03496nam 2200721Ia 450 991045680830332120200520144314.01-282-53762-897866125376220-226-14479-810.7208/9780226144795(CKB)2550000000007452(EBL)485964(OCoLC)609631767(SSID)ssj0000362754(PQKBManifestationID)11304657(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000362754(PQKBWorkID)10381941(PQKB)10262666(SSID)ssj0000439249(PQKBManifestationID)12166436(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000439249(PQKBWorkID)10461079(PQKB)11217291(MiAaPQ)EBC485964(DE-B1597)525016(OCoLC)1135585635(DE-B1597)9780226144795(Au-PeEL)EBL485964(CaPaEBR)ebr10366845(CaONFJC)MIL253762(EXLCZ)99255000000000745220070319h19951992 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMaking gray gold[electronic resource] narratives of nursing home care /Timothy DiamondChicago University of Chicago Press1995, c19921 online resource (298 p.)Women in culture and societyDescription based upon print version of record.0-226-14473-9 0-226-14474-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-276) and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments Introduction -- Introduction -- Part One. Mining the Raw Materials -- Part Two. Forming the Gold Bricks -- Part Three. Melting the Gold Bricks Down -- Notes -- References -- IndexThis first hand report on the work of nurses and other caregivers in a nursing home is set powerfully in the context of wider political, economic, and cultural forces that shape and constrain the quality of care for America's elderly. Diamond demonstrates in a compelling way the price that business-as-usual policies extract from the elderly as well as those whose work it is to care for them. In a society in which some two million people live in 16,000 nursing homes, with their numbers escalating daily, this thought-provoking work demands immediate and widespread attention. "[An] unnerving portrait of what it's like to work and live in a nursing home. . . . By giving voice to so many unheard residents and workers Diamond has performed an important service for us all."-Diane Cole, New York Newsday "With Making Gray Gold, Timothy Diamond describes the commodification of long-term care in the most vivid representation in a decade of round-the-clock institutional life. . . . A personal addition to the troublingly impersonal national debate over healthcare reform."-Madonna Harrington Meyer, Contemporary SociologyWomen in culture and society.Nursing homesUnited StatesNurses' aidesElectronic books.Nursing homesNurses' aides.362.16Diamond Timothy901428MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456808303321Making gray gold2014843UNINA