Wandering the wards : an ethnography of hospital care and its consequences for people living with dementia /
Featherstone, Katie,
Wandering the wards : an ethnography of hospital care and its consequences for people living with dementia / Katie Featherstone and Andy Northcott. - 1 online resource. - Routledge studies in health and medical anthropology .
"Wandering the Wards provides a detailed and unflinching ethnographic examination of life within the contemporary hospital. It reveals the institutional and ward cultures that inform the organisation and delivery of everyday care for one of the largest populations within them: people living with dementia who require urgent unscheduled hospital care. 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, that reveal the powerful continuities and durability of ward cultures of care, and their impacts on people living with dementia"--
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Dementia--Patients--Care.
Dementia--Patients--Care--Great Britain.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
RC521
616.8/31
Wandering the wards : an ethnography of hospital care and its consequences for people living with dementia / Katie Featherstone and Andy Northcott. - 1 online resource. - Routledge studies in health and medical anthropology .
"Wandering the Wards provides a detailed and unflinching ethnographic examination of life within the contemporary hospital. It reveals the institutional and ward cultures that inform the organisation and delivery of everyday care for one of the largest populations within them: people living with dementia who require urgent unscheduled hospital care. 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, that reveal the powerful continuities and durability of ward cultures of care, and their impacts on people living with dementia"--
9781003087335 1003087337 9781000185416 1000185419 9781000188868 1000188868 9781000182231 1000182231
Dementia--Patients--Care.
Dementia--Patients--Care--Great Britain.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
RC521
616.8/31