1st Edition
Community-Based Service Delivery Theory and Implementation
Introduction: Theory and Community-based Work
John W. Murphy and Jung Min Choi
1. Basics of Community-based Work
Karen A. Callaghan
2. Unpacking Culture: A Community-based Approach
Felicia O. Casanova
3. Developing and Evaluating Community-based Health Interventions: The Role of Data
Khary K. Rigg and Kristin A. Kosyluk
4. Methodological Reflections of Research in a Community Service Organization
J. Eric Coleman and Steven L. Arxer
5. Community-based Work in the Absence of Identity
Jung Min Choi
6. A Community Does Not Exist
Karie Jo Peralta and Shahna Arps
7. There Is No Generalizability in Community-based Work
Tashina J. Vavuris
8. Philosophy and the Embrace of Bias in Community-based Medical Education
Berkeley Franz and Dawn M. Graham
9. Community-based Work and the Natural Language Problem
John W. Murphy and Liza Hayes Mathias
10. Power and Positionality in Community-Engaged Work and Community-Based Participatory Research
Airín D. Martínez, Brenda D. Evans, and Ana L. Jaramillo
Conclusion
Jung Min Choi and John W. Murphy
Biography
Jung Min Choi is Professor of Sociology at San Diego State University, USA. He is the co-author of The Politics and Philosophy of Political Correctness, The Politics of Culture: Race, Violence and Democracy, Postmodernism, Unraveling Racism, and Democratic Institutions and the co-editor of Globalization and the Prospects for Critical Reflection and Globalization with a Human Face. He is also the recipient of over 40 Excellence in Teaching Awards.
John W. Murphy is Professor of Sociology at the University of Miami, USA. He is author of Community-based Interventions: Philosophy and Action and co-author of Narrative Medicine and Community-Based Health Care Planning. He is co-editor of Dimensions of Community-based Projects in Health Care, Community-Based Health Interventions in an Institutional Context, and The Symbolism of Globalization, Development, and Aging.
