Bathing--the body and community care / Julia Twigg.

By:

Twigg, Julia

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.Description: 1 online resource (x, 230 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

0203256247
9780203256244

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DDC classification:

362.1/2 21

LOC classification:

RA427 .T954 2002eb

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Contents:

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 -- 9. The power dynamics of care.

Summary: This book examines the work of a major employment group within the health and welfare field. It relates to debates on the body and issues associated with disability, personal space and autonomy and the power of dynamics of care. -- Provided by publisher.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-226) and index.

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This book examines the work of a major employment group within the health and welfare field. It relates to debates on the body and issues associated with disability, personal space and autonomy and the power of dynamics of care. -- Provided by publisher.

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