The Careless Society Community And Its Counterfeits

by McKnight, John

• ISBN13: 9780465091263
• ISBN10: 0465091261
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-04-02
• Publisher: Basic Books

Summary

McKnight shows how the experts' best efforts to rebuild and revitalize communities can actually destroy them and celebrates the ability of neighborhoods to heal from within.

Author Biography

John McKnight is the coauthor of a guide for community development entitled Community Building from the Inside Out. He is the director of the Community Studies Program at the Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research at Northwestern University, where he also teaches. He lives in Evanston, Illinois.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. ix
Professionalism	p. 1
John Deere and the Bereavement Counselor	p. 3
The Professional Problem	p. 16
The Need for Oldness	p. 26
Professionalized Service and Disabling Help	p. 36
Medicine	p. 53
The Medicalization of Politics	p. 55
Well-Being: the New Threshold to the Old Medicine	p. 63
Diagnosis and the Health of Community	p. 70
Conclusions	p. 80
Politicizing Health Care	p. 86
Human Service Systems	p. 89
A Nation of Clients?	p. 91
Do No Harm	p. 101
Redefining Community	p. 115
A Reconsideration of the Crisis of the Welfare State	p. 124
The Criminal Justice System	p. 133
Thinking About Crime, Sacrifice, and Community	p. 135
Rethinking Our National Incarceration Policy	p. 145
On Community	p. 151
Community Organizing in the Eighties: Toward a Post-Alinsky Agenda: WITH JOHN KRETZMANN	p. 153
Regenerating Community	p. 161
Christian Service	p. 173
On the Backwardness of Prophets	p. 175
Notes	p. 181
Acknowledgments	p. 185
Index	p. 187
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