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Record Nr.

UNINA9910172249203321

Autore

Twigg Julia

Titolo

Bathing, the body and community care / / Julia Twigg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Routledge, 2000

ISBN

1-134-62954-0

9786610354733

1-134-62955-9

1-280-35473-9

0-203-25624-7

0-203-19087-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 230 pages)

Disciplina

362.12

Soggetti

Community health services

Human body

Bathing customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

chapter 1 The body in community care -- chapter 2 Cultures of bathing and the body in High Modernity -- chapter 3 Bathing, washing and the management of personal care -- chapter 4 The spatial and temporal ordering of care -- chapter 5 The medical/social boundary and the rationalisation of community care -- chapter 6 The employment world of the careworker -- chapter 7 Carework as bodywork -- chapter 8 Carework as emotional labour -- chapter 9 The power dynamics of care.

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines the work of a major employment group within the health and welfare field. It relates to debates on the body and issues associated with disability, personal space and autonomy and the power of dynamics of care.