America has many open secrets. The nursing home is one of them. We try not to think too hard or too long about its residents or its low-wage staff. We’ll confront its smell, its humiliations, its bleakness, only once we need it ...
Julie Livingston
Julie Livingston is professor of history and social and cultural analysis at New York University. Her most recent book is Improvising Medicine: An African Oncology Ward in an Emerging Cancer Epidemic (2012). She is now beginning research on a book about comorbidity and aging in the US and Southern Africa. 
