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Women of Color in a World Apart: An Ethnography of Care Workers and Dementia
1000206521, 9781000206524

Focusing on contemporary ideas about how aged care is provided, this book poses the question: How can people who are age

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This first ethnographic study of factory workers engaged in radical labor protest gives a voice to a segment of the Japa

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Kevin is a sometimes-violent teenager with severe emotional disturbance in a family environment of poverty and stress. I

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