'If you have a soul, you will volunteer at once': Gendered expectations of duty to care during pandemics

Sociology of Health and Illness

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 304-308

  Godderis, Rebecca ^a   Rossiter, Kate ^a  

^a WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Duty to care; Ethics; Gender; Pandemics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANADA; DISASTER PLANNING; ETHICS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MALE; MANPOWER; MORALITY; PANDEMIC; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RESCUE PERSONNEL; RISK MANAGEMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DISASTER PLANNING; EMERGENCY RESPONDERS; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; MALE; MORAL OBLIGATIONS; ONTARIO; PANDEMICS; RISK MANAGEMENT; SEX FACTORS; VOLUNTEERS; WOMEN, WORKING;

EID: 84875524889     PISSN: 01419889     EISSN: 14679566     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2012.01495.x     Document Type: Article

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