Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA.
Institute of Gerontology and Department of Anthropology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA.
J Aging Stud. 2019 Dec;51:100799. doi: 10.1016/j.jaging.2019.100799. Epub 2019 Jul 16.
Social science and gerontological research on care tends to focus on identifying practices that qualify as "good care" and promoting interventions that might produce it. In this article, we identify this approach to care as the "evaluative lens." We argue that while useful, an evaluative approach to studying care can limit scholars' abilities to attend to the complex and disorderly aspects of care in daily life. Drawing on long-term ethnographic research in three distinct contexts of elder care, we show the central role that contextual unpredictability plays in care experiences. In so doing, we argue for scholarship that recognizes care as a form of becoming, embedded in processual and historically contigent relations.
社会科学和老年学研究关注的是确定哪些实践可以被称为“优质护理”，并推广可能产生这种护理的干预措施。在本文中，我们将这种护理方法称为“评估视角”。我们认为，尽管评估方法在研究护理方面很有用，但它也限制了学者关注日常生活中护理复杂和无序方面的能力。本文通过对三个不同的老年护理背景下的长期民族志研究，展示了情境不可预测性在护理体验中所扮演的核心角色。通过这样做，我们主张将护理视为一种发展形式的学术研究，它嵌入在过程性和历史偶然性的关系中。
