Description |
1 online resource. |
Series |
Routledge studies in health and medical anthropology
|
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher. |
Note |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
Biography |
Katie Featherstone is a Reader in Sociology and Medicine at the School of Healthcare Sciences at Cardiff University, UK. Andy Northcott is a Senior Lecturer at the Leicester School of Allied Health Sciences at De Montfort University, UK. |
Subject |
Dementia -- Patients -- Care.
|
|
Dementia -- Patients -- Care -- Great Britain.
|
|
Dementia -- Patients -- Care.
(OCoLC)fst00890058
|
|
Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
|
|
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General.
|
|
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural.
|
Added Author |
Northcott, Andy, author.
|
Other Form: |
Print version: Featherstone, Katie. Wandering the wards New York : Routledge, 2020. 9781350078451 (DLC) 2020029499 |
ISBN |
9781003087335 (ebook) |
|
9781000185416 (electronic book : PDF) |
|
1000185419 (electronic book : PDF) |
|
9781000188868 (electronic book : Mobipocket) |
|
1000188868 (electronic book : Mobipocket) |
|
9781000182231 (electronic book : EPUB) |
|
9781350078451 (hardback) |
|
1000182231 (electronic book : EPUB) |
|
1003087337 |
|