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No place like home? : feminist ethics and home health care /

This provactive new book analyzes practices in the home health care industry and concludes that they are highly exploitative of both workers and patients. It offers a scathing critique of how American society abuses those who receive home-based care and those who provide it and a sophisticated visio...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Parks, Jennifer A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, ©2003.
Colección:Medical ethics series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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?