Janette Davies

Gebundenes Buch

Living Before Dying

Imagining and Remembering Home

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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.

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