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 Renee 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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shield, Renee Rose
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1988.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Verpleeghuizen.
Nursing homes.
Nursing home patients.
MEDICAL > Nursing Home Care.
nursing homes.
homes for the aged.
retirement homes.
Établissements de soins, de cure, etc.
Foyers pour personnes âgees.
Patients d'etablissements de soins, de cure, etc. > États-Unis.
Établissements de soins, de cure, etc. > États-Unis.
Nursing Homes
Homes for the Aged
Hospitals, Convalescent.
Old age homes.
Nursing home patients > United States.
Nursing homes > United States.
United States.
United States
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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