Uneasy endings : daily life in an American nursing home / Renée Rose Shield.

"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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Online Access:Electronic book from JSTOR
Main Author: Shield, Renée Rose.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1988.
Series:Anthropology of contemporary issues.
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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