Troubling Gifts of Care: Vulnerable Persons and Threatening Exchanges in Chicago's Home Care Industry.
By tracing the transformations of troubling exchanges in paid home care, this article examines how differently positioned individuals strive to build caring relations within potentially restrictive regimes of care. In paid home care in Chicago, older adults and their workers regularly participate in...
| Publicado en: | Medical Anthropology Quarterly Vol. 28; no. 4; pp. 599 - 616 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Dec2014
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