Vulnerable Lives, Irrelevant Deaths? Dying Alone and Receiving Flawed Care in an Institution for the Aged in Lima, Peru.

IF 1.5 3区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Medical Anthropology Pub Date : 2024-08-17 Epub Date: 2024-08-15 DOI:10.1080/01459740.2024.2388201

Magdalena Zegarra Chiappori

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Abstract

This ethnographic exploration of death in the Peruvian context draws on fieldwork among abandoned-both by their families and the state-older adults in a shelter for the homeless in Lima, Peru. I examine the conditions and local forces that shape the ways people at this institution socially and physically die. My argument is that people in this long-term care facility who have lived entire lives on the margins, usually, end up having irrelevant deaths to their families, other residents of the institution, and the Peruvian state. At this shelter, dying in an irrelevant way means dying without companionship from family members and receiving poor and flawed care from the institution that shelters them.

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脆弱的生命，无关紧要的死亡？在秘鲁利马的一家养老院中孤独终老并接受有缺陷的护理。

这篇关于秘鲁背景下死亡的人种学探讨，是通过对秘鲁利马一家无家可归者收容所中被家庭和国家遗弃的成年人的实地调查而完成的。我研究了造成该机构中的人在社会上和身体上死亡的条件和当地力量。我的论点是，在这个长期护理机构中，那些一生都生活在边缘的人，通常会以与家人、机构中的其他居民以及秘鲁政府无关的方式死去。在这个收容所里，无关紧要的死亡意味着没有家人陪伴的死亡，以及收容他们的机构提供的糟糕和有缺陷的护理。

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Medical Anthropology Multiple-

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4.10

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4.30%

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期刊介绍： Medical Anthropology provides a global forum for scholarly articles on the social patterns of ill-health and disease transmission, and experiences of and knowledge about health, illness and wellbeing. These include the nature, organization and movement of peoples, technologies and treatments, and how inequalities pattern access to these. Articles published in the journal showcase the theoretical sophistication, methodological soundness and ethnographic richness of contemporary medical anthropology. Through the publication of empirical articles and editorials, we encourage our authors and readers to engage critically with the key debates of our time. Medical Anthropology invites manuscripts on a wide range of topics, reflecting the diversity and the expanding interests and concerns of researchers in the field.