Please forgive the bulk mail and self-publicity.
I wanted to let you know that my new book,
"Help" has just been published by Venture Press
(the publishing arm of British Assn of Social Work)
priced stlg 11.50, in a small series called "Imagining
Welfare".
The book explores the social relations of care, and
the cultural discourses of health and welfare.
The four substantive chapters are entitled
1. Helpless (those who receive health and welfare services)
2. Helpers (those who provide health and welfare services)
3. Helping (the process of caring or healing, and how it can harm)
4. Helpful (the contribution of independent living and feminist
ethic of care models to reforming the social relations of care).
The book touches on social theory, disability studies, literary
criticism and theology. But don't be put off! It's definitely short, and
I think it's accessible, and I hope it is interesting.
It should be relevant to people in social policy, medical education and
nursing studies, disability studies, social work and applied theology,
as well as to general readers.
Tom Shakespeare
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