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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Main Authors : Näre Lena (Auteur), Vaittinen Tiina (Auteur)
Format : Book
Language : anglais
Title statement : 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
Published : Bristol, UK : Policy Press , 2022
Physical Description : & vol. (iii, 130 p.)
Content : 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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