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'It's a terrible thing when your children are sick': Motherhood and home healthcare work

'It's a terrible thing when your children are sick': Motherhood and home healthcare work

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'It's a terrible thing when your children are sick': Motherhood and home healthcare work

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'It's a terrible thing when your children are sick': Motherhood and home healthcare work

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Abingdon: Routledge

Journal title

Health sociology review, 2013-09, Vol.22 (3), p.234-242

Language

English

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Abingdon: Routledge

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Contents

This article draws upon research involving in-depth interviews with 60 mothers of young children about the home healthcare in which they engage when promoting their children's health and dealing with their illnesses, allergies or developmental problems. The study found that a series of often interconnected discourses were evident in the women's acc...

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'It's a terrible thing when your children are sick': Motherhood and home healthcare work

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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1512219826

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1512219826

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ISSN

1446-1242

E-ISSN

1839-3551

DOI

10.5172/hesr.2013.22.3.234

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