The World Runs on Invisible Labor
Nurses at the front line of acute care also experience inadequate time to address both the patients’ medical needs, which they are trained to do, and their social needs, which they cannot avoid. A veteran pediatrics nurse (ID 21) in Boston described taxing interactions with drug-addicted mothers, who become her patients when their babies are born a
... See moreElizabeth Bradley • The American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More is Getting Us Less
I often complain that I have too many things to do, that I’m the family servant, the household slave—that I never have a moment to read a book, for example. That’s all true, but in a certain sense that servitude has also become my strength, the halo of my martyrdom. So on those rare occasions when I happen to take a nap for half an hour before Mich
... See moreAlba de Céspedes • Forbidden Notebook
It is often not appreciated just how dependent the social care system, and the NHS for that matter, is upon unpaid carers.
Richard Humphries • Ending the Social Care Crisis: A New Road to Reform
The artist with the least access to social or aesthetic solidarity or approbation has been the artist-housewife. A person who undertakes responsibility both to her art and to her dependent children, with no “tireless affection” or even tired affection to call on, has undertaken a full-time double job that can be simply, practically, destroyingly im
... See moreUrsula K. Le Guin • Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
When you do deeper digging, there isn’t much pedagogy around care outside of healthcare.