Lisa Freitag

Extreme Caregiving

The Moral Work of Raising Children with Special Needs

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book collects parent narratives, personal experience, and academic research to portray the lives of parent caregivers, looking at both the trials and the triumphs inherent in raising a child with special needs. It presents parents as moral individuals struggling to find their own way through relatively unexplored territory, in order to provide for their child the best life possible.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9780190491789
• ISBN-10: 0190491787
• Artikelnr.: 48746732

Autorenporträt

Lisa C. Freitag practiced as a pediatrician for over twenty-five years, before returning to school to pursue an interest in the families of children with special needs. She received a Masters degree in Bioethics from the University of Minnesota Center for Bioethics in 2013. She continues to work in clinical ethics and explore the intersection between medicine and caregiving.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Chapter 1 - Introduction
Chapter 2 - Defining Extreme Caregiving
Chapter 3 - Hard Labor
Chapter 4 - Narrative and the Phases of Care
Chapter 5 - Attentiveness/Responsibility: The Invisible Work of Care
Chapter 6 - Competence
Chapter 7 - Responsiveness
Chapter 8 - Holding the Future
Chapter 9 - Conclusion: Caring With
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