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UNINA9910154756903321 |
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Autore |
Lella Joseph W. <1936-> |
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The perils of patient government : professionals and patients in a chronic-care hospital / / Joseph W. Lella, with J.Z. Csank, J. McKay, and J.R. Bayne |
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Waterloo, Ont., Canada, : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c1986 |
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ISBN |
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9786613810175 |
9781282167100 |
1282167103 |
9780889207349 |
0889207348 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (249 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Long-term care facilities - Sociological aspects |
Chronically ill - Social conditions |
Medical personnel and patient |
Long-term care facilities - Administration |
Veterans - Medical care |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliography and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: BEFORE PATIENT GOVERNMENT; PART II: ACHIEVING PATIENT GOVERNMENT; PART III: A MODEST SUCCESS; APPENDICES: THEORY AND METHOD; References; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In 1964 the Senate Committee on Aging reported that ""once admitted to an institution ... the veteran begins ... to show signs of social and physical degeneration,"" a phenomenon that has not escapted the attention of clinicians, social scientists, veterans, and other chronic-care patients. Assuming that social withdrawal in the institutional setting was avoidable ad that a strictly medical model of chronic care was inappropriate, Lella and his collaborators established a patient-government project designed to give thirty elderly men in a large |
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