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 se...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shield, Renée Rose
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1988.
Colección:Anthropology of contemporary issues.
Temas:
Nursing homes > United States.
Nursing home residents > United States.
Old age homes.
Hospitals, Convalescent.
Nursing homes.
Homes for the Aged
Nursing Homes
Établissements de soins, de cure, etc. > États-Unis.
Patients d'établissements de soins, de cure, etc. > États-Unis.
Foyers pour personnes âgées.
Établissements de soins, de cure, etc.
retirement homes.
homes for the aged.
nursing homes.
MEDICAL > Nursing Home Care.
Old age homes
Hospitals, Convalescent
Nursing home residents
Nursing homes
Verpleeghuizen.
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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