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Stories of family caregiving : reconsiderations of theory, literature, and life / Suzanne Poirier and Lioness Ayres.
LIBRA HV40.42 .P65 2002
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Poirier, Suzanne.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Caregivers--United States.
- Caregivers.
- United States.
- Caregivers--Family relationships--United States.
- Caregivers--Family relationships.
- Feminist theory.
- Home Nursing--psychology.
- Caregivers--psychology.
- Family Relations.
- Feminism.
- Nursing Theory.
- Medical Subjects:
- Home Nursing--psychology.
- Caregivers--psychology.
- Family Relations.
- Feminism.
- Nursing Theory.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 208 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Indianapolis, IN : Center Nursing Pub., [2002]
- Summary:
- This interdisciplinary book explores the experiences of women and men who provide long-term, life-sustaining care to family members. Family caregiving has historically been perceived as the overwhelming and frequently onerous duty of beleaguered and/or saintly women. Although this portrait may apply to some situations, overall this predominately upper middle-class, white image of the "angel in the house" is limited and dangerously stereotypical. This book brings a narrative approach to the subject through stories from fiction and autobiography and from interviews with the family caregivers that explore their experiences in all their contradictions, hopes, and fears. The authors examine the narratives of family caregiving, as related in literary accounts and interviews, and the theories of care in feminism and nursing. They also consider the foundations on which these theories rest and challenge health professionals to think contextually about both theories and stories.
- Contents:
- Part I Nursing Theory: The Work of Caring
- Chapter 1 Giving and Getting Help 7
- Chapter 2 Meeting Again 25
- Chapter 3 Transcendent Care 43
- Chapter 4 Memory Work and the Experience of Caregiving 61
- Part II Feminist Theory: The Circumstances of Caring
- Chapter 5 Giving and Taking Care 89
- Chapter 6 Ties that Bind 107
- Chapter 7 Letting Go 129
- Chapter 8 Caring to the End: Caregivers' Personal Qualities 147.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-198) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1930538065
- OCLC:
- 49537457
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