养老院中的社会政策与日常生活：一项批判性人种志研究

Social policy and everyday life in nursing homes: a critical ethnography.

作者信息

Diamond T

出版信息

Soc Sci Med. 1986;23(12):1287-95. doi: 10.1016/0277-9536(86)90291-1.

Abstract

This is an ethnographic account of nursing homes in the United States. I draw connections between social policies and specific consequences for everyday life in this environment. This paper focuses on nursing assistants' wages, the economic impact of long term care on patients, the passification process of patient life, the invisibility of caring work, and the framing of everyday life into the concepts of capitalist industry. The primary data in the research are comments and conversations of nursing assistants and patients. Their standpoint, I conclude, is often opposed to the organizational logic of business that increasingly encases nursing home life.

摘要

这是一篇关于美国养老院的人种志记述。我阐述了社会政策与这种环境下日常生活的具体后果之间的联系。本文聚焦于护理助理的工资、长期护理对患者的经济影响、患者生活的被动化过程、护理工作的无形性，以及将日常生活框定到资本主义产业概念之中。该研究的主要数据是护理助理和患者的评论与对话。我得出结论，他们的立场往往与日益笼罩养老院生活的商业组织逻辑相悖。