Cultures of care : biographies of carers in Britain and the two Germanies /
This work compares the experiences of unpaid family carers in three different welfare systems. It investigates the inter-relatedness of the personal and the social and how individual lives are shaped by different social systems.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico | 
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook | 
| Idioma: | Inglés | 
| Publicado: | Bristol, UK :
        
      Policy Press,    
    
      2000. | 
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE. | 
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo | 
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                  - CULTURES OF CARE; Contents; Acknowledgements; Glossary; 1. Introduction; 2. West Germany the pull into the home; 3. East Germany the push out of the home; 4. Britain sitting on the doorstep; 5. Biography and caring; 6. Carers and the social world; 7. Conclusion caring as a political challenge; Bibliography; Appendix 1: Gestalt theory and the biographical method; Appendix 2: List of carers interviewed; Index.
 


