Community-Based Service Delivery: Theory and Implementation - Paperback

by Jung Min Choi (Editor), John W. Murphy (Editor)

Addressing the failure of initiatives in community-based service delivery to look beyond practicalities or to consider the tensions in thinking about service delivery, this book explores the significant philosophical shift that is necessary to implement community projects, discussing questions of data, methodology, power and communication.

Author Biography

Jung Min Choi is Professor of Sociology at San Diego State University, USA. He is the co-author of The Politics and Philosophy of Political Correctness, The Politics of Culture: Race, Violence and Democracy, Postmodernism, Unraveling Racism, and Democratic Institutions and the co-editor of Globalization and the Prospects for Critical Reflection and Globalization with a Human Face. He is also the recipient of over 40 Excellence in Teaching Awards.

John W. Murphy is Professor of Sociology at the University of Miami, USA. He is author of Community-based Interventions: Philosophy and Action and co-author of Narrative Medicine and Community-Based Health Care Planning. He is co-editor of Dimensions of Community-based Projects in Health Care, Community-Based Health Interventions in an Institutional Context, and The Symbolism of Globalization, Development, and Aging.