Bathing, the body and community care / Julia Twigg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Twigg, Julia.

Twigg J Staff, Corporate Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Community health services.

Human body.

Bathing customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 230 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2000.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

chapter 1 The body in community care

chapter 2 Cultures of bathing and the body in High Modernity

chapter 3 Bathing, washing and the management of personal care

chapter 4 The spatial and temporal ordering of care

chapter 5 The medical/social boundary and the rationalisation of community care

chapter 6 The employment world of the careworker

chapter 7 Carework as bodywork

chapter 8 Carework as emotional labour

chapter 9 The power dynamics of care.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-62954-0

9786610354733

1-134-62955-9

1-280-35473-9

0-203-25624-7

0-203-19087-4

9780203190876

OCLC:

893193970