Caregiving - Readings in Knowledge, Practice, Ethics, and Politics

Informationen zum Autor Edited by Suzanne Gordon, Patricia Benner, and Nel Noddings Klappentext The need for caregiving is enormous. Thanks to extraordinary advances in medical technology! Americans are surviving illnesses and injuries that would have killed them a generation ago! and more of us are living into our eighties and nineties than ever be Zusammenfassung Looks not only at the financial! emotional! and physical demands of giving and receiving care but also at the strengths and rewards inherent in the world of caregiving. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. In the Gloaming —Alice Elliott Dark 2. The Cared-For —Nel Noddings 3. Caring Practice —Patricia Benner, Suzanne Gordon 4. Caring: A Negotiated Process That Varies —Barbara Tarlow 5. Facing Up to Moral Perils: The Virtues of Care in Bioethics —Alisa L. Carse 6. The Heather Blazing —Colm Toibin 7. Mothering as a Practice —Victoria Wynn Leonard 8. Nursing Loved Ones with AIDS: Knowledge Development for Ethical Practice —Richard MacIntyre 9. Hearing the Whole Story —Jeannie Chaisson 10. The Caring Professional —Nel Noddings 11. Ella —Suzanne Gordon 12. Two Stories of Caring in Teaching —James G. Henderson 13. The Phenomenology of Knowing the Patient —Christine A. Tanner, Patricia Benner, Catherine Chesla, Deborah Gordon 14. Money Managers Are Unraveling the Tapestry of Nursing —Ellen D. Baer, Suzanne Gordon 15. The Rationality of Caring —Kari Waerness 16. Feminism and Caring —Suzanne Gordon 17. The Mormon Caregiving Network —Judith Dushku 18. Let Me Take a Listen to Your Heart —Rita Charon List of Contributors Index

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• Authors: Suzanne Benner Gordon
• Assisted by: Patricia Benner (Editor), Suzanne Gordon (Editor), Nel Noddings (Editor)
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.09.1996
• EAN: 9780812215823
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-1582-3
• No. of pages: 332
• Series: Studies in Health, Illness, and Caregiving; Studies in Health, Illness, an; Studies in Health, Illness, and Caregiving; Studies in Health, Illness, an
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education