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Author Twigg, Julia.

Title Bathing--the body and community care / Julia Twigg.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 230 pages)
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-226) and index.
Contents 1. The body in community care -- 2. Cultures of bathing and the body in High Modernity -- 3. Bathing, washing and the management of personal care -- 4. The spatial and temporal ordering of care -- 5. The medical/social boundary and the rationalisation of community care -- 6. The employment world of the careworker -- 7. Carework as bodywork -- 8. Carework as emotional labour -- 9. The power dynamics of care.
Summary This book examines the work of a major employment group within the health and welfare field. It relates to debates on the body and issues associated with disability, personal space and autonomy and the power of dynamics of care.
Local Note EBSCOhost SocINDEX with Full Text
Subject Community health services.
Human body.
Baths.
Community Health Services.
Bathing.
Community health services. (OCoLC)fst00870958
Human body. (OCoLC)fst01730057
Public Health -- General.
Public Health.
Health & Biological Sciences.
Other Form: Print version: Twigg, Julia. Bathing--the body and community care. London ; New York : Routledge, 2000 (DLC) 00042481
ISBN 0415204208 (hardback)
9780415204200 (hardback)
0415204216 (paperback)
9780415204217 (paperback)
9781134629558 (e-book)
0203190874
9780203190876
1134629559
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