Relational caring and presence theory in health care and social work : a care-ethical perspective /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Bristol :
Policy Press,
2025.
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Table of Contents:
- Front Cover
- Relational Caring and Presence Theory in Health Care and Social Work: A Care-Ethical Perspective
- Copyright information
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures, tables and case fragments
- About the authors
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Prologue: 'Somewhere between a scream and silence'
- Case description
- Some feature
- Relationship first
- Sharon, a mother
- The professional as Sharon's spare self
- Sharon in the lead
- Her concerns, not just society's problems with her
- Objections
- Prologue: 'Somewhere between a scream and silence'
- Case description
- Some features
- Relationship first
- Sharon, a mother
- The professional as Sharon's spare self
- Sharon in the lead
- Her concerns, not just society's problems with her
- Objections
- 1 Introduction
- In search of good care
- Puzzles of good care
- Relational caring
- Structure of the book and how to read it
- Part I Presence, practice and theory
- 2 Presence: the concept
- Why presence?
- Meaning, origin and relation to other concepts
- Presence in scholarly literature
- Missionary pastoral care
- Nursing
- Psychotherapy
- Other domains
- Telepresence: technologically mediated presence
- Presencing: leading from the emerging future
- Conclusion
- 3 Presence: the practice
- Qualitative research into neighbourhood chaplaincy in the 1990s
- The practising of presence
- Exposure as the beginning of presence
- presence as the continuation of exposure
- The working principles of presence
- Practising presence and Tronto's caring process
- Conclusion
- 4 Presence: the theory as originally formulated and its reception
- A theory of practice with five subtheories
- Social redundancy
- A typology of practices
- Attunement to lifeworld and life course
- The reception of the professionals
- A critique of distantiation
- Normative-reflective professionalism
- The ninefold offer in response to social redundancy
- Premises, underlying philosophy and its relation to care ethics
- Appreciation and criticism
- Conclusion
- 5 Constructing knowledge (1): care ethics and the empirical turn
- The turn to everyday life
- Care ethics as a political, intradisciplinary ethics
- Empirical research
- Empirical research and ethical reflection
- Empirical research and theory development
- The connection: political phenomenology
- Phenomenological, theory-oriented 'N=N case studies'
- 6 Constructing knowledge (2): complex theorising and the practice turn
- Evaluative social science
- Constructing knowledge
- Empirical material
- Research results
- Ethical reflection
- Conceptual framework
- Practices and practice theory
- Complexities and complex theorising
- Does practice theory suffice or do we need complexity theory?
- 7 Presence: the presence-theoretical perspective on relational caring
- Qualitative presence-theoretical research since 2001