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Item Details
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LIVING AND DYING AT MURRAY MANOR
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| By: |
Jaber F. Gubrium |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£24.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0813917778 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780813917771 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
29 September, 1997 |
| Edition: |
Revised edition |
| Series: |
Age Studies |
| Pages: |
221 |
| Description: |
This text documents how the work of everyday life in a nursing home is accomplished. After several months as a participant-observer, taking part in activities from menial work to acting as gerontologist at staff meetings, the author produced this study of the social organization of care. |
| Synopsis: |
Living and Dying at Murray Manor is a classic text that documents how the "work" of everyday life in a nursing home is accomplished. Jaber F. Gubrium spent several months at a nursing home as a participant-observer, involved in activities ranging from performing menial "toileting" work to serving as a gerontologist at staff meetings. The result is not a survey of statistics about nursing homes but an examination of the social organization of care in a single home the author calls Murray Manor. Gubrium's research reveals how staff, clientele, relatives, visiting physicians, and funeral directors negotiated their respective roles, needs, and goals- and how, in the end, Murray Manor emerged as an organized social entity. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
University of Virginia Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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