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A classic text that documents the "work" of everyday life in a nursing home. In 1973 sociologist Jaber F. Gubrium spent several months at a nursing home as a participant-observer. Through his observations, interviews, and transcriptions, Gubrium recounts case studies of clients, doctors, the dynamics between them, patient socialization, and the intimacies of daily hygiene.
A classic text that documents the "work" of everyday life in a nursing home. In 1973 sociologist Jaber F. Gubrium spent several months at a nursing home as a participant-observer. Through his observations, interviews, and transcriptions, Gubrium recounts case studies of clients, doctors, the dynamics between them, patient socialization, and the intimacies of daily hygiene.
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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 : Practice, Politics, Theory) 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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