Books in the Care & Welfare series

In 2003-2006, Patricia Henderson lived in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal where she recorded the experiences of people living with HIV/AIDS. In this illuminating study, she recounts the concerns of rural people and explores local repertoires through which illness was folded into everyday life. The book spans a period when antiretrovir

An essential perspective on the latest shifts in roles of the health and welfare professionals throughout Europe

Opens up an important examination of risk selection procedures in insurance

An investigation on the care arrangements set up by working parents of young children and of adults who hold a job while caring for their elderly relatives.

Responsibility, participation and choice are key policy framings of active citizenship, summoning the citizen to take on new roles in welfare state reform. This volume traces the emergence of new discourses and the ways in which they take up and rework struggles of social movements for greater independence, power and control. It explores the changi