Care Professions and Globalization: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Ana Marta González, Craig Iffland (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 277
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction....Pages 1-29
Front Matter....Pages 31-31
The Completion of Care—With Implications for a Duty to Receive Care Graciously....Pages 33-42
Carefree in Barcelona....Pages 43-61
“Moved by the Suffering of Others”: Using Aristotelian Theory to Think about Care....Pages 63-86
Social Contract Theory and Moral Agency: Understanding the Roots of an Uncaring Society....Pages 87-115
Emotional Work and Care as Relationship: Some Particularities and Consequences....Pages 117-130
Front Matter....Pages 131-131
Socioeconomic Impact of the Work of the Home....Pages 133-145
Working in the ICU: A Study on the Normalization of Tension in Health Care Provision....Pages 147-172
Professionalizing Care—A Necessary Irony? Some Implications of the “Ethics of Care” for the Caring Professions and Informal Caring....Pages 173-193
Domestic Work: Judgments and Biases regarding Mundane Tasks....Pages 195-216
The Moral Sense of Nursing Care....Pages 217-241
A Professional Perspective on End-of-Life Care....Pages 243-262
Back Matter....Pages 263-271

✦ Subjects

Sociology of Work; Medical Sociology; Sociology, general; Social Structure, Social Inequality; Cultural Studies; Urban Studies/Sociology