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Contents List of Contributors 000 Acknowledgments 000 1 Introduction: The Nursing Home as Cultural Code 000 Philip B. Stafford Section One: The Nursing Home as a Domain of Meaning Making 2 The Treatment of Acute Illness in Nursing Homes: The Environmental Context of Decision Making 000 Jeanie Kayser-Jones 3 A Use of Irony in Contemporary Ethnographic Narrative 000 Maria D. Vesperi 4 'Bread and Butter' Issues: Food, Conflict, and Control in a Nursing Home 000 Joel S. Savishinksy 5 Homebodies: Voices of Place in a North American Community 000 Philip B. Stafford 6 Alzheimer's Units and Special Care: A Soteriological Fantasy 000 J. Neil Henderson Section Two: The Nursing Home as a Domain of Relationship Making 7 Family Involvement in Nursing Homes: A Decision-Making Perspective 000 Graham D. Rowles and Dallas M. High 8 Wary Partners: Family-CNA Relationships in Nursing Homes 000 Renee Rose Shield 9 Defining Family Relationships in a Nursing Home Setting 000 Margaret A. Perkinson Section Three: New Frontiers in Long Term Care 10 The Social World of Assisted Living 000 Paula C. Carder References 000 Index 000
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Nursing homes Social aspects, Ethnology