The Anthropology of Welfare

Herausgeber: Edgar, Iain; Russell, Andrew

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Produktbeschreibung

The Anthropology of Welfare provides an overview of what anthropology has to offer welfare studies and vice-versa. Case studies from anthropologists in the field, examine different branches of welfare and community care, for example: * Maternity services * Children with learning difficulties * Children's homes * Mothers' centres * People with HIV * Mental health centres * Housing * Care and provision for the elderly. Contributors focus on comparative welfare systems - examples are taken from urban and rural areas of the UK, USA, Sweden, Germany, Portugal, and New Zealand. In each case the theoretical and methodological appropriateness of social anthropology for the study of welfare, and the insights gained by bringing anthropology and welfare together are examined. The Anthropology of Welfare will be essential reading for those studying anthropology, social work and social policy and will be of interest to teachers, practitioners and researchers in applied social welfare fields.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juni 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 436g
• ISBN-13: 9780415169653
• ISBN-10: 0415169658
• Artikelnr.: 21064254

Autorenporträt

Iain R. Edgar and Andrew Russell are both Lecturers in Anthropology at the University of Durham.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Research and practice in the anthropology of welfare 2 'You just get on
with it': questioning models of welfare dependency in a rural community 3
Concepts of community in changing health care: a study of change in
midwifery practice 4 The child welfare debate in Portugal: a case study of
a children's home 5 'Equal, but different'? Welfare, gender ideology and a
'mothers' centre' in southern Germany 6 The co-operation concept in a team
of Swedish social workers: applying grid and group to studies of community
care 7 Caring communities or effective networks? Community care and people
with learning difficulties in South Wales 8 Staff models and practice:
managing 'trouble' in a community-based programme for chronically mentally
ill adults in the USA 9 A local anthropology of exclusion 10 Considering
the culture of community care: anthropological accounts of the experiences
of frontline carers, older people and a researcher 11 Treasures on Earth:
housing assets, public policy and older people in New Zealand 12 Residents'
participation in the management of retirement housing in the UK 13 Using
experiential research methods: the potential contribution of humanistic
groupwork methods to anthropology and welfare research