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Caring and well-being : a lifeworld approach / Kathleen Galvin and Les Todres.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Galvin, Kathleen M., author.
- Series:
- Routledge studies in the sociology of health and illness
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public health--Social aspects.
- Public health.
- Social medicine.
- Health--Social aspects.
- Health.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (216 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Something is missing in contemporary health and social care. Health and illness is often measured in policy documents in economic terms, and clinical outcomes are enmeshed in statistical data, with the patient's experience left to one side. This stimulating book is concerned with how to humanise health and social care and keep the person at the centre of practice.Caring and Well-Being opens by articulating Galvin and Todres' innovative framework for humanising health care and closes with a synthesis of their argument and a discussion of how this can be applied in heal
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Humanising health care : a lifeworld approach
- pt. 2. Well-being and suffering : the focus of care
- pt. 3. Developing the capacity to care.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-136-18194-6
- 0-203-08289-3
- 1-283-87150-5
- 1-136-18195-4
- 9780203082898
- OCLC:
- 822025275
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