Description |
1 online resource (xii, 268 pages) : illustrations |
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Research and practice in the anthropology of welfare -- 'You just get on with it': questioning models of welfare dependency in a rural community -- Concepts of community in changing health care: a study of change in midwifery practice -- The child welfare debate in Portugal: a case study of a children's home -- 'Equal, but different'? Welfare, gender ideology and a 'mothers' centre' in southern Germany -- The co-operation concept in a team of Swedish social workers: applying grid and group to studies of community care. |
Summary |
An innovative overview of how the theories and concepts of social anthropology can be applied and used in the study of welfare and community care. Case studies examine welfare in Britain, the USA, Sweden, Germany, Portugal, Japan and New Zealand. |
Note |
Print version record. |
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Online resource; title from HTML home page (EBSCO, viewed May 8, 2014). |
Local Note |
EBSCOhost SocINDEX with Full Text |
Subject |
Public welfare.
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Social service.
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Ethnology.
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Community organization.
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Social policy.
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Community organization. (OCoLC)fst01432034
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Ethnology. (OCoLC)fst00916106
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Public welfare. (OCoLC)fst01083250
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Social policy. (OCoLC)fst01122738
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Social service. (OCoLC)fst01123192
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Edgar, Iain R., editor.
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Russell, Andrew, 1958- editor.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Anthropology of welfare. London ; New York : Routledge, 1998 041516964X (DLC) 97049568 (OCoLC)38010734 |
ISBN |
0203028899 (electronic book) |
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9780203028896 (electronic book) |
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9781134700677 (e-book: PDF) |
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1134700679 (e-book: PDF) |
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9781134700622 (e-book: Mobi) |
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1134700628 (e-book: Mobi) |
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9781134700660 (e-book: ePub) |
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1134700660 (e-book: ePub) |
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