Working and Caring for a Child with Chronic Illness: Disconnected and Doing It All

By Margaret H. Vickers and M Vickers

Book Overview

Using an innovative, action research approach, Vickers explores the lives of women who work full time while caring for a child with significant chronic illness or disability. She demonstrates that such women can be disconnected from those around them, unsupported and overwhelmed with responsibility at home and work.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349546518
• ISBN13: 9781349546510
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 225 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"