No place for dying :: hospitals and the ideology of rescue /

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...

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1. Verfasser: Chapple, Helen Stanton
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, ©2010.
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USA
Online-Zugang:DE-862
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (324 pages :)
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-308) and index.
ISBN:9781598747034
1598747037
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9781315423449
9781315423456
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9781315423432
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159874402X
9781598744026

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