Body Work in Health and Social Care: Critical Themes, New Agendas
Julia Twigg (ed.), Carol Wolkowitz (ed.), Rachel Lara Cohen (ed.), Sarah Nettleton (ed.)
The first book to fully explore the multiple ways in which body work features in health and social care and the meanings of this work both for those employed to do it and those on whose bodies they work.
• Explores the commonalities between different sectors of work, including those outside health and social care
• Contributions come from an international range of experts
• Draws on perspectives from across the medical, therapeutic, and care fields
• Incorporates a variety of methodological approaches, from life history analysis to ethnographic studies and first person accounts
• Explores the commonalities between different sectors of work, including those outside health and social care
• Contributions come from an international range of experts
• Draws on perspectives from across the medical, therapeutic, and care fields
• Incorporates a variety of methodological approaches, from life history analysis to ethnographic studies and first person accounts
Categories:
Year:
2011
Edition:
1st
Publisher:
Wiley-Blackwell
Language:
english
Pages:
182
ISBN 10:
1444349872
ISBN 13:
9781444349870
Series:
Sociology of Health and Illness Monographs
File:
PDF, 1.70 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2011