03479nam 22006133u 450 991017224370332120240405133547.01-134-70067-997802030288961-280-11050-30-203-02889-91-134-70066-00-203-26956-X(CKB)111087027078916(EBL)180049(OCoLC)70763504(MiAaPQ)EBC180049(EXLCZ)9911108702707891620130418d1998|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe anthropology of welfare /[electronic resource]edited by Iain R. Edgar and Andrew Russell1st ed.London ;New York Routledge19981 online resource (275 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-415-16964-X Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Research and practice in the anthropology of welfare; 'You just get on with it': questioning models of welfare dependency in a rural community; Concepts of community in changing health care: a study of change in midwifery practice; The child welfare debate in Portugal: a case study of a children's home; 'Equal, but different'? Welfare, gender ideology and a 'mothers' centre' in southern Germany; The co-operation concept in a team of Swedish social workers: applying grid and group to studies of community careCaring communities or effective networks? Community care and people with learning difficulties in South WalesStaff models and practice: managing 'trouble' in a community-based programme for chronically mentally ill adults in the USA; A local anthropology of exclusion; Considering the culture of community care: anthropological accounts of the experiences of frontline carers, older people and a researcher; Treasures on Earth: housing assets, public policy and older people in New Zealand; Residents' participation in the management of retirement housing in the UKUsing experiential research methods: the potential contribution of humanistic groupwork methods to anthropology and welfare researchIndexThe Anthropology of Welfare provides an overview of what anthropology has to offer welfare studies and vice-versa. Case studies from anthropologists in the field, examine different branches of welfare and community care, for example: * Maternity services * Children with learning difficulties * Children's homes * Mothers' centres * People with HIV * Mental health centres * Housing * Care and provision for the elderly. Contributors focus on comparative welfare systems - examples are taken from urban and rural areas of the UK, USA, Sweden,Community organizationEthnologyPublic welfareSocial policySocial serviceCommunity organization.Ethnology.Public welfare.Social policy.Social service.361.8Edgar Iain R874109Russell Andrew874110AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910172243703321The anthropology of welfare1951586UNINA