No place like home? : feminist ethics and home health care / Jennifer A. Parks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parks, Jennifer A.

Series:

Medical ethics series.

Medical ethics series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Home health aides--United States.

Home health aides.

Home care services--United States.

Home care services.

Women in medicine--United States.

Women in medicine.

Feminist ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (176 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

""No Place Like Home? combines the rigorous scholarship of an academic feminist philosopher with the 'close to the ground' insights that come from bathing, feeding, and caring for older people as a home care aide. This book develops recent work in feminist philosophy that attends to both care and justice to propose a way to reform home care to reduce its exploitative qualities while assuring that it is more than 'bed and body' work."" -- Martha B. Holstein, Visiting Scholar, Center for Research on Wome

Contents:

Why home care?: the genesis of home or "community-based" care

Examining philosophies of home care

Women's care work as a subsidy to the state

Caring about the cared-for

The personal is political: negotiating relationships within the home care setting

Looking ahead: can home care be reformed?.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-07196-3

9786612071966

0-253-10667-2

0-253-10967-1

OCLC:

150645688