{"product_id":"9780253109675","title":"No Place Like Home?: Feminist Ethics and Home Health Care","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"No Place Like Home? combines the rigorous scholarship of an\u003cbr\u003e academic feminist philosopher with the 'close to the ground' insights that come from\u003cbr\u003e bathing, feeding, and caring for older people as a home care aide. This book\u003cbr\u003e develops recent work in feminist philosophy that attends to both care and justice to\u003cbr\u003e propose a way to reform home care to reduce its exploitative qualities while\u003cbr\u003e assuring that it is more than 'bed and body' work.\" -- Martha B. Holstein,\u003cbr\u003e Visiting Scholar, Center for Research on Women and Gender at the University of\u003cbr\u003e Illinois, Chicago and co-editor, Ethics and Community Based Elder Care\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"For a scathing critique of how American society abuses both\u003cbr\u003e those who receive home-based care as well as those who provide it, and a\u003cbr\u003e sophisticated vision of how we might move toward a more just future, there's no book\u003cbr\u003e like No Place Like Home?.\" -- James Lindemann Nelson, co-author of Alzheimer's:\u003cbr\u003e Answers to Hard Questions for Families \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[Jennifer Parks's]\u003cbr\u003e critique of current practices and institutions is thorough and accurate, benefiting\u003cbr\u003e both from her own experience as a homecare worker and the philosophically\u003cbr\u003e sophisticated tools she brings to bear on it.\" -- Laura Purdy, Professor of\u003cbr\u003e Philosophy, Wells College \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn this provocative new book,\u003cbr\u003e Jennifer A. Parks analyzes practices in the home health care industry and concludes\u003cbr\u003e that they are highly exploitative of both workers and patients. Under the existing\u003cbr\u003e system, underpaid workers are expected to perform tasks for which they are\u003cbr\u003e inadequately trained, in unreasonably short periods of time. This situation, Parks\u003cbr\u003e argues, harms workers and puts home health care patients at risk. To the extent that\u003cbr\u003e the majority of patients and workers in home health care are women, she turns to\u003cbr\u003e feminist ethics for an alternative approach. Through an understanding of individuals\u003cbr\u003e as social beings with obligations to others, and of home health care as a public\u003cbr\u003e good, Parks explains how to develop the social benefits of good home health care and\u003cbr\u003e increase the role of government in providing financial support and regulatory\u003cbr\u003e oversight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47101358571760,"sku":"9780253109675","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780253109675_p0.jpg?v=1763681139","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780253109675","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}