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Just care : messy entanglements of disability, dependency, and desire  Cover Image E-book E-book

Just care : messy entanglements of disability, dependency, and desire / Akemi Nishida.

Nishida, Akemi, (author.).

Summary:

"Just Care examines care as a site where the somatic, the political economy, and intersectional social oppressions manifest and materialize interactively, while it is also a vision and praxis for radically collective and affectionate ways to live and transform society"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 1439919917
  • ISBN: 9781439919910
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 248 pages).
  • Publisher: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2022.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction: needing care and caring needs -- Differential debilitation and capacitation: neoliberalization of the US public healthcare -- Assemblage -- My body pays the price: necropolitics of care -- Affective collectivity: beyond slow death and toward haptic relationality -- Living interdependency: desiring entanglement in messy dependency -- Bed activism: when people of color are sick, disabled, and incapable -- Postscript: what about COVID?
Source of Description Note:
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 07, 2022).
Subject: Health services accessibility > United States.
People with disabilities > Home care > United States.
Home care services > United States.
Community health services > United States.
Social justice > Health aspects.
Caring > Political aspects.
Caring > Moral and ethical aspects.
Services de santé > Accessibilité > États-Unis.
Personnes handicapées > Soins à domicile > États-Unis.
Soins à domicile > États-Unis.
Humanité (Morale) > Aspect politique.
Humanité (Morale) > Aspect moral.
Caring > Moral and ethical aspects.
Community health services.
Health services accessibility.
Home care services.
People with disabilities > Home care.
United States.
Genre: Electronic books.

Summary: "Just Care examines care as a site where the somatic, the political economy, and intersectional social oppressions manifest and materialize interactively, while it is also a vision and praxis for radically collective and affectionate ways to live and transform society"--

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