Theorizing community care : from disciplinary power to governmentality to personal care /

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Imprint:Hauppauge, New York : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., [2013]
Description:1 online resource.
Language:English
Series:Social Perspectives in the 21st Century (Series Editor: Jason L. Powell, Associate Dean of Faculty,
Social Perspectives in the 21st Century (Series Editor: Jason L. Powell, Associate Dean of Faculty,
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11210909
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Other authors / contributors:Powell, Jason L., 1971-
ISBN:9781629485416
1629485411
9781629485324
1629485322
Notes:Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 41-50) and index.
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Summary:As we enter 2014, an accelerating interest in abuse has arisen due to the implementation of community care policies relying upon informal care and a relentless political campaign to legitimize an enforced obligation to care. The use of care management technologies that focus on assessment and inspection, can, in this policy climate, become a means of surveillance and enforcement of informal caring. It is argued that Michel Foucault offers a set of strategies (Foucault 1977: 205) for understanding how the discourses on community care construct older people's experiences and their identities, as.
Other form:Print version: Theorizing community care 9781629485324