Uneasy Endings: Daily Life in an American Nursing Home (Anthropology of Contemporary Issues)

Features

• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 304 pages
• Published by: Cornell Univ Pr February 1989
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0801421594
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0801421594
• Book Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches
• Weighs: 1.2 pounds

From Library Journal
Entering a nursing home can be seen as a rite of passage between adulthood and death. It is a rite which, in our society, is often gloomy, lonely, and dehumanizing. Cultural anthropologist Shields observed daily life in a home, located in a Northeastern city, whose primarily Jewish residents are ". . . cared for, nourished, protected, kept from harm and, until the end, from death." More scholarly and somewhat more objective than David Oliver and Sally Tureman's The Human Factor in Nursing Home Care (Haworth, 1988), this book combines interviews with residents and staff and the author's field notes along with analysis of her observations. Jaber Gubrium's Living & Dying at Murray Manor (St. Martin's, 1975) remains the classic study of this genre.
- Karen McNally Bensing, The Benjamin Rose Inst. Lib., Cleveland
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