Jervis L L
Department of Psychiatry, Division of American Indian and Alaska Native Programs, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, USA.
Med Anthropol Q. 2001 Mar;15(1):84-99. doi: 10.1525/maq.2001.15.1.84.
In U.S. nursing homes, it is the job of nursing assistants to tend to residents' basic bodily needs, including elimination and incontinence care. Given their frequent contact with pollutants, aides are very much at risk of becoming "polluted people." In this article, I investigate how nursing assistants' continual contact with contaminating substances impacts their status within the workplace, their relationships with others, and their attitudes toward their work and themselves as workers. I also explore how aides manage their encounters with pollutants and their stigmatized role as "dirty workers." In doing so, I hope to explicate the meaning of elimination and of incontinence caregiving in the United States.
在美国的养老院，护理助理的工作是照顾居民的基本身体需求，包括排泄和失禁护理。由于他们经常接触污染物，护理助理很有可能成为“受污染的人”。在本文中，我研究了护理助理与污染物质的持续接触如何影响他们在工作场所的地位、他们与他人的关系，以及他们对工作和自身作为劳动者的态度。我还探讨了护理助理如何应对与污染物的接触以及他们作为“脏活劳动者”所背负的污名化角色。通过这样做，我希望阐明美国排泄和失禁护理的意义。
