"No Place Like Home? combines the rigorous scholarship of an                  academic feminist philosopher with the 'close to the ground' insights that come from                  bathing, feeding, and caring for older people as a home care aide. This book                  develops recent work in feminist philosophy that attends to both care and justice to                  propose a way to reform home care to reduce its exploitative qualities while                  assuring that it is more than 'bed and body' work." -- Martha B. Holstein,                  Visiting Scholar, Center for Research on Women and Gender at the University of                  Illinois, Chicago and co-editor, Ethics and Community Based Elder Care                  "For a scathing critique of how American society abuses both                  those who receive home-based care as well as those who provide it, and a                  sophisticated vision of how we might move toward a more just future, there's no book                  like No Place Like Home?." -- James Lindemann Nelson, co-author of Alzheimer's:                  Answers to Hard Questions for Families "[Jennifer Parks's]                  critique of current practices and institutions is thorough and accurate, benefiting                  both from her own experience as a homecare worker and the philosophically                  sophisticated tools she brings to bear on it." -- Laura Purdy, Professor of                  Philosophy, Wells College  In this provocative new book,                  Jennifer A. Parks analyzes practices in the home health care industry and concludes                  that they are highly exploitative of both workers and patients. Under the existing                  system, underpaid workers are expected to perform tasks for which they are                  inadequately trained, in unreasonably short periods of time. This situation, Parks                  argues, harms workers and puts home health care patients at risk. To the extent that                  the majority of patients and workers in home health care are women, she turns to                  feminist ethics for an alternative approach. Through an understanding of individuals                  as social beings with obligations to others, and of home health care as a public                  good, Parks explains how to develop the social benefits of good home health care and                  increase the role of government in providing financial support and regulatory                  oversight.

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