Bathing--the Body and Community CareCommunity care lies at the intersection of day-to-day life and the public world of service provision. Using the lens of one particular activity - bathing - this book explores what happens when the public world of professionals and service provision enters the lives of older and disabled people. In doing so it addresses wider issues concerning the management of the body, the meaning of carework and the significance of body care in the ordering of daily life. |
Contents
The body in community care | 1 |
Cultures of bathing and the body in High Modernity | 18 |
Bathing washing and the management of personal care | 45 |
The spatial and temporal ordering of care | 77 |
The medicalsocial boundary and the rationalisation of community care | 106 |
The employment world of the careworker | 123 |
Carework as bodywork | 137 |
Carework as emotional labour | 160 |
The power dynamics of care | 179 |
Conclusion | 209 |
the study | 213 |
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