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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Living & Dying at Murray Manor

Living & Dying at Murray Manor

Gubrium, Jaber F.

Paperback

Series: Age Studies in Humanities and Science

Aging & Elder CareGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0813917778
ISBN13: 9780813917771
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: Sep 29 1997
Pages: 221
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.58 Depth: 8.54
Language: English

Living and Dying at Murray Manor is a classic text that documents how the work of everyday life in a nursing home is accomplished. Jaber F. Gubrium spent several months at a nursing home as a participant-observer, involved in activities ranging from performing menial toileting work to serving as a gerontologist at staff meetings. The result is not a survey of statistics about nursing homes but an examination of the social organization of care in a single home the author calls Murray Manor. Gubrium's research reveals how staff, clientele, relatives, visiting physicians, and funeral directors negotiated their respective roles, needs, and goals- and how, in the end, Murray Manor emerged as an organized social entity.

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