ABSTRACT

This paper highlights the central role of the flesh within care relationships and how this disrupts and progresses existing understandings of care work. It is argued here that care work is a connected and fluid assemblage of diverse and changeable factors and that this relationship is best understood as a form of flesh work. Seeing care work in this way allows the care relationship between the person being cared for and the carer/s to be seen as a process of becoming; framed here as becoming-care. To illustrate this, two examples of a care relationship taken from a previous project are presented and discussed from a deleuzoguattarian standpoint. In this way, care work is assessed and theorised at the ontological level, resulting in the formulation of an alternative way of seeing care work that perhaps better reflects its reality – where the flesh is vital.

摘要

本文重点介绍了肉在护理关系中的核心作用，以及这如何破坏和增进对护理工作的现有理解。本文认为，护理工作是多种多样且可变的因素的相互联系和流畅的组合，这种关系最好理解为肉体工作的一种形式。以这种方式看护理工作，就可以将被照料者与照料者之间的照料关系看作是成为一个过程。在这里被描述为变得护理。为了说明这一点，我们从非盲肠观点出发，提出并讨论了一个来自先前项目的护理关系的两个例子。这样，就可以在本体论层面对护理工作进行评估和理论化，