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Autore: | Parks Jennifer A |
Titolo: | No place like home? : feminist ethics and home health care / / Jennifer A. Parks |
Pubblicazione: | Bloomington, Ind., : Indiana University Press, c2003 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (176 p.) |
Disciplina: | 362.1/4 |
Soggetto topico: | Home health aides - United States |
Home care services - United States | |
Women in medicine - United States | |
Feminist ethics | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Why home care?: the genesis of home or "community-based" care -- Examining philosophies of home care -- Women's care work as a subsidy to the state -- Caring about the cared-for -- The personal is political: negotiating relationships within the home care setting -- Looking ahead: can home care be reformed?. |
Sommario/riassunto: | ""No Place Like Home? combines the rigorous scholarship of an academic feminist philosopher with the 'close to the ground' insights that come from bathing, feeding, and caring for older people as a home care aide. This book develops recent work in feminist philosophy that attends to both care and justice to propose a way to reform home care to reduce its exploitative qualities while assuring that it is more than 'bed and body' work."" -- Martha B. Holstein, Visiting Scholar, Center for Research on Wome |
Titolo autorizzato: | No place like home |
ISBN: | 1-282-07196-3 |
9786612071966 | |
0-253-10667-2 | |
0-253-10967-1 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910825403503321 |
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