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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779433603321

Autore

Galvin Kathleen M.

Titolo

Caring and well-being : a lifeworld approach / / Kathleen Galvin and Les Todres

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-18194-6

0-203-08289-3

1-283-87150-5

1-136-18195-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (216 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in the sociology of health and illness

Altri autori (Persone)

TodresLes <1953->

Disciplina

362.1

Soggetti

Public health - Social aspects

Social medicine

Health - Social aspects

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

pt. 1. Humanising health care : a lifeworld approach -- pt. 2. Well-being and suffering : the focus of care -- pt. 3. Developing the capacity to care.

Sommario/riassunto

Something is missing in contemporary health and social care. Health and illness is often measured in policy documents in economic terms, and clinical outcomes are enmeshed in statistical data, with the patient's experience left to one side. This stimulating book is concerned with how to humanise health and social care and keep the person at the centre of practice.Caring and Well-Being opens by articulating Galvin and Todres' innovative framework for humanising health care and closes with a synthesis of their argument and a discussion of how this can be applied in heal