Description Professional Perspectives in Health Care covers a broad range of healthcare issues such as confidentiality, the patient as consumer and interprofessional working. It examines the latest developments and international perspectives on working in healthcare, and encourages a critical appreciation of current debates on the professional agenda. Contents Introduction Evidence Based Practice; A.N.Siriwardena Patient, Information and Society; C.Wilkinson Clinical Governance; J.Smith Interprofessional Working; N.Waddie A Professional Approach to Ethnic Diversity; M.R.D.Johnson Building Research Capacity; J.Cooke, J.Middlemass and G.Sarre Regulation of Herbal Medicine and Complementary Medicine; A.Stableford Studying Organisational Culture in Health Care Settings: Some Reflections on the Process; C.Wilkinson Integrating Herbal Medicine into the National Health Service: Perspectives of General Practitioners; A.Parkin & C.Wilkinson The Therapeutic Relationship in the Dental Setting; L. Aquiline & C. Wilkinson Mentorship in Practice: Student Nurse Perspectives; K.Cook Conclusion Index Author Biographies CAROL WILKINSON is Principal Lecturer in Health Studies at the University of Lincoln, UK. She is co-author of Watson & Wilkinson: Nursing in Primary Care (Palgrave). Related information and services: