Wandering the Wards: An Ethnography of Hospital Care and Its Consequences for People Living with Dementia

ISBN-13: 9781350078451 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 166 str.

Katie Featherstone; Andrew Northcott

Opis

Wandering the Wards provides a detailed and unflinching ethnographic examination of life within the contemporary hospital.

Spis treści

1. Ward cultures of care;  2. Ward life;  3. Visibilities and invisibilities; 4. Recognition and attribution of dementia at the bedside;  5. Tightening of the timetables and the organisation of bedside care;  6. Bedside talk and communicating the "rules" of the ward;  7. Organisational cultures of containment, restriction and restraint;  8. Wandering the wards