economic Welfare By PAUL JOHNSON & JANE FALKINGHAM
Time for Retirement: Comparative Studies of Early Exit from the Labour Force By MARTIN KOHLI, MARTIN REIN, ANNE-MARIE GUILLEMARD & HERMAN VAN GUNSTEREN (eds.)
Empowering the Elderly: Direct Consumer Funding of Care Services By WILLIAM LAING
Private Residential Care: the Admission Process and Reactions of the Public Sector By JUDITH PHILLIPS
The Abuse of Elderly People: a Handbook for Professionals By JACKI PRITCHARD
Carers: Research and Practice By JULIA TWIGG (ed.)
The Coming of Age in Europe SALLY GREENGROSS and others
When I'm Sixty-Four By SALLY HERNE
Social Policy in Europe: Latest Evolution and Perspectives for the Future By B. GREVE (ed.)
Poverty and the Adequacy of Social Security in the EC: A Comparative Analysis By H. DELEECK, K. VAN DEN BOSCH & L. DE LATHOUWER     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this aticle: The Political Economy of the Welfare State By THOMAS WILSON AND DOROTHY J. WILSON. Corporatism and Welfare By ALAN CAWSON. Whither State Welfare? Policy and Implementation in the Personal Social Services 1979–80. By ADRIAN WEBB AND GERALD WISTOW. Culture of the Social Services By ANDREW KAKABADSE. Public Participation in Local Services By N. BOADEN et al. Don't Mourn for me … Organise: The Social and Political Uses of Voluntary Organisations By DAVID SCOTT. Economics and Social Policy By ALAN GORDON. Europe Against Poverty — The European Poverty Programme 1975–80 By JANE DENNETT et al. Health Policy in Britain By CHRISTOPHER HAM. Policy Making and Planning in the Health Sector By KENNETH LEE AND ANNE MILLS. Industrial Relations and Health Services By A. S. SETHI AND S. J. DIMMOCK (eds.) The Economics of Outpatient Clinic Location: the paediatrics case By J. G. CULLIS, S. HEASELL AND S. WELLER. The Economics of Unemployment in Britain By JOHN GREEDY (ed.) Workless By DENNIS MARSDEN. Discrimination and Disadvantage in Employment: The Experience of Black Workers By P. BRAHAM, E. RHODES AND M. PEARN (eds.) Unqualified and Underemployed: Handicapped Young People and the Labour Market By ALAN WALKER. Family Care of the Handicapped Elderly: Who Pays? By MURIEL NISSEL AND LUCY BONNERJEA. Capitalism and the Construction of Old Age By CHRIS PHILLIPSON. Policy Making for the Mentally Handicapped By GREGORY S. DONGES.     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this aticle: Public Choice By DENNIS C. MUELLER. Caring for Strangers By DAVID WATSON. Planning for Welfare: Social Policy and the Expenditure Process By TIMOTHY A. BOOTH. Law, Justice and Social Policy By ROSALIND BROOKE. The Economics of Health By JOHN G. CULLIS & PETER A. WEST. Health in Danger: The Crisis in the N.H.S. By DAVID WIDGERY. Overseas Doctors in the National Health Service By DAVID J. SMITH. Community Hospitals and Rural Accessibility By R.M. HAYNES & C.G. BENTHAM. Methods of Financing Social Security: Their Economic and Social Effects By E.M. MURPHY et al. Financial Aid Through Social Work By MICHAEL P. JACKSON AND B. MICHAEL VALENCIA. Social Work and Money By MICHAEL HILL AND PETER LAING. Power, Authority and Responsibility in Social Services: Social Work in Area Teams By MALCOLM PAYNE. Allocating The Home Help Services By NEIL HOWELL, DUNCAN BOLDY, BARRY SMITH. Care of the Elderly Mentally Infirm By BARBARA GRAY & BERNARD ISAACS. Who Needs Housing? By JANE DARKE & ROY DARKE. Managing Difficult Tenants By GERRY POPPLESTONE & CHRIS PARIS. The British New Towns: A Programme without a Policy By MERYL ALDRIDCE.     

