Uneasy Endings : Daily Life in an American Nursing Home /

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"If we continue, we grow old, and this is how it could be for us," writes Renée Rose Shield in her candid and sympathetic account of life in one American nursing home. Drawing on anthropological methods and theory to illuminate institutional life, she probes the sources of the profound sen...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Shield, Renée Rose (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]
Colección:The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
Temas:
Nursing home patients > United States.
Nursing homes > United States.
Aging.
Anthropology.
Social Work.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Tables
  • Preface
  • Notebook: 7:00 A.M. to 3:00 P.M.
  • 1. Anthropology in an American Nursing Home
  • 2. Background and Context
  • 3. Residents
  • 4. Conflicting Worldviews: Home versus Hospital
  • 5. The Total Institution
  • 6. Bridges to the Community
  • 7. Separation and Adaptation: The Passage
  • 8. The Limits of Exchange
  • 9. Liminality in the Nursing Home: The Endless Transition
  • 10. Summary and Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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