No Place Like Home?: Feminist Ethics and Home Health Care

by Jennifer A. Parks

In this provocative new book, Jennifer A. Parks analyzes practices in the home health care industry and concludes that they are highly exploitative of both workers and patients. Under the existing system, underpaid workers are expected to perform tasks for which they are inadequately trained, in unreasonably short periods of time. This situation, Parks argues, harms workers and puts home health care patients at risk. To the extent that the majority...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253341922
• ISBN13: 9780253341921
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.6"