Laurel Richardson

After a Fall (eBook, ePUB)

A Sociomedical Sojourn

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

For renowned sociologist and writer Laurel Richardson, a broken foot led to a month as a patient in an extended care facility. In this compelling description of her lived experience in one of these institutions, she addresses key questions of health delivery and behavior: nurses who can be angelic or cruel, institutional policies often structured to maximize income over care, and patients whose behavior often does not mirror the severity of their condition. She points to inequality of treatment of patients of different ethnicities, genders, and classes, and to an underclass of health workers-often poor immigrants-whose own personal and familial problems mirror those of their patients. Enfolded in a captivating narrative of life in the facility, Richardson's book is a revealing literary autoethnography designed for social scientists, health care professionals, and students alike.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 269
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315435312
• Artikelnr.: 45259762

Autorenporträt

Laurel Richardson

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Fear of Falling
Chapter 2 "We Don't Know Why, Yet"
Chapter 3 "Help Me... Help Me"
Chapter 4 What Is Right
Chapter 5 Lo And Behold
Chapter 6 You Have A Lot Of Friends
Chapter 7 Snake Pit
Chapter 8 A Time For Every Purpose
Chapter 9 Kiss Me... Kiss Me...
Chapter 10 Down With The Bad, Up With The Good
Chapter 11 Food Good for Women
Chapter 12 Training Wheels
Chapter 13 The Forever Home
Chapter 14 Temporarily Abled