Patching up the holes: Analyzing the work of home care

Canadian Journal of Public Health

Volumn 99, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2008, Pages

  Purkis, Mary Ellen ^a   Ceci, Christine ^b   Bjornsdottir, Kristin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Canada; Ethnography; Gender; Home care; Iceland; Neo liberalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 58649087605     PISSN: 00084263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf03403801     Document Type: Article

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