No place for dying: hospitals and the ideology of rescue
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Main Author: Chapple, Helen Stanton (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Walnut Creek, Calif. Left Coast Press ©2010
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-308) and index
Hospital dying situations -- - Rescue, stabilization, and speed -- - Configuring dying and death -- - Death with as little dying as possible -- - "Every medical action is a transaction" : rescue as industry -- - How rescue as industry minimizes dying -- - Order out of chaos : the ritual of intensification -- - Ritual display, palliative care, and trust -- - Making a place for dying in the hospital
This book shows how dying is a management problem for hospitals, occupying space but few billable encounters and of little interest to medical practice or quality control. An anthropologist and bioethicist with two decades of professional nursing experience, Helen Chapple goes beyond current work on hospital care to present fine-grained accounts of the clinicians, patients, and families who navigate this uncharted, untidy, and unpredictable territory between the highly choreographed project of rescue and the clinical culmination of death
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (324 pages)
ISBN:1598744038
1598747037
9781598744033
9781598747034

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