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The Ends of Time: Life and Work in a Nursing Home
Joel Savishinsky
The Ends of Time: Life and Work in a Nursing Home
Joel Savishinsky
An account of life in an American nursing home. The author addresses the contradictory attitudes American society shows towards the facilities and the ageing process itself - the tension between caring and curing, morality and mortality, privacy and supervision and selfishness and altruism.
300 pages, black & white illustrations
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | October 18, 1991 |
ISBN13 | 9780897892292 |
Publishers | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
Pages | 304 |
Dimensions | 227 × 152 × 16 mm · 644 g |
Language | English |