watch?v=WGwa3N43GB4, and Headgear’s 2007 indie
rock single, “Harry Truman,” http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=JvcZnKkM_DE.
69 Inthemiddle partof thetwentiethcentury: L.
Thomas,The Youngest Science(Viking, 1983).
69 Congress passed the Hill-Burton Act: A. P.
Chung,M.Gaynor,and S.Richards-Shubik,“Subsidies
and Structure: The Last Impact of the Hill-Burton
Programon theHospitalIndustry,” NationalBureauof
Economics Research Program on Health Economics
meetingpaper, April 2013, http://www.nber.org/confer/
2013/HEs13/summary.htm.
70 Meanwhile, policy planners:A key source for
thehistoryofnursinghomeswasB.Vladeck,Unloving
Care:TheNursingHomeTragedy(BasicBooks,1980).
See also Holstein and Cole,“Evolution of Long-Term
Care,” and records from the City of Boston and its
almshouse: https://www.cityofboston.gov/
Images_Documents/
Guide%20to%20the%20Almshouse%20records_tcm3–30021.pdf.
71 As one scholar put it: Vladeck,Unloving Care.
73 The sociologist Erving Goffman: E. Goffman
Asylums(Anchor,1961).CorroboratedbyC.W.Lidz,L.
Fischer,andR.M.Arnold,TheErosionofAutonomyin
Long-Term Care(Oxford University Press, 1992).
4: ASSISTANCE
79 Yourchancesofavoidingthenursinghome:G.
Spitze and J. Logan, “Sons, Daughters, and