COMMUNITY CARE AND HEALTH

Community Care: A Reader By JOANNA BORNAT, CHARMAINE PEREIRA, DAVID PILGRIM AND FIONA WILLIAMS (EDS.)
Working Together for Better Community Care By RANDALL SMITH, LUCY GASTER, LYN HARRISON, LINDA MARTIN, ROBIN MEANS AND PETER THISTLETHWAITE
Health, Welfare and Practice: Reflecting on Roles and Relationships By JAN WALMSLEY, JILL REYNOLDS, PAM SHAKESPEARE (EDS.)
Health and Wellbeing: A Reader By ALAN BEATTIE, MARJORIE GOTT, LINDA JONES AND MOYRA SIDELL (EDS.)
Health Policy in Britain By CHRISTOPHER HAM
The NHS Transformed By IAN HOLLIDAY     

REVIEW ARTICLES

Book Reviewed in this article Support Networks in a Caring Community Edited by J. A. YODER, J. M. L. JONKER AND R. A. B. LEAPER “Who Needs Care?” By J. PACKMAN., J. RANDALL AND B. JACQUES “Who Needs Care?” By J. PACKMAN., J. RANDALL AND B. JACQUES “Lost in Care” By S. MILLHAM, R. BULLOCK, K. HOSIE AND M. HAAK Sunbelt City? By MARTIN BODDY, JOHN LOVERING AND KEITH BASSETT The City in Transition By WILLIAM LEVER AND CHRIS MOORE The London Employment Problem By NICK BUCK, IAN GORDON AND KEN YOUNG WITH JOHN ERMISCH AND LIZ MILLS Social Work: a Christian Perspective Edited by TERRY PHILPOT     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this aticle: Understanding Social Policy By MICHAEL HILL. A Comparative Approach to Policy Analysis: Health Care Policy in Four Nations By HOWARD M. LEICHTER Poverty and Inequality in Common Market Countries By VIC GEORGE AND ROGER LAWSON Work Creation: International Experiences By MICHAEL P. JACKSON & VICTOR J.B. HANBY (eds.) Social Goals and Economic Perspectives By G.P. MARSHALL. The Economics of Women and Work By Alice H. Amsden (ed.) Public Spending Decisions: Growth and Restraint in the 1970s By MAURICE WRIGHT (ed.) Labour and Equality: A Fabian Study of Labour in Power 1974–79 By NICK BOSANQUET AND PETER TOWNSEND (eds.) Pricing the Social Services By KEN JUDGE (ed.) Education, Health and Housing: an Empirical Investigation of Resource Accessibility By ANDREW KIRBY. The Good City: A study of urban development and policy in Britain By D. DONNISON WITH P. SOTO. Housing and Residential Structure By KEITH BASSETT AND JOHN SHORT. Secondary Schools and the Welfare Network By DAPHNE JOHNSON et al Higher Education for All? By GORDON RODERICK AND MICHAEL STEPHENS (eds.) The Division in British Medicine By FRANK HONIGSBAUM. The Building Societies By MARTIN BODDY. Teamwork in the Personal Social Services and Health Care: British and American Perspectives By SUSAN LONSDALE, ADRIAN WEBB & T.L. BRIGGS (ed.)     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this aticle:
Despite the Welfare State By MURIEL BROWN AND NICOLA MADGE.
Disadvantage and Education By Jo MORTIMORE AND TESSA BLACKSTONE.
Housing Inequality and Deprivation By ALAN MURIE.
Families in Britain By R. N. RAPOPORT, M. P. FOGARTY & R. RAPOPORT (EDS.)
Sex Differences in Britain Today By IVAN REID & EILEEN WORMALD (EDS.)
Gender, Class and Education By STEPHEN WALKER & LEN BARTON (EDS.)
Women's Welfare & Women's Rights By JANE LEWIS (ED).
Community Care: The Family, the State and Social Policy By ALAN WALKER (ED).
Working with People By ROBERT J. MAXWELL AND VICTOR MORRISON (EDS).
Alternative Unemployment: Special Employment Measures in Britain By DAVID METCALF.     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this aticle:
Welfare: The Elusive Consensus By LESTER M. SALAMON.
Poverty and Social Change By KIRSTEN GRONBJERG.
Towards a Philosophy of Administration By CHRISTOPHER HODGKINSON.
