Power in the nursing home: The case of a special care unit

Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 223-257

  McLean, Athena ^a,b  

^a CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioethics; Dementia; Disciplinary knowledge; Ethnographic dilemmas; Human rights; Medicalization; Nursing homes; Power; Sexuality

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CASE REPORT; CONTROL; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HOME FOR THE AGED; HUMAN; MALE; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING; NURSING HOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSING HOMES; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 0035228806     PISSN: 01459740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2001.9966177     Document Type: Article

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