Paperback edition of a textbook for students in tertiary nursing education programs in Australia, covering social aspects of nursing including learning to be and working as a nurse, bureaucratic organisation, the illness experience, mental illness, death and nursing the dying, the health care system, and nurses as agents of social change. Includes a bibliography and an index. The book will also be a useful introduction to the social aspects of health care for health professionals and students of sociology. Simultaneously published in hardback.