Parliament and Public Spending By ANN ROBINSON.
The Economics of Taxation By SIMON JAMES & CHRISTOPHER NOBES.
Workbook for the Economic of Taxation By SIMON JAMES & CHRISTOPHER NOBES.
The Acceptable Pressure Group by M. RYAN.
Sociology in the Professions By BRIAN HERAUD.
The Politics of Educational Change By MAURICE KOGAN.
L. E. A. Advisers and the Mechanics of Innovation By R. BOLAM, G. SMITH & H. CANTER N.
Schools and Social Work By MARGARET ROBINSON.
In and Out of Work By STEVE TURNER et. al. .
Planning the Social Services By NICHOLAS FALK AND JAMES LEE.
Social Work Face to Face By STUART REES.
The Politics of Positive Discrimination By JOHN EDWARDS & RICHARD BATLEY.
Policy Planning and Local Government By ROBIN HAMBLETON.
Housing Policy and the State Allocation, Access & Control By JOHN LAMBERT, CHRIS PARIS & BOB BLACKEBY.
Essays on Housing Policy By J. B. CULLINGWORTH.
Sheltered Housing for the Elderly: A Critical Review By ALAN BUTLER et. al. .
Housing Services for Disabled People By SUSAN TESTER.     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this aticle: Social Welfare: Why and How? By NOEL TIMMS (ED.) The Year Book of Social Policy in Britain, 1979 By MURIEL BROWN & SALLY BALDWIN (EDS) The Irish Social Services By JOHN CURRY. Rational Techniques in Policy Analysis By MICHAEL CARLEY. Social Research and Royal Commissions By MARTIN BULMER (ed.) Can Social Work Survive? By COLIN BREWER & JUNE LAIT. The Future of the Prison System By ROY D. KING & ROD MORGAN. Class Inequality and Health Care: the Origins and Impact of The National Health Service By VIVIENNE WALTERS. Principles in Economic Appraisal in Health Care By M.F. DRUMMOND. Choices for Health Care By G.H. MOONEY, E.M. RUSSELL & R.D. WEIR. Health Care Priorities and Management By GWYN BEVAN et al. How many patients? A study of list size in general practice By J.R. BUTLER. Teamwork for Preventive Care By NIGEL BRUCE. Child Support in the European Community By JONATHON BRADSHAW & DAVID PIACHAUD. Education and the Social Condition By HAROLD SILVER. The Reorganisation of Seconary Education By PHILIP H. JAMES. Compensation for Incapacity: a Study of Law and Social Change in New Zealand and Australia By GEOFFREY PALMER.     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this aticle:
Judging Justice BY PHILIP PETTIT.
Social Need BY GILBERT SMITH.
Illusions of Equality BY DAVID E. COOPER.
Ideas and Intervention: Social Theory for Practice BY JOE BAILEY.
The Ignorance of Social Intervention BY DIGBY C. ANDERSON (ED.)
Creating the Welfare State: The Political Economy of Twentieth Century Reform BY EDWARD BERKOWITZ AND KIM MCQUALD.
Policy Making in Social Security BY MARTHA DERTHICK.
Socialism, Social Welfare and The Soviet Union BY VIC GEORGE AND NICK MANNING.
The Shaping of the Swedish Health Service BY ARNOLD J. HEIDENHEIMER AND NILS ELVANDER (EDS.)
Welfare Politics in Australia: a Study in Policy Analysis BY ADAM GRAYCAR.
Poverty and Social Inequality in Wales BY GARETH REES AND TERESA L. REES.
Social Services in Scotland BY J. ENGLISH AND F.M. MARTIN (EDS.)
Social Work in Conflict By B. GLASTONBURY, D.M. COOPER & P. HAWKINS.
Caring for Separated Children BY R.A. PARKER (ED.)
Some of our Children BY M. CHAZAN et al
Handicapped Children in Residential Care BY ANN SHEARER.
The Family Fund BY JONATHON BRADSHAW.
The State, the Family and Education BY MIRIAM E. DAVID.
The Economics of Town and Country Planning BY K.G. WILLIS.
Stevenage Ltd. BY BOB MULLAN.
Housing and Social Justice BY GILL BURKE.     

