Managing the Body Work of Home Care

Body Work in Health and Social Care: Critical Themes, New Agendas

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 36-49

  England, Kim ^a   Dyck, Isabel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Apparatus of care; Body work concept; Caregiver's body; Community Care Access Centers (CCACs), Ontario; Division of labour; Home care in Canada; Managing body work; Personal Support Worker (PSW); Registered Practical Nurse (RPN); Shifting care landscape

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886039689     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444345865.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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