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In U.S. nursing homes, it is the job of nursing assistants to tend to residents ' basic bodily needs, including elimination and incontinence care.Given their frequent contact with pollutants, aides are very much at risk of becoming 'pollutedpeople.' In this article, I investigate how nursing assistants' continual contact with contaminating substances impacts their status within the workplace, their relationships with others, and their attitudes toward their work and themselves as workers. I also explore how aides manage their encounters with pollutants and their stigmatized role as 'dirty workers.' In doing so, I hope to explicate the meaning of elimination and of incontinence caregiving in the United States, [nursing homes, caregiving, symbolic pollution, incontinence, American culture]

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