商品簡介
Twenty-one international academics and researchers contribute 16 chapters examining the relationship between social care, community, and citizenship in the UK. Coverage includes key concepts, policies, issues and relationships, with contrasting illustrations from England and Scotland; the ethics of care, and the theoretical and moral complexities for those receiving and delivering care; practice-based chapters examining the delivery of support and care in a wide range of settings, which demonstrate the potential within communities to provide effective care and support and identifying the many barriers; and chapters from Sweden, Germany, and Japan illustrating the different paths begin taken to provide support and care in the 21st century. For academics, researchers, undergraduate and graduate students, practitioners, and policy makers in social policy, social work, health care, community development, and related fields. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation c2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Susan Balloch, Health and Social Policy Research Centre (HSPRC), University of Brighton and Michael Hill, Emeritus Professor, University of Newcastle