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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459316503321

Autore

Dartington Tim

Titolo

Managing Vulnerability : The Underlying Dynamics of Systems of Care / / by Tim Dartington

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, FL : , : Routledge, , [2018]

©2010

ISBN

0-429-90179-8

0-429-47702-3

1-282-78050-6

9786612780509

1-84940-730-4

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Collana

Tavistock Clinic series

Disciplina

362.941

616.8914

Soggetti

Medical care

Medical ethics

Social service - Moral and ethical aspects

Empathy

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

COVER; CONTENTS; SERIES EDITOR'S PREFACE, Margot Waddell; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PREFACE; PART I: INDIVIDUAL SURVIVAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL LIFE; PART II: THE SURVIVAL OF THE UNFITTEST; PART III: THE PERSONAL AND THE PROFESSIONAL; PART IV: CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Clinicians, managers and researchers - as well as politicians and religious leaders - are worrying about a lack of compassion and humanity in the care of vulnerable people in society. In this book The author explores the dynamics of care. He argues that we know how to do it, but somehow we seem to keep getting it wrong. Poor care in hospitals and care homes is well documented, and yet it continues. Care for people in their own homes is seen as an ideal, but the reality



can be cruel and isolating.The authordescribes research over forty years in thinking why institutional and community care are both subject to processes of denial and fear of dependency. His examples include children in hospital, people with disabilities living in the community, and the care of older people and those with dementia.