Learning Local Care: An Ethnography of Caregiving in Hawaii

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dc.contributor.advisorSaethre, Eirik
dc.contributor.authorMcConkey, Erin Siobhan
dc.contributor.departmentAnthropology
dc.date.accessioned2019-07-02T17:46:36Z
dc.date.available2019-07-02T17:46:36Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractThis thesis is an ethnographic account of caregiving and end-of-life decision-making in Hawai‘i. By participating in family caregiver classes provided by a local hospital, I detail how the socioeconomic realities of living in Hawai‘i and the biomedical authority of medical professionals actively work against the interests of caregivers who make health decisions based on both cultural values and economic limitations. Through the embodied experience of practicing care in the home, caregivers selectively reject the biomedicalization of care and organize their actions around the institution of family. As evidenced through examples from two key informants the circumstances of family caregivers are varied and complex, leading to a variety of experiences and creative solutions. Though the embodied experiences of family caregivers disillusions them to the examples provided through the family caregiver classes, the classes succeed in providing a platform for family caregivers and professionals to hold meaningful discussions.
dc.description.degreeM.A.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/63135
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherUniversity of Hawaii at Manoa
dc.subjectSocial research
dc.subjectCaregiving
dc.subjectEnd-of-Life Care
dc.titleLearning Local Care: An Ethnography of Caregiving in Hawaii
dc.typeThesis
dc.type.dcmiText
dcterms.descriptionM.A. Thesis. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa 2019
dcterms.spatialHawaii
local.identifier.alturihttp://dissertations.umi.com/hawii:10142

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