Acknowledgements
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View Article3: Testing the limits
Choosing Jim and Marianne as the central case study in the unit was a deliberate strategy to enable you to consider conflicts at the very heart of health and social care:the rights of the individual...
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2: Moral dilemmas
It is clear from the account of Jim and Marianne's lives that they need some help. But do they deserve help? Some of our course testers had very strong reactions to the inclusion of drug users in a...
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1: Introducing Jim and Marianne
The lifestyles of long-term drug abusers are frequently sensationalisedLong descriptionJim and Marianne’s story is based on a real couple, but heavily fictionalised to protect their identity. Their...
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After studying this unit you should be able to:appreciate key moral dilemmas about apportioning limited resources;demonstrate an understanding of how heavy drug users test the limits of community...
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In this unit we explore questions of access to community services. To make what might be quite a dry task more challenging we use a fictionalised case study of two people for whom access to community...
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