Trudy Rudge

Abjectly Boundless

Boundaries, Bodies and Health Work

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Within a variety of practice environments, health professionals often experience feelings of disgust and repulsion towards the presence of an abject object. Cadaverous, sick, disabled bodies, troubled minds, wounds, vomit and so forth are all part of health and care work and threaten the clean and proper bodies of those who undertake it, yet this 'unclean' side of health work is rarely accounted for in academic literature. This volume employs the work of Julia Kristeva through a range of case studies drawn from care and nursing settings around the world. It brings together work from researchers and practitioners within the social and health… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Holmes, Dave (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-317-18616-8
EAN: 9781317186168
Produktnummer: 20177955
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 304 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 2'386 KB

Über den Autor

Trudy Rudge is a professor in the Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery at the University of Sydney, Australia. Dave Holmes is a professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences and University Research Chair in Forensic Nursing at the University of Ottawa, Canada