Iain R. Edgar and Andrew Russell are both Lecturers in Anthropology at the University of Durham.

• 1 Research and practice in the anthropology of welfare 2 ‘You just get on with it’: questioning models of welfare dependency in a rural community 3 Concepts of community in changing health care: a study of change in midwifery practice 4 The child welfare debate in Portugal: a case study of a children’s home 5 ‘Equal, but different’? Welfare, gender ideology and a ‘mothers’ centre’ in southern Germany 6 The co-operation concept in a team of Swedish social workers: applying grid and group to studies of community care 7 Caring communities or effective networks? Community care and people with learning difficulties in South Wales 8 Staff models and practice: managing ‘trouble’ in a community-based programme for chronically mentally ill adults in the USA 9 A local anthropology of exclusion 10 Considering the culture of community care: anthropological accounts of the experiences of frontline carers, older people and a researcher 11 Treasures on Earth: housing assets, public policy and older people in New Zealand 12 Residents’ participation in the management of retirement housing in the UK 13 Using experiential research methods: the potential contribution of humanistic groupwork methods to anthropology and welfare research

Iain R. Edgar and Andrew Russell are both Lecturers in Anthropology at the University of Durham.

• 1 Research and practice in the anthropology of welfare 2 ‘You just get on with it’: questioning models of welfare dependency in a rural community 3 Concepts of community in changing health care: a study of change in midwifery practice 4 The child welfare debate in Portugal: a case study of a children’s home 5 ‘Equal, but different’? Welfare, gender ideology and a ‘mothers’ centre’ in southern Germany 6 The co-operation concept in a team of Swedish social workers: applying grid and group to studies of community care 7 Caring communities or effective networks? Community care and people with learning difficulties in South Wales 8 Staff models and practice: managing ‘trouble’ in a community-based programme for chronically mentally ill adults in the USA 9 A local anthropology of exclusion 10 Considering the culture of community care: anthropological accounts of the experiences of frontline carers, older people and a researcher 11 Treasures on Earth: housing assets, public policy and older people in New Zealand 12 Residents’ participation in the management of retirement housing in the UK 13 Using experiential research methods: the potential contribution of humanistic groupwork methods to anthropology and welfare research

Iain R. Edgar and Andrew Russell are both Lecturers in Anthropology at the University of Durham.

• 1 Research and practice in the anthropology of welfare 2 ‘You just get on with it’: questioning models of welfare dependency in a rural community 3 Concepts of community in changing health care: a study of change in midwifery practice 4 The child welfare debate in Portugal: a case study of a children’s home 5 ‘Equal, but different’? Welfare, gender ideology and a ‘mothers’ centre’ in southern Germany 6 The co-operation concept in a team of Swedish social workers: applying grid and group to studies of community care 7 Caring communities or effective networks? Community care and people with learning difficulties in South Wales 8 Staff models and practice: managing ‘trouble’ in a community-based programme for chronically mentally ill adults in the USA 9 A local anthropology of exclusion 10 Considering the culture of community care: anthropological accounts of the experiences of frontline carers, older people and a researcher 11 Treasures on Earth: housing assets, public policy and older people in New Zealand 12 Residents’ participation in the management of retirement housing in the UK 13 Using experiential research methods: the potential contribution of humanistic groupwork methods to anthropology and welfare research