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Working and Caring for a Child with Chronic Illness

Disconnected and Doing It All

Palgrave Macmillan

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  1. Margaret H. Vickers

    1. University of Western Sydney, Australia

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. A Problem in the Spotlight

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-14
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    2. Caring and Working as Work-Home Conflict

      • Margaret H. Vickers
      Pages 15-33

    3. A Useful Research Design

      • Margaret H. Vickers
      Pages 34-57

  3. Acknowledging the Anguish

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 59-59
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    2. Disconnected and Doing it All

      • Margaret H. Vickers
      Pages 61-80

    3. Unacknowledged Grief

      • Margaret H. Vickers
      Pages 81-105

    4. Cruelty and Indifference

      • Margaret H. Vickers
      Pages 106-128

    5. Clayton’s Support

      • Margaret H. Vickers
      Pages 129-147

  4. Enabling Survival

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 149-149
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    2. Working and Caring

      • Margaret H. Vickers
      Pages 151-177

    3. Survival, Compassion and Action

      • Margaret H. Vickers
      Pages 178-190

  5. Epilogue: Creating a New Story?

    1. Epilogue: Creating a New Story?

      • Margaret H. Vickers
      Pages 191-194

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 195-225
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About this book

Using an innovative, action research approach, Vickers explores the lives of women who work full time while caring for a child with significant chronic illness or disability. She demonstrates that such women can be disconnected from those around them, unsupported and overwhelmed with responsibility at home and work.
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Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Western Sydney, Australia

    Margaret H. Vickers

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About the author

MARGARET H. VICKERS is an Associate Professor with the School of Management, University of Western Sydney, Australia. She has extensive qualitative research experience, especially in the unexamined and traumatic experiences of individuals in the workplace in relation to illness and disability, bullying, and the impact of being made redundant. She is the author of Work and Unseen Chronic Illness: Silent Voices (2001).
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