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9780465091263

The Careless Society Community And Its Counterfeits

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  • ISBN13:

    9780465091263

  • ISBN10:

    0465091261

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1996-04-02
  • Publisher: Basic Books

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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

Introductionp. ix
Professionalismp. 1
John Deere and the Bereavement Counselorp. 3
The Professional Problemp. 16
The Need for Oldnessp. 26
Professionalized Service and Disabling Helpp. 36
Medicinep. 53
The Medicalization of Politicsp. 55
Well-Being: the New Threshold to the Old Medicinep. 63
Diagnosis and the Health of Communityp. 70
Conclusionsp. 80
Politicizing Health Carep. 86
Human Service Systemsp. 89
A Nation of Clients?p. 91
Do No Harmp. 101
Redefining Communityp. 115
A Reconsideration of the Crisis of the Welfare Statep. 124
The Criminal Justice Systemp. 133
Thinking About Crime, Sacrifice, and Communityp. 135
Rethinking Our National Incarceration Policyp. 145
On Communityp. 151
Community Organizing in the Eighties: Toward a Post-Alinsky Agenda: WITH JOHN KRETZMANNp. 153
Regenerating Communityp. 161
Christian Servicep. 173
On the Backwardness of Prophetsp. 175
Notesp. 181
Acknowledgmentsp. 185
Indexp. 187
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