Personal assistants: Ideals of social care‐work and consequences for the Norwegian personal assistance scheme

Ingrid Guldvik

doi:10.1080/15017410309512618

Personal assistants: Ideals of social care‐work and consequences for the Norwegian personal assistance scheme

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research

Volume 5 (2003): Issue 2

By: Ingrid Guldvik

Open Access

|Jul 2003

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Thanks to Ole Petter Askheim, Jan Andersen and the referees of the journal for valuable comments on earlier versions of this article.

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