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Author Chamberlayne, Prue

Title Cultures of care : biographies of carers in Britain and the two Germanies / Prue Chamberlayne and Annette King
Published Bristol, UK : Policy Press, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (x, 230 pages)
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Contents CULTURES OF CARE; Contents; Acknowledgements; Glossary; 1. Introduction; 2. West Germany the pull into the home; 3. East Germany the push out of the home; 4. Britain sitting on the doorstep; 5. Biography and caring; 6. Carers and the social world; 7. Conclusion caring as a political challenge; Bibliography; Appendix 1: Gestalt theory and the biographical method; Appendix 2: List of carers interviewed; Index
Summary This work compares the experiences of unpaid family carers in three different welfare systems. It investigates the inter-relatedness of the personal and the social and how individual lives are shaped by different social systems
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Caregivers -- Great Britain -- Case studies
Caregivers -- Germany -- Case studies
Home care services -- Great Britain
Home care services -- Germany
MEDICAL -- Caregiving.
MEDICAL -- Health Policy.
Caregivers
Home care services
Social policy
Deutschlandbild Bundesrepublik
Fürsorge
Kultur
Deutschlandbild
Informele zorg.
Organisatie.
Verzorgingsstaat.
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Social policy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90001105
Germany -- Social policy
Subject Germany
Great Britain
England
Genre/Form Electronic books
Case studies
Form Electronic book
Author King, Annette
LC no. 2001334102
ISBN 9781847425225
1847425224