Rehabilitation for the Unwanted: Patients and Their Caretakers - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 020236352X ISBN 13: 9780202363523

Verlag: Routledge, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

This book is a study detailing what happens to people and what life is like in a rehabilitation program. The program discussed is embedded in an institution, called "Farewell Hospital" by the authors, that was designed to fill a demand for facilities for those judged unable to live on their own. Due to physical or mental handicaps and no family, friends, or other social agents who are willing to make a home for them outside of a public institution, these patients were placed in a rehabilitation unit.

Most patients were placed with the rehabilitation unit as a brief interlude before their permanent placement in the custodial unit of the vast institution where they would live out their lives. This work deals with the question of what happens to patients once they are rehabilitated and the non-therapeutic rules and practices of the health and welfare structure of which they are a part. In this case, the rehabilitation specialists and ward workers set themselves the task of improving the life chances of their clients by treating their ailments when possible and by improving their physical functioning so that they were better able to care for their own needs.

The authors examine the effects of the organizational relationships on rehabilitation outcomes and on the lives of the people who make hospitals their home. The text attempts to sustain feeling for the historical context of their study the "problem" of larger numbers of disabled, poverty-stricken persons, who are no longer wanted by anyone and asserts that a "solution" must be found.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Elizabeth Eddy

Julius A. Roth (1924-2002) was professor emeritus of sociology at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles and books, including Research in the Sociology of Health Care and Timetables: Structuring the Passage of Time in Hospital Treatment and Other Careers.
Elizabeth M. Eddy is professor emerita of anthropology at the University of Florida. She is the author of numerous scholarly articles and books, including Applied Anthropology in America and Walk the White Line: A Profile of Urban Education.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 020236352X
• ISBN 13: 9780202363523
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 248
• Herausgeber: Eddy Elizabeth
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