Against a background of debate around global ageing and what this means in terms of the
future care need of older people, this book addresses key concerns about the nature and …

This book explores men's ambiguous relationship with intimate caring work within a context
where carefree and nurturing expectations for men are competing for influence. For men, to …

The term 'landscapes of care'has increasingly taken hold in the lexicon of health geography.
As the complex social, embodied and organizational spatialities that emerge from and …

How do we understand mental health problems in their social context? A former BMA
Medical Book of the Year award winner, this book provides a sociological analysis of major …

Negotiating Family Responsibilities provides a major new insight into contemporary family
life, particularly kin relationships outside the nuclear family. While many people believe that …

Ageism has appeared in the media increasingly over the last twenty years. What is it? How
are we affected? How does it relate to services for older people? This book builds bridges …

Research and theory on 'dependency'and 'care-giving'have to date proceeded along largely
separate lines, with little sense that they are exploring and explaining different aspects of the …

First published in 1993, Analyzing Tabular Data is an accessible text introducing a powerful
range of analytical methods. Empirical social research almost invariably requires the …

Care'has been the focus of much sociological and policy related research in the last decade.
However, a review of this research literature reveals that the concept ofcare'is not uniformly …

Although increasingly debated in public, scholarly discourses on care remain frag-mented.
This is not only due to the scientific division of labor, but also to different national research …