Wandering the Wards

An Ethnography of Hospital Care and its Consequences for People Living With Dementia

Wandering the Wards
Katie Featherstone, Andy Northcott
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Hardback
h234 x 156mm - 256pg
1 Oct 2020 UK
9781350078451
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Wandering the Wards provides a detailed and unflinching ethnographic examination of life within the contemporary hospital. It reveals the institutional and ward cultures that inform the organisation and delivery of everyday care for one of the largest populations within them: people living with dementia who require urgent unscheduled hospital care. Drawing on five years of research embedded in acute wards in the UK, the authors follow people living with dementia through their admission, shadowing hospital staff as they interact with them during and across shifts. In a major contribution to the tradition of hospital ethnography, this book provides a valuable analysis of the organisation and delivery of routine care, and everyday interactions at the bedside, that reveal the powerful continuities and durability of ward cultures of care, and their impacts on people living with dementia.
Katie Featherstone is Reader in Sociology and Medicine at the School of Healthcare Sciences at Cardiff University, UK. She is author of Risky Relations (Bloomsbury, 2005). Andy Northcott is a Senior Lecturer within the School of Allied Health Sciences at De Montfort University, UK.
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ISBN-13: 9781350078451
Published: 1 Oct 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Routledge
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Format: Hardback
Height: 234mm
Width: 156mm
Pages: 256

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