Drawing on five years of research embedded in acute wards in the UK, the authors follow people living with dementia through their admission, shadowing hospital staff as they interact with them during and across shifts. In a major contribution to the tradition of hospital ethnography, this book provides a valuable analysis of the organisation and delivery of routine care and everyday interactions at the bedside, which reveal the powerful continuities and durability of ward cultures of care and their impacts on people living with dementia.
*Shortlisted for the Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize 2021*
Drawing on five years of research embedded in acute wards in the UK, the authors follow people living with dementia through their admission, shadowing hospital staff as they interact with them during and across shifts. In a major contribution to the tradition of hospital ethnography, this book provides a valuable analysis of the organisation and delivery of routine care and everyday interactions at the bedside, which reveal the powerful continuities and durability of ward cultures of care and their impacts on people living with dementia.
*Shortlisted for the Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize 2021*
Wandering the Wards: An Ethnography of Hospital Care and its Consequences for People Living with Dementia
188Wandering the Wards: An Ethnography of Hospital Care and its Consequences for People Living with Dementia
188Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781350078451 |
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Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Publication date: | 11/17/2020 |
Series: | Routledge Studies in Health and Medical Anthropology |
Pages: | 188 |
Product dimensions: | 6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d) |