Being Mortal

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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).


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79 Yourchancesofavoidingthenursinghome:G.
Spitze and J. Logan, “Sons, Daughters, and

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