Description
Academic (applied anthropology) and professional interest (social workers, carers)
Original -for the first time this book links the latest research in Anthropology with that in Welfare and Community Care
Applied Anthropology is a growing field: Keele University now has an applied anthropology and health unit, Sussex, Goldsmiths, Oxford Brookes and Hull Universities are all developing programmes in applied anthropology
Table of Contents
1 Research and practice in the anthropology of welfare 2 窶郎ou just get on with it窶�: questioning models of welfare dependency in a rural community 3 Concepts of community in changing health care: a study of change in midwifery practice 4 The child welfare debate in Portugal: a case study of a children窶冱 home 5 窶櫓qual, but different窶�? Welfare, gender ideology and a 窶藁others窶� centre窶� in southern Germany 6 The co-operation concept in a team of Swedish social workers: applying grid and group to studies of community care 7 Caring communities or effective networks? Community care and people with learning difficulties in South Wales 8 Staff models and practice: managing 窶�trouble窶� in a community-based programme for chronically mentally ill adults in the USA 9 A local anthropology of exclusion 10 Considering the culture of community care: anthropological accounts of the experiences of frontline carers, older people and a researcher 11 Treasures on Earth: housing assets, public policy and older people in New Zealand 12 Residents窶� participation in the management of retirement housing in the UK 13 Using experiential research methods: the potential contribution of humanistic groupwork methods to anthropology and welfare research
