Truth, power, and ethics in care services for people with learning difficulties
Date
2005
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Detroit: University of Michigan Press
Type
Book chapter
Peer reviewed
Abstract
Description
This chapter is situated within the debate about community-based accommodation for people with learning difficulties. Ongoing policy in this area is argued to be concerned with idealised views about ‘care in the community’, normalisation and quality of life. The chapter itself contributes to the growing body of theory and research which challenges such fixed beliefs. It proposes a model for adapting the work of Foucault to show how people talk about life in care accommodation, and uncovers various ways that people in care settings struggle with power relationships, and the ways in which their needs are externally defined.
Keywords
RAE 2008, UoA 40 Social Work and Social Policy & Administration
Citation
Yates, S.J. (2005) Truth, power, and ethics in care services for people with learning difficulties. In: Tremain, S. eds Foucault and the government of disability. Detroit: University of Michigan Press. pp.65-77.