Guide du métier de directeur en action sociale et médico-sociale


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Cet ouvrage de référence est consacré aux connaissances, compétences et qualités mises en oeuvre dans la fonction de directeur dans les organisations sociales et médico-sociales. Centré sur les composantes de ce métier, le livre comprend six sections structurées chacune à partir d'une triple interrogation : les contextes et les enjeux d'environnement ; les stratégies de direction ; les outils permettant la mise en oeuvre des réponses adaptées. L'organisation des thèmes dans cette troisième édition est largement renouvelée et les contenus sont à jour des politiques sociales, des textes législatifs, notamment du décret du 19 février 2007 relatif aux personnels de direction qui a permis une avancée dans le repérage des places et des niveaux de qualification.




The Birth of the Clinic


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Foucault's classic study of the history of medicine.




The Practice of Everyday Life


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Michel de Certeau considers the uses to which social representation and modes of social behavior are put by individuals and groups, describing the tactics available to the common man for reclaiming his own autonomy from the all-pervasive forces of commerce, politics, and culture. In exploring the public meaning of ingeniously defended private meanings, de Certeau draws on an immense theoretical literature in analytic philosophy, linguistics, sociology, semiology, and anthropology--to speak of an apposite use of imaginative literature.




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The Making of a Social Disease


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In this first English-language study of popular and scientific responses to tuberculosis in nineteenth-century France, David Barnes provides a much-needed historical perspective on a disease that is making an alarming comeback in the United States and Europe. Barnes argues that French perceptions of the disease—ranging from the early romantic image of a consumptive woman to the later view of a scourge spread by the poor—owed more to the power structures of nineteenth-century society than to medical science. By 1900, the war against tuberculosis had become a war against the dirty habits of the working class. Lucid and original, Barnes's study broadens our understanding of how and why societies assign moral meanings to deadly diseases.