The anthropology of welfare / edited by Ian R. Edgar and Andrew Russell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Edgar, Iain R.

Russell, Andrew, 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public welfare.

Social service.

Ethnology.

Community organization.

Social policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (275 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.

Summary:

The Anthropology of Welfare provides an overview of what anthropology has to offer welfare studies and vice-versa. Case studies from anthropologists in the field, examine different branches of welfare and community care, for example: * Maternity services * Children with learning difficulties * Children's homes * Mothers' centres * People with HIV * Mental health centres * Housing * Care and provision for the elderly. Contributors focus on comparative welfare systems - examples are taken from urban and rural areas of the UK, USA, Sweden,

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Research and practice in the anthropology of welfare; 'You just get on with it': questioning models of welfare dependency in a rural community; Concepts of community in changing health care: a study of change in midwifery practice; The child welfare debate in Portugal: a case study of a children's home; 'Equal, but different'? Welfare, gender ideology and a 'mothers' centre' in southern Germany; The co-operation concept in a team of Swedish social workers: applying grid and group to studies of community care

Caring communities or effective networks? Community care and people with learning difficulties in South WalesStaff models and practice: managing 'trouble' in a community-based programme for chronically mentally ill adults in the USA; A local anthropology of exclusion; Considering the culture of community care: anthropological accounts of the experiences of frontline carers, older people and a researcher; Treasures on Earth: housing assets, public policy and older people in New Zealand; Residents' participation in the management of retirement housing in the UK

Using experiential research methods: the potential contribution of humanistic groupwork methods to anthropology and welfare researchIndex

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-70067-9

9780203028896

1-280-11050-3

0-203-02889-9

1-134-70066-0

0-203-26956-X

OCLC:

70763504