Gentleness.
This scene conjures a paradox that structures much of how institutional elder care unfolds - that care actions are I done to i someone, in sometimes emotionally and physically invasive ways, and yet such actions are often enveloped in gentleness. Boldly, Dufourmantelle says the constitution of gentl...
| Publicado en: | Medical Anthropology Quarterly Vol. 37; no. 2; pp. 98 - 102 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jun2023
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