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After a Fall - A Sociomedical Sojourn (Paperback)
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After a Fall - A Sociomedical Sojourn (Paperback)
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For renowned sociologist and writer Laurel Richardson, a broken
foot led to a month as a patient in an extended care facility. In
this compelling description of her lived experience in one of these
institutions, she addresses key questions of health delivery and
behavior: nurses who can be angelic or cruel, institutional
policies often structured to maximize income over care, and
patients whose behavior often does not mirror the severity of their
condition. She points to inequality of treatment of patients of
different ethnicities, genders, and classes, and to an underclass
of health workers--often poor immigrants--whose own personal and
familial problems mirror those of their patients. Enfolded in a
captivating narrative of life in the facility, Richardson's book is
a revealing literary autoethnography designed for social
scientists, health care professionals, and students alike.
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