Guest Editorial: Yali's Question and the Study of Nursing Homes as Organizations
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- 1 April 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Gerontologist
- Vol. 42 (2) , 154-156
- https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/42.2.154
Abstract
Jared Diamond begins Guns, Germs, and Steel, his popular work on the effects of environmental features on the history of different cultures' material success, by recounting a conversation with Yali, a young New Guinean. Aware of the material wealth of Diamond's society and the comparative material scarcity surrounding him in his own, Yali asked Diamond the singularly obvious and important question (which I paraphrase here) "Why is it that you have so much cargo, while we have so little cargo?" (Diamond 1999 , p. 14; see A, Note 1).Keywords
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