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Thinking Allowed: Food Work in Hospital Wards; The Bangladesh/India Border

24/07/2013

Food Work in Hospital Wards; The Bangladesh/India Border

BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, Food Work in Hospital Wards; The Bangladesh/India Border

The Bangladesh/India border: danger and progress. Also, elderly malnutrition in hospitals.

Laurie Taylor considers a study of a divided village along one of the most dangerous crossings in the world. Also, malnutrition amongst older patients.

The Bangladesh/India border - As India sets about constructing a metal curtain along the full length of its border with Bangladesh, Cambridge anthropologist, Delwar Hussain travelled to the remote village of Boropani, which straddles the frontier, to see how the lives of ordinary people are being affected by the tussle between Dhaka and its emerging superpower neighbour. He talks to Laurie Taylor about the social and intimate lives of the people he met and a cross border coal industry that has little respect for the past, people or the environment. By focusing on the peripheries, his research exposes the promise and danger at the heart of the globalised world.

'Dirty work', emotional labour and the professionalisation of nursing - a qualitative study of meal services for older people at 4 UK hospital sites. Around 60% of UK patients aged 65 or older are at risk of malnutrition while in hospital. Ben Heaven discusses timely research into 'food work' and feeding assistance on hospital wards.

Producer:Jayne Egerton.

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