ISBN:
9781479810147
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
,
Illustrations (black and white).
Series Statement:
Anthropologies of American medicine. Culture, power, and practice
Series Statement:
NYU scholarship online
Keywords:
Hauspflege
;
Altenpflege
;
Home care services
;
Older people Home care
;
USA
Abstract:
Paid home care sits at the nexus of two of the United States' biggest social challenges: rising inequality and an aging population. Policy and advocacy initiatives typically treat poverty and care of the aged as distinct forms of vulnerability. They are seen as having separate social causes that require different solutions. Using rich ethnographic narrative based on fieldwork in Chicago, this text examines the diverse relationships generated by care and their connections to longer national histories, policies, and institutional contexts.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 2018
,
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.18574/nyu/9781479810734.001.0001
URL:
https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479810734.001.0001
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