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Fulbrook, Julian. Administrative Justice and the Unemployed. Harris, José. William Beveridge. A Biography. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The Tax/Benefit Position of Selected Income Groups in OECD Member Countries 1972–1976 Roemer, Milton, I. Comparative National Policies on Health Care. Shanas, Ethel, and Sussman, Marvin B. (editors). Family, Bureaucracy, and the Elderly Simkins, Jean, and Tickner, Vincent. Whose Benefit? Uncertainties of Cash Benefits for the Handicapped. Statistics Canada. Social Security (National Programs), 1978.     

REVIEWS

Book review in this Articles:
Sin, Organised Charity and the Poor Law in Victorian England By Robert Humphreys
The Voluntary Sector, The State and Social Work in Britain: The Charity Organisation Society/Family Welfare Association since 1869 By Jane Lewis
Community Care for Older People: A Comparative Perspective, By Susan Tester
Changing Services for Older People, By Alan Walker and Lorna Warren
The Irish Social Welfare System: Law and Social Policy BY MEL COUSINS     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this aticle: Making Ends Meet By SCOTT KERR. Comparative Public Policy. The Politics of Social Choice in Europe and America By A. HEIDENHEIMER, H. HECLO AND C. TEICH ADAMS. In Place of Work: Policy and Provision for the Young Unemployed ROB FIDDY (ed) Government and Urban Poverty By JOAN HIGGINS, NICHOLAS DEAKIN, JOHN EDWARDS AND MALCOLM WICKS. Approaches to Welfare Edited by PHILIP BEAN AND STEWART MACPHERSON. From Policy to Practice By M. REIN. Charities in Britain — Conservatism or Change? By DAVID GERARD. The Creation of the British Personal Social Services 1962–74 By JOAN COOPER. Census 1981 National Report, Great Britain. Components of Welfare: Voluntary Organizations, Social Services and Politics in Two Local Authorities By STEPHEN HATCH AND IAN MOCROFT. Disability Income Part I: Industrial Injuries By JOAN C. BROWN. Planning for Priority Groups By HOWARD GLENNERSTER WITH NANCY KORMAN AND FRANCIS MARSLEN-WILSON. Children and Justice: Decision-Making in Children's Hearings and Juvenile Courts By STEWART ASQUITH.     

Reviews

Book Reviewed in this Article
Comparing Welfare States and their Futures By E lseødyen (ED.)
For-Profit Enterprise in Health Care By B radford H. G ray (ED.)
Chaallenge to the NHS: a study of comptition in American health care and the lessons for Britain By D avid G. G reen
Campaigning for the Poor: CPAG and the Politics of Welfare. By M ichael M c C arthy     

REVIEWS

Book review in this Article Hard Times? How poor families make ends meet. By Elaine Kempson, Alex Bryson & Karen Rowlingson. Parenting under Pressure. By Tim Booth and Wendy Booth. Critical Issues in Child Welfare. By Nora S. Gustavsson and Elizabeth A. Segal. Community Care in Practice. Edited by R Davidson and S Hunter. Collaboration in Community Care. By Andrew Nocon. Handbook for Assessing and Managing Care in the Community. By Philip Seed and Gillian Kaye. Working with Violence. By Carol Lupton and Terry Gillespie (Eds). Macmillan.     

REVIEWS

Book review in this Article
HUD Scandals: Howling Headlines and Silent Fiascos. by Irving Weldfeld
Community Participation in Health: The Politics of Primary Care in Costa Rica. By Lynn M. Morgan
Preventing Child Sexual Abuse: Sharing the Responsibility. By Sandy K. Wurtell and Cindy L. Miller-Perrin
Child Abuse Review (Journal of the British Association for the Study and Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect). By Kevin D. Browne and Margaret A. Lynch     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this aticle:
Using the Social Sciences by A. B. CHERNS.
The Execution Process Vol. 1. Implementation in a Bureaucracy Vol. 2. Control in a Bureaucracy by ANDREW DUNSIRE.
The Reorganisation of British Local Government by JOHN DEARLOVE.
Introducing Social Policy by D. C. MARSH (ed.)
Over-Ruled on Welfare by RALPH HARRIS AND ARTHUR SELDON.
The Political Economy of the Welfare State by IAN GOUGH.
Economic Welfare in the Soviet Union by ALASTAIR MCAULEY.
The Welfare State in Sweden by DOROTHY WILSON.
Youth in Contemporary Society by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY (ed.)
Housing Improvement and Social Inequality by PAUL N. BALCHIN.
Not Much Improvement: Urban Renewal Policy in Birmingham by CHRIS PARIS AND BOB BLACKABY.
Jobs and Community Action by G. CRAIG, M. MAYO AND N. SHARMAN (EDS.)
Unmet Needs and the Delivery of Care by PAUL CHAPMAN.
Welfare Law and Policy: Studies in Teaching, Practice and Research by MARTIN PARTINGTON AND JEFFREY JOWELL, (eds.).
Perspective on Legal Aid: a Comparative Survey by F. H. Zemans, (ed.)     

