Critical To Care
The Invisible Women in Health Services
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
- Initial publish date
- Jun 2008
- Category
- Health Care Delivery
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780802096081
- Publish Date
- Jun 2008
- List Price
- $41.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780802093332
- Publish Date
- Jun 2008
- List Price
- $81.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781442691964
- Publish Date
- Jun 2008
- List Price
- $30.95
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Description
Who counts as a health care worker? The question of where we draw the line between health care workers and non-health care workers is not merely a matter of academic nicety or a debate without consequences for care. It is a central issue for policy development because the definition often results in a division among workers in ways that undermine care.
Critical to Care uses a wide range of evidence to reveal the contributions that those who provide personal care, who cook, clean, keep records, and do laundry make to health services. As a result of current reforms, these workers are increasingly treated as peripheral even though the research on what determines health demonstrates that their work is essential. The authors stress the invisibility and undervaluing of 'women's work' as well as the importance of context in understanding how this work is defined and treated.
Through a gendered analysis, Critical to Care establishes a basis for discussing research, policy, and other actions in relation to the work of thousands of marginalized women and men every day.
About the authors
Pat Armstrong is a Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology at York University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. She is the author of numerous books and articles in health and gender and has held a Canada Health Services Research Foundation/Canadian Institute of Health Research Chair in Health Services.
Hugh Armstrong is a Distinguished Research Professor and professor emeritus of Social Work, Political Economy, and Sociology at Carleton University.
Krista Scott-Dixon has a PhD in Women's Studies and currently teaches and does research at York University. She is one of the editors of Trans-Health.com, an online health and fitness zine for trans people, and the author of Doing IT: Women Working in Information Technology.
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