Why home care?: the genesis of home or "community-based" care -- Examining philosophies of home care -- Women's care work as a subsidy to the state -- Caring about the cared-for -- The personal is political: negotiating relationships within the home care setting -- Looking ahead: can home care be reformed?
Summary
This provactive new book analyzes practices in the home health care industry and concludes that they are highly exploitative of both workers and patients. It offers a scathing critique of how American society abuses those who receive home-based care and those who provide it and a sophisticated vision of how we might move toward a more just future
