Taking Care of Our Own

N. Mong Sherry

Description

Mixing personal history, interviewee voices, and academic theory from the fields of care work, the sociology of work, medical sociology, and nursing, Taking Care of Our Own introduces us to the hidden world of family caregivers. Using a multidimensional approach, Sherry N. Mong seeks to understand and analyze the types of skilled work that family caregivers do, the processes through which they learn and negotiate new skills, and the meanings that both caregivers and nurses attach to their care work.Taking Care of Our Own is based on sixty-two in-depth interviews with family caregivers, home and community health care nurses, and other expert observers to provide a lens through which in-home care processes are analyzed, while also exploring how caregivers learn necessary procedures. Further, Mong examines the emotional labor of caregiving, as well as the identities of caregivers and nurses who are key players in the labor process, and gives attention to the ways in which the labor is transferred from medical professionals to family caregivers.

Sujets

• Médecine
• Nursing
• Industrial relations

Informations

• Publié par: Cornell University Press
• Date de parution: 15 octobre 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781501751479
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

Taking Care of Our Own

A volume in the series The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work Edited by Suzanne Gordon and Sioban Nelson

For a list of books in the series, visit our website at cornellpress.cornell.edu.

Taking Care of Our Own

When Family Caregivers Do Medical Work

Sherry N. Mong

ILR Press an imprint of Cornell University Press Ithaca and London

Copyright © 2020 by Cornell University

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First published 2020 by Cornell University Press

Printed in the United States of America

Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data

Names: Mong, Sherry N., 1961– author. Title: Taking care of our own : when family caregivers do medical work / Sherry N. Mong. Description: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2020. | Series: The culture and politics of health care work | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2019056309 (print) | LCCN 2019056310 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501751448 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781501751455 (paperback) | ISBN 9781501751479 (pdf) | ISBN 9781501751462 (epub) Subjects: LCSH: Caregivers—Social conditions. | Home care services— Social aspects. | Unpaid labor—Social aspects. Classification: LCC RA645.3. M655 2020 (print) | LCC RA645.3 (ebook) | DDC 362.14—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019056309 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019056310

To Alan, Andi, and Colin And caregivers, care recipients, and home health nurses everywhere

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Contents

Part I. The Work of Skilled Family Caregiving

1. The Work Caregivers Do

2. OntheJob Training

3. Who Pays?

Part II. Relationships, Identities, and Emotions in Skilled Family Care Work

4. Integrating Care Work with Life

5. “You Do What You Gotta Do”

6. Work Shifts

Conclusion

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Methodological Appendix

Notes

References

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Acknowledgments

It’s hard to express what the journey of writing this book has meant in my life and in the lives of my family. What started as a personal family experience has been transformed by understanding more about the work of scholars who have paved paths before me, and the experiences of oth ers. I am forever grateful for all those who took the time to speak with me about their perspectives and experiences with skilled home health labor. I have done my best to honor these insights and weave them into a fuller understanding of the labor processes that occur. I thank Steven Lopez for his kindness, insight, and encouragement. As my mentor at Ohio State University (OSU), Steve never wavered in his view that my writings should be turned into a book, and he reviewed and gave feedback on all the revisions. Steve has an uncanny ability to look at all angles of a research question and cut through to the heart of it. He provided emotional support and guidance, listened to and honed my ideas, and told me I was doing a “great job” at just the moments I needed to hear it. His humor, candor, and genuine spirit were resources for me