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An Ethic of Care in Practice
Care has been struggled for, resisted and celebrated. The failure to care in 'care services' has been seen as a human rights problem and evidence of m...
Care giving has become a high-profile issue in policy and practice, yet much of the literature conceives it as burdensome or even oppressive. Drawing ...
Applying Feminist Care Ethics to Research Practice
This book demonstrates how an ethics of care can help researchers work through challenges and solve complex issues. Keeping social justice at the hear...
Empowerment and Mental Health
One of the most critical developments within 'welfare' in recent years, has been the transformation of service users from 'passive recipients' to 'act...
Case Studies in Public Participation
This book offers a critical examination of both the discourse and practice of participation in order to understand the significance of this explosion ...
User Groups and Community Care
Based on detailed empirical work looking at the user and official perspective, this report includes studies of user groups and officials in two policy...
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The understanding that humans are relational beings is central to the development of an ethical perspective that is built around the significance of c...
An Evaluation of Two Citizens' Juries
Improving health in populations in which health is poor is a complex process. This book argues that the traditional government approach of exhorting i...
New Approaches to Prevention
In this book the authors use evidence from the National Evaluation of the Children's Fund to explore the experiences of children and families who are ...
A Framework for Evaluation
Power, Agency and Resistance in Public Services
The idea of subversive citizenship is explored through theoretical and empirical analyses by a range of prominent social researchers....
Barnes considers the implications of a concept of community care which recognises people as citizens, as well as users of services, and looks at poten...
Challenging the Stereotypes
That is the Question
In his Foreword to God, Or Godswallop Lloyd Geering writes: I am often asked to read manuscripts and sometimes inwardly groan when another turns up. T...
Changing Relationships in Health and Health Services
Stories from the Pilsdon Community
This book is about communal living, as practised by the Pilsdon Community in Dorset. It describes an alternative way of providing refuge, support and ...
An Evaluation of the Fife User Panels
Social Services and the 1983 Mental Health Act
Presents the findings of the only major research into the experience of social services departments in implementing the Act and its impact on the comp...