Making gray gold [[electronic resource] ] : narratives of nursing home care / / Timothy Diamond
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| Autore: |
Diamond Timothy
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| Titolo: |
Making gray gold [[electronic resource] ] : narratives of nursing home care / / Timothy Diamond
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| Pubblicazione: | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 1995, c1992 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (298 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 362.16 |
| Soggetto topico: | Nursing homes - United States |
| Nurses' aides | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-276) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 -- Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This 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 Sociology |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Making gray gold |
| ISBN: | 1-282-53762-8 |
| 9786612537622 | |
| 0-226-14479-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910456808303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Women in culture and society.