Living and Dying at Murray Manor is a classic text that documents how the "work" of everyday life in a nursing home is accomplished. Jaber F. Gubrium spent several months at a nursing home as a participant-observer, involved in activities ranging from performing menial "toileting" work to serving as a gerontologist at staff meetings. The result is not a survey of statistics about nursing homes but an examination of the social organization of care in a single home the author calls Murray Manor. Gubrium's research reveals how staff, clientele, relatives, visiting physicians, and funeral directors negotiated their respective roles, needs, and goals- and how, in the end, Murray Manor emerged as an organized social entity.
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Jaber F. Gubrium is Professor of Sociology at the University of Florida and the author of several books, including The Active Interview and the forthcoming The New Language of Qualitative Method.
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In their everyday routines, people come to accept different places as having certain meanings. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
clientele care, clientele behavior, south lounge, floor staff, routine visitors, total patient care, administrative nurses, top staff, normal work routine, ties with the outside world, floor personnel, other clientele, bowel work, patient floors, service ramp, clique members, floor routine, one aide, residents talk Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Murray Manor, Joan Borden, Miss Timmons, Don Staats, Homer Wilson, Gus Marsh, Laura Kowalski, Sally Martin, Claude Perlo, Miss Erickson, Miss White, Sister Marilyn, Katy Miles, New York New!
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In their everyday routines, people come to accept different places as having certain meanings. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
clientele care, clientele behavior, south lounge, floor staff, routine visitors, total patient care, administrative nurses, top staff, normal work routine, ties with the outside world, floor personnel, other clientele, bowel work, patient floors, service ramp, clique members, floor routine, one aide, residents talk Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Murray Manor, Joan Borden, Miss Timmons, Don Staats, Homer Wilson, Gus Marsh, Laura Kowalski, Sally Martin, Claude Perlo, Miss Erickson, Miss White, Sister Marilyn, Katy Miles, New York New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Aging, Autonomy, and Architecture: Advances in Assisted Living by Dr. Benyamin Schwarz PhD in Front Matter
- As We Are Now: A Novel by May Sarton in Front Matter
- Aging and Society, by Matilda White Riley in Front Matter
- Aging and Gender in Literature: Studies in Creativity (Feminist Issues) by Anne M. Wyatt-Brown in Back Matter
- Uneasy Endings: Daily Life in an American Nursing Home (Anthropology of Contemporary Issues) by Renee Rose Shield in Front Matter
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