After a fall : a sociomedical sojourn / Laurel Richardson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Richardson, Laurel, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Patients.

Nursing homes.

Long-term care of the sick.

Foot--Wounds and injuries--Patients.

Foot.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (270 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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-o

Contents:

Fear of falling

We don't know why yet

Help me ... help me

What is right

Lo and behold

You have lots of friends

Snake pit

A time to every purpose

Kiss me ... kiss

Down with the bad, up with the good

Food good for women

Training wheels

The forever home

Temporily abled.

Notes:

First published 2013 by Left Coast Press, Inc.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-315-43531-4

1-315-43532-2

1-315-43533-0

1-61132-318-5

9781315435336

OCLC:

842882469