Emotional Labour in Health Care

The unmanaged heart of nursing

By Catherine Theodosius

Series: Critical Studies in Health and Society 

List Price: $160.00

Add to Cart

Recommend this title to a librarian using our Librarian Recommendation Form.

Table of Contents

Introduction: challenging current conceptualisations of emotional labour Part 1 1. Emotion Management and Emotional Labour 2. Emotional Labour in Health Care 3. Emotion and Cognition 4. Synthesising Darwin and Freud with Interactionist Theory 5. Emotion and Personal and Social Identity Part 2 6. The Emotional Field 7. Therapeutic Emotional Labour 8. Instrumental Emotional Labour 9. Collegial Emotional Labour 10. Reflexive Emotion Management

You may also be interested in:

Sociology and Nursing

Peter Morrall

Published 12/07/2000 | 978-0-415-20227-5

more information about Sociology and Nursing

Sociology and Health

Peter Morrall

This lively, introductory text provides students and health practitioners with the foundations of a sociological understanding of health issues. Written for anyone who is interested...

Published 02/17/2009 | 978-0-415-41562-0

more information about Sociology and Health

cover

Emotional Labour in Health Care

Catherine Theodosius

Do nurses still care? In today’s inflexible, fast-paced and more accountable workplace where biomedical and clinical models dominate health care practice, is there room for...

Published 06/26/2008 | 978-0-415-40954-4

more information about Emotional Labour in Health Care