Wandering the Wards

Wandering the Wards provides a detailed and unflinching ethnographic examination of life within the contemporary hospital.

Katie Featherstone is Professor of Sociology and Medicine, and Director of the Geller Institute of Ageing and Memory within the School of Biomedical Sciences at the University of West London, UK. Andy Northcott is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology of Medicine within the Geller Institute of Ageing and Memory at the University of West London, UK.

1. Ward cultures of care; 2. Ward life; 3. Visibilities and invisibilities; 4. Recognition and attribution of dementia at the bedside; 5. Tightening of the timetables and the organisation of bedside care; 6. Bedside talk and communicating the "rules" of the ward; 7. Organisational cultures of containment, restriction and restraint; 8. Wandering the wards