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- 4 8 -PANCOAST, Diane, Paul PARKER & Charles FROLAND, eds . (Regional Res ., Portland state) . 1983 . SELF-HELP REDISCOVERED : ITS ROLE IN SOCIAL CARE . Beverly Hills, CA : Sage . 330 pp .Explores how formal & informal means of helping work together in a variety of different systems & cultures. Mutual help groups, voluntry associations, informal helping networks & simple neighbourly orfamily ties are shown at work with professional services in Scotland, England, the U .S ., West Germany,Belgium & New Zealand . Care for the elderly, for people in single room hotels, networks of refugees,self-help groups are some of the specific programmes discussed . The last section deals with policyissues . Where can links with self-help groups do the most good? How can professionals best work withthem? (from publisher's blurb) .CONTENTS :Gordon GRANT & Clare WENGER, "Patterns of Partnership : 3 Models of Care for the Elderly ." Alice COOLINS,"Rebuilding refugee networks ." Carl COHEN, et al ., "Network Interventions on the Margin : A ServiceExperiment in a Welfare Hotel ." Angela FINLAYSON, "Supplementing Traditional Support Networks ." RichardWOLLERT & Nancy BARRON, "Avenues of Collaboration ." Christine DENEKE, "How Professionals View Self-Help ."Ian BRANCKAERTS, "Birth of the Movement : Early Milestones ." Bert BAKKER & Matthieu KAREL, "Self-Help :Wolf or Lamb?" Dan FERRAND-BECHMANN, "Voluntary Action in the Welfare State : 2 Examples ." Ann RICHARD-SON, "English Self-Help : Varied Patterns & Practices ." Giles DARVILL, "Shuttle Diplomacy in the PersonalSocial Services : Interweaving Statutory & Informal Care in a Changing Britain ." Stephen UTTLEY, "Bridgingthe Divide : A Maori Initiative in Linking Formal & Informal Care ." Paul PARKER, Diane PANCOAST andCharles FROLAND, "Wheels in Motion ."ROMEDER, Jean-Marie (Sec of State-Canada) . 1982 . SELF-HELP GROUPS IN CANADA . Ottawa : Program InformationUnit, Social Service Development and Grants Directorate, Health and Welfare Canada, Ottawa . 94 pp .free (aussi disponsible en francais) .This study is situated at the crossroads of major social currents : the rediscovery of the importance ofour individual behaviour & attitudes in terms of personal health & well-being ; the human potential movementin the humanistic tradition ; the concern about control by the state, business or 'experts' over thelives of ordinary citizens ; a general desire to be looked after by a group that cares . (edited from author'sforeward) .CONTENTS :Self-help groups & mental health . Results of the pilot survey . Risks or dangers . Socio-economic perspective& social policy . Suggestions & examples to assist self-help groups .DAVIS, Nanette (Portland State) & Bo ANDERSON (Soc-Michigan State) . 1983 . SOCIAL CONTROL : THE PRODUCTIONOF DEVIANCE IN THE MODERN STATE . NY Irvington .SELECTED CONTENTS :7 . The greedy institution : the state as a social problems monopoly . 10 . Perspectives for the underlife :toward a theory of commitment organizations . 11 . Alcoholics Anonymous : a self-help movement withouthierarchies . 12 . Beyond disenchantment : feminist health movement as commitment organization .CHRISTIE, Vidgis (Norwegian Inst . of Urban & Regional Res, Oslo) . APOTEKET : HANDEL ELLER HELSE? Oslo :UniversitetsforZaget . 234 pp .This is a book about pharmacies in Norway seen from the customer's point of view . It is also a bookabout the interplay & interdependence between pharmacies, doctors & patients . Chapter 4 is a study ofsocial isolation . I have tried to find out what my informants would do if they were sick & alone &needed medicine from the pharmacy . I describe also to whom they turn when they do not feel well, &find the pharmacy has a very small place in the picture . In Chapter 6 the prescription is followedfrom the doctors' desk until the medicine is in the patient's home . We find that each station on thisvoyage offers new possibilities for variations . We also find that 50% of the people we asked wouldshare their medicine bought on a prescription with relatives or friends ; 25% would use such medicinebelonging to a family member or a friend . One could let the pharmacy function as a point of contact inthe neighbourhood . Let the inhabitants themselves actively function to create health, by giving themopportunities for active participation in the system--using them to bring medicine to sick people, togive a hand to a person in the neighbourhood who-- without this helping hand--might have to go to thehospital or another insitution . I call this activity "the pharmacies' handout-centre ." (from author'sEnglish summary) .