Uneasy Endings : : Daily Life in an American Nursing Home / / Renée Rose Shield.
"If we continue, we grow old, and this is how it could be for us," writes Renée Rose Shield in her candid and sympathetic account of life in one American nursing home. Drawing on anthropological methods and theory to illuminate institutional life, she probes the sources of the profound sen...
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