| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 234 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Tavistock Clinic series
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Tavistock Clinic series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-226) and index. |
| Contents |
Individual survival and organizational life. Thinking about systems of care ; The gang in the organization ; Self and identity : defences against vulnerability ; The question of dependency ; The pursuit of common unhappiness -- The survival of the unfittest. The management challenge ; The isolation of care services ; Mediating between systems ; The case for integration ; Human nature and organizational change ; True and false relationship in health and social care ; The costs of care -- The personal and the professional. An Alzheimer's case study ; My unfaithful brain : a journey into Alzheimer's Disease / Anna Dartington (with Rebekah Pratt) ; Learning to live with dementia ; Two weeks in 2006 ; The realities of care ; Postscript : learning from experience -- Conclusions. Reflections on partnership : can we allow systems to care? |
| Summary |
Clinicians, managers and researchers - as well as politicians and religious leaders - are worrying about a lack of compassion and humanity in the care of vulnerable people in society. In this book Tim Dartington explores the dynamics of care. He argues that we know how to do it, but somehow we seem to keep getting it wrong. Poor care in hospitals and care homes is well documented, and yet it continues. Care for people in their own homes is seen as an ideal, but the reality can be cruel and isolating. Tim describes research over forty years in thinking why institutional and community care are bo. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Medical care.
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Medical care. |
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Medical ethics.
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Medical ethics. |
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Social service -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Social service -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
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Social Work. |
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Ethics, Medical. |
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Health Services. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Medical care. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Dartington, T. (Tim). Managing vulnerability. London : Karnac, ©2010 9781855758889 (OCoLC)609538782 |
| ISBN |
9781849407304 (electronic book) |
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1849407304 (electronic book) |
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9781780492360 (electronic book) |
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1780492367 (electronic book) |
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9781855758889 |
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1855758881 |
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