Making gray gold : narratives of nursing home care / Timothy Diamond.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Diamond, Timothy.

Series:

Women in culture and society.

Women in culture and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nursing homes--United States.

Nursing homes.

Nurses' aides.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (298 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1995, c1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This first hand report on the work of nurses and other caregivers in a nursing home is set powerfully in the context of wider political, economic, and cultural forces that shape and constrain the quality of care for America's elderly. Diamond demonstrates in a compelling way the price that business-as-usual policies extract from the elderly as well as those whose work it is to care for them. In a society in which some two million people live in 16,000 nursing homes, with their numbers escalating daily, this thought-provoking work demands immediate and widespread attention. "[An] unnerving portrait of what it's like to work and live in a nursing home. . . . By giving voice to so many unheard residents and workers Diamond has performed an important service for us all."-Diane Cole, New York Newsday "With Making Gray Gold, Timothy Diamond describes the commodification of long-term care in the most vivid representation in a decade of round-the-clock institutional life. . . . A personal addition to the troublingly impersonal national debate over healthcare reform."-Madonna Harrington Meyer, Contemporary Sociology

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments Introduction

Introduction

Part One. Mining the Raw Materials

Part Two. Forming the Gold Bricks

Part Three. Melting the Gold Bricks Down

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-276) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9786612537622

9781282537620

1282537628

9780226144795

0226144798

OCLC:

609631767