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Care in Everyday Life
Marian Barnes
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Description for Care in Everyday Life
Paperback. Care has been struggled for, resisted and celebrated. The failure to care in 'care services' has been seen as a human rights problem and evidence of malaise in contemporary society. In this book, the author argues for care as an essential value in private lives and public policies. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JHB; JKS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 340.
Care has been struggled for, resisted and celebrated. The failure to care in 'care services' has been seen as a human rights problem and evidence of malaise in contemporary society. But care has also been implicated in the oppression of disabled people and demoted in favour of choice in health and social care services. In this bold wide ranging book Marian Barnes argues for care as an essential value in private lives and public policies. She considers the importance of care to well-being and social justice and applies insights from feminist care ethics to care work, and care within ... Read more
Care has been struggled for, resisted and celebrated. The failure to care in 'care services' has been seen as a human rights problem and evidence of malaise in contemporary society. But care has also been implicated in the oppression of disabled people and demoted in favour of choice in health and social care services. In this bold wide ranging book Marian Barnes argues for care as an essential value in private lives and public policies. She considers the importance of care to well-being and social justice and applies insights from feminist care ethics to care work, and care within ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Policy Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Bristol, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847428226
SKU
V9781847428226
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Ref
99-50
About Marian Barnes
Marian Barnes is Professor of Social Policy at the University of Brighton, UK. She has researched and written on the experience of care giving, of ageing and of mental health difficulties. She has also researched the way service users have sought to shape health and social care services, and different forms of participative policy making. Her recent work has reflected ... Read more
Reviews for Care in Everyday Life
"Recommended" Library Choice Journal “It is fascinating for those of us who have participated in the development of care ethics as moral theory, whilst being relatively unfamiliar with day-to-day practice in social work, socially provided care of the disabled, and the like, to see how the theory plays out in an area of application such as that described by Barnes” ... Read more