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Wandering the Wards
- Narrator
- Piers Gibbon
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 25 June 2024
- Run Time
- 9 hours 27 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
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 organization and delivery of routine care and everyday interactions at the bedside, which reveal the powerful continuities and durability of ward cultures of care and their impacts on people living with dementia.
Shortlisted for the Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize 2021
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Details
- Author
- Andy Northcott, Katie Featherstone
- Narrator
- Piers Gibbon
- Duration
- 9 hours 27 minutes
- Release Date
- 25 June 2024
- ISBN
- 9798765047569
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- Social and cultural anthropology, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, Coping with Alzheimer’s and dementia
Synopsis
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 organization 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 organization and delivery of routine care and everyday interactions at the bedside, which reveal the powerful continuities and durability of ward cultures of care and their impacts on people living with dementia.Shortlisted for the Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize 2021
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