Crisis of Care - Affirming and Restoring Caring Practices in the Helping Professions

By combining stories of care, the reflections of caregiving practitioners, and interpretations of caregiving within a larger social and theoretical framework, this title identifies the values and skills involved in quality caregiving at the individual level and affirms their importance for reshaping our public caregiving institutions.

About the author

Susan S. Phillips is executive director of New College Berkeley. Patricia Benner is a professor in the Department of Physiological Nursing at the University of California, San Francisco.

Summary

By combining stories of care, the reflections of caregiving practitioners, and interpretations of caregiving within a larger social and theoretical framework, this title identifies the values and skills involved in quality caregiving at the individual level and affirms their importance for reshaping our public caregiving institutions.

Product details

• Authors: Susan S. Phillips, Susan S. (EDT)/ Benner Phillips, Susan S. Benner Phillips
• Assisted by: Patricia Benner (Editor), Patricia E. Benner (Editor), Susan S. Phillips (Editor), Susan S. (Executive Director Phillips (Editor)
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.1995
• EAN: 9780878405992
• ISBN: 978-0-87840-599-2
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 13 mm
• Series: The Crisis of Care
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries