Janette Davies

Living Before Dying

Imagining and Remembering Home

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This in-depth description of life in a nursing/care home, told in a year of daily conversations with patients and staff, highlights the daily care of frail or ill residents of extreme old age, emphasising interaction with care assistants and the different behaviours of men and women.

Produktdetails

• New Directions in Anthropology
• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 174
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9781785336140
• ISBN-10: 1785336142
• Artikelnr.: 48029328

Autorenporträt

Janette Davies (1950-2019) was a social and medical anthropologist at the International Gender Studies Centre, Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford. Formerly a nurse/midwife she worked in international development in Bolivia, on the Thai/Cambodian border and Bangladesh. She conducted anthropological fieldwork in the UK, Zambia, Tanzania and Georgia.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Lord Nigel Crisp
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Social and Behavioural Implications of People with Dementia
Chapter 2. Caring in Action - Women in the Workplace
Chapter 3. Social Organization within the Nursing Home
Chapter 4. Managing Activities for the Residents
Chapter 5. Ordering Disorder
Glossary
Bibliography
Index