Public Services

Quality of Life

A Post-Pandemic Philosophy of Medicine
Robin Downie

The Covid-19 pandemic has shown the need for a fresh look at health and health care. This book offers a philosophical critique of medicine as applied science, but more positively it stresses the social causes of disease and argues for greater equity in the distribution of resources and the benefits of a wider evidence-base for medical treatments.

The Tribe

The Liberal-Left and the System of Diversity
Ben Cobley

In The Tribe, Ben Cobley guides us around the 'system of diversity' that has resulted from identity politics, exploring the consequences of offering favour and protection to some people but not others based on things like skin colour and gender.

SCAM

So-Called Alternative Medicine
Edzard Ernst

So-called alternative medicine (SCAM) is popular and therefore important. This book was written by someone who received SCAM as a patient, practised SCAM as a doctor, and researched SCAM as a scientist. It provides an insider's perspective by covering aspects of SCAM which most other books avoid.

The Demarchy Manifesto

For Better Public Policy
John Burnheim

Demarchy exploits the possibilities of modern communications to give new role to public discussion. It takes the initiative in formulating policy on each specific problem out of the hands of political parties and into the hands of those most strongly affected by that particular problem. John Burnheim explains why this needs to be done.

Public Service on the Brink

Jenny Manson

The contributors to this book mount a robust defence of the concept and practice of public service at a crucial time for its future.

Lotteries for Education

Conall Boyle

Lotteries are widely used to decide places (seats) at schools, colleges and universities. Conall Boyle explores many examples to find out why. The emotional turmoil that the use of ballots can cause to students and parents alike is graphically described.

Leadership in Christian Higher Education

Michael Wright

This book provides a range of experienced voices, including the Archbishop of Canterbury, that reflect on the character and mission of leadership in Christian higher education in the 21st Century.

Moral, Social and Political Philosophy of the British Idealists

William Sweet

The British idealists of the late 19th and early 20th century are best known for their contributions to metaphysics, logic, and political philosophy. Yet they also made important contributions to social and public policy, social and moral philosophy and moral education, as shown by this volume.

The School of Freedom

A liberal education reader from Plato to the present day
Anthony O'Hear

Liberal education is a term that has fallen from use in Britain, its traditional meaning now freely confused with its opposite. This book is intended to correct that misapprehension, through the presentation of original source material from the high points in the liberal education tradition with particular focus on the British experience.

The Woman Racket

The new science explaining how the sexes relate at work, at play and in society
Steve Moxon

Notwithstanding its provocative title, The Woman Racket is a serious scientific investigation into one of the key myths of our age – that women are oppressed by the 'patriarchal' traditions of Western societies.

Distributing Health Care

Principles, Practices and Politics
Niall Maclean

How ought a society to distribute its publicly funded healthcare resources? Few questions are in more urgent need of an answer. This multidisciplinary investigation brings together the insights of philosophy, clinical science, health economics, operational research and public policy analysis.

Great Reading Disaster

Reclaiming Our Educational Birthright
Mona McNee

By the late 1980s half the nation's children were receiving 11 years of progressivist schooling that failed to give them even the elementary basis of education that was completed by the age of 7 in earlier days. This book explains the causes and provides the solution to this problem.

Public Health and Globalisation

Why a National Health Service is Morally Indefensible
Iain Brassington

Claims that there are good arguments for a public health service that do not amount to arguments for a national health service, but for something that looks far more like a transnational health service.

Institution of Intellectual Values

Realism and Idealism in Higher Education
Gordon Graham

This is a revised and expanded version of the much praised short book Universities: The Recovery of An Idea.

Principles and Politics in Contemporary Britain

Mark Garnett

This book shows the importance of political ideas in policy-making and demonstrates the extent to which pragmatic considerations preclude the imposition of rigid ideological programmes.

Making it Happen in Public Service

Devolution in Wales as a Case Study
Stephen Prosser

This book examines the change management strategies and processes employed to ensure that the Labour Government's commitment to devolution became a reality in Wales.

Knowledge Monopolies

The Academisation of Society
Alan Shipman

Historians and sociologists chart the consequences of the expansion of knowledge; philosophers of science examine the causes. This book bridges the gap. The focus is on 'academisation'.

Modernisation Imperative

Bruce Charlton

This book argues that contemporary society in Western democracies is generally misunderstood to be a pyramidal hierarchy dominated either by government or the economy. Neither view is correct.

Managing Britannia

Culture and Management in Modern Britain
Robert Protherough

This book shows how modern management practices have all but destroyed politics, education, culture and religion — modern management is the cause of our national malaise.

New Idea of a University

Duke Maskell

The New Idea of a University is an entertaining and highly readable defence of the philosophy of liberal arts education and an attack on the sham that has been substituted for it. It is sure to scandalize all the friends of the present establishment and be cheered elsewhere.

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