240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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Community care lies at the intersection of day-to-day life and the public world of service provision. Using the lens of one particular activity - bathing - this book explores what happens when the public world of professionals and service provision enters the lives of older and disabled people. In doing so it addresses wider issues concerning the management of the body, the meaning of carework and... Read more
Preface 1 The body in community care 2 Cultures of bathing and the body in High Modernity 3 Bathing, washing and the management of personal care 4 The spatial and temporal ordering of care 5 The medical/social boundary and the rationalisation of community care 6 The employment world of the careworker 7 Carework as bodywork 8 Carework as emotional labour 19 The power dynamics of care
Biography
Julia Twigg, University of Kent, UK
