Community Practitioner, July 1st, 2007
Book of the month Childhood and Society: An introduction to the sociology of childhood Michael Wyness Palgrave Macmillan 2006 ISBN: 0333946499, £19.95
What approach do health visitors, school nurses and community children's nurses take to children, and on what framework do they base their work? This text will not give the answers but will encourage readers to consider their own perspectives.
One of the dominant themes in this book is that children have in the past been marginalised in academic writing and in society in general. Drawing on material from sociological, social policy and educat...
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