Caregiving: Readings in Knowledge, Practice, Ethics and Politics

by Suzanne Gordon

Book Overview

The need for caregiving is enormous. Thanks to extraordinary advances in medical technology, Americans are surviving illnesses and injuries that would have killed them a generation ago, and more of us are living into our eighties and nineties than ever before. Yet most people over sixty-five live with the burden of one or more chronic illness. The problems created by the caregiving needs of these and other groups are at the center of several of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812215826
• ISBN13: 9780812215823
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"