Citation

Lauder W. Int. J. Nurs. Pract. 1999; 5(2): 58-63.

Affiliation

Department of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Stirling, Inverness, United Kingdom. william.lauder@stir.ac.uk

Copyright

(Copyright © 1999, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

10633630

Abstract

Nurses frequently encounter patients who neglect their personal hygiene and household cleanliness. Self-neglect is usually understood within the parameters of the medical model, with its need to objectify and categorize. The medicalization of self-neglect obscures the fact that patients and professionals may have different ideas about what self-neglect is and what it is not. This paper explores how the medical construction of self-neglect has come to dominate the self-neglect discourse and will also explore other possible ways of understanding self-neglect.

Language: en