The cultures of caregiving
Subtitle: conflict and common ground among families, health professionals, and policy makers
By: edited by Carol Levine and Thomas H. Murray ; foreword by Christine K. Cassel
Contributors: Levine, Carol; Murray, Thomas H., 1946-
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
Subjects: Home care services; Chronically ill -- Home care; Older people -- Home care; Caregivers -- Psychology; Home nursing -- Psychological aspects; Family nursing; Nurse and patient
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Caregiving as family affair : a new perspective on cultural diversity / Carol Levine and Thomas H. Murray; title: Family caregivers and the health care system : findings from a national survey / David A. Gould; title: On loving care and the persistence of memories : reflections of a grieving daughter / Gladys Gonzalez-Ramos; title: The weight of shared lives : truth telling and family caregiving / Jerome K. Lowenstein; title: Family caregiving in New England : nineteenth-century community care gives way to twentieth-century institutions / Sheila M. Rothman; title: Nurses and their changing relationships to family caregivers / Mathy Mezey; title: The culture of home care : whose values prevail? / Rick Surpin and Eileen Hanley; title: Explaining the paradox of long-term care policy : an example of dissonant cultures / Judith Feder and Carol Levine; title: Family caregivers in popular culture : images and reality in the movies / Carol Levine and Alexis Kuerbis; title: Integrating medicine and the family : toward a coherent ethic of care / Jeffrey Blustein; title: Project DOCC : a parent-directed model for educating pediatric residents / Maggie Hoffman and Donna Jean Appell; title: Changing institutional culture : turning adversaries into partners / Judah L. Ronch; title: Conclusion : building on common ground / Carol Levine and Thomas H. Murray