Slavery and Abolition: Stanley Elkins and his Critics

SLAVERY: A PROBLEM IN AMERICAN INSTITUTIONAL AND INTELLECTUAL LIFE. By Stanley Elkins. THE DEBATE OVER SLAVERY: STANLEY ELKINS AND HIS CRITICS. Edited by Ann J. Lane. MEANS AND ENDS IN AMERICAN ABOLITIONISM: GARRISON AND HIS CRITICS ON STRATEGY AND TACTICS, 1834-1850. By Aileen S. Kraditor.     

Reviews

ISSUES IN SOCIAL POLICY By Kathleen Jones, John Brown, Jonathon Bradshaw. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978, 176 pp., £5.95. UNIVERSALITY AND SELECTIVITY: STRATEGIES IN SOCIAL POLICY By Mike Reddin. National Economic and Social Council, Dublin. 1978, 115 pp., £1.00. THE POVERTY BUSINESS: BRITAIN AND AMERICA By Joan Higgins. Basil Blackwell, 1978, 162 pp., £7.85. ALTRUISM AND ECONOMY — A STUDY IN NON-SELFISH ECONOMICS By David Collard. Martin Robertson, 1978, x+221 pp., £9.50. ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF HEALTH SERVICES By A. J. Culyer and K. G. Wright. Martin Robertson, 1978, 190 pp., £9.85. HEALTH AND MEDICAL CARE IN THE U.S.: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS By Vincent Navarro (editor) Baywood Publishing Company, 1977, 148 pp., no price given. SELF CARE IN HEALTH By John D. Williamson & Kate Danaher. Croom Helm, 19878, 216 pp., £8.95. THE PERSONAL AND THE POLITICAL By Paul Halmos. Hutchinson, 1978, 200 pp., £5.95. SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE UNDER CAPITALISM: A MARXIST APPROACH By Paul Corrigan and Peter Leonard. Macmillan, 1978, 161 pp., £6.95. SOCIAL WORK: REFORM OR REVOLUTION? By Colin Pritchard and Richard Taylor. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1978, 162 pp., £5.95. IN WORLD'S APART: PROFESSIONALS AND THEIR CLIENTS IN THE WELFARE STATE By Tim Robinson. Bedford Square Press, 1978, 87 pp., £1.95. HOLES IN THE WELFARE NET By Maureen Oswin. Bedford Square Press, 1978, 168 pp., £2.95. SOCIAL WORK AND THE ‘UNDESERVING’ POOR By Robin Means. Centre for Urban and Regional Studies, University of Birmingham, 1977, 125 pp., £2.00. VIOLENCE AND THE FAMILY By J. P. Martin (ed.) John Wiley and Sons, 1978, 369 pp., £11.95. PARENTS AND CHILDREN IN THE INNER CITY By Harriet Wilson and G. W. Herbert. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1978, x+248 pp., £5.90. HOUSING FOR SPECIAL GROUPS By United Nations Economic Commission (ed.) Pergamon Press, 1977, 182 pp., £19.50. NOT QUITE LIKE HOME: SMALL HOSTELS FOR ALCOHOLICS AND OTHERS By Shirley Otto and Jim Orford. John Wiley and Sons, 1978, 218 pp., £7.95. INSIDE THE SYSTEM: HOW AN ELECTRICITY BOARD DEALS WITH FUEL DEBTORS By J. L. Hesketh. Family Welfare Association of Manchester, 1978, 141 pp., £2.80. OLD AND COLD: HYPOTHERMIA AND SOCIAL POLICY By Malcolm Wicks. Heinemann, 1978, 208 pp., £8.00.