The politics of ailment : a new approach to care

"Deficiencies in old age care are some of the most pressing human rights concerns in mature welfare states. This book radically challenges the ethics of viewing care as a tradeable commodity and introduces a novel framework for understanding and analysing social care through the concept of ailm...

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Auteurs principaux : Näre Lena (Auteur), Vaittinen Tiina (Auteur)
Format : Livre
Langue : anglais
Titre complet : The politics of ailment : a new approach to care / Minna Zechner, Lena Näre, Olli Karsio, Antero Olakivi, Liina Sointu, Hanna-Kaisa Hoppania, and Tiina Vaittinen
Publié : Bristol, UK : Policy Press , 2022
Description matérielle : & vol. (iii, 130 p.)
Contenu : 1. Introduction: Humans as ailing beings. 2. Tracing ailment in social and care policies. 3. Profit making and ailment : the marketisation and financialisation of care. 4. Ailment in caring encounters and divisions of care labour. 5. The politics of ailment
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Résumé : "Deficiencies in old age care are some of the most pressing human rights concerns in mature welfare states. This book radically challenges the ethics of viewing care as a tradeable commodity and introduces a novel framework for understanding and analysing social care through the concept of ailment. Providing examples from the British and Finnish welfare states, it demonstrates how ailment shapes societies from the micro to the macro level. Addressing the marketisation and financialisation of care, the authors bring to light increasing inequalities in care. This book argues that ailment is part of human life and society, and therefore the politics of care should begin with a politics of ailment."--Cover page 4
Bibliographie : Bibliogr. (p. 96-127) .Index.
ISBN : 978-1-4473-4347-9
1-4473-4347-6
9781447343493
9781447343486