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The nursing home as a discursive anchor for the ageing body
Author(s)Jaber F Gubrium, James A Holstein
Journal titleAgeing and Society, vol 19, part 5, September 1999
Pagespp 519-538
KeywordsAgeing process ; Nursing homes ; Institutional accommodation ; Attitudes to the old of general public.
AnnotationThe nursing home has become a paramount site for the care and custody of older people, but it also affects how we think about the ageing body. In this article, narrative and ethnographic material drawn from a variety of care-related settings is used to illustrate how and where the nursing home serves as a discursive anchor for embodiment. Circumstantial, local cultural, and organisational mediations are considered, featuring institutionalisation to be as much a descriptive phenomenon, as it is a residential relocation. (RH).
Accession NumberCPA-000307207 A
ClassmarkBG: LHB: KV: TOB

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