The anthropology of welfare / [[electronic resource]] / edited by Iain R. Edgar and Andrew Russell

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1998
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (275 p.)
• Disciplina: 361.8
• Soggetto topico: Community organization; Ethnology; Public welfare; Social policy; Social service
• Altri autori: EdgarIain R RussellAndrew
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 care ; Caring 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 UK ; Using experiential research methods: the potential contribution of humanistic groupwork methods to anthropology and welfare researchIndex
• Sommario/riassunto: The 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,
• Titolo autorizzato: The anthropology of welfare
• ISBN: 1-134-70067-9; 9780203028896; 1-280-11050-3; 0-203-02889-9; 1-134-70066-0; 0-203-26956-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910172243703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II