Introductive Case Study. «My Health is Excellent but I’m Dying»
Ruth was 89-years old when I interviewed her as part of a larger study on the meaning of suffering in old age. She lived alone in the back apartment of a two-unit house; her daughter and daughter’s family (a husband and three grown children) lived in the front unit. Ruth’s apartment consisted of a...
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Recherches sociologiques et anthropologiques
2013
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| Online dostop: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Izvleček: | Ruth was 89-years old when I interviewed her as part of a larger study on the meaning of suffering in old age. She lived alone in the back apartment of a two-unit house; her daughter and daughter’s family (a husband and three grown children) lived in the front unit. Ruth’s apartment consisted of a small kitchen, living room area, private bath and a bedroom which also housed an oxygen unit to which she was tethered by a thin plastic tube long enough to give her access to the entire apartment.